Opening the training course for food safety inspectors
On November 10th 2015, the 1st training course about food safety inspectors was conducted at Hanoi School of Public Health in order to training the civil servants, officials who are in charge of food safety inspecting in Hanoi.
Implementing the Decision No. 38/2015/QD-TTg of Prime Minister on September 9th 2015 that come into force from November 15th 2015 about the pilot implementation of specialized inspection and food safety in district, towns, commune of Hanoi City and Ho Chi Minh City, the Hanoi School of Public Health (Institute for health management training) which co-organized with the Department of Food Safety and Health Inspectorate of the Ministry of Health.
This training course has about 150 professional staff ad officials from Hanoi Food Safety Department and 5 districts of Hanoi such as: Ba Dinh, Dong Da, Dong Anh, Nam Tu Liem and Thuong Tin along with 10 wards belong to these 5 districts (each pilot districts include 2 communes ). Beside the theory, the participants also have chance to visiting the local business where they are mostly selling the food products to accumulate more experience and from there, it could help them to implement the mission on inspecting food safety which the Government has already assigned.
According to Deputy Minister of Health, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Long, implementing Decision 38/2015/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister will be faced with many difficulties include workforce (specialized inspection staff at the facility is still lacked while the need is raising) and time (time for pilot is 1 year) while the condition of safety food is very serious.
Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long emphasized that: This is the first time, the inspecting on food safety will be piloted in the commune. There are many persons who sit here, are not health workers. However, when we are involved in the decision No. 38/2015/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister, we carry in our shoulder the responsibilities of three ministry and three sectors. In the near future, Ministry of Health will issue a decision to establish working groups among 3 ministries related to support for implementing the food safety inspecting work.
(TH)