Food safety

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The Vietnamese government has taken food safety very seriously for the past 20 years. In 2011 the Food Safety Act 55/2010 / QH12 came into force. This law provides:

• Rights and obligations of organizations and individuals in ensuring food safety;

• Conditions for ensuring the safety of food and food production, trade, transportation, import and export;

• Food advertising and labeling;

• Food tests;

• Food safety risk analysis;

• Food safety incident prevention;

• Information, education and communication on food safety;

• Responsibilities of State Food Safety Management

Depending on the type of product, the following bodies are responsible for the implementation of Law 55/2010 / HQ12 in accordance with Interministerial Circular 13/2014 / TTLB-BYT-BNNPTNT-BCT:

• Ministry of Health (MoH): responsible for most prepackaged and processed foods;

• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD): responsible for agricultural products;

• Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT): responsible for higher risk foods such as alcoholic beverages, processed milk, cooking oil, etc.

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Please note that every addition of nutrients, minerals or additives is sufficient to consider the product as a nutritious food and then to shift responsibility for the implementation of the food safety regulations from MARD / MoIT to MoH.