On the evening of January 27, the Food Safety Department (Ministry of Health) sent a document to the Departments of Health of provinces and centrally-run cities, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety and the Sub-Departments of Food Safety and Hygiene of localities on warning of 5 milk products suspected of being contaminated with cereulide toxin.
According to the document signed and issued by Dr. Chu Quoc Thinh - Acting Director of the Food Safety Department, on January 26, the Food Safety Department received warning information from the Hong Kong Food Safety Agency - CFS (China) and the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Agency (FSANZ) regarding the recall of some milk products suspected of being contaminated with cereulide toxin.
Cereulide is a toxin created by Bacillus cereus bacteria, which can be harmful to health, especially dangerous for young children.
According to information from international functional agencies, 5 milk products suspected of being contaminated with cereulide toxin include:
To ensure consumer health, the Food Safety Department requests localities to urgently review the registration of declarations and self-declaration of products for the above-mentioned items.
In case the products are circulating in Vietnam, functional agencies need to work with the product announcement enterprise, request notification to distributors and consumers to stop using them, and at the same time proceed with recall according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
Relevant units must clearly report the quantity of products that have been imported, sold, and are still in stock and propose measures to handle warned shipments.
The Food Safety Department also requested to strengthen propaganda to prevent consumers from using all the above-mentioned product batches, and at the same time report the handling results to the Department before January 31, 2026.
On the same day, January 27, the Food Safety Department sent a document to the Department of Broadcasting, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) regarding the management of food business on social media platforms.
Through post-inspection work, the Food Safety Department discovered that Babybio Optima 1 and Alula Colic & Constipation products are being advertised and traded on the TikTok platform. The Department requested to remove the violating contents and handle them according to legal regulations.
The Food Safety Department also sent a document to the Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy (Ministry of Industry and Trade) after discovering that the above products were advertised for sale on some e-commerce platforms such as Shopee, Lazada and Ausmart.
Functional agencies request e-commerce platforms to coordinate with booth owners and distributors to stop trading batches of warned products, remove information about products that do not ensure quality and handle violations according to regulations.
