On the evening of March 24, speaking with a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Ms. Pham Khanh Phong Lan - Director of the Department of Food Safety of Ho Chi Minh City said that the unit had issued a decision to administratively sanction Chi Em rot Group Joint Stock Company with a fine of VND 125 million for 2 violations.
Accordingly, the company manufactures, imports, imports, retains, and trades goods with labels (including secondary labels) or accompanying documents that do not record the required contents or do not record the correct content on the goods label or the mandatory content must be expressed according to the nature of the goods according to the regulations on the goods label.
Producing, importing, trading, circulating on the food market, food additives, food processing aids, tools, packaging materials, containing direct contact with food that is not in accordance with the published product information.
Previously, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety suddenly inspected Chi Em rot Group Joint Stock Company (144-146-148 Street No. 11, Quarter 5, An Phu Ward, Thu Duc City). The company provides a full contract for processing and packaging between Chi Em rot Group Joint Stock Company and Asia Life Joint Stock Company (Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak) for product processing.
At the time of inspection, there were 16 boxes of Supergreens Gummies dietary supplements. The inspection team took samples of this product and sent them to the National Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene Testing for testing.
The product label on the self-declared documents and the actual label of the Supergreens Gummies dietary supplement does not record all the required contents on the product label, lacking phrases from the scale.
The apple scent ingredient is not clearly listed as natural scent, natural variety, synthetic, artificial. Zinc acid supplements have not yet listed the group of additives according to regulations. Test the product containing sorbitol but not displayed on the product label according to regulations.
In addition, nutritional value indicators including energy; protein content, total sugar, carbohydrates, total fat, sodium are not in accordance with the declaration on the product label in the self-declaration dossier.
Energy: 9.62 kcal/3.2g (labeled 10 kcal/3.2g); protein content: 0.29 g/3.2g (labeled 0.287 g/3.2g); total sugar content: 0.71 g/3.2g (labeled 0.995 g/3.2g); carbohydrate content: 2.17 g/3.2g (labeled 2.29 g/3.2g); no fat content detected (labeled 0.011 g/3.2g); sodium content: 7.2 mg/3.2g (labeled 6.43 mg/3.2g).
Regarding remedial measures, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Food Safety forced the company to recall the goods and label the goods in accordance with regulations before continuing to circulate. At the same time, force the revocation and destruction of the trademark of the violating goods, force the destruction or conversion of the purpose of use of the goods with the trademark of the violating goods in cases where it is impossible to separate the trademark of the violating goods from the goods.
Forced to return the amount in value of exhibits and means of administrative violation that have been consumed, dispersed, or destroyed in violation of the law. Forced to revoke the self-declaration of products for products subject to self-declaration.
