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Dr. Nguyen Duc Thach, Vice
Chairman of Dong Nai Chemical Association, said “scientists and researchers need
to find out the nature and harmful levels of popular chemicals used in food
production in order to provide useful information for consumers so that they can
choose foods more wisely”. He said that popular chemicals used in food
production are NaNO2, borax and formalin. These chemical food additives are
important for food preservation, keeping the food fresh and green longer.
However, overusing chemicals in production process has seriously influenced
consumers’ health. The most important thing here is that each region has its own
climate and geographical conditions, so the information of food safety needs to
be logically and suitably provided to specific residents.
Associate Prof Dr Dong Thi Anh
Dao from HCMC University of Technology stated that “ensuring food safety not
only requires the attention from food production or from consumers but also from
package production”. The use of nylon or plastic bags to store foods has become
more popular and familiar but the harm of these bags has not been known much.
These kind of bags takes many years to disintegrate; therefore, very harmful to
the environment in the long term. She concluded that we still ignore this fact
in food processing and preservation.
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The
use of nylon or plastic bags due to their convenience has become a
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With the mass of unsafe and
unknown-origin foods publically displayed in markets and on the roadsides and
have not yet been controlled by the government, we could not expect the
awareness and conscience from producers as well as the sanctions from food
controllers, Huynh Minh Duc from Dong Nai Standby Medical Centre said. In fact,
many regulations on food safety have been issued in the past time and many food
processing and production establishments have also been checked, but these could
not prevent the widespread circulation of unsafe foods on the market. And the
consumers have to suffer the greatest disadvantage from that problem. Therefore,
Mr Huynh Minh Duc stated that customers should protect themselves and their
relatives from the harm of unsafe foods.
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Becoming a wise consumer by using food with clear origin. Chicken
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He suggested that consumers,
especially housewives, have to equip themselves with such basic knowledge as
choosing food of clear origin; buying fresh and green foods, and cleaning food
before use; regularly keeping eyes on information about unsafe food; and
carefully considering the habit of using roadside food, etc. This will
contribute to enhance the awareness on using clean and uncontaminated food.
Also, it will demonstrate that the quality of products will be decided by the
buyers who do not choose certain products if the quality of those products is
not ensured. Thus it will require producers to pay much attention to the quality
of products they manufactured.
At the seminar, many
researches made by Lac Hong University and HCMC University of Technology were
introduced with new products originated from the nature.
Reported by Do Quyen,
Translated by Minh Minh