The Ministry of Health will inspect six food groups as part of the Month of Action for Food Hygiene Quality and Safety to be launched on April 15.

Nguyen Cong Khan, head of the Ministry of Health’s Administration for Food Safety and Hygiene Department, said the food under scrutiny included meat products, drinking water, soft drinks, wines, health supplements, and dairy products.

During the inspection, the ministry will do their rounds in 33 key cities and provinces.

Localities nationwide are also being asked to form their own teams to test food safety and hygiene.

Three ministry teams have been given the responsibility to recheck the quality of milk samples taken from Hanoi , Bac Ninh, Lang Son, Quang Ninh and Ha Nam .

As planned, the ministry will send out 39 inspection teams to recheck food safety and hygiene by the end of this year.

At present, milk quality control measures had met difficulties and large amounts of substandard milk products have been found on the local market, Khan said. To effectively control food quality, especially dairy products, it is necessary to tighten management and strictly deal with substandard producers, according to Khan./.