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HCM City sets up groups to inspect food safety

The Food Safety Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City has established 12 groups to inspect food safety during the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival 2018 across the city.
HCM City sets up groups to inspect food safety ảnh 1HCM City sets up groups to inspect food safety (Illustrative image. Source VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – The Food SafetyManagement Board of Ho Chi Minh City has established 12 groups to inspect foodsafety during the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival 2018 across the city.

Head of the board Pham Khanh Phong Lan said the inspectionswill run from now to March 2018, focusing on examining highly-consumed food onTet holiday such as confectionary, beverages and aquatic products.

The inspection teams will step up examinations at large-scalefood supply facilities, markets, trade centres and food service businesses, shesaid, adding that any violations of food safety will be strictly handled.

The move aims to stop infringements of foodsafety and promote public health care and protection, Lan said.

According to Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute’s recentreport, the number of unsafe food cases detected in 2017 was higher than in previousyears.

The number of inspections carried out was higher than in 2016, but theyall show that food safety had been improved considerably.

For example, in 2016, the percentage of meat samplescontaining antibiotics was  1.76 percent. In 2017, it dropped to 0.89percent.

In addition, in 2017 the Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment (MARD) conducted both regular and irregular inspections on 2,506establishments and found 373 violated the law on food safety. Of these, 107were fined.

In 2018, the MARD will work to eliminate the injection ofchemicals into shrimps and sales of low quality fertiliser to farmers.-VNA

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