Don't forget business ethics!

(Baonghean) -In recent years, despite the efforts of management agencies, departments and functional sectors, with many solutions, the situation of food safety and hygiene has increased in both quantity and severity. A series of incidents have caused public outrage, from fresh vermicelli containing Tinopal and Oxalic Acid, soy sauce containing 3-MCPD, rotten fat used to make moon cakes, melon seeds using dyes containing Arhodamin B - a substance that can cause cancer...

And most recently, public opinion has been stirred by the news that corn milk is produced using a processing "technology" that is both fast and significantly cost-effective. With only 90,000 VND for 2 bottles of milk essence and corn essence, it can be used to process about 100 liters of corn milk, while to make 100 liters of pure corn milk, the cost of about 30 liters of fresh milk alone costs up to 900,000 VND. Because of such "super profits", the rights and legitimate interests of consumers are not guaranteed when some business people chase after money and forget the obligation to ensure food safety and hygiene.

To ensure food safety, a series of measures have been implemented by managers and functional sectors. However, an extremely important aspect that is almost never mentioned is ethics in food business and processing. In fact, it is difficult for consumers to know for sure whether the food they buy meets food safety standards or not? Because consumers can only recognize by feeling, observe with the naked eye to choose to buy products, but cannot analyze the safety level of that product. Any business or production facility when organizing production and business tries to gain high profits, but there are many ways to both ensure reputation, quality, and reduce product costs.

The way of doing business in a haphazard manner, without regard to hygiene and product quality, not only harms the health of consumers but also affects reputable production facilities. Even more dangerous, it also contributes to the destruction of business ethics and culture. On the other hand, when food manufacturers trade ethics for profit, producing and providing consumers with toxic and unsafe products, it is obvious that they are violating the law. And if everyone is only after profit, they themselves will become victims of other unsafe products.

In food production and trading, business ethics is the first and most important link, the decision of whether the food is clean or not depends on the processor. In addition to the sanctions to prevent from the authorities, if the producers and traders uphold ethics and are responsible to society, the circulation of "dirty" products on the market will certainly be greatly limited.

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