Many years ago, Vietnamese Pangasius was "a market alone" but now the situation has changed. Many other markets have also stepped up pangasius farming, possibly even becoming "formidable" competitors in the international market in the near future.

Answering the question of delegate Le Thi Nguyet (delegation of Vinh Phuc) on the task of food quality monitoring? Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said: "Quality control is an important stage that the National Assembly has organized food safety supervision. Currently, the Ministry has a Department of Administration. quality management, and below that there are 6 branches of 6 regions. And we are implementing the guideline of socialization for all businesses where conditions are involved in this chain of our control ".

In short, according to Minister Cuong, we are sticking to standards and regulations, sticking to technology, testing laboratories, piloting and accreditation to implement control work well. The good news to evaluate this activity, the Minister said that the United States has officially recognized Vietnam equivalent to its country in the safety control of pangasius products.

Many years ago, Vietnamese Pangasius was "a market alone" but now the situation has changed. Many other markets have also stepped up pangasius farming, possibly even becoming "formidable" competitors in the international market in the near future.

According to the Ministry's statistics, if Vietnam has 1.3 million tons of pangasius, India also has 650,000 tons, Bangladesh 450,000 tons, Indonesia 110,000 tons. Even China - Vietnam's leading pangasius export market has also raised and harvested 10,000 tons of Pangasius in Hainan.

On November 4, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held an information meeting around this content. Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien said that the United States is the largest and most difficult market for food safety. Equally recognized by the United States is an important condition to help boost the export of Pangasius to the United States.

In the industry's production chain and food safety management, pangasius is one of the most difficult products to enter the US market, because of competition with other catfish products of your country in the South. Therefore, the United States constantly has technical barriers.

This time, Vietnam overcame the technical barriers of equivalent quality supervision in terms of food safety, the Minister said, proving that our Vietnam has improved right from the issue of documents. legislation, the Veterinary Law, the Food Safety Law, laws, decrees, circulars, other control documents, etc. Second, improvement in the capacity to organize the implementation of tasks and centers. our testing and control of this issue. The third is to improve the organization of chain production from breeds, feed to breeding, processing and exporting.

Minister Cuong recounted: "They checked to the door, saw a plastic cover, they said immediately:" This exposure, will likely spread to the other side ", tight to such extent!".

After a long time, the US side directly controlled, by the end of 2018, the United States gave Vietnam a score of 1, out of 80. China ranked second, 50 points and Thailand number 3. Vietnam this period is recognized as equivalent to the United States.

The quality control process of this hardest item, Vietnam is equivalent to that of the United States. That opens up the prospect of our businesses continuing to export, but that is also an example of how we are trying to better control our overall food safety chain, not just children. Pangasius, but also other commodities.

Mr. Nguyen Nhu Tiep, Director of the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department, said that meeting the US's equivalent recognition requirements will contribute to a strong shift from pangasius production from small production to large production. systematic control departments from the seed to the final product, at the same time paving the way for the sustainable development of the fisheries sector.

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Source: cafef.vn