Eggs, meat... included in Ho Chi Minh City's goods quality control program

After many months of official implementation, the Responsible Green Tick program implemented by Ho Chi Minh City has had more units and products participating, especially the work of sampling, control and quality announcement has been carried out.

Responsible Green Tick products are increasingly present in large distribution systems in Ho Chi Minh City - Photo: N.TRI

In parallel with expanding the scope, to spread the program "Controlling the quality of goods in Ho Chi Minh City" (abbreviated as Responsible Green Tick) more strongly, the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City said that there will be many promotional activities, introducing to consumers the implementation of "Responsible Green Tick Month".

The number of participating suppliers is increasing gradually.

On August 1, at the regular meeting to announce information about the Green Tick of Responsibility, the City Department of Industry and Trade said that as of July 31, the program had 11 distribution systems and 345 suppliers registered to participate, of which 235 were suppliers. There are approved products (accounting for 68.12%). The total number of registered products is 2,887, of which 2,811 products are approved (accounting for 97.37%).

Not only vegetables and fruits like in the first phase, now there are 91 processed products (pork, bird's nest, eggs, fish cakes, rice noodles, tofu...) approved to participate in the Green Tick.

According to this agency, the number of suppliers and products participating in the Responsible Green Tick is generally increasing. Specifically, Co.opmart currently has 99 suppliers participating with 1,057 products approved for the Green Tick; Bach Hoa Xanh has 155 and 552 respectively; Central Retail has 46 and 245; Lotte Mart has 24 and 203; MM Mega Market has 62 and 162...

The leader of the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City said that the new and positive point of the recent program is that many suppliers have proactively taken samples to test and publicly announced the quality.

Specifically, in less than a month of implementation, 54 suppliers of 6 distribution systems have self-tested 163 product samples and announced the quality for all participants to know.

"In addition to proactive testing, many distribution systems have committed to increasing efforts in the coming time to get more suppliers to self-test and declare quality. This is one of the solutions that the program will promote to support more effective screening and control of input quality."

Implement "Blue Tick Responsibility Month"

Mr. Nguyen Nguyen Phuong - Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City - said that recently the department has focused a lot on mobilizing and encouraging parties to participate, so the program basically has a stable process.

However, in the coming time, we will focus more on operations, quality control, and especially promoting information about the program and participating units to consumers, through the "Responsible Green Tick Month" activity.

The regular meeting was attended by representatives of many distribution systems in Ho Chi Minh City - Photo: N.TRI

With "Responsible Green Tick Month", distribution systems will exploit the Responsible Green Tick logo to attach to products, increase communication and promotion for the program at points of sale and online channels, run promotions for products participating in Green Tick...

From the perspective of the state management unit, the city's industry and trade sector will calculate and coordinate with the media unit to organize seminars; organize programs to announce results, commend units, classify and award stars to distribution systems and suppliers to recognize active participation...

"Participating units will be supported to increase sales to the systems and promote their brands to more consumers...

This is an opportunity for participants to demonstrate transparency in controlling the quality of goods and their commitment to bringing quality products to consumers. Units that have not participated need to ask why they are still on the sidelines," said Mr. Nguyen Minh Hung, Deputy Head of the Trade Management Department, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade.

In addition, the city's industry and trade sector said it will have a plan to work with relevant associations and local departments to increase the program's spread and find more suitable suppliers...

Need to have a plan for sample testing

From the perspective of the application provider and program operation support unit, Mr. Dao Ha Trung - Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City High Technology Association - said that the approval of the new responsible Blue Tick product will start from March 13, 2025 and testing will start from July 9, 2025.

According to Mr. Trung, in addition to increasing promotion to consumers, in the coming time, the Responsible Green Tick program needs to have more specific activities on control.

"It is necessary to plan for inspection, sampling, announcement and handling. The plan for inspection and sampling can be divided into 3 groups (product types; growing areas in provinces/cities; by distribution system). Distribution systems need to have a testing plan according to time, quantity, and type. For example, each month there are 50 random tests for 50 suppliers...

In addition, suppliers also need to be regulated how many times a year each product must be tested.

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