In 2021, Hanoi will focus on implementing five key tasks in ensuring food safety. These are, strengthening food safety inspection throughout the city, especially focusing on post-public inspection, irregular inspections, sanctioning of administrative violations in the field of food safety, implementing activities under the health-population program in 2021, including activities to prevent and combat food poisoning and food-borne diseases, activities to strengthen food safety testing capacity and implementing pilot and thematic models of food safety in 2021.
Along with that, the city will strengthen communication regarding food safety. Hanoi will coordinate with the press to promote food safety, to identify safe food and connect sources to supply and consume safe products. The city will integrate food safety propaganda with epidemic prevention.
Along with that, the city will strengthen communication regarding food safety. Hanoi will coordinate with the press to promote food safety, to identify safe food and connect sources to supply and consume safe products. The city will integrate food safety propaganda with epidemic prevention.
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"After Free Trade Agreements (FTA) took effect, especially CPTPP and EVFTA, the Hanoi Sub-department of Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance implemented a number of solutions such as: strengthening food safety inspection, taking samples to monitor quality indicators (particular priority being given to imported products), monitoring of production areas and key products of the city, local analysis of safety indicators including residues of antibiotics, the use of plant protection drugs , and the use of veterinary drugs. The objective is to achieve a 10% reduction in samples violating food safety criterion, when compared to 2020”. Nguyen Thi Thu Hang - Director of the Hanoi Sub-department of Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance |
 Grapefruit gardens, a signature scene of Nam Phuong Tien, Chuong My, Hanoi. Photo: VNP  With 5,044 hectares of concentrated production, the output of organic vegetables produced in Hanoi reaches more than 700,000 tons / year, meeting about 65% of consumers’ needs in the capital. Photo: VNP  Nguyen Thi Thu Hang (right) - Director of the Hanoi Sub-department of Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance visited a food production facility in the first quarter of 2021. Photo: Hoang Ha 
Dong Xuan melons (Soc Son district, Hanoi) are grown following the process transferred
by the Vietnam National University of Agriculture. Photo: VNP 
Organic vegetables sold at supermarkets in Hanoi. Photo: VNP
 Hanoian consumers trace food origins via a smartphone application. Photo: VNP  The dairy farm in Ba Vi methodically provides organic milk, ensuring food hygiene and safety. Photo: VNP  In 2020, despite huge impacts from the COVID-19 epidemic, the livestock industry in Hanoi maintains a strong growth, contributing significantly to the 4.2% growth of the agriculture sector. Photo: VNP  The brand "AZ food" of Hoang Long Livestock Cooperative (Chi Le village, Tan Uoc commune, Thanh Oai district, Hanoi) is an OCOP standard brand popular with many supermarkets of Hanoi. Photo: VNP |
According to the report, Hanoi currently has 83,712 establishments producing, trading and processing foodstuffs, 7 industrial slaughterhouses, 58 semi-industrial slaughterhouses, 673 manual slaughterhouses, 454 markets, 141 supermarkets, 25 commercial centers and 5,044 hectares of safe vegetables which are managed and supervised. Food production by the city meets about 60% of consumer demand, the rest is imported from other provinces and overseas.
It is expected that in 2021, the city will establish more than 900 food safety inspection teams to organize inspections of 85 thousand establishments. In addition, city authorities are also expected to collect 1.2 thousand food samples for testing results and it is expected that about 2,000 food safety certificates will be issued to qualified establishments.
In 2021, the agriculture sector of Hanoi will strengthen inspection, assessment and classification of agricultural, forestry and fishery production facilities. This is considered an important solution to strictly manage products from the original source to give the best results.
Story: VNP Photos: VNP & Hoang Ha Translated by Hong Hanh
