Focus on food safety in Nghe An International Tourism Food Festival

On the afternoon of June 5, the Provincial People's Committee held a conference to listen to opinions on organizing the Nghe An International Tourism Culinary Festival in the coming time.

Comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Also attending were representatives of the Provincial People's Committee Office, relevant departments, branches and sectors. Photo: Vuong Bang

At the conference, representatives of the Department of Tourism - the agency in charge of organizing the festival - reported on the preliminary contents of the preparation work.

Accordingly, the festival is expected to take place for 4 days, from August 2 to 5 at Binh Minh Square, Cua Lo Town. The scale of 60 booths is divided into different areas: Food court, local specialties area, area for neighboring provinces, area for international booths from Laos, Thailand, Japan and Korea...

After listening to the report from the standing agency of the Department of Tourism, all departments and branches gave their opinions to continue perfecting and unifying the contents before officially issuing.

Specifically, on the side of Cua Lo Town, Ms. Nguyen Thi Dung - Vice Chairman of the Town People's Committee highly appreciated the purpose and significance of organizing the festival in promoting and attracting tourists to Nghe An in general and Cua Lo in particular.

However, Ms. Dung also pointed out some difficulties in organizing the festival such as: environmental sanitation, water supply and drainage, toilets, security and order, fire prevention and fighting, and electrical systems to ensure sideline activities.

Urban beautification work is regularly carried out by Cua Lo town. Photo courtesy

Speaking at the meeting, representatives of the Department of Culture and Sports noted that the name needed to be more appropriate. The Department of Industry and Trade and the Department of Foreign Affairs basically agreed and highly appreciated the significance of the event.

This is considered the largest international culinary event ever. However, both sectors have added comments on food safety inspection and the transportation of products from abroad when inviting countries to participate.

Fresh seafood market in Cua Lo coastal town. Photo: Thanh Cuong.

After listening to comments from relevant departments and branches, comrade Le Minh Thong concluded: Agree on the time to organize the Festival from August 2-5, 2018; Departments and branches need to give specific comments on the organization plan and need to supplement the content, assign the Department of Information and Communications on press conferences and propaganda work.

Along with that, focus on culinary activities and do not prolong the opening and closing activities; light and meaningful cultural activities associated with promoting Vi and Giam folk songs.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also reminded the Electricity sector to provide adequate power supply to avoid power interruptions at the festival. In addition, he emphasized that the funding source for the festival activities is mainly socialized.

Comrade Le Minh Thong assigned the Department of Industry and Trade to notify the participating units of the featured booth, it is not necessary for each district to have its own booth; pay attention to environmental sanitation and water supply and drainage. The focal consulting unit is the Department of Tourism, which needs to receive comments to continue perfecting the plan, and ask for the opinion of the Provincial Party Standing Committee to soon issue an implementation plan.