Hanoi: setting targets for safe food market

By Anh Kiet 10:50, 2016/04/24

Hanoi have agreed a programme to develop safe agricultural product consumption from 2016-2020. The City`s officials have urged consumers to buy products with clear origin sold at clean and hygienic trading places to ensure food safety.

Authorities inspect food safety in Hanoi

At the seminar held in Hanoi, Tran Thi Phuong Lan, Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Trade and Industry said it was an annual joint programme with three main contents: set up an association from safe agro-product growing to consumption, select key agro-products that were produced in accordance with the biological safety process, and stabilise the supply to the capital city.

Deputy Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee, Nguyen Doan Toan said the city will create favourable condition for lorries weighing under 5 tonnes to carry Bac Giang agricultural products to the city. According to the Hanoi Plant Protection Department, safe vegetable distribution in the city are through six forms: agricultural enterprises contracts with supermarkets (accounting for 1.5 percent of total safe vegetable output), retail agencies (1.5 percent), restaurants or collective kitchens (1.8 percent). The department has granted certification on safe vegetable production to 5,100ha in the city.

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