According to the Department's official dispatch, in recent days, Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company (Halong Canfoco) has been discovered by functional agencies to violate regulations on food safety and hygiene in processing and packaging finished canned food, including products labeled "Pate Cot Den Hai Phong". Notably, the name pate Cot Den Hai Phong of Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company coincides with the famous traditional pate product of the city, associated with the Hai Phong Foodtour brand, sold by business households in Cot Den market, Le Chan ward for many years. This has caused misunderstanding in public opinion, negatively affecting the business activities of people and directly affecting the reputation and image of the city's tourism.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism affirmed that, in fact, these two products are completely unrelated to each other. The famous traditional pate of Cot Den market is chosen by people and tourists every time they come to Hai Phong, is one of the specialties bearing the city's brand. Unlike the canned pate product line of Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company (industrially produced, in small tin cans, with long shelf life and widely distributed throughout supermarkets nationwide), Cot Den traditional pate is fresh pate, with the characteristic fattyness of melted fat, the aroma of liver and fried garlic, usually with a short shelf life, needs to be refrigerated to retain its original taste. This specialty gift is processed from business households in the Cot Den market area, Chua Hang street, Le Chan ward, mainly sold in the Cot Den market area and neighboring streets (Hang Kenh, Nguyen Cong Tru...).
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism requests Le Chan Ward People's Committee and press agencies to widely propagate on mass media to avoid confusion and affect the brand of traditional specialty products of the people and the Foodtour Hai Phong brand.
Previously, as Lao Dong reported, the city police are investigating the case of transporting and trading more than 130 tons of pork tested positive for African swine fever virus related to Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company. Along with prosecuting the case, prosecuting 9 defendants, and urgently arresting 4 defendants, the city's functional forces also destroyed goods tested positive for African swine fever virus at the cold storage of Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company. The quantity included more than 1,400 kg of lean pork that the subjects sold to Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company. In addition, a large number of processed and finished products included: 4,411.3 kg of spring rolls, 3,285.6 kg of special spring rolls produced from infected pork. Goods tested positive for Salmonella spp bacteria stored at the cold storage of Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company included 13,661.8 kg of frozen pork rolls sold by Bui Duc Trong to Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company; 8,205 kg of imported frozen chicken skin
Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company also proposed to support the destruction of canned food products processed from pork contaminated with African swine fever including 134 cartons, 10 boxes (each carton containing 48 boxes) of lamppost pate, type 90 grams/box, production date September 6, 2025; lamppost pate, type 150 grams/box, production date September 7, 2025 including 156 cartons, 23 boxes (each carton containing 48 boxes). The total number of pate boxes destroyed is 13,953 boxes.
After this incident, the traditional pate market was also affected. Many small traders said that the consumption of traditional Cot Den pate decreased significantly because people misunderstood that the "Hai Phong Cot Den pate" product of Ha Long Canned Food was traditional pate of people in the Cot Den market area, Chua Hang street, Le Chan ward. From January 12, Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Company also temporarily suspended production activities at a factory in Hai Phong.
