Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam (second right) is examining food safety at a workers' canteen in the Tan Thuan Processing Zone in HCM City’s District 7 (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) - Deputy Prime MinisterVu Duc Dam has urged Ho Chi Minh City to boost theapplication of high technology in tracing the origins of food products as a wayto gradually change the habits of production and consumption to improveawareness of food safety.
“In the long term, we need to meet the targetsthat ensure all people in the country can consume standardised and high qualityfood products like those that are for export,” stressed Deputy PM Dam on May 6.
The Deputy PM made the request on a workingtour to some food production and trading enterprises in HCM City where he alsolearned about their food safety activities.
He also visited cooking areas and canteens forworkers at such enterprises to examine the quality of food and hygienicprocedures there.
Visiting San Ha Limited Company, one of the enterprises producing andtrading fresh and frozen poultry meat in HCM City, the Deputy PM highly praisedthe company’s food service chain, saying it had met food safety inspectionguidelines.
The company’s food service chain isimplemented basing on the principle of taking the food "from the farmstraight to the table".
He hoped many other food enterprises in HCMCity would follow such form.
“The importance is that enterprises shouldensure the connection to small-scale farmers to attract them to participate inthe safe food chain," said Deputy PM Dam.-VNA
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