Task of strengthening food safety in the new situation in Vietnam

Task of strengthening food safety in the new situation in Vietnam

Request ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies, and authorities at all levels in Vietnam to continue focusing on directing the effective implementation of the following tasks and solutions for management and assurance of food security and safety:

- Strengthen leadership, direction and strictly implement the guidelines of the Party, policies, and laws of the State on the work of ensuring food security and safety; put food safety and security goals and targets into the socio-economic development programs and plans of localities and units.

- Focus on reviewing, amending, supplementing, and perfecting the system of legal documents, coordination mechanisms between ministries, branches, and localities, standards and regulations on ensuring food security and safety, and principles and sanctions for handling violations of food security and safety.

Build and complete the database on assurance of food security and safety linked to the national and specialized database system.

- Proactively and actively propagate, mobilize, educate, provide information, provide legal advice, and provide support services on ensuring food security and safety in order to raise awareness of food security and safety throughout society.

- Consolidating the organization of the apparatus for food security and safety in the direction of unifying only one focal point to perform tasks from central to local levels.

- Develop plans and quotas for staff in charge of state management of food safety to meet the requirements of strengthening inspection, examination, and control of food safety from production, processing, and consumption.

- Strengthen the inspection, examination, and supervision of the work of ensuring food security and safety; resolutely fight, prevent, and strictly handle organizations, individuals, production, and business establishments that violate regulations on food security and safety.

- Building safe and quality food supply value chains; giving priority to the development of specialized cultivation and agricultural production areas that are clean and safe.

More details can be found in Decision 426/QD-TTg effective from the date of signing and promulgation.

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