Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Prime Minister has asked forintensifying the management of liquor products and stringently handlingviolations of food safety relating to the products following a series of alcoholpoisoning cases in the country.
In the PM’s related telegraph, the municipal and provincial people’s committeesare requested to enforce regulations on food safety in general and alcohol productsafety in particular and take solutions to seriously treating infringements ofthe law on food safety regarding liquor products.
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Trade and Industry are asked topromptly deploy measures to inspect the production, business and consumption ofliquor products nationwide, and perfect regulations on management of liquorproducts, especially homemade alcohol.
Individuals and organisations are prohibited from displaying and trading liquorproducts without trademark, stamp and with unclear origin.
Over recent time, many alcohol poisoning cases occurred nationwide, with the seriousone in Phong Tho district, the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau having69 people poisoned and nine died.
On May 9, Hanoi’s market management force seized 1,000 litres of homemadealcohol from a local shop. The alcohol was mostly rice wine infused withanimals or wild fruit and herbs.
The shop owner said he purchased the booze from wine-making households innorthern Hung Yen province and then transported it to Hanoi to sell for 30,000 VNDper litre. The owner didn’t produce any trading license or origin certificationpaper for the alcohol.
The increase of alcohol poisoning cases in the city has been blamed mainly ondrinking cheap wine without origin at street restaurants. Most of the poisoningvictims are labourers from rural areas who work in Hanoi.
Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital’s Poison Control Centre receives hundreds ofalcohol poisoning cases each year.
On March 6, 7 and 8, the centre’s doctors treated four serious cases ofhomemade alcohol poisoning. All patients were treated immediately byhemodialysis, doctors said, however, two patients were in critical conditionsituation.
From February 22 to March 8, 14 total cases of methanol poisoning from homemadealcohol were treated at the centre, with one patient died.
The city’s health department is considering banning eateries from sellingalcohol of unclear origin. It is also conducting an awareness drive forbusiness owners on the possible consequences of consuming alcohol of unclearorigin.-VNA
In the PM’s related telegraph, the municipal and provincial people’s committeesare requested to enforce regulations on food safety in general and alcohol productsafety in particular and take solutions to seriously treating infringements ofthe law on food safety regarding liquor products.
The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Trade and Industry are asked topromptly deploy measures to inspect the production, business and consumption ofliquor products nationwide, and perfect regulations on management of liquorproducts, especially homemade alcohol.
Individuals and organisations are prohibited from displaying and trading liquorproducts without trademark, stamp and with unclear origin.
Over recent time, many alcohol poisoning cases occurred nationwide, with the seriousone in Phong Tho district, the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau having69 people poisoned and nine died.
On May 9, Hanoi’s market management force seized 1,000 litres of homemadealcohol from a local shop. The alcohol was mostly rice wine infused withanimals or wild fruit and herbs.
The shop owner said he purchased the booze from wine-making households innorthern Hung Yen province and then transported it to Hanoi to sell for 30,000 VNDper litre. The owner didn’t produce any trading license or origin certificationpaper for the alcohol.
The increase of alcohol poisoning cases in the city has been blamed mainly ondrinking cheap wine without origin at street restaurants. Most of the poisoningvictims are labourers from rural areas who work in Hanoi.
Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital’s Poison Control Centre receives hundreds ofalcohol poisoning cases each year.
On March 6, 7 and 8, the centre’s doctors treated four serious cases ofhomemade alcohol poisoning. All patients were treated immediately byhemodialysis, doctors said, however, two patients were in critical conditionsituation.
From February 22 to March 8, 14 total cases of methanol poisoning from homemadealcohol were treated at the centre, with one patient died.
The city’s health department is considering banning eateries from sellingalcohol of unclear origin. It is also conducting an awareness drive forbusiness owners on the possible consequences of consuming alcohol of unclearorigin.-VNA
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