Ensuring food safety during Mid-Autumn Festival

To ensure food safety during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the province's functional departments and agencies have planned to coordinate in inspecting compliance with legal regulations on conditions of facilities, equipment, tools; practical knowledge for those directly involved in production; origin of food ingredients; product labeling... at production and business establishments. During this period, the authorities will focus on inspecting establishments producing and trading moon cakes, confectionery, soft drinks... to detect, correct and strictly handle violations .

According to the assessment of the Department of Industry and Trade, through inspection of production and business establishments, including supermarkets and stalls selling moon cakes, soft drinks, beer, wine... it shows that the market of goods in the province quite diverse and rich .

In addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival cakes of Kinh Do, Huu Nghi, Hai Ha, Kotobuki, Bao Ngoc... brands, traditional cakes are also chosen and trusted by many consumers. The reason is that although the production and business establishments are small and medium, they are still inspected and certified by the authorities to meet food safety and hygiene conditions. On the other hand, the products are affordable for people and have beautiful designs.

Food Safety Interdisciplinary Inspection Team No. 3 inspected moon cakes at Go! Supermarket.

In recent years, instead of focusing only on making traditional cakes to serve mass customers, manufacturers have also focused on innovating flavors with durian, butterfly pea flower, and cheese fillings. dragon fruit... to target more customer segments.

New flavored cakes have been well received by many people after being introduced to the market. Cakes for vegetarians, dieters... belong to the product line. High-end products are also consumed a lot, contributing to enriching the moon cake market this year .

Every year, based on the inspection plan, Food Safety Inspection Team No. 3 chaired by the Department of Industry and Trade focuses on inspecting production and business establishments regarding business registration certificates, establishments meeting food safety conditions (or signing food safety commitments); confirmation of food safety knowledge; health certificates of establishment owners and workers directly involved in production, food business; product standard declaration records, conformity certificates, Certificate of conformity for products subject to declaration; food labeling products subject to labeling and price listing; Food safety conditions for facilities, equipment, tools and people people and food preservation according to the provisions of law; origin of goods , Origin of water used in food production and processing...

The inspection shows that compliance with regulations related to food safety and hygiene at production facilities, business is basically good, but still There are still some establishments that have not fully updated their knowledge about food safety or have not focused on ensuring food safety regulations, so there are still problems such as goods being placed directly on the floor, not fully posting prices, not having regular health check- ups for employees ...

These limitations have been pointed out and reminded by the Food Safety Interdisciplinary Inspection Team No. 3, requesting businesses to seriously overcome them to ensure food safety conditions during the production process. production and business process

In order to effectively implement food safety assurance work during the 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival, on this occasion, the Ministry of Industry and Trade continues to preside over and coordinate with relevant departments and branches to strengthen inspection of compliance with legal regulations on food safety at production and business establishments; request localities to review, guide, urge and inspect production and business establishments to fully implement documents and procedures. according to the provisions of law and conditions on food safety before Participate in production and business activities; strengthen post-inspection of establishments; strengthen communication andeducation on food safety during the Mid-Autumn Festival for food production and business establishments.

Consumers are advised to choose and use products and foods with clear labels and origins; do not use floating goods or goods of unknown origin to ensure health and prevent food poisoning.

Article and photos: Ha Tran

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