Vu Tuan Anh from the Vietnam Institute of Economics said no officials had been punished for letting unhygienic food run rampant. Tu said, "The Ministry of Health controls food safety but the Ministry of Agriculture manages cultivated land and the Ministry of Industry and Trade manages food circulation. Experts and officials discussed about measures to curb low-quality and unhygienic food at the conference about safe agriculture products on July 15. "If the punishments in the Penal Code are revised, I believe the number of people use forbidden chemicals in agriculture will decrease sharply," he said. However Luong Van Tu, a former minister of industry and trade, thinks that the current policies and regulations are lacking.

Source: VietNamNet News July 16, 2016 05:48 UTC