TIGHTENED INSPECTION WITH THE FIRST IMPORT OF SALT
On December 25, 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development issued Circular No. 27/2017/TT-BNNPTNT on guiding the inspection of food safety and quality of imported salt.
According to this Circular, tightened inspection procedure comprises documentary inspection, sampling and testing on quality criteria of imported salt and applied with these cases: This is the first import of salt or imported salt fails to meet quality requirements in the previous inspection; Imported salt is originated from a foreign processing plant and the inspection authority has been reported or notified that it is located in the region where there are pollution sources or dangerous epidemic pathogens which may be transmitted to people; The shipment has been inspected according to the reduced inspection method for 12 months; Salt fails to satisfy quality requirements in any regular or unexpected inspection of food safety and quality of imported salt; The certificate of conformity of imported salt with relevant national technical regulations granted by a regulatory authority of Vietnam has expired.
If the test result of samples of imported salt shows that the imported salt shipment is inconsistent with the application for inspection or fails to satisfy relevant food safety and quality requirements specified in Article 4 and the Appendix I enclosed herewith, within two working days after receiving the "Notice of inspection result of food safety and quality of imported salt”, the importer may send a written request to the inspecting authority or the laboratory meeting VILAS criteria in the chemical field for re-testing of salt samples kept by the importer. The inspecting authority shall base on this re-testing result to make the final conclusion that the imported salt shipment is satisfactory or not.
This Circular takes effect on February 15, 2018.
