Vietnam: How to operate a street food business without violating regulations?

15:11, 11/07/2024

Street food today holds a significant advantage in the dietary needs of the public. Thanks to its convenience, affordable prices, and the diversity and appeal from food to beverages that match the preferences of consumers, it has gradually become an essential part of people's lives. To meet this eating demand, increasingly more street vendors are emerging, and many people are choosing this type of street food business to quickly earn an income.

However, being street food with a trend of freedom and the lack of stringent management regarding business licenses or inspection of food safety and hygiene, many business owners have bypassed the minimum rules in ensuring safety and hygiene from the stages of preliminary processing, cooking to food display. Consequently, it is not rare for food poisoning cases to occur, posing dangers to the health and life of consumers.

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To prevent and limit violations in street food business activities, Decree 178/2013/ND-CP of Vietnam's Government outlines corresponding penalties for violations that business owners need to be aware of to avoid infractions as follows:

No.	Violation	Penalty
1	Selling food without tables, shelves, racks, or means to ensure food safety	Warning or a fine of VND 300,000 - VND 500,000
2	Lack of equipment for sun, rain, and dust protection, or for preventing insects and harmful animals
3	Using display areas not isolated from harmful, polluted sources
4	Lack of food preservation equipment as per regulations
5	Using utensils for eating, processing, storage, and preservation of food that do not ensure food safety
6	Direct hand contact with food
7	Using water that does not meet technical specifications for processing and selling food	A fine of VND 500,000 - VND 1,000,000
8	Using food processing ingredients without origin, expired, or unsafe
9	Using food additives without origin, expired, not listed in permissible food additive categories, or unsafe
10	Using non-food-safe packaging for containing food
11	Selling food that is not safe
12	Selling street food that does not ensure food safety leading to food poisoning	A fine of VND 1,000,000 - VND 2,000,000

In addition to the above penalties, violators are also required to destroy ingredients and food additives without origin, expired, spoiled, or rotten. In cases causing food poisoning to consumers, they must bear all costs for handling the food poisoning, examination, and treatment of the affected individuals.

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