(VietNamNet) – According to the official notice of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its website, during 6 beginning months of year 2007, hundreds of batches of food exported from Vietnam to America were rejected due to their failure to meet food safety and hygiene requirements.

During the first six months of 2007, totally 260 batches of export food consignments from Vietnam to America were rejected due to hygiene and safety reasons such as containing dirt or noxious substance-as stated by official website of FDA.

Lately, in June 2007, there were 35 batches of goods from Vietnam were detected to be inconsistent with the standards of food hygiene safety (See below diagram).

Those batches included different kinds of products as girdle cake, cake, candy of all kinds, spring roll, spice, sweet-and-sour onion, grinded black pepper, coffee, salted vegetables, dry noodle, meat, processed aquatic products (fish, shrimp, crab, squid…)

Many kinds of processed food products made by Vietnam were detected to contain dirt and substances harmful to the health of people. These substance are Salmonella which causes the diarrhea, chemical adjuvant or Aflatoxin which causes cancer. Many ingredients were not written in goods’ labels.

Many foodstuff processed by big companies of Vietnam as Mekophar, Acecook, Acecook (Acecook VietNam Co., Ltd. Ho Chi Minh); Seaspimex TP.HCM - Vi?t Nam, No 4 Refrigration Co., Ltd and Trung Nguyen Coffee Enterprise... were returned.

For instance, on March 27, 2007, 10 salmon consignment of Ben Tre Co., were returned to the existence of dirt and other residues. Similarly, instant noodles with Thai hotpot flavor of Acecook Co.,Ltd was also rejected. Other seafood consignments of HCMC-based Seaspimex Co.,ltd also could not enter US market for the same reason.

Trung Nguyen Coffee Co.,Ltd also faced with hygiene and safety barriers from US and was concluded to violate 3 critical requirements, namely failure to specify product ingredients, false label and insufficient products information on label. More seriously, export nuts of Vuong Kim Long Co.,Ltd were detected by FDA to infect with Aflatoxin, a very dangerous substance.

Vietnamese spices are also among the list of unclean, salmonella - infected export products. In April 2007, FDA refused 7 consignments of black pepper of  a Dak Nong –based company, Olam Vietnam Ltd.

The most recent enterprises detected with safety violation included Tan Thanh Loi Frozen Food Co., Ltd.; Ng?c Sinh Seafoods (Cà Mau); Ocean Blue (Qu?ng Ngãi). Their export consignments were rejected due to the existence of Samonella bacteria...

Detailed information about rejected Vietnamese food export consignment is announced and updated monthly on FDA’s website (under "Search" section with key word "OASIS Refusals by Country").

Huong Cát (Source: US Food and Drug Administration)
 
Some Vietnamese products and enterprises detected by US to violate food hygiene and safety requirements in the first 6 months of 2007 (Source : FDA)



Mekophar Ho Chi Minh, VN
    
Lingzhi Capsules - 66VAE99
08-JAN-2007 (8/1)
UNAPPROVED
    

New drug but without testing application for approval

Frozen Factory No.4 Hochiminh City , VN
    

Frozen Shrimp Ball - 16XGT21
    

25-JAN-2007 (25/1)
    

LIST INGRE
 
    

Insufficient information about product on label.  

Seaspimex Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City
    

Crab; Metal; Pasteurized - 16JEO01
    

05-FEB-2007 (5/2)
    

CHLORAMP
    

Infected with  chloramphenicol (CHLORAMP)

HAICHAU Confectionery Joint Stock Company Ha Noi VN
    

Cream Wafer - 03HGT07
    

26-MAR-2007
    

UNSAFE COL, LACKS N/C, NUTRIT LBL
    

Use the dangerous substance of  (UNSAFE COL), lack of information of weight and quantity of ingredients

Seaspimex Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City
    

Canned Blue Crab Meat, Colossal - 16JEO01
    

20-MAR-2007 (20/3)
    

VETDRUGRES
    

Include substances harmful to health

Cau Tre Enterprise HCM City
    

Salmon All, Aquaculture Harvested Fishery/ Seafood Products -  16XGD03
    

27-MAR-2007 (27/3)
    

FILTHY
    

Include dirts and residues.

Acecook VietNam Co., LTD. Ho Chi Minh
    

Instant Vermicelli (Mi Lau Thai Seafood Flavor) - 04CGT07
    

05-APR-2007 (5/4)
    

LIST INGRE, FILTHY
    

Insufficient information about product ingredients

Trung Nguyen Coffee Enterprise Hochiminh , VN
    

G7 Instant 3 in 1 Coffee ( Box 20) - 31AFT03
    

18-APR-2007 (18/4)
    

LIST INGRE, FALSE, TRANSFAT
    

Insufficient information about product ingredients, false label, lack of information about fat

Trung Nguyen Coffee Co Ltd Hochimin h City , VN
    

G7 Instant 3 in 1 Coffee (Bag 24) - 31AGT03
    

24-MAY-2007 (24/5)
    

LIST INGRE, TRANSFAT, NUTRIT LBL
    

Insufficient information about product ingredients, false label, lack of information about fat

 
 
The graph reflects number of export consignments which were rejected by US in the first six months of 2007 In March 2007, 56 consignments were rejected and other 35 batches were not allowed to enter US in June 2007