Inspecting 14 bottled water facilities, 10 facilities were found to be unqualified for production.

On May 16, the Quang Tri Department of Health said that this unit had just coordinated with the Food Safety and Hygiene Department to establish a team to inspect food safety at establishments producing and trading bottled drinking water in the province. Initial results showed that 10/14 establishments violated and did not ensure conditions for producing and trading bottled and jarred drinking water.

Specifically, the Health Department Inspectorate inspected 6 facilities and found 5 violations; the Food Safety and Hygiene Department Inspectorate inspected 8 facilities and found 5 violations.

Kiểm tra 14 cơ sở nước đóng chai, đã có 10 không đủ điều kiện sản xuất - Ảnh 1. — Bottled water

The main violations are that the facility has not ensured environmental hygiene conditions; limited human resources have not implemented the one-way process, labor protection equipment is not adequate, direct producers have not fully implemented the aseptic process according to regulations, health certificates have expired; the records of equipment and machinery replacement, production and distribution quantities have not been updated in detail, the ultraviolet light system in the bottling room is broken; the quality of the input water source used for production has not been tested; product labels, no production date, product expiry date...

In addition to checking the conditions of facilities and production personnel, the inspection teams took 7 samples of bottled and canned drinking water from a number of facilities to send samples for testing the quality of output products. However, there are no specific results yet.

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According to Mr. Hoang Dinh An, Head of the Food Safety and Hygiene Department, due to the impact of Covid-19, from 2020 to the end of 2022, bottled and jarred drinking water production and trading establishments in the province have been operating at a low level; many establishment owners have not paid attention to investment, causing facilities and equipment to deteriorate and not ensuring food safety and hygiene regulations. Meanwhile, the health sector focuses on disease prevention, so inspection, supervision and state management in this field are not strict; production compliance is not high, leading to the above problems.

After the inspection, the delegations requested the violating bottled water and jarred water establishments to temporarily suspend operations to correct the errors mentioned.

According to the Quang Tri Department of Health, the sector will continue to plan to inspect all 69 businesses and production facilities of bottled and canned drinking water in the province to promptly detect violations and have a more comprehensive assessment.

At the same time, guide these facilities to overcome and supplement the criteria on factory facilities and drinking water production equipment in accordance with legal regulations, ensuring food hygiene and safety.

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