Vietnam: Information about aquatic feeds

Specifically, according to Article 12 of Circular No. 26/2018/TT-BNNPTNT of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, facilities manufacturing and imported aquatic feeds and aqua environmental remediation products shall have to sign up for accounts used for accessing the national fishery data system and provide updated information to sign up for these accounts, including:

- Sign-in names which may be either enterprise codes or tax identification codes;

- Information that must be provided to sign up for accounts shall comprise: Names of facilities, addresses of main offices, telephone numbers, email addresses, aquatic production addresses, manufacturing conditions and corporate types.

Note: Before authorizing products for marketing, manufacturing and importing facilities must send information about aquatic feeds and aqua environmental remediation products as prescribed in Article 13 herein via accounts created under the above provisions.

Besides, Article 12 of Circular No. 26/2018/TT-BNNPTNT also specifies information about aquatic feeds and aqua environmental remediation products as follows:

- Information about domestically-manufactured aquatic feeds and aqua environmental remediation products shall include: Information about manufacturing locations and conditions; information about applicable standards by using the data given in the Appendix V hereto; information about regulatory conformance announcement; labels of products (scanned color copies); product quality test results.

- Information about aquatic feeds and aqua environmental remediation products shall include: Information about manufacturing facilities, locations and conditions; information about applicable standards prescribed in the Appendix V hereto; information about regulatory conformance announcement; labels of products (scanned color copies of original labels and Vietnamese labels); certificates of free sale or equivalent documents that remain valid; product quality test results upon importation.

- After receipt of information mentioned above, the national fishery data system shall automatically grant codes indicating receipt of these information to requesting facilities so that they inscribe these codes on their products to serve the needs of management and tracing of product origins. Codes of receipt shall be composed of 2 elements: AA-BBBBBB, including:

+ AA: Codes used for classifying aquatic feeds and aqua environmental remediation products: 01 indicates the code of an aquatic feed; 02 indicates the code of an aqua environmental remediation product; 03 indicates the code of a product used for both purposes of manufacturing of aquatic feeds and aqua environmental remediation products;

+ BBBBBB: This identical series of letters indicates the ordinal numbers of aquatic feed products or aqua environmental remediation products which range from 000001 to 999999.

- Whenever there is any change in information which has been updated, facilities shall have to update their information before selling their products on the market.

View details at Circular No. 26/2018/TT-BNNPTNT of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, effective from January 01, 2019.

Le Vy

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