Food Safety Department "speaks out" about Hai Be Appetite Syrup product

Hai Be Appetite Syrup product is announced by Hai Be Company Limited, responsible for product quality, it is determined that: substances including Vitamin A, Calcium, Vitamin C (main substances that create the product's effects) only reach less than 70% compared to the announcement.

On the afternoon of June 17, the Food Safety Department (FSD), Ministry of Health, issued a warning about the health protection food product Hai Be Delicious Syrup of Hai Be Company Limited (in Thanh Tay village, Van Phu commune, Nho Quan district, Ninh Binh) after Ninh Binh Provincial Police initiated a criminal case and prosecuted Tran Dai Phuc, Director of Hai Be Company Limited and Le Van Hai (owner of the Tiktok social network account "Hai Sen Family"), co-founder of the company for the act of "Trading in fake food products".

Hai Be Appetite Syrup products are widely advertised on social networks.

Accordingly, the Food Safety Department cited information from the Ninh Binh Provincial Police Department on the appraisal results of the quality indicators of the Hai Be Appetite Syrup product announced by Hai Be Company Limited, responsible for the product quality, which determined that the substances including Vitamin A, Calcium, Vitamin C (the main substances that create the product's effects) only reached less than 70% compared to the announcement.

Meanwhile, the Hai Be Delicious Syrup product has been granted by the Food Safety Department a Certificate of Acceptance of Product Declaration Registration No. 1121/2024/DKSP dated January 30, 2024 and a Certificate of Confirmation of Advertising Content No. 1121/2024/XNQC-ATTP dated June 7, 2024 for Hai Be Company Limited. On that basis, the Food Safety Department recommends that people should not use the Hai Be Delicious Syrup product while the authorities are verifying the incident.

Recently, Ninh Binh Provincial Police discovered that the TikTok social network account “Gia dinh Hai Sen” of Le Van Hai regularly posted videos selling cosmetics and functional foods. Among them, there was the health protection food Hai Be Delicious Syrup which received many negative feedbacks from consumers about the product quality.

During an inspection of Hai Be Company Limited, the police discovered and seized cosmetics and functional foods without full invoices or documents proving their origin.

Initially, the police agency determined that from 2024 to present, Hai Be Company Limited has sold more than 800,000 products through social networking platforms (TikTok shop, Facebook, Shopee "Gia dinh Hai Sen", "Hai Sen"); Hai Be delicious syrup alone sold over 100,000 boxes to the market.

MINH KHANG

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/cuc-an-toan-thuc-pham-len-tieng-ve-san-pham-siro-an-ngon-hai-be-post799874.html