Information from the General Department of Market Management, market management personnel in many provinces and cities are stepping up efforts to check, inspect and manage the business activities of vegetables, tubers and fruits of unknown origin to ensure food safety in the management area.

On September 21, the director of Ho Chi Minh City’s market management department signed an urgent notice to market management teams to review, detect, inspect and treat illegal vegetable, fruit and vegetable trade activities in the area.

In an urgent statement, the director of Ho Chi Minh City’s market management department called on market management teams under their direct control to audit, detect, inspect and handle trade in vegetables, tubers and fruits of unknown origin to ensure food safety.

This is a measure that the unit implemented immediately after the news that the press was reflecting on the situation that many people had to pay high prices to buy “safe vegetables” and “VietGAP standards” in supermarkets, but actually some companies Go collect vegetables from wholesale markets, label them VietGAP and then sell them to supermarkets.

The director of the market management department of Ho Chi Minh City asked the head and the person in charge of managing the market management teams to urgently survey the area to promptly identify and coordinate with the relevant units.

In particular, the Food Safety Management Team conducts inspections and strictly treats organizations and individuals that collect, classify, pack and trade vegetables, tubers and fruits of unknown or fraudulent origin without ensuring food safety and other commercial frauds with regulations.

Previously related to vegetables and fruits in Hanoi to correct and strictly treat organizations and individuals trading fruits of unknown origin, not to ensure food safety, not to ensure food safety.To improve the quality of circulation in the market of City to ensure administrative department. Hanoi has issued an official cable directing the inspection of imported fruit shops in the city.

Accordingly, directing market management team captains under the Hanoi Market Management Department to strengthen inspection and control, promptly identify and deal with organizations and individuals violating food safety in markets, violations of the fruit business activities in the city.

Focus on investigating, controlling and dealing with breaches of trade, transport and marketing of contraband fruit, fruit of counterfeit provenance, provenance, geographical indications, food safety breaches, quality assurance without guarantees and other fraud cases such as e.g. B. Violations of business registration, price list, product labeling, etc.

The Hanoi Market Management Department will also coordinate with functional forces such as the Municipal Police Departments PC05, PC03 and PA04. In Hanoi, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has introduced supervision, inspection and control over companies that import, store, preserve and circulate a large number of imported fruits in the city.

Some fruits were not allowed to be imported into Vietnam by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, such as: B. Strawberries; Japanese melon; Pomegranate Peru, Egypt, Australia, India; American Plum… So when these fruits are sold in the market, they are hand-carried, with signs of tax evasion or counterfeit goods of origin.

A Hanoi Market Administration representative also advises consumers to be cautious and check the information carefully when making purchases to avoid buying items of unknown or incorrect origin.

In the coming period, the Hanoi Market Management Department will further strengthen the inspection of shops selling imported fruit in Hanoi to strictly deal with the sale of illegal goods of unknown origin.