Enhancing food poisoning prevention and control efforts in Vietnam

Enhancing food poisoning prevention and control efforts in Vietnam

To strengthen measures to prevent food poisoning, especially during hot and rainy seasons, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam requests the People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities to direct and focus on implementing the following key contents:

- Strengthening the work of inspection, supervision, and food safety monitoring, strictly handling and suspending the operations of establishments that do not meet food safety conditions and those without a Certificate of Food Safety (for establishments that are required to have one); focusing on establishments that produce ready-to-eat foods, street food, beverage businesses, ice businesses, catering establishments, collective kitchens in schools, hospitals, industrial zones, and export processing zones...

Pay attention to controlling the quality and safety of food products, food, and drinks provided by organizations or individuals for charity or to support people during hot and rainy seasons, ensuring that they do not reach people in a bad condition, moldy, broken, of unknown origin, expired...

- Intensifying regular and continuous propaganda on measures to ensure food safety in production, processing, business, and consumption of food, suitable to the characteristics of the locality (using ethnic languages for ethnic minority areas, also paying attention to remote and isolated areas).

Propagandize to prevent people from collecting, fishing, selling, and using toxic plants and animals such as poisonous mushrooms, strange and toxic insects, puffer fish, horseshoe crabs, strange snails, plants, strange fruits...; not to use livestock and poultry that have died from disease or unknown causes for food or food processing; ensure to eat cooked food, drink boiled water, and that water used for drinking and food processing must be clean or sterilized, especially during hot, rainy, and stormy seasons.

For areas at high risk of being affected by storms and floods, monitor weather forecasts and storm and flood developments in the area and proactively plan to stockpile ready-to-eat food, bottled drinking water, various vitamins, medicines, and disinfectants from the health sector.

See detailed content at Official Dispatch 3113/BYT-ATTP dated June 7, 2024

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