According to the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China (GACC) Decree 248 and Decree 249, Vietnamese enterprises that want to export agricultural products and food to the Chinese market must register and be granted codes for food safety monitoring. By December, China has granted 2,426 product codes to Vietnamese enterprises to export to this market.
The bird flu virus was found in three flocks of ducks with 2,240 birds in November in the Central Province of Quang Ngai. The provincial Sub-Department of Livestock Production and Veterinary Medicine has instructed people to implement measures to raise livestock and monitor the epidemic promptly.
According to the Ministry of Health, the country has about 800,000 people infected with influenza every year. Worse, this is one of the respiratory diseases that can become epidemic.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday announced measures to prevent the transmission of avian influenza to humans after recording a human case of A/H5 avian flu in a 5-year-old girl in the Northern Province of Phu Tho’s Dong Thanh Commune.
Counterfeit, poor quality, or smuggled vaccines and veterinary drugs are being sold widely in the market, especially through social networks, threatening the country's livestock sector.
Total import and export turnover in the first eight months of the year reached US$497 billion, of which export turnover hit $250 billion, up 9.1 percent over the same period last year. However, many enterprises are concerned that technical barriers put up by import markets, combined with a sharp decrease in purchasing power, have had a significant impact on export activities.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development was asked to closely monitor African swine fever and bird flu, and ensure early detection for preventing the two epidemics from spreading on a large scale.
At a meeting with leaders of HCMC People's Committee yesterday, businesses and agencies put forward many solutions to revive the tourism industry of the city which has been hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in his document requested chairpersons in cities and provinces having avian flu to mobilize all sources to curb outbreaks of the disease.
Though Ho Chi Minh City authorities have made efforts to curb illegal sales and slaughter of poultry in sidewalks in districts to prevent potential spread of an avian influenza epidemic, the situation has not been improved in the year-end.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the amount of imported pork has increased heavily but the prices of pork in the market are still hovering at high levels.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called on ministries, Government agencies and local authorities nationwide to roll out precautionary measures to stop poultry and cattle diseases.
The National Steering Committee for Combating Smuggling, Commercial Fraud and Counterfeit Goods (National Steering Committee No. 389) yesterday warned of the possible spread of avian influenza A(H5N1) from China to Vietnam, adding the high possibility of avian influenza A(H5N1) spread to human.
Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the central province of Phu Yen Dao Ly Nhi said more highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in poultry with H5N6 striking one commercial layer farms in Phu Hoa District, infecting 2,000 poultry.
Samples from a poultry farm in the city of Gimpo, west of Seoul, tested negative for avian influenza viruses, city officials said Monday, amid a widespread outbreak of the avian influenza in the country's southwestern duck farming region.
A chicken farm in Gyeonggi Province reported a suspected case of avian influenza (AI) on Wednesday, prompting quarantine officials to impose a temporary ban on poultry transportation in the region.
South Korean quarantine officials have slaughtered 201,000 birds in the country's southwestern areas to contain the spread of avian influenza, an official said Sunday.
