On 12/11/2017 in Binh Thuan, Saigon Co.op and the Board of Food Safety of Ho Chi Minh City led by Pham Khanh Phong Lan - Head of the leading board, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Binh Thuan province has had a survey and signing ceremony to coordinate the production, business and consumption of agricultural products and aquatic products to ensure food safety between Binh Thuan province and Ho Chi Minh City.

 

On this occasion, two distribution and production units of Saigon Co.op and Ten Tuyen Co., Ltd of Binh Thuan province signed a cooperation agreement. This is one of the practical activities of Saigon Co.op in order to increase investment in quality inspection and control system of trading in its retail system.

 

Nguyen Thanh Nhan, General Director of Saigon Co.op, said that ensuring food safety and hygiene if well implementing the safe food supply chain not only brings practical benefits for consumers but also brings Brand value for the supply unit, contributing significantly to the increase of supply capacity. After the seafood, Saigon Co.op also wants to expand the list of products of Binh Thuan province to join the safe food chain, especially the province's specialty products are dragon fruit.

 

It is known that Saigon Co.op is also the pioneer in the "safe food chain" piloted in Ho Chi Minh City. The signing of a major distributor is Saigon Co.op and Ten Thousand Company with the basic consumption of about 100 tons of seafood per month and some other suppliers of Binh Thuan Province of Saigon Co.op in the time In coming time, it will contribute to confirm the coordination of control of food quality control from the source to ensure food safety from Binh Thuan province before bringing back to HCM City.

 

According to Pham Khanh Phong Lan, Head of HCMC Food Safety Authority, the goal of building a safe food chain is to make sure that consumers are comfortable using the product. Collaboration to ensure the quality of goods at the source is very important, if combined with reputable distributors, have a widespread consumption system will create resonance to help safe food chain will be distributed. Maximize effectiveness. The market of 10 million people in Ho Chi Minh City is the first potential market of quality products of Binh Thuan province such as seafood, dragon fruit and other agricultural products.

 

According to the report of the Food Safety Management Board, agricultural production in Ho Chi Minh City only meets about 20% to 30% of the food demand of the people, the rest must be imported from other provinces or cities. In order to strengthen the state management of food safety, HCMC and other provinces need to continue to strengthen coordination to control food safety from the root.