At the launching ceremony (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam seeks to enhance food safety management withsupport of the Netherlands and the World Bank (WB), announced the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on November 10.
Ata ceremony to announce the memorandum of understanding on sustainableagricultural and food sector development, Vietnam expressed hope to increasecooperation with the Netherlands and the WB in evaluating risks of food safety.
Projectsand activities will be launched under the cooperation to improve Vietnam’s foodsupply chain toward international standards of food safety.
Accordingly,it will build a food safety monitoring system based on risk evaluation, as wellas improve food processing and quality of surveillance agencies.
Speakingat the ceremony, MARD Deputy Minister Vu Van Tam said that Vietnam has paidattention to food safety and given priority to agro-forestry-fishery productsmanagement.
Theministry will launch measures to improve food safety management in the comingyears, raising productivity and quality for demand of domestic consumers andexports. To realise the target, in addition to the country’s efforts, the agriculturalsector should make use of international support, the Deputy Minister added.
Forher part, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Netherlands to Vietnam Pauline Eizemasaid the MoU aims to concretize cooperation between Vietnam and the Netherlandsin food safety management, with the participation of the WB.-VNA
