Hanoi will conduct checks on the food safety and hygiene of all enterprises and restaurants in the capital city starting July 10, according to the municipal People’s Committee.
The National Action Month on Food Safety will take place from April 15 to May 15 with the theme of “Say no to fake and substandard food and protect customers’ rights”.
Producers and businesses are only allowed to use food additives permitted by the Ministry of Health to ensure products have no negative impacts on users’ health.
An increase in the number of serious methanol poisoning cases reported in Hanoi in the past several days has raised concerns among the city’s drinkers and health authorities.
State management of food safety and hygiene should be re-organised as it remains ineffective in monitoring unsafe food sold in the market, experts have said.
Six teams have been set up to inspect food safety during the Mid-Autumn festival in 12 cities and provinces, according to the Vietnam Food Administration (VFA).
The suspended sale of 13 Coca-Cola nutritional supplement drinks has nothing to do with food safety concerns but was prompted by the lack of a required safety certificate
Food quarantine certificates, fees and online filing for animal-derived food imports were discussed during a business meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on March 23.
Tests conducted by Vietnam’s National Institute for Food Control (NIFC) on 10 samples of disposable chopsticks on the market for traces of harmful whitening substances have returned negative.
Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical
substances causes more than 200 diseases that claim an estimated 2
million lives globally each year, said the World Health Organisation
(WHO) in Vietnam.
The Vietnam Food Administration has issued a warning and called for
inspection of local businesses that might be importing prepackaged
caramel apples from the United States.
The 2014-15 coffee crop will see output fall by 20 percent due to
drought and a large proportion of old trees with low yields, according
to Chairman of the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association (Vicofa) Luong
Van Tu.
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