During his meeting on Wednesday with representatives from local relevant agencies, Da Nang People's Committee Vice Chairman Dang Viet Dung urged them to make even greater efforts to stabilise market prices and tighten their monitoring of food safety and hygiene at local markets.  The intention is to help local housewives feel more secure about shopping for food for their families.

Traders are now required to display labels showing the expiry dates of their goods, and to have the quality of their goods checked by local relevant agencies before being sold at local markets. 

The municipal Department of Health will join efforts with other local relevant agencies to keep a close eye on the sources of food for daily consumption and others providing beverages and agricultural products.

A vegetable stall at a local market

A street food area model will be developed in local districts.  In addition, the city’s food safety standards, applied to all its food trading and processing establishments, will be issued in July.  The aim is to help local relevant agencies conduct quality assessments and ratings of these establishments by late this year.