HANOI, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The rate of Vietnam's national standards and technical regulations on agro-forestry-aquatic food safety equivalent to international standards is expected to reach 100 percent by 2030, Vietnam News Agency reported on Thursday.
According to a newly-approved project on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures, the rate is projected at 70 percent by 2025 with all personnel in food safety and animal and plant quarantine management in Vietnam expected to receive training.
By 2025, information exchange among cooperatives, businesses, associations, management agencies in localities and the national sanitary and phytosanitary system will be stepped up through a database.
Vietnam is a member of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, which sets the goal of providing consumers with extremely safe food products, following appropriate standards. ■