On June 01, 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development issued Circular No. 08/2016/TT-BNNPTNT on food safety supervision of agro-aqua-forestry products including: Cereals; Meat, products made of meat; Fisheries and fishery products; Vegetables, fruits and their products; Eggs and egg products; Honey; Salt; Spices; Sugar; Tea; Coffee… sold at wholesale markets, agro-aqua-forestry markets and bulk purchasing and distributing facilities and other facilities trading agro-qua-forestry products.
Within that, products and criteria of food safety supervision shall be determined according to consumers’ reflection, warning of food safety authorities or competent authorities of importing countries; according to previous food safety inspection or supervision; requirement of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development and Departments of Agriculture and Rural development or it is a cause of mass food poisoning.
After the testing result is announced, every supervising authority shall send a written notice of testing results and request the business facility having unsafe products to trace such unsafe product origin and recall all unsafe products, investigate causes of failure of safety and apply remedial measures for mitigating consequences and report them to the supervising authority. In case the business facility delays to submit their report on investigation and mitigation of unsafe product consequences, supervising authority shall submit a written request for handling of violations against the Law on Inspection to specialized inspecting authorities.