Agriculture ministry pushes campaign to promote food hygiene
A public campaign on agricultural products safety in preparation for the upcoming Tet holiday, which falls on February 8, is underway across the country.
A market watch official checks food at Big C Supermarket in Nam Dinh city, the northern province of Nam Dinh (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)▨ - A public campaign on agricultural products safety in preparation for the upcoming Tet holiday, which falls on February 8, is underway across the country.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development campaign began last November, aimed at providing safe agricultural products for consumers and raising awareness of food safety and hygiene.
The ministry in co-ordination with the Quality Management Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Aquatic Products has published a series of media products for producers and consumers during the three-month crackdown on food safety and hygiene.
Media products included video clips and leaflets that helped consumers realise the effects of unsafe food use and instructing farmers to use insecticides and veterinary drugs in their recommended dosages.
The campaign has been focused in key regions including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Dong Nai, Tien Giang, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Hai Duong, Hung Yen provinces which are big suppliers of agricultural products.
Hanoi Police's Department of Environmental Crimes Prevention in co-ordination with city authorities discovered 436 food-safety related-cases last December.
On December 22, environmental police force seized about five tonnes of contaminated pork at an individual animal-product outlet in Dan Phuong district.
Nguyen Thi Ly, the owner of the outlet, failed to show valid papers for the meat and business licence.
Ly said she usually sold pork to food processing workshops and cheap restaurants.
The city authorities and police fined the owner and suspended the outlet's operations.
The city's Agriculture and Rural Development Department inspectors in co-ordination with police force examined Dao Duc Safe Vegetable Growing Co-operative, and found that it collected a huge amount of vegetables in neighbouring district's markets, even illegally imported Chinese products.
The co-operative, in Dong Anh District signed contracts to supply clean agricultural products to three big supermarkets in Hanoi.
Inspectors fined the co-operative 24 million VND (1,066 USD).-VNA
The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade has chosen Hoc Mon Wholesale Market and Ben Thanh Market to implement a pilot food-safety market model, according to a report in Tuoi Tre newspaper.
Hanoi authorities will strictly inspect large food processing plants, wholesale markets, supermarkets and shopping malls, besides small street vendors to prevent food poisoning during the Tet holiday
Factors such as poor equipment and measures and poor co-ordination among agencies, besides ambiguous links with food suppliers have prevented the central city from maintaining control on food safety.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called for tighter food safety management during a meeting on December 25 in Hanoi to review food management in 2015 and set tasks for 2016.
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A market watch official checks food at Big C Supermarket in Nam Dinh city, the northern province of Nam Dinh (Photo: VNA)
