Health and agriculture officials met in Hanoi on December 24 to discuss food safety and hygiene in the lead-up to the Tet Lunar New Year. Representatives from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ha Noi People's Committee and other agencies attended the meeting. Dr. Nguyen Cong Khan, head of the Health Ministry's food hygiene and safety department, expressed concerns about some of the items seen at markets in Hanoi, such as imported cattle and chemicals and additives without clear indications of their origins. Dr. Bui Quang Anh, who heads the National Animal Health Department, warned diseases can be transmitted from imported cattle to humans. Mr. Anh said his staff had found a strange white ox at a slaughter house in Ha Noi's Hoang Mai District. The white ox, illegally imported into Vietnam, was suffering foot-and-mouth disease. Those responsible for monitoring food markets were hampered by a lack of personnel, funding and space to store … [Read more...] about Lunar New Year food safety and hygiene concerns raised
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VN farmers prepare special food for lunar New Year
Farmers and food producers in the Mekong Delta are busy preparing speciality fruits and foods to meet burgeoning demand for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, which falls on February 16 this year. Dried fish is prepared for Tet (Lunar New Year) festival in Cai Doi town, Phu Tan district in the southern province of Ca Mau.Vo Trung Thanh, chairman of the Phu Tri A Agricultural Extension Club in Hau Giang province’s Chau Thanh District, said club members are expected to provide about 6,000 pomelos shaped like wine gourds with words or images embossed on the fruits. The typical images include a gold coin, a piece of gold bullion, or a word written in calligraphy."My family has produced about 500,” Thanh told Nguoi Lao Dong (Labourer) newspaper.Thanh said heavy rainfall this year had created favourable conditions for pomelo trees to grow, but because of an extra lunar month, flowering for harvest at Tet had been affected.“Last Tet, my club supplied about 10,000 … [Read more...] about VN farmers prepare special food for lunar New Year
Food safety a focus ahead of Lunar New Year
Nguyễn Như Tiệp, director of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ Quality Management Department, speaks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) on measures to ensure food safety over the Lunar New Year festival Was a food safety report released by the Pasteur Institute a warning on the increase in unsafe food as Lunar New Year approaches? Hồ Chí Minh City Pasteur Institute recently released a report saying that the number of unsafe food cases detected in 2017 was higher than in previous years. However, the number of inspections carried out was higher than in 2016, but they all show that food safety had improved considerably. Regarding the issue of food safety, in 2017 the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development focused on four areas; namely: To complete the legal framework on food safety inspection and control; To step up inspection and supervision visits; To conduct supervision visits to … [Read more...] about Food safety a focus ahead of Lunar New Year
Festival to reflect Vietnamese traditional lunar New Year to kick off
A colorful festival of parallel sentences, flowers and beverages will be held in Hanoi from January 25 to February 2 to reflect the traditional lunar New Year festival (Tet) of Vietnamese people.Vietnamese Tet will be reflected through Horizontal lacquered board (engraved with Chinese characters), parallel sentences, door painting in fresco, ancestral altar and special food of Tet.The organisers said that a ‘Hanoi Culture Space’ and ‘Bac Can Culture Space’ will the focus in this year’s festival with the restoration of an old house of Hanoi with activities like making banh chung (square glutinous rice cake), and gio (lean pork paste) and introduction of rice wine, specialities and flowers of Bac Can northern mountainous province.Particularly, pagoda monks and nuns will talk about how to make the altar as well as other worshipping customs during the Tet festival. Another highlight will be the showcasing of various Vietnamese wines. A contest to select the … [Read more...] about Festival to reflect Vietnamese traditional lunar New Year to kick off
Tet market- a habit of Vietnamese on Lunar New Year
(Cinet)- Once upon a time, Tet market become a essential habit and custom of Vietnamese people. Until now, Tet market is marked by an abundance of decorations in the street and traditional food in the shops. Everyone is eager going to market to prepare a happpy Tet in a family. For Vietnamese people, Tet (Lunar New Year) is an occasion not only to enjoy the change of year with family and friends but also the chance to thank the gods, spirits and nature, to visit friends, relatives and teachers, and to remember and honor their forebears. Buying for Tet was spoken with passion by Vietnamese housewives - not that they had much money to splurge on Tết treats for themselves or the frequent guests they made welcome in their homes. For the very poor, "sam Tet" could be a real burden. Families would save up all year so that they could buy something special for themselves, their relatives, and their guests at this most special time. The atmosphere of Tet is in the air already as people flock … [Read more...] about Tet market- a habit of Vietnamese on Lunar New Year