Decision No. 20/QD-TTg dated January 04, 2012 of the Prime Minister on approval of the National Strategy for food safety in the period of 2011 - 2020 and a vision toward 2030

BY 2020, FOOD SAFETY MUST BE BASICALLY CONTROLLED

The Prime Minister approved the National Strategy for food safety in the period of 2011 - 2020 and a vision toward 2030 in the Decision No. 20/QD-TTg dated January 04, 2012. The objective of Strategy is that by 2020, basically, the control of food safety throughout the food supply chain is set up and promoted efficiently, actively in the protection of health and interests of consumers, to meet requirements on development and integration of international economy of the country.

Specifically, 95% of producers, processors and traders of food, 100% of managers, 80% of consumers have the knowledge and proper practice on food safety; The provinces with population of 1 million people or more have testing laboratories obtained ISO 17025 standard; 80% of the facilities of producing, trading catering services, 100% of collective kitchens are issued qualification certificates for hygiene and food safety; 80% of markets is planned and controlled food safety.

Besides, one of the important targets is to improve status of ensuring food safety of the facilities of producing, processing food. Accordingly, 100% of the facilities of producing, processing food of industrial scale, concentrated are issued qualification certificates for hygiene and food safety; percentage of the facilities of producing, processing food of industrial scale, concentrated applying quality assurance system for hygiene and food safety, such as GMP, HACCP, ISO 9001, ISO 22000 ... is 80%; 60% of the production areas of vegetables, tea is applied VietGAP (Regulations of Vietnam on Good Agriculture Practice).