May 31, 2011
Taiwanese health officials last Friday notified Vietnamese authorities that a batch of drinks contaminated with a toxic chemical is on its way to Vietnam. According to a message broadcast on Chinese television channel CCTV4 the same day, the Taiwanese officials have already apologized for the incident. Two days earlier, the Taiwanese Department of Health [...]
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January 22, 2011
HCMC health officials check food products at the Binh Tay wholesale market. Health inspectors from Ho Chi Minh City disposed of nearly 3,000 eggs that did not meet food safety and hygiene requirements during an inspection carried out Tuesday. The inspection also found many pork bologna samples contaminated with borax, as well as nearly 51 [...]
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December 15, 2010
An animal health official checks a cow in Quang Ngai Province Many poor households in the central region’s Quang Ngai Province have discovered the cows they were given as poverty support are infected with the foot-and-mouth disease, VnExpress said Monday.  Animal health officials in Tinh Hoa Commune, Son Tinh District have been busy in recent [...]
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February 2, 2010
A chili powder factory in Ho Chi Minh City has been suspended after its products were found to be contaminated with industrial dye Rhodamine B, which is a carcinogenic substance, health officials said Friday. Officials from the cityâs Health Department earlier took chili powder and reddening powder samples from the Kim Nga factory in Binh [...]
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January 7, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Ho Chi Minh City health officials confirmed January 5 that some locally sold watermelon seeds had tested positive for a toxic cancer-causing substance.Tests showed that seeds from the Nguyen Hung workshop at 251/20 Hau Giang Street, District 6 had been soaked in Rhodamine, a toxic substance prohibited for use in food and drugs [...]
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October 28, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Imported meat is being tested loosely in Ho Chi Minh City with officials not following due process on account of it being too cold. Around two weeks ago at the Cat Lai Port in District 2, animal health officials took several boxes placed near the door of a container for testing, ignoring rules [...]
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October 27, 2009
Chicken legs were found with pus in a cold store in Ho Chi Minh City. Imported meat is being tested loosely in Ho Chi Minh City with officials not following due process on account of it being too cold. Around two weeks ago at the Cat Lai Port in District 2, animal health officials took [...]
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October 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – HCM City’s Health Department has called for preventive health centres in all districts of HCM City to combat a recent rise in hand, foot and mouth disease. As of September there were 466 children reported with hand, foot and mouth disease, an increase of 62 per cent compared to the same period last [...]
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September 25, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A dearth of trained medical personnel has led to low quality healthcare for school students in HCM City, officials said at a workshop yesterday, September 24. A doctor instructs students on patient care at the Medical University in the northern province of Thai Binh. Low salaries and a lack of preferential policies for [...]
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September 12, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Two studies published Thursday confirmed that a single dose of swine flu vaccine can protect people from the pandemic H1N1 virus. A technician works at a product line of the Inactivated H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a Chinese vaccine making company, in Beijing, September 3, 2009.LookAtVietnam – Two studies published Thursday [...]
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