On June 4, Mr. Chung Tan Thinh - Deputy Director of the Department of Health of Kien Giang province - said: Since the peak month of the campaign to prevent and repel smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, and infringement of intellectual property rights, up to this point, inspection teams directed by the Department of Health have not discovered any violations related to the business of counterfeit goods.
The Department of Health has directed the organization of 3 inspection teams on the observance of specialized law provisions for production and business establishments under the management of the Department of Health; Unexpected inspection of the Department of Food Safety and Hygiene in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Sports, processing information reflects the food advertising of the anti -counterfeiting fund and the provincial Food Safety Sub -Department conducting the inspection of the compliance with the laws at enterprises and business establishments with dairy business and health protection food in the area.
In particular, the Interdisciplinary Inspection Team inspected 24 establishments operating in the health sector assessed, appraised and licensed by the Department of Health, including drug distributors, pharmacies, pharmacy chains, hospital pharmacies, pharmacies under general clinics, pharmacy stores, drug retail establishments, traditional medicine, traditional medicine clinics; traditional medicine diagnosis and treatment rooms.
The total number of products inspected is 1,358, including 437 drugs; 184 generics; 119 medicinal herbs and traditional medicines; 241 functional foods; 135 cosmetics; 64 milk and 178 medical equipment.
The surprise inspection teams inspected 17 businesses operating in milk and functional foods in Rach Gia City.
There are 15/17 facilities that have not arranged documents neatly, some facilities presenting product declaration registration forms still lack documents. The delegation has arranged these facilities neatly and reported on their remedies.
There are 2/17 establishments in the process of verifying and clarifying whether the product label is different from the self-declared documents and 1 establishment has signs of false advertising.
Mr. Chung Tan Thinh - Deputy Director of the Department of Health of Kien Giang Province - said that: Businesses in trading drugs, functional foods, traditional medicine, medicinal herbs, traditional medicine, cosmetics, medical equipment meet the conditions of legal documents; Conditions for facilities, equipment and personnel conditions. The establishments also do business in accordance with the scope that have been evaluated, appraised and licensed by the Department of Health. On the other hand, representatives of establishments said that there was information that captured fake goods in the market and committed not to store and do business.
For some establishments that have not promptly updated data on import, export, and storage of drugs into management software according to regulations; managed prescription drugs; invoices and documents of other products, the Inspection Team reminded and requested establishments to regularly update notices and official information on drugs, traditional medicine, medicinal herbs, functional foods, milk, fake medical equipment, which do not meet quality standards or recalled products.
For businesses and business establishments that do milk and health protection food business in the area. Through inspection, establishments that do not sell recalled products, have legal administrative records, and business licenses according to regulations; many establishments ensure product display and preservation, have separate display areas for functional foods and scientifically arranged shelves; dairy products and health protection foods have clear origins, origins, and labels.
