Nghe An launches 'Month of action for food safety'
(Baonghean.vn) - Nghe An province requests all levels, sectors and localities to continuously improve state management capacity on food safety, contributing to protecting the health and interests of consumers.
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| The online conference was held with the participation of district, city, town and commune, ward and township bridges in the province. Photo: Thanh Chung |
On the morning of April 9, the Nghe An Provincial Food Safety Steering Committee held an online conference to launch the "Food Safety Action Month" and deploy tasks to ensure food safety in 2021 in Nghe An province. Doctor CKII Nguyen Huu Le, Deputy Director of the Department of Health chaired the conference.
Attending the conference were members of the Provincial Food Safety Steering Committee and its working group; representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development; Department of Industry and Trade; leaders of the People's Committees of districts, cities, towns, communes, wards and townships; and medical units in the province.In 2020, food safety work in Nghe An province was well implemented. The assignment and decentralization basically created unity in implementation. Hundreds of pilot models on food safety have been built in the province, initially creating positive effects.
All levels of industry have strictly controlled production, business and processing.food; prevent the circulation and trading of fake, poor quality, expired food products, and food products that violate food safety laws.
The whole province has inspected and examined 20,966 establishments. Of which, 17,430 establishments have met the standards and 3,536 establishments have passed the standards.violate, fined 1,342 establishments with a total fine of nearly 3 billion VND and warned and reminded 2,194 establishments.
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| Food safety inspection at Big C Vinh Supermarket. Photo: Thanh Chung |
However, food safety assurance in the province still has many limitations: Production and business activities are mainly on a family scale, so management is difficult; dirty food, poor quality food, floating food, and food of unknown origin still exists; inspection, examination and handling of administrative violations are not really drastic, especially at the district and commune levels.
In 2021, Nghe An province aims to control food safety quality based on improving the state management capacity on food safety from the provincial level to the commune, ward and town levels to ensure consistency and unity in direction and operation, contributing to protecting people's health and rights.
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| Doctor CKII Nguyen Huu Le - Deputy Director of the Department of Health launched a call to respond to the Month of Action for Food Safety in 2021. Photo: Thanh Chung |
All levels and sectors need to continue to strengthen the food safety management apparatus and increasingly improve the effectiveness and efficiency in coordination and combination of management; continue to invest in facilities and specialized equipment to improve operational efficiency; promote the application of information technology in food safety management; build and replicate food safety models; regularly innovate communication work; strengthen inspection, examination, post-inspection, supervision and handling of violations of food safety laws./.