The Ministry of Health requests to review and provide information related to establishments producing and trading fake milk.

On the morning of April 15, Deputy Director of the Department of Food Safety ( Ministry of Health ) Nguyen Hung Long said that he had just signed an official dispatch to the Department of Health of provinces and centrally run cities, the Department of Food Safety of Ho Chi Minh City, the Food Safety Management Board of Da Nang, the Department of Food Safety and Hygiene of provinces and cities: Hanoi, Hoa Binh, Hung Yen, Hai Duong requesting to review and provide information related to establishments producing and trading fake milk.

In the dispatch, the Department of Food Safety (Ministry of Health) stated: Recently, the Investigation Police Agency - Ministry of Public Security has discovered a ring producing, trading and consuming fake milk powder in very large quantities in Hanoi and neighboring provinces.

To have information to report to superior agencies, the Food Safety Department requests the above units to review product declaration for 11 companies on the list and branches (if any).

"If companies have declared products locally, please provide information on the number of declared products, the name of each declared product locally; review the issuance of certificates of qualified food safety facilities locally and inspection, examination, post-inspection, and handling of administrative violations from 2021 to present," Deputy Director Nguyen Hung Long requested.

As required by the Ministry of Health , the review results should be reported promptly to the Food Safety Department.

List of 11 companies includes:

1. Rance Pharma International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company

2. Hacofood Group Pharmaceutical Nutrition Joint Stock Company

3. International Pharmaceutical Group Joint Stock Company

4. Big Four Pharma International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company

5. Long Khang Group International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company

6. BFF Medical Nutrition Joint Stock Company

7. Safaco Group International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company

8. Darifa Group International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company

9. Win CT International Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company

10. Phuc An Khang Nutrition Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company