Vietnam’s regulation on inspection of domestic animal and aqua feeds

1. Subject matters of inspection

- Commercial animal and aqua feeds:

+ Compliance with regulations on eligibility requirements applied to facilities manufacturing, processing and trading animal and aqua feeds;

+ Declaration of the applied standards and declaration of conformity (where appropriate);

+ Implementation of methods for managing quality of animal and aqua feeds;

+ Compliance with regulations on product and commodity labeling;

+ Sampling of animal and aqua feeds for examination of conformity with the relevant applied standard and technical regulations. Particular attention shall be paid to evaluation of safety indicators and other major quality indicators of feed products.

- Self-formulated animal and aqua feeds, and animal and aqua feeds used according to conventional practices: Check and inspect product safety indicators in accordance with applicable laws and regulations on food safety.

2. Inspecting entity:

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of a centrally-affiliated city or province.

3. Inspection mechanism:

State authorities shall send a prior written notice of their regular inspection which is limited to once a year at the maximum, except for unscheduled inspection carried out in case of any violation which has been detected. Unscheduled inspection of quality of animal and aqua feeds at the workplace of a facility manufacturing and processing feed products, facility using feed products shall be carried out when the head of a competent authority makes his/her decision on such inspection, and in such case, be carried out without any prior notice.

Decree No. 39/2017/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government takes effect from May 20, 2017.

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