To proactively prevent, detect and promptly handle food safety risks for meat and meat products during the 2026 Lunar New Year, the city's inter-sectoral Steering Committee for Food Safety has just issued Document No. 407/BCD-ATTP requesting departments, branches, and localities to strengthen coordination, inspection, and supervision of food safety in the city.
Accordingly, the Steering Committee requested the Departments of Agriculture and Environment, Industry and Trade, and Health to strengthen coordination to ensure food safety; proactively establish inter-sectoral inspection teams, focusing on inspecting centralized slaughterhouses, small-scale slaughterhouses, establishments producing, processing, and trading meat and meat products. The inspection content focuses on early detection of food safety risks, especially the risk of food products infected with African Pork Colitis Virus (ASFV).
During the peak period of the 2026 Lunar New Year, the teams strengthen inspection and take samples for testing of meat and meat products to proactively detect food contaminated with ASFV, contributing to protecting consumer health.
Along with that, the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones are responsible for establishing inspection teams, organizing inspections of compliance with food safety regulations at small-scale slaughterhouses, people's markets, makeshift markets, small-scale pre-processing and processing establishments of meat and meat products. At the same time, promote propaganda, disseminate food safety knowledge, guide people to use safe food with clear origins, and implement "eat cooked, drink boiled".
During the inspection process, when detecting establishments violating food safety regulations, inspection teams must handle them promptly, strictly and thoroughly in accordance with the law, in order to prevent food poisoning and ensure health safety for people during the 2026 Lunar New Year.
Recently, the case of Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company being discovered to have purchased and put into storage more than 120 tons of pork contaminated with African swine fever has caused concern in public opinion. Although the case has been investigated and handled by functional agencies in accordance with the law and the entire amount of pork that does not ensure food safety has been destroyed, reality shows that the control of food safety for meat and meat products still contains many risks, requiring further strengthening and tightening.
Especially, during the 2026 Lunar New Year, when the demand for meat and meat products of people increases, proactively controlling the quality and origin of food, promptly detecting and preventing violations of food safety regulations is an urgent requirement to ensure people's health and stabilize the consumption market.
Previously, the city's inter-sectoral Steering Committee for Food Safety also planned to deploy food safety assurance for the Binh Ngo Lunar New Year and the 2026 Spring Festival season from December 30, 2025 to the end of March 25, 2026. Thereby, minimizing the risk of food poisoning, the number of cases and the number of people suffering from food poisoning during the Binh Ngo Lunar New Year and the 2026 Spring Festival season in the city.
