In attempting to ensure food safety and hygiene for locals and visitors during the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF) 2018 and the on-going public holidays, relevant local agencies have made great efforts to tighten the management of food service providers across Hai Chau and Son Tra districts.

Checking food safety and hygiene standard at a local eatery

Phuoc My Ward in Son Tra District, which is considered as the city’s tourism dedicated area, is now home to a total of 200 restaurants and accommodation establishments.

The majority of them have exerted every effort to enhance the quality of their services, especially food safety and hygiene standard for the benefits of their guests. The focus has been on ensuring the best quality and the freshness of ingredients, with a clear source of origin, as well as guaranteeing that all food processing facilities and their equipment meeting the city's regulations and standards.

Ms Thai Thi Kim Thanh, the owner of an eatery on Tran Hung Dao in Son Tra District, remarked “Importance has been attached to strictly complying with the city's food safety and hygiene regulations and standards in order to avoid any food poisoning of locals and visitors”.

Taking a random sample of food

Since mid-March, the Son Tra District Interdisciplinary Steering Committee on Food Safety and Hygiene have increased their checks at all food service providers operating in the district to detect and handle any violations. As a result, 11 of them were found to be violating the city’s regulations, and fines totalling 15 million VND were imposed on them.

Over the period, heed has also been paid to checking displayed prices of services, and the origin of food at 47 food service providers, but no violating cases were found.

To date, the Son Tra District Medical Centre has already completed all preparation works for ensuring the prompt emergency aid to locals and visitors during DIFF.

Meanwhile, in Hai Chau District, relevant agencies have increased their patrols and checks at over 1,100 food service providers, and fines totalling 55.5 million VND were imposed on 25 of them. In addition, a total of 208 random samples of food were tested, and all of them did not contain any chemicals banned in food processing.