Nghe An province fines 505 establishments for food safety and hygiene violations.
The main violations included: not having a food safety certificate; food handlers not wearing the required protective clothing; and production facilities not being separated from sources of pollution...
According to a report by the Nghe An Provincial Food Safety and Hygiene Department, in the first six months of the year, the province established 924 inspection and post-inspection teams to conduct food safety and hygiene inspections at 13,723 establishments. Of these, 13,218 establishments met the standards (96.32%), while 505 establishments violated regulations (3.68%), resulting in penalties totaling over 1 billion VND.
The main food safety violations include: Production and business establishments operating in regulated sectors without a food safety certificate; Failure to comply with legal regulations on the three-step food inspection and food sample retention; Food handlers not wearing adequate protective clothing as required; Storage and warehousing areas not meeting standards; Violations of legal regulations on food preservation; Food handlers not wearing adequate protective clothing; Production sites not being separated from sources of contamination... In addition, many contaminated, substandard, and unidentifiable food products lacking proper quarantine certificates were confiscated or temporarily seized.
In the first six months of the year, one food poisoning incident involving 72 people was investigated and handled. There were no fatalities at the canteen of MLB Tenergy Co., Ltd., located at Block 3, Yen Thanh town, Yen Thanh district (on May 28, 2024). The Food Safety and Hygiene Sub-Department determined that this was a suspected food poisoning incident caused by histamine present in a sample of fried mackerel.
In the first six months of 2024, the entire province established 50 model school canteens. In coordination with the Vinh City People's Committee, 11 model streets with food safety control were established (including the extended Le Mao street in Vinh Tan ward, Vinh City). In addition, the Health sector issued 425 certificates of food safety compliance (49 certificates issued by the Food Safety and Hygiene Sub-department and 376 certificates issued by district-level health departments).
To date, the province has 48,552 food production, processing, and trading establishments, of which 9,893 are under the management of the Health sector.
