Quyết định 23/2007/QD-BYT

DECISION

ON PROMULGATING THE "REGULATION OF STATE INSPECTION ON QUALITY, HYGIENE AND SAFETY FOR IMPORTED FOODS"

MINISTER OF HEALTH

Pursuant to the Decree No. 49/2003/ND-CP dated 15/5/2003 of the Government stipulating the function, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Health;

Pursuant to the Ordinance on Hygiene and Food Safety No.12/2003/PL-UBTVQH11 dated 26/7/2003 and Decree No.163/2004/ND-CP dated 07/09/2004 of the Government detailing the implementation of a number of Articles of the Ordinance on Hygiene and Food Safety;

At the proposal of the General Director of Legal Department and General Director of Department of Hygiene and Food Safety – the Health Ministry,

DECIDES:

Article 1. Issuing together with this Decision the "Regulation of state inspection on quality, hygiene and safety for imported foods"

Article 2. This Decision takes effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette. To annul the Decision No.1370/1997/QD-BYT dated 17/07/1997 of the Minister of Health promulgating the "Regulation of state inspection on quality for imported food”.

Article 3. Mr., Ms.: Chief Office, Chief Inspector, General Director of Legal Department – the Ministry of Health, General Director of Department of Hygiene and Food Safety, Directors of Health Departments of provinces and cities under central authority, heads of the relevant units under the Ministry, heads of the Health of branches are responsible for implementation of this Decision./.

REGULATION

"REGULATION OF STATE INSPECTION ON QUALITY, HYGIENE, AND SAFETY FOR IMPORTED FOODS"
(Issuing together the Decision No.23/2007/QD-BYT dated March 29, 2007 of Minister of Health)

Chapter 1

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1. Scope of governing

1. This Regulation provides for the method, content, procedures of state inspection and powers, responsibilities of stakeholders to ensure quality, hygiene and food safety for imported foods for domestic consumption, including the following products (hereinafter collectively referred to as food):

a) The materials of processed industrially food which do not need to be refined for the direct production or re-packaging;

b) Substances used in food processing (processing synerists, food additives);

c) Packaged availably food for direct use;

d) The products specified in Clause 4 of this Article (as with the risk information on safety, epidemics, or requested in writing by the Ministry of Health).

đ) Other products of the list subject to the announcement of standards issued by the Ministry of Health in each period.

2. The food is prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article, permitted to circulate, sell on the Vietnam market only after being granted one of the following documents by the state inspection agency:

a) Certificate of import requirement satisfactory.

b) Notification of the goods lot only required for dossier inspection.

3. The foods that organizations and individuals import received notification of the goods lot not satisfying import requirements must implement the measures of handling as prescribed in clause 7 of Article 16 hereof.

4. The following foods are exempted from state inspection:

a) Food carried for personal consumption not exceeding the amount required to pay import duties,

b) Food is as humanitarian gifts, goods in diplomatic bags, consular bags in accordance with the law regulations.

c) Food temporarily imported for re-export.

d) Food of transit and trans-goods lot.

đ) Food sent in bonded warehouses.

e) Food is as test or study sample.

g) Foods are as samples participated in the fair.

h) Exchange food by border residents.

i) Food processed by the Vietnam companies to foreign goods owner for export only.

k) Raw materials must be refined or reprocessed (vegetable oil, tobacco and tobacco, herbs used in food processing).

l) Fresh, preliminarily prepared food on the list subject to the animal quarantine or plant quarantine.

Article 2. Subject of application

All organizations and individuals importing food as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 1 of this Regulation (hereinafter collectively referred to as goods owner), must register for inspection and subject to inspection by the state inspection agency on quality of hygiene and food safety as prescribed in this Regulation before the marketing.

Article 3. Interpretation of terms

1. Quality of hygiene and food safety (in this document uniformly referred to as food safety) is the assurance that, at the time of the product inspection to be as safe for users and circulation on the market in accordance with law regulations or according to facility standards that owners take responsibility for the quality of announced goods.

The criteria for identifying and controlling include the organoleptic, principal quality criteria, standard of quality indicators, nutritional value, hygienic standards for chemical, physics, microbiology; ingredients and food additives; expiry; manuals and preservation: packing mode and packaging materials; content of labeling.

2. The state inspection of quality, hygiene, and food safety: means the inspection of state agencies that have the sufficient technical capability to inspect, test and certify goods lot, product lot meeting the requirements for food safety and appointed in writing by the Ministry of Health.

3. Registration for inspection means the goods owner registering the food safety inspection for goods specified in Clause 1 of Article 1 with the State inspection agency on quality, hygiene and food safety (hereinafter referred to as the inspection Agency) before being allowed the customs clearance.

4. Goods lot means the entire imported goods lot, with one or more products lot or product lots of the same item or a variety of different products.

5. Goods lot are the products in the same goods lot of imported products with the same name of product, trademarks, manufacturing facilities and expiry of goods or date of manufacture.

6. Facility standards mean the technical requirements for quality; food safety of a number of products (with the same product name, brand, principle quality standards, and hygiene standards) compiled, published by the goods owners, and is responsible before the law and the consumers.

7. Hygienic standards mean the limits or provisions to allow the maximum of chemical, physical, and micro-organism factors allowed to have in the products in order to ensure stable and safe product quality and safety for users.

8. Principle quality criteria means the level or amount determination of the substances of mainly valuable nutrients with specific nature of the product to identify, classify and distinguish other food of the same kind.

9. Target of quality indicators mean the specifications by which can determine the stability of product quality or content of substances composed primarily the product.

10. Certificate of product standards announcement (called as certificates of product standards for short) means a certificate granted by the state competent agency to the goods owner who made the announcement of standards of quality, hygiene, and food safety in compliance with the mandatory provisions of law in Vietnam.

Chapter 2

METHOD OF INSPECTION

Article 4. Method of Inspection

1. Tightened inspection: sampling probabilities or at suspected locations (sufficient minimum quantity) to test and evaluate all sided food safety for all product lots of the same goods lot if belonging one of the following cases:

a) Products on the list of foods with high risk (Article 14 of Decree No.163/2004/ND-CP dated 07/9/2004 of the Government detailing implementation of a number of Articles of the Ordinance on Hygiene and Food Safety) which, when the inspection agencies or customs found signs of suspected contamination by the packaging damaged, contaminated or when the system maintaining food storage conditions on the vehicles do not work;

b) When food is imported from an oversea processing facility that the inspection agency is notified or is known as to be located in areas with contaminated materials or dangerous pathogens that may be spread people;

c) The last importation does not meet import requirements;

d) With documents of the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene) to require application of stringent inspection method due to detecting products circulated on the market are at risk to health.

2. Normal inspection: sufficient probability sampling (random) for organoleptic testing and testing a few indicators target of quality, hygiene and food safety for the goods lot if it is not of the circumstances specified in the clauses 1, 3 and 4 of this Article.

3. Mitigated inspection: only taking representative samples to check the sense organs, labeling, identity of the goods lot (origin, lot number) without having to test samples for comparison with dossiers if it is one of the following cases:

a) The food is of the type of low risk or with mark in accordance with product standard published (GMP, HACCP);

b) Food of the same type, same origin with stable quality through at least two consecutive tests or certified in writing for sufficient conditions for mitigated inspection by the Ministry of Health;

c) Food of the same type, same origin which had been tested samples for offer meeting the requirements of import;

d) Food of the same type, same origin, and product lots were tested before being imported or having analysis results of the third party in the producing countries attached;

đ) To be of the list of goods certified to bear the mark of the appropriate standards of the exporting country or the general regional market block recognized and publicized by the Directorate for Standards, Metrology, and Quality in each period.

e) Bearing the mark of appropriate standard (the standard mark) of the exporting country or of the general regional market block confirmed in writing by the Health Ministry and the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality.

4. Only inspection of the dossiers: is the form only receive the applications for inspection (no taking sample of products) to issue a notice of goods lot only inspected dossiers after having written certification of the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene that it is subject only to the inspection of dossiers prescribed in Article 5 hereof. Products of this inspection method only required to check by the normal inspection mode or any one-time reduction among the times of import within a year for the same goods of the same owner.

Article 5. Imported food applied method of only checking records (exempted from inspection and testing of samples)

1. Imported foods have been certified meeting the requirements of food safety by the competent authorities of the countries signed the international Treaty of mutual recognition with Vietnam in operations of inspecting quality, hygiene, and food safety certification products.

2. Imported foods have been certified in accordance with standards and food of organizations, individuals producing, trading that have been certified to have the management system of food safety in accordance with Vietnam standards or the foreign standards, international standards permitted to apply in Vietnam.

3. The goods lots of the same type having the same origin which were tested previously five times reaching the import requirements.

4. Department of Safety and Food Hygiene certifies in writing "products of only dossier inspection" if the goods owners meeting one of three conditions specified in Clause 1, Clause 2, Clause 3 of this Article have written proposals or on the basis of the proposals of the inspection agency.

5. The goods lots subject to only dossier inspection can be inspected irregularly if there are signs of violation of the provisions of the Vietnam law for the quality, hygiene, and food safety.

Chapter 3

PROCEDURES AND PROCESS OF INSPECTION

Article 6. Inspection registration dossier

The goods owners must register the state inspection on food safety at one of the inspection agencies prescribed in Article 7 and Article 8 for a period of at least 5 days before goods arrived the port (border gate).

1. Dossier of State inspection registration on food safety includes:

a) The written registration of State inspection on food safety (Form1: written registration for inspection - attached to this Regulation).

b) A lawful copy of the facility standards (with seal of the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene) or certification of products allowed to be released by Department of Safety and Food Hygiene (before the publication of products standard) as stipulated in the Regulation of product standards publication, issued together with Decision No.42/2005/QD-BYT dated 08/12/2005 of the Ministry of Health.

c) The dossiers of customs procedures as prescribed;

d) Medical certificates of the competent State agencies of the country of origin for foods of animal origin and plant processed high-temperature sterilization (only required when having epidemic publication of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development or announced in writing by the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene);

e) A copy of the certificate of testing analysis results (Certificate of Analysis) of the Laboratory indicated or of the manufacturer with seal and signature of the Director of the enterprise or the person authorized for foods not yet published criteria (if any);

e) The related necessary documents for being applied the mitigated inspection method, only dossier inspection (if any).

2. The registration of State inspection on food safety for exported food shall comply with bilateral or multilateral agreements between Vietnam and countries and concerned international organizations or when the goods owners self-request the implementation of service contracts certify food safety for goods lot, product lots at the request of the importing country.

Article 7. Inspection organization appointed

1. The inspection agencies are the agencies, professional and technical units having sufficient conditions, the technical capacity that have been and will be appointed to perform the functions of state inspection on food safety by the Ministry of Health.

2. Depending on requirements of management, organizations, technical and study units of the state having sufficient conditions, the technical capacity can also be considered, appointed to perform the functions of state inspection on quality, hygiene and food safety for imported goods, food by the Ministry of Health, or appointed to inspect in the special circumstances as specified in Article 8.

3. Agencies of Border Health Quarantine that have not been appointed in writing to perform functions of state inspection on food safety at the border gates by Ministry of Health, take the sample of monitoring only by a process, specific regulation of the Ministry of Health upon request in writing.

Article 8. Appointment of inspection agency in the special cases

Goods owners who regularly gather at a location away from the head office of the inspection agency, they may request the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene temporarily to appoint an technical agency locating in the same area with the location gathering goods for inspecting, testing actuality of goods lot to conclude and issue notices of inspection results before requesting the Ministry of Health officially to appoint in writing.

Article 9. The cases of independent appraisal

Where the imports owners detect by themselves that foods are lost or damaged during the handling, storage, transport, they must make dossiers and make independent appraisal to request the foreign side to pay compensation; in accordance with international common practice, the owners may request an independent appraisal agency to grant certificate without going through state inspection on food safety.

Article 10. Inspection procedures

1. The inspection agencies receive, consider inspection registration dossiers to anticipate the method of inspection for the goods lot (which may include one or more lots of products) and confirm the written registration of inspection unless the products of the mode of only dossiers inspection, then issue a notice of goods lot of only dossiers inspection if it is not required to inspect irregularly as prescribed in Clause 5 of Article 5 hereof.

2. Conducting the inspection and sampling at the locations where the goods owners registered. In cases the goods owner sold or distributed goods from the storage place before sampling inspection, the inspection agency sends written notification to the customs authorities where goods have been cleared and the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene to take measures to withdraw or of appropriate treatment.

3. Making records in the process of inspection and sampling. These inspection records must be fully signed by the concerned parties and saved in the general inspection dossiers of the goods lot.

4. Grounds for the inspection and testing: Based on the inspection registration documents and history of the goods to determine the specific test methods, sample volume, number of targets required to test, test methods and conduct sample test according to the following contents:

a) For food products announced the product standards:

- Based on the contents published in the facility standard for comparison with product samples to determine the normal or mitigated inspection mode;

- The duration of use and content of labeling;

- Other safety requirements as having information on risks or requested in writing by the Ministry of Health.

b) For food products which have not been yet announced product standards applicable to common test methods at least twice in five consecutive tests

- Checking food safety indicators;

- The duration of use and content of labeling;

- Other safety requirements as having information on risks or requested in writing by the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene or Inspectorate of the Health Ministry).

5. Pursuant to compare the test results:

a) The facility standard of the products sealed of the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene (granted certificate of product standards).

b) The regulations, applicable mandatory standards of Vietnam on quality, hygiene, food safety, labeling in the case of products not yet announced.

c) The international or regional provisions (Codex) for special foods, food additives in the case of absence of regulations of Vietnam and certified in writing products permitted to use by the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene.

6. Conclusion after examining: By the specific provisions in Article 11.

7. Granting Notices of test results as specified in Clause 2, Article 14 of this Regulation.

Article 11. Conclusion after examining

1. If the goods lot obtains import requirements as prescribed, the inspection agency shall grant a certificate of import requirements satisfactory (Form 2) or issue a notice of the goods lot of only dossiers inspection (Form 3).

2. If the goods lots do not meet import requirements as prescribed, the inspection agency shall send the notice of the goods lot not meeting import requirements (Form 4) together with test result sheets to the owner and the customs authorities where goods are arrived, each place of a copy, and send a written report to the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and food Hygiene) in which proposes measures to handle the goods lot. Not more than 15 days (excluding holidays), Department of Safety and Food Hygiene must make decisions of appropriate treatment.

Chapter 4

FEES, CHARGES OF INSPECTION

Article 12. Fees, charges payment

Goods owners must pay fees, charges of examination according to the provisions of rates of collection, remittance, management and use of fees, charges of managing quality, hygiene and food safety issued together with Decision No.80/2005/QD-BTC dated 17/11/2005 of the Ministry of Finance to the inspection agency prior to issuing notices of test results.

Article 13. Management of testing fees, charges

The management of testing fees, charges shall comply with current regulations of the State.

Chapter 5

RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPETENCE

Article 14. The responsibilities of the inspection agency

1. To certify the written registration of inspection within a day of working and monitor to make the state inspection within the appointed scope.

2. To notify the test results according to the right time specified below:

Certificate of goods lot of import requirement satisfactory:

a) Not more than five working days from the date of taking samples of inspection registration plus the time needed for testing in accordance with provisions of the test methods which are being conducted for the food subject to the case required to be inspected by the method of testing closely prescribed in clause 1, Article 4 of this Regulation.

- Not exceeding two working days from the date of taking samples of inspection registration plus the time needed for testing in accordance with provisions of the test methods which are being conducted, for food under normal testing methods and the mitigated inspection as specified in Clause 2 and 3 of Article 4 of this Regulation.

b) To report the goods lot of only dossiers inspection: not exceeding 02 working days from the date of goods’ arrival for the food specified in Article 5 hereof.

c) To notify the test results under close inspection mode and notify goods lot of import requirement unsatisfactory, required to accompany the test results for each lot of products as being delivered to the importer, while report to the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene).

3. To keep food samples according to provisions for each type of food for re-testing upon request. Over the above mentioned time limit, the inspection agency notifies goods owner to come to take back samples or make record of sample liquidation as prescribed.

4. To ensure accuracy, honesty and objective upon inspection and certification of food safety for imported food goods lots. Strictly comply with the regulations on the procedure of inspection and testing.

5. To receive and resolve complaints of goods owners for inspection and certification for the food safety carried out by them. Take responsibility for errors in the process of inspection and certification; if causing damage to the goods owner, the inspection agency must pay compensation according to current regulations.

6. To archive dossiers of inspection within three years from the date of granting notification of inspection results and present the archived dossiers when the competent agency requests.

7. Quarterly report (after ten days of the end of each quarter), the inspection agencies report to the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene) in Form 5 and Form 6 attached to this Decision and recommend the list of foods that can be considered to issue permit of mitigated inspection, only dossier inspection.

8. The inspection agencies shall report to the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene) as:

a) Changing, supplementing working head office;

b) The suspension or termination of operations.

Article 15. Powers of the inspection agency

1. To request goods owners to supply relevant documents specified in Article 6 of this Regulation.

2. To have the right to go in or out the places of storing, preserving the goods or to allow the enterprise to present the entire product lot in the inspection agency for inspection and sampling.

3. To test food by the methods and procedures prescribed in this Regulation and have the right to take the initiative to apply two times of the usual test mode in five times of tests.

4. To grant the notices of inspection results and notify the customs agency of border gate of the cases that goods owners registered for inspection but failed to present the goods for inspection or the test results not meeting import requirements.

5. To grant a certificate of inspection registration with content "goods lot pending the results of tests" and inform the border gate customs agency to coordinate the clearance only after having the test results in the following cases:

a) Having objective evidence on the import goods lot requesting for inspection registration not meeting the requirements of regulations on food safety;

b) Identifying goods lot of the same type imported previously by the same goods owner not meeting the requirements of regulations on food safety;

c) Goods which are subject to tightened inspection mode prescribed in clause 1, Article 4 of this Regulation.

d) Food additives imported out of the list of food additives permitted for use issued by the Ministry of Health and type that has not been announced the standard or has not been certified by the Department for Safety and Food Hygiene permitted for use in the food processing purposes after comparing to Codex standards and permit of free circulation of the country of origin.

e) The special foods (including nutritional food of treatment, feed through exhaling used for severe patients, supplement food and foods fortified with micro-nutrients, functional food) that have not yet been granted certificate of product standards publication or not yet confirmed in writing by the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene.

6. Supervising the handling of the goods lot not meeting import requirements and/or requesting the local competent health authorities to coordinate and supervise the handling of the above goods lot in the area.

Article 16. Responsibilities of importers

1. Prior to the customs procedures, the goods owner must register the state inspection on food safety with the inspection agency as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 6 of this Regulation and pay fees, charges of test under regulations.

2. After the goods lot is permitted for collecting in warehouse with sufficient storage conditions by the customs agency, the goods owner take the initiative to present intact goods with the record conducted customs procedures and written registration of inspection by regulations for the state inspection agency to inspect the State on food safety.

3. Being permitted to put the food imported into the use and circulation only when being granted one of the notices of inspection results specified in Clause 2, Article 1 of this Regulation by the inspection agency.

4. Solely taking responsibility for the preservation of the goods which have been tested during the pending time for inspection conclusion or awaiting of decision of the competent authorities for the case of the goods lot has got the conclusion of inspection not meeting import requirements in accordance with applicable mandatory provisions on food safety, labeling or as published product standards.

5. Taking responsibility for paying for all costs incurred for the agency supervising the handling of the goods lots not meeting import requirements, including costs for staffs of the supervising agency.

6. May request re-examination or prove the goods lot satisfying requirements on food safety by certificate of analyzing goods lot of at least two other accredited laboratories, including the results consistent with the basis comparing to test results specified in Clause 5, Article 10 of this Regulation.

7. May propose to the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene one of the following handling measures:

a) Recycling: the goods owner must report measures of recycling and address of recycling goods owner to the inspection agency and conduct the recycling only when approved of the inspection agency. After recycling, goods owners make written request to the inspection agency to test the goods lot which were recycled for the inspection agency handles in the following cases:

- If the goods lot meets the import requirements after recycled and/or be able to modify the content of labeling if the product quality is lower than the announced quality on the label, the inspection agency must report to the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene) for comments in writing before issuing the certificate of import requirements satisfactory after recycled, in which clearly stating "goods lot satisfying import requirements after recycled" for consumption on the Vietnam market.

- If the goods lot is still not satisfactory the import requirements after recycled, the inspection agency will issue a notice of import requirements unsatisfactory goods lot after recycled and request the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene) to appoint an agency to supervise the goods lot destruction of goods owner or transfer for not using as food defined in clause 6 of this Article.

b) Transferring for not using as food after revising labeling content.

c) Re-export: the goods owner must submit documents of re-export to the inspection agency to complete the record.

d) Destruction: the goods owner must sign contract with the agency handling the destruction and required to have certification record of the environmental management agency or of Inspector of the Department of Health where monitors the destruction on the time, place and methods, content of destruction implementation.

8. If the imported goods owner of foods that violate the provisions of the Regulations shall be sanctioned according to current regulations.

Article 17. Powers of import goods owner

1. Within 10 days from receiving notice of the goods lot not meeting import requirements, goods owners are allowed to present the evidences in writing and request the agency inspecting their goods to review the test results or re-inspect.

After being accepted:

a) If the results of the re-inspection contrary with the results of the first inspection, the goods owners must not pay for the re-inspection.

b) If re-inspection results are consistent with the results of the first inspection, the goods owner shall bear the cost of re- inspection.

2. Goods owners are allowed to present to the inspection agency and the Ministry of Health (Department of Safety and Food Hygiene) the sample analysis results which are certified, tested at the laboratory obtaining standards and regulations by international laws or the country allowing circulating on the contents of pollution and small errors allowed in food for human use.

3. Goods owner may request the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene one of the measures prescribed in Clause 7, Article 16 of the Regulations for the handling of product lots not meeting the import requirements. Proposed measures must be specific and in accordance with the provisions of law to be accepted.

4. The lodging and settling of complaints and denunciations shall comply with the provisions of the law on complaints and denunciations.

5. Goods owners can reduce costs and are shorten the time of receipt of notification of inspection results for imported foods in the following cases:

a) Requesting the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene to agree in writing to be applied methods for mitigated inspection after two times of being granted notices of goods lots meeting the import requirements if they meet the requirements specified in Clause 3, Article 4 and applied the method of only dossiers inspection if they meet the conditions specified in Article 5 hereof.

b) The products of adequate conditions provided in Clause 3, Article 4 of this Regulation for the inspection agency to apply the mitigated inspection method.

c) Requesting the Department for Safety and Food Hygiene to agree in writing to be done the state inspection on food safety in a technical agency that its head office locates near the place regularly gathering goods (provisions in Article 8 of the Regulations).

Article 18. Responsibilities of the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene:

1. Deciding and guiding the measures to deal with imported goods not meeting food safety requirements.

2. Deciding the method of inspection for import goods lots: mitigated inspection, only dossiers inspection on the basis of recommendations of the state inspection agency or owner's request.

3. Presiding over coordinate with relevant units (Inspectorate of the Ministry of Health, the concerned Departments) to evaluate and propose to the Ministry of Health for appointing the organizations, technical and study units of the state to participate in performing the function of State inspection on quality, hygiene and food safety for imported food goods or designated testing in the special cases specified in Article 8.

4. Periodically inspecting the qualifications of the state inspection agencies and propose to the Ministry of Health the forms of: suspension, expansion or limitation of the operation scope of the state inspection agencies.

5. Proposing to the Ministry of Health the suspension of tasks, powers of state inspection on food safety for the inspection agency failing to implement the report quarterly for 2 consecutive times.

6. Resolving the recommendations of the good owners, the state inspection agencies and proposing the Ministry of Health inspectors to handle administrative violations for the violations of law.

7. Annually, the Department of Safety and Food Hygiene shall review and report to the Ministry of Health the issues related to state inspection for imported foods, and propose the management measures to suit each period.

Chapter 6

IMPLEMENTATION ORGANIZATION

Article 19. Organization of the Regulation implementation

1. Department of Safety and Food Hygiene is responsible for organizing the implementation of this Regulation.

2. Every 2 years or irregularly, the Ministry of Health’s Inspectorate shall coordinate with Department of Safety and Food Hygiene for the examination, inspection of the implementation of this Regulation of the inspection agency and report to leader of the Health Ministry.

FORM 1

(Issuing together the Decision No.23/2007/QD-BYT dated March 29, 2007 of the Minister of Health)

NAME OF INSPECTION AGENCY OF REGISTRATION OF IMPORTED FOOD INSPECTION

FORM 2

(Issuing together the Decision No.23/2007/QD-BYT dated March 29, 2007 of the Minister of Health)

NAME OF INSPECTION AGENCY OF CERTIFICATE OF IMPORT REQUIREMENT SATISFACTORY

FORM 3

(Issuing together the Decision No.23/2007/QD-BYT dated March 29, 2007 of the Minister of Health)

NAME OF INSPECTION AGENCY NOTIFYING THE GOODS LOT OF ONLY DOSSIER INSPECTION

FORM 4

(Issuing together the Decision No.23/2007/QD-BYT dated March 29, 2007 of the Minister of Health)

NAME OF INSPECTION AGENCY NOTIFYING THE GOODS LOT NOT SATISFYING IMPORT REQUIREMENTS

FORM 5

(Issuing together the Decision No.23/2007/QD-BYT dated March 29, 2007 of the Minister of Health)

REPORT OF IMPORTED FOODS LOT SATISFYING IMPORT REQUIREMENTS

Note: The groups in colume 2: According to Codex

- Oil, grease and emulsoid grease

- Milk and milk products

- Ice, freezed fruit juice, fruit ice cream

- Vegetable and fruits

- Candy of all kinds

- Cereals and cereal products

- Pies of all kinds

- Meat and meat products (including poultry and meat)

- Fisheries and aquaculture products (including mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms)

- Eggs and egg products

- Sweet substance, including sugar, syrup, honey

- Salt, spices, soup, salad oil, protein spices

- Special Nutrition Food 

-  Drinks other than beverages from milk

- Instant food with high salt

- Mixture Food

- Food additives of all kinds

FORM 6

(Issuing together the Decision No.23/2007/QD-BYT dated March 29, 2007 of the Minister of Health)

REPORT OF IMPORTED FOODS LOT SATISFYING IMPORT REQUIREMENTS

Note: The groups in column 2: According to Codex

- Milk and milk products

- Oil, grease, and emulsoid grease

- Ice, freezed fruit juice, fruit ice cream

- Vegetable and fruits

- Candy of all kinds

- Cereals and cereal products

- Pies of all kinds

- Meat and meat products (including poultry and meat)

- Fisheries and aquaculture products (including mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms)

- Eggs and egg products

- Sweet substance, including sugar, syrup, honey

- Salt, spices, soup, salad oil, protein spices

- Special Nutrition Food 

- Drinks other than beverages from milk

- Instant food with high salt

- Mixture Food

- Food additives of all kinds