In the context of smuggling, trade frauds and fake goods in the field of health is increasingly complicated, especially fake milk, fake functional foods, fake drugs, on the morning of May 23, the Ministry of Health has organized an online online conference to review the progress of the Prime Minister's directions and implement urgent solutions in the peak month of anti -counterfeiting and anti -fake foods. Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan chaired the conference.
Speaking at the conference at the Ministry of Health's bridge, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan emphasized that this is an important conference. The Ministry of Health always identifies food safety drugs, cosmetics, etc. as playing a particularly important role in disease prevention, treatment, and health care for people.
Emphasizing the fight against production and trading of fake food and fake drugs is always an activity of the Government's concern and closeness to the Government, the Ministry of Health and relevant agencies and units, the Minister of Health, said that the fight against smuggling, trade frauds and fake goods in the health sector is not a new work, but has been continuously implemented by the Ministry of Health and relevant agencies.
According to Minister Dao Hong Lan, in recent times, the Ministry of Health has focused on completing and amending legal documents, especially in the field of food safety with many contents related to technology, implementation process, practical management at the grassroots level...
In addition, the management of items on e-commerce and social networking platforms still has many new complicated problems.
"If we do not rectify soon, this will also be a difficult content for management, especially in the field of food safety related to the 3 ministries managing together, the trading of products involves many stages" - Minister Dao Hong Lan said.
The Ministry of Health has also signed a next phase coordination program with the Ministry of Public Security to rectify the prevention of counterfeit goods and goods of unknown origin that have recently affected people's lives and health.
In practice, the authorities have discovered many rings and products in violation, including the team of officials directly involved in this issue, and have taken legal action.
Regarding recent cases, the Minister of Health said that the implementation of post-inspections in localities is not strict. Meanwhile, according to the law, regarding items managed by localities, having to organize post-inspections, having difficulties... it is necessary to report to relevant superior agencies.
The Ministry of Health is focusing on developing 2 decrees on the division of authority to implement according to the two-level government, and a decree on decentralization and delegation of authority.
According to the Minister, the spirit is the maximum decentralization for the locality to implement practical tasks. The Ministry focuses on developing documents, legal and guiding the implementation. Thus, the role of the provincial People's Committee and the Department of Health is getting worse.
"Now people are very confused, going out and not knowing which items are allowed to be circulating, which items are fake or counterfeit. Therefore, the application of information technology and enhancing the responsibility of agencies, including businesses, is very important to solve the problem of long-term motivation, otherwise it will be difficult for the implementation process" - Minister of Education Dao Hong Lan emphasized at the conference.
"business units need to recognize their responsibility to produce goods that are correct and of good quality" - Minister Dao Hong Lan added and continued to emphasize: "The Ministry's viewpoint on handling counterfeit goods in the health sector is to fight strongly, handle strictly, no forbidden areas, no exceptions".
The fight against counterfeit goods and trade fraud is a difficult, complicated and long-term task, requiring the synchronous and drastic participation of all levels, sectors and the whole society.
