Vietnam: Presenting date of manufacture, expiry date on goods labels

1. Presenting the date:

- Date of manufacture, expiry date shall be written in the "dd-mm-yy(yy)" format (according to solar calendar). If it is presented in another order, such date must be noted in Vietnamese.

- Each number indicating the date, month, and year shall be written in two digits, the number indicating the year may particularly be written in four digits. The number indicating date, month, and year of a point of time shall be presented in the same line.

- Month of manufacture, if required, shall be written in the “mm-yy(yy)” format (according to the solar calendar).

- Year of manufacture, if required, shall be written in the “yyyy” format (according to solar calendar).

- “date of manufacture", “expiry date” shall be fully presented or abbreviated in capital letters as follows: ”NSX", “HSD” or “HD" (“MFG” or “EXP”).

2. If the date of manufacture and expiry date must be presented while the date of manufacture has been printed on the label, the permitted expiry date is the period of time beginning from the date of manufacture and otherwise the expiry date has been printed on the label, the permitted date of manufacture is the period of time before the expiry date.

3. If the goods has been portioned, extracted, refilled, or repacked, the respective date must be presented and the expiry date shall begin from the date of manufacture and be shown on the original label.

View details at Section 1 Appendix III of Decree No. 43/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government. 

- Ngoc Duyen -

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