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The interdisciplinary inspection team inspects a vegetarian food business in Dong Nai province – Photo: BA
Ms. Tran Thi Phuong Lan, Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Commerce, said that 3 days ago, the Hanoi People’s Committee issued a document to direct 3 departments of Agriculture and Rural Development (Agriculture and Rural Development), Health, Industry and Commerce to inspect, report.
“The Minh Chay pate case related to the Anonymous Society of Two Members of Alternative Life, the responsibility of this case belongs to the agricultural sector. Agriculture and rural development In May 2020, the department verified the quality and announced that all the samples met the standards, “explained Ms. Lan.
Ms. Lan said that after poisoning consumers, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development came to verify, worked with the company, took 11 samples to analyze, so “this case is not the responsibility of the Department of Industry and Commerce. “. But when PV Tuoi Tre asked the representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the leader of this department said that “he joined the delegation, but the hint, the information is that the Department of Health is leading”!
The press disagreed with Ms. Lan’s response and questioned whether the Hanoi People’s Committee, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce gave instructions, but the department’s leaders claimed “they have no responsibility.”
Ms. Lan explained that in accordance with decentralization, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development chairs the inspection team, industry and commerce designates its staff to join the inspection team. And the inspection at the product storage stage has been assigned to the capital market management force operating in the vertical branches of the General Department of Market Management.
Speaking with Tuoi Tre, Mr. Chu Phu My, Director of Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, confirmed that the functional force of the Department and the Department of Health established an inspection team for the Minh Chay pate production plant. . “The Health Department is the focal point for evaluation and analysis after going to the test,” Mr. My said, asking reporters to contact the Hanoi Department of Health for information.
Meanwhile, on September 1, Mr. Nguyen Nhu Tiep – Director of the Department of Quality Management of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Nafiqad), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – said on the afternoon of August 31, Nafiqad had a letter requesting the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. nationwide and Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Bac Ninh food safety management councils coordinate the handling of unsafe products.
But it appears that those documents are simply “fire fighting.”
19-8 The Department of Food Safety (Alimentary Safety), the Ministry of Health received information from the Poison Control Center of the Bach Mai Hospital about the transfer of the couple a day before from the National Geriatric Hospital, diagnosis “Initial surveillance for suspected poisoning botulinum “. This couple uses Minh Chay pate and the most recent use is late July 2020.
20-8 The inspection team, under the direction of the Food Safety Department, which came to work for the company, found that the company did not maintain the sanitary conditions of factories, tools and sewers, for which it suspended the company’s production. Clostridium botulinum sampling.
25-8 The National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene announced the initial results of patient (partner) patient samples and unfinished paté box positive for clostridium botulinum but atypical, the institute suggested longer. cultivation time for accurate results.
28-8 The Food Safety Department received the test results from the Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Public Health and the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, and discovered the bacteria clostridium botulinum in the Minh Chay pate. The Department held a meeting with related parties at 10 pm the same day.
29-8 The Department issued a warning to stop using Minh Chay pâté and products of the two-member Alternative Living corporation on its website.
