Capital strengthens festival food inspections
VGP – The Ha Noi’s Department of Health will send mobile food testing labs to deter unsafe food sold at restaurants and street vendors during the ongoing Spring festivals, said Director Nguyen Khac Hien.
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Interdisciplinary inspection teams, in cooperation with local authorities, will take samples of food at food businesses operating at festivals for tests this month.
Those who were found to violate food safety and hygiene regulations will face fines and be forced to stop business.
The mobile testing labs, which could test a raw food sample for different kinds of chemicals or bacteria within 30 minutes or two hours at the longest, will help deterring violated businesses at the soonest time, he said on February 7.
The labs will ease difficulties of inspection work, he added. There are many food vendors at festivals while the time of testing food at local labs took much time. When the authorized agencies receive food test results, a large amount of food had been sold.
The Huong (Perfume) Pagoda Festival in My Duc district, which welcomes tens of thousands of tourists each day during the festival time, will be the first to be inspected this month.
The department also required all food businesses to sign commitment to follow the regulations on food hygiene and safety./.
By Kim Anh
