food safety in vietnam

Update news food safety in vietnam

First food safety violator receives 1.5 year prison sentence in HCMC

The owner of a food processing facility in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced to one and half a year in prison on Friday for breaking food safety regulations, according to court reports.

National action month on food safety to begin on April 15

The National Action Month on Food Safety will take place from April 15 to May 15 with the theme of “Say no to fake and substandard food and protect customers’ rights”.

 

Vietnam to publicize businesses to sell unsafe food

 Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long insisted on publicizing businesses which sell unsafe food, at a ceremony of the food safety action month launched by the Hanoi People’s Committee on April 12.

Vietnamese shoppers swear by food test kits

 For more than two months now, Hanoian housewife Nguyen Thanh Thuy says a Russian-made food test kit has been an inseparable companion on shopping trips to local markets and supermarkets.

HCM City names 246 safe food selling points

 The HCMC departments of industry-trade and health have announced 246 safe food selling points of five units in the city.

Vietnamese consumers favor natural over artificial food

While more and more food safety and hygiene violation cases have been uncovered recently, sharing fresh food is not only popular among friends and colleagues but has also become a big campaign in residential quarters.

Photos: Water spinach goes from cemetery to Hanoi market

 VietNamNet Bridge – Some markets in Co Nhue ward in Bac Tu Liem district of Hanoi are supplied with water spinach that has been planted in a cemetery, where the vegetables are surrounded by belongings of the dead.