Measures to ensure food safety at year-end

The 2015 Tet (Lunar New Year) festival will come in about nearly one month. Hence, people’s demand for shopping on the festival  is very great. Many goods having unclear origins and falling to meet food safety and hygiene requirements will be launched on this occasion. That’s reason why food safety and hygiene is seen as one of the most concerned issue…

Provincial Sub-Department of Food Safety and Hygiene has given advice to provincial Steering Board of Food Safety and Hygiene in making a plan on inspection and supervision before, during and after Tet to ensure food safety and hygiene at the end of the year. Accordingly, this task will be implemented at provincial, district and communal levels. Provincial Sub-Department of Food Safety and Hygiene will team up with relevant agencies to make inspection tours of food trading and processing facilities across the province, says doctor Nguyen Ngoc Hung, Deputy Head of the Sub-Department.

Confectionary under scrutiny on this occasion

He added: “We will attach special importance to tightening control over food trading and processing facilities with the signs of violating food safety and hygiene; those trading in imported Tet goods and eateries, especially check and tackle goods having unclear origins and falling to meet food safety and hygiene requirements. On this occasion, the province’s inspection delegations will be resolute to strictly deal with wrong cases as stipulated”.

The above plan is seen as a communication campaign on food safety and hygiene. Accordingly, provincial Sub-Department of Food Safety and Hygiene will coordinate with the local mass media to make communication activities on ensuring food safety and hygiene during the forthcoming Tet festival and Lady Thien Hau Temple Festival via many forms, contributing to raising the local people and food trading-processing facilities’ awareness of food safety and hygiene regulations.

Along with communication activities, the Sub-Department and relevant agencies will also make inspection tours of food trading-processing facilities, eateries, fruits and vegetables on the quality of food safety and hygiene. They will strictly monitor and inspect high-risk food groups for Tet such as fresh vegetables, fruits, pork-pie, Chinese sausage, confectionary, cooking oil…; organize quick tests on food samples; speed up dissemination of information about unsafe food via the mass media…

Doctor Hung said: “To correct the situation of trading and processing unsafe food, especially at the end of the year, the local functional agencies have strengthened inspection work on food safety and hygiene, taken food samples for testing and made monitoring over the risk of bacterial contamination in food. Strict punishment will be also applied to wrong cases relating to food safety & hygiene and they will be announced on the mass media…”.

Reported by Cam Ly-Translated by K.T