October 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – How can ‘dirty meat’ penetrate Vietnam? Tuoi tre concludes that the problem lies in the way the officials examine the imports. Just five minutes to test samples Tuoi tre reporters went to Cat Lai Port in HCM City one October day to join representatives from an import company, port staff and customs officers observing [...]
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September 30, 2009
Containers of imported meat at the Nha Rong Port in Ho Chi Minh City Imported meat in Vietnam will have to be quarantined in warehouses near border gates for testing starting October, animal health authorities said at a meeting Monday. Until now, importers were allowed to transport the meat directly to their own premises.Pham Xuan [...]
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August 28, 2009
Containers of imported meat at a southern Vietnamese port Food regulators donât have the resources needed to inspect imports thoroughly, said experts as a local official proclaimed that other countries were dumping their unsalable meat here. Speaking at an online teleconference on Thursday, Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) Deputy Director General Nguyen Thi Khanh Tram said [...]
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August 25, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Frozen chicken imports have been selling everywhere in retail markets in HCM City since August 20 for 15,000-20,000 dong per kilo cheaper than previously. Super-cheap meat going to poor markets In Binh Duong and Linh Trung Industrial Zone areas, there are many ‘workers’ markets’ like Linh Trung, Tam Binh and Binh Duong Markets, where [...]
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August 13, 2009
Inspectors check imported meat at a store of the Vinafood Corporation in Ho Chi Minh City. Animal health authorities on Wednesday flatly rejected complaints by meat importers, saying no changes will be made to the regulation that prohibits irradiation of tainted or spoilt imported meat for human consumption. âIt is unacceptable that sterilizing of low-quality [...]
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July 31, 2009
Breeders complain that they are incurring losses, while feed producers say their sales are decreasing because of massive imports of low-quality meat. The production cost of one kilogramme of live pork is 31-32,000 dongLe Van Thanh, Director of Thai Duong Company, a feed producer, said that the live pork price in the north has dropped [...]
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July 30, 2009
Vietnamese consumers are now saying ‘no’ to imported food and returning to home-grown products as they fear the quality of foreign goods. Petty merchants at markets in HCM City all say that the number of buyers of imported pork, beef and chicken has been decreasing. A chicken seller at Tan Dinh Market in HCM City [...]
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April 29, 2009
Imported pork, already selling slowly because it is strange to the Vietnamese palate, has become unsalable after people learned of the swine flu outbreak. A director of a HCMC company that imports meat and seafood, including pork from the US, Canada and Australia, said that his company imported a consignment of pork at the end [...]
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April 3, 2009
Vietnam furthers cooperation with French businesses; IATA opens office in Vietnam; Crude oil exports drop 47 percent in Q1; Tariff hikes help reduce meat, poultry imports Conference discusses GPA/WTO admission Vietnam ’s crude oil export turnover decreased by 47 percent year-on-year to 1.45 billion USD in the first quarter of this year, said the Vietnam [...]
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