Ensuring food safety and hygiene - a community responsibility

Thuan An town currently has about 30,000 business households, large commercial centers, 35 convenience stores, 25 planned markets and many spontaneous market places. This fact poses many challenges for functional agencies in ensuring food safety and hygiene.

Many small businesses comply with regulations

Market Bung is a traditional market in An Thanh ward. Last time, shops here are always interested in food quality. Trading frozen spring rolls, rolls and goods for more than 30 years in Bung market, Vu Thi Thanh Hoang, sharing her customers is mainly customers so she cannot sell fraudulent goods. She often chooses reputable and branded products to sell to customers.

Recently, people are very interested in pork due to the influence of African swine flu and the infection of pigs. Ms. Tong Thi Trinh, who has nearly 10 years of selling pork at Bung market, said that due to the impact of African swine cholera, recently customers came to buy pork at her store; Previously, she sold nearly 200kg of pork now, only from 70 - 80kg. Although the quantity of meat sold decreases, she always does well in food safety and hygiene; She took pork from a clear origin and had a quarantine stamp of the veterinary agency.

The representative of Market Management Board checked a sales stand at the market. Photo: Van Tien

According to Dang Cong Khanh, Head of Bung Market, the market now has 38 shops selling pork. The market management board regularly propagates pork traders to get meat from a clear source, with the quarantine stamp of the veterinary agency. In addition, the Market Management Board has asked business households to sign commitments not to trade in goods, counterfeit goods, poor quality goods of unknown origin; Sale of livestock and poultry products must be checked and certified by veterinary agencies. In response to the Food Hygiene and Safety Month, the Management Board also coordinates with the inspection, control and supervision departments. closely monitor the situation of trading and buying and selling food.

Community responsibility

As the central area of ​​Thuan An town, Lai Thieu Ward has recently developed rapidly in food service, business of fresh food, fast food ... To ensure food safety and hygiene for customers, relevant departments of the ward regularly check and remind business households to strictly implement relevant regulations. Mr. Pham Phu Nam, Chairman of People's Committee of Lai Thieu Ward, said the work of ensuring food safety and hygiene is always well implemented by the locality. As a result, the shops and food business establishments in the locality have well implemented the relevant regulations, not letting unfortunate incidents occur.

Currently, the work of ensuring food safety and hygiene is not only a task and responsibility of the locality, of an industry but also a common task of all levels, sectors and the whole society. For the education and training sector in Thuan An town, the schools have been paying attention to the quality of meals for students in the past time, particularly the kitchen and cafeteria, the schools are always clean, neat, trained food support staff, periodic health checks ... Meanwhile, Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Ngoc, Vice Chairman of Thuan An Town Women's Union, said last time, the Association level actively mobilizes officials, members, especially members of food business to ensure food hygiene and safety. In addition, through the model "5 no, 3 clean" the propaganda associations to the women to perform well "3 clean": clean the house, clean the lane and clean the kitchen.

According to experts, the current issue of ensuring food safety and hygiene not only focuses on markets, food shops, schools but also needs to pay attention to facilities providing industrial food and kitchen. At the company ... Besides the propaganda, reminders, functional sectors need more radical solutions, strictly handling organizations and individuals violating food safety and hygiene.

Reported by Van Tien – Translated by Vi Bao

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