Monitoring to ensure food safety

Inspection and supervision of agricultural, forestry and fishery products play a very important role. Not only quality management, this work also contributes to ensuring food safety and raising the sense of responsibility and awareness of producers, traders and consumers. Recently, the functional forces of Thai Nguyen province have increased inspection and supervision activities and handled many violations.

In 2025, the province's interdisciplinary delegation conducted inspections of goods quality at supermarkets in the province, including Go Thai Nguyen supermarket.

Food sampling is a routine task for inspection and monitoring purposes.

Mr. Luong Van Trung, Deputy Head of the Provincial Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Product Quality Management, said: In October, the Department of Agriculture and Environment coordinated with the functional forces to collect 32 samples for food safety monitoring. Since the beginning of the year, 165 samples have been collected, including 33 tea samples, 27 vegetable samples, 6 edible mushroom samples, 27 fruit samples, 5 dried bamboo shoot samples, 5 rice samples; 5 honey samples, 9 fresh meat samples, 15 pork samples, 8 chicken samples; 4 dried meat samples, 13 ham and sausage samples, 4 dried seafood samples; 4 freshwater fish samples.

Up to now, the test results of 129 samples have been received and 6 samples have been found to be unqualified. The authorities have traced the origin according to regulations, requested the facility to correct and control the product processing and store full information according to regulations.

In order to ensure food safety, since the beginning of the year, the Department of Agriculture and Environment has also assessed and classified 63 establishments (49 qualified establishments, 14 unqualified establishments); granted certificates of qualified food safety establishments to 26 establishments.

At the same time, conduct 5 inter-sectoral inspections on the occasion of the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival season 2025; on the occasion of the "Month of Action for Food Safety" in 2025; monitor and control against smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods and products, groups of food products, and goods under the management authority of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.

The provincial interdisciplinary inspection team inspected the warehouse of a production and business unit in Vo Tranh commune.

Accordingly, 61 establishments were inspected, 7 establishments were found to have violated food safety regulations and the files were handed over to local authorities to handle violations in accordance with regulations.

Mr. Duong Son Ha, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment, said: The interdisciplinary inspection teams have conducted rapid tests on the nitrate content of 90 vegetable and fruit samples at a number of market locations in the northern communes, and taken 7 agricultural product samples to analyze food safety indicators such as the use of food additives, pesticide residues, and heavy metals. Fortunately, all samples have satisfactory results.

Together with the interdisciplinary inspection teams, specialized inspections also help to effectively monitor food safety assurance for agricultural, forestry and fishery products. Through 2 inspections of 21 food production and trading establishments, the functional sector reported that no violations were detected.

It can be affirmed that the inspection and supervision activities combined with propaganda have contributed significantly to improving the quality of agricultural, forestry and fishery products, ensuring food safety in the area. This activity is continuing to be strengthened by all levels and functional branches, especially at the end of the year and the Lunar New Year 2026 - the time when the demand for food in the area increases.

Source: https://baothainguyen.vn/xa-hoi/202512/giam-sat-de-bao-dam-an-toan-thuc-pham-b96182f/