Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan on Jan. 6 launched an action month on food safety and hygiene 2012 with the theme of “ensuring food safety in Tet holiday and festivals”. At the launching ceremony held at Friendship Culture House, the deputy PM asked the Health Ministry to cooperate with ministries and agencies to spur promulgations and inspections on food safety and hygiene, to solve violations strictly and so on.

In addition, media should further promulgate the campaign to customers and food production and business workshops in a bid to change customers’ awareness and habituation of using food.

Reported by T.S – Translated by A.C