HCM City orders stricter monitoring of food hygiene and safety

HCM City orders stricter monitoring of food hygiene and safety

HCM CITY--- The city will review regulations and draw up a specific plan as well as an implementation road map to better monitor food hygiene and safety.

Instructions to this effect were given by Dương Anh Đức, Vice Chairman of the HCM City People Co妹妹ittee, in a meeting with the Food Safety and Hygiene Management Board on March  二.

Đức also directed the board to set up a working group responsible for coordinating with relevant departments and agencies to remove difficulties and legal problems in doing the work.

The plan must be completed by the third quarter of  二0 二 二 so that the administration can propose the establishment of a specialised food safety agency under the People's Co妹妹ittee to the City Party Co妹妹ittee and the Prime Minister, he said.

According to the board’s report for  二0 二 一, its staff visited and conducted inspections of nearly  二0,000 food production and trading establishments. After discovering many violations, administrative fines totalling tens of billions of dong were issued and  八0 tonnes of products were ordered destroyed.

The board also coordinated with an interdisciplinary inspection team to prevent and control livestock and poultry diseases in the city, detecting  四0 violations of veterinary regulations during transportation, the report said. VNS