Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Denmark’s Ministry of Environment and Food shared experience in food safety management for pork value chains at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on May 23.
HCM City (VNA) – Vietnam’s Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development and Denmark’s Ministry of Environment andFood shared experience in food safety management for pork value chains at aworkshop in Ho Chi Minh City on May 23.
The event aims to improve controls over food,veterinary medicine, chemicals and product origin tracing.
Deputy head of the NationalAgro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department Phung Huu Hao said Denmarkhas the best food safety controlling system in the world.
In 2013, the Vietnamese and Denmark ministriessigned a protocol on cooperation in food safety and quality management.
Last year, the two sides secured a strategiccollaboration project on food safety in pork value chains, which will becarried out between 2017 and 2018. Denmark provided more than 1 billion VND andshared experience from management agencies and experts.
The project aims to improve capacity of agenciesin devising strategies to control food safety and build guidelines forlivestock practice and tracing product origin.
Finn Clemmensen, senior counselor of the foodand veterinary management department under Denmark’s Ministry of Environmentand Food, said the country inspects various stages from breeding, feeding,slaughtering to transporting on common principles in food safety in line withregulations of other European countries.
Through the fact-finding tour in Vietnam, FinnClemmensen said Vietnam has many associations in cultivation and animalhusbandry. However, the inspection of production and business activities ismainly conducted by State-run agencies.
Some pork slaughtering facilities don’tseriously obey regulations on food safety, he said, adding that it is necessaryto raise breeders’ awareness of the importance of food safety in pork valuechains.
Vietnam is home to nearly 4.5 million householdsraising pigs and about 29,000 small-scale slaughtering facilities.
Head of the Community Veterinary Division HuynhThi Thanh Binh said relevant agencies will continue implementing programmes onannual inspection of food safety for products of animal origin, along withprojects ensuring food safety in transporting and slaughtering of cattle andpoultry in 2014-2020, and enhance international cooperation in the field.-VNA
Denmark’s Embassy in Vietnam said that it and the Kim Dong Publishing House would take active involvement in the two activities of the 6th European Literacy Days in Hanoi.
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Illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
