Herbitech Company has manufactured 200 products - Photo: VTV
Manufacturing and consulting company submits application
The Ministry of Public Security is investigating a health food production line that used fake test results to bring products to market, produced by Herbitech Technology Company Limited (in Phu Lo commune, Soc Son district, Hanoi).
According to the company profile, Herbitech Technology Company Limited was established in 2003 and is introduced as a factory producing Herbitech health protection foods with HS GMP standards.
In particular, the company's consulting categories include training consulting, drafting documents and completing applications for GMP certificates from the Food Safety Department/assessment organization.
Authorities said that up to now, the number of customers for whom this company has processed products is up to about 200 products worth hundreds of billions of dong, but there is a lack of quality control.
In particular, the police identified two fake products as health protection foods produced by Herbitech Company, namely BABY SHARK and Medi Kid Calcium K2 for children.
According to Tuoi Tre Online 's research, the products that this company manufactures are health food products for people with weakened immune systems, sick people, women and children... and also products to enhance male physiology.
Unlike the large-scale fake milk production line that was recently dismantled, this company's products mostly appear in pharmacies - one of the establishments considered reputable as a distribution channel to the market.
Products with fake test records on the market
Correct test results to "pass"
According to current regulations, to bring health protection products to the market, companies must register and declare products according to the provisions of law.
In particular, the dossier for domestically produced products includes the product's food safety test results within 12 months; scientific evidence proving its uses; certificate of qualified production safety facilities...
The regulations are like that, but in order to sell products with signs of being counterfeit on the market, Herbitech Company used fake test results to produce, process and announce health protection food products.
The director of this company admitted to the investigation agency that in order to comply with the announced target, the company changed the target from unsatisfactory to satisfactory. If the unsatisfactory target is outside the announced range, it is adjusted to the announced table.
Major Nguyen Van Thanh, Office of the Investigation Police Agency, Ministry of Public Security, informed that in order for this product to be circulated on the market, the subjects will have to send samples for consultation so that the competent testing companies can re-test to see if the quantitative ingredients are correct as announced.
"When testing, the test samples did not meet the announced standards, so the subjects colluded and discussed with the companies to confirm the correction of the results or falsify the test results," Major Thanh stated.
According to current regulations, with health protection foods, businesses are allowed to self-declare quality indicators and take responsibility for food products according to Decree 15.
In assessing the implementation of Decree 15, the Ministry of Health also admitted that food safety inspection, examination, and post-inspection only partially meet practical requirements.
The reason is partly due to lack of human resources, necessary equipment, lack of funding... especially in the context of increasingly large and diverse self-declared products. Ho Chi Minh City alone has nearly 200,000 self-declared products.
Currently, the Ministry of Health is seeking opinions on a draft amendment to Decree 15 in the direction of strengthening control over self-declared products, adding some explanations in self-declared documents, etc., and increasing handling of violations and post-inspection of these products.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/cong-ty-lam-gia-ho-so-kiem-nghiem-thuc-pham-bao-ve-suc-khoe-da-san-xuat-200-san-pham-20250426110151852.htm
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