Hanoi: Strengthening Mid-Autumn Festival market inspection, protecting consumer rights

In order to ensure compliance with regulations on food safety of establishments producing, processing, importing, and trading moon cakes, thereby protecting the interests of consumers during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2025, the Hanoi Market Management Department has just issued a Plan to deploy market inspection and control work, ensuring food safety during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the city, in order to promptly detect, prevent, and strictly handle violations of food safety regulations, especially counterfeit and smuggled goods.

Focused, key testing

Implementing the key work program in 2025, the plans of the Hanoi People's Committee, the direction of the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade on strengthening market inspection and control during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2025, the Hanoi Market Management Department has developed a plan for market inspection and control, ensuring food safety during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the city in 2025.

Hanoi Market Management Force coordinated to inspect a batch of violating moon cakes.

According to the Hanoi Market Management Department, the plan will be implemented from August 15 to October 15, aiming to assess the current status of management, direction, and implementation of measures to ensure food safety and hygiene during the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival; assess compliance with food safety regulations of establishments producing, processing, importing, and trading moon cakes.

Through market inspection and control activities, violations of food safety regulations, especially counterfeit goods, smuggled goods, and goods that do not ensure food safety, are promptly detected, prevented, and strictly handled; and the consequences of violations related to food safety are overcome and minimized.

The market management force will focus on inspecting and controlling moon cakes, raw materials for moon cake production, and packaging that comes into direct contact with moon cake products. Timely detect, prevent, correct, handle or recommend handling of violations of the law according to regulations.

Head of the Hanoi Market Management Department Trinh Quang Duc requested that during the inspection and control process, the forces should coordinate to do a good job of propagating and educating knowledge and legal regulations on food safety, raising awareness and consciousness of ensuring food safety for the whole community. Focus on propagating the theme of the Month of Action for Children "Practical action, prioritizing resources for children".

Market management forces also focus on checking moon cake products and raw materials and packaging that come into direct contact with moon cake products in traditional craft villages in the following wards and communes: Xuan Dinh Ward, An Khanh Commune; hotel and restaurant service establishments that produce, process and trade moon cakes.

Inspect and handle businesses that sell smuggled equipment, school supplies, publications, and children's toys, counterfeit goods, goods of unknown origin, and goods that do not ensure safety for use.

Tighten management and protect consumers

Based on the assigned functions, fields, and areas of management and the actual market situation, Head of the Hanoi Market Management Department Trinh Quang Duc requested the Market Management Teams to proactively establish and send civil servants to participate in inter-sectoral inspection delegations on food safety...

Hanoi strengthens market inspection and control to ensure food safety during the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival.

Check the food safety quality of raw materials and food additives (sweeteners, colorants, flavors, preservatives, etc.) used in food production, processing, and trading. Take samples for quality and food safety assessment (if necessary)...

The organization signs a commitment to ensure food safety with food production and trading establishments according to the law. Proactively publicize violations on mass media to warn consumers not to use them.

According to the Plan, Hanoi market management forces will focus on inspecting: Organizations, individuals, enterprises that produce, import, process, and trade moon cakes and raw materials and packaging that come into direct contact with the products; business establishments in traditional craft villages, places with many family-scale moon cake production establishments; supermarket systems, shopping centers, hotels, and restaurants that provide moon cake production, processing, and trading services; business establishments that sell school supplies, publications, and children's toys - items serving the opening of the new school year 2025-2026.

In particular, high-risk product groups are strictly controlled, including: Food additives, cake fillings, cake crusts, flavors, preservatives; smuggled children's toys, counterfeit goods, unknown origin, containing toxic substances.

The Hanoi Market Management Department strictly prohibits officials from taking advantage of their official duties to harass or commit corruption. Internal supervision has been strengthened to ensure transparent and lawful inspections, avoiding unnecessary obstacles to legitimate businesses.

With the drastic and synchronous participation of Hanoi market management forces and functional agencies, it is expected that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival market will be safe and transparent, without counterfeit, smuggled, or poor-quality goods infiltrating and affecting the health and interests of people, especially children, during this festival.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/ha-noi-tang-cuong-kiem-tra-thi-truong-tet-trung-thu-bao-ve-quyen-loi-nguoi-tieu-dung-715510.html