— Photo nld.com.vnHÀ NỘI — Practical and specific measures are needed instead of general and vague directions from authorities to ensure clean production and food safety. The inspection committee reported no cases of illegal documents and decrees being issued, and praised authorities’ efforts in managing food safety. However, Hiển also said that despite ministries’ claims that food safety legal documents have been improved, various food safety issues have been a constant worry to the public, and he ordered ministries to consider modifying the administrative violations law to make it more practical. Representatives from MoH and MARD blamed the food poisoning on rampant abuse of chemicals, antibiotics and illegal additives in food production, cross-border smuggling of food and flawed use of food origin identification and quality labels. According to the MoIT, during the same period, the ministry issued fines of VNĐ143.4 billion (US$6.3 million) for 55,580 food safety violations cases.

Source: Viet Nam News February 16, 2017 03:56 UTC