People need to distinguish signs of violations in advertising medicine and health protection foods.

Specifically, strengthen the management of self-declared products, register the declaration according to the instructions in Official Dispatch No. 2792/ATTP-SP of the Department of Food Safety; proactively develop a post-inspection plan and implement post-inspection according to Official Dispatches No. 2792/ATTP-SP, 730/ATTP-PCCTr and 296/ATTP-PCCTr of the Department of Food Safety.

At the same time, proactively develop a post-inspection plan and strengthen inspection and post-inspection, focusing on timely detection, prevention, handling of violations and recalling fake health protection foods, health protection foods that have not been granted a Certificate of Registration of Product Declaration by the Department of Food Safety, and poor quality foods on the market; inspect and review e-commerce trading floors, e-commerce sales applications, e-commerce sales websites and food stalls on the above applications, to detect foods that have not been declared to remove information on e-commerce platforms; closely coordinate with local authorities to strengthen propaganda to guide local people to avoid buying fake health protection foods, health protection foods that have not been granted a Certificate of Registration of Product Declaration by the Department of Food Safety, and poor quality health protection foods.

The interdisciplinary inspection team on food hygiene and safety inspected a number of items sold at supermarkets and food businesses in the market. (Illustration photo)

The Food Safety Department also emphasized that health protection foods are products used to supplement the daily diet, to maintain, enhance, improve body functions, and reduce the risk of disease. Health protection foods are not drugs and cannot replace medicine. In case of illness, people need to go to a medical facility for examination and timely treatment.

If buying these products, people need to pay attention to choosing health protection foods that must be granted a Certificate of Registration of Product Declaration by the Food Safety Department, because only then can the product be circulated on the market.

All information about health food products that have been granted a Certificate of Product Declaration Registration and a Certificate of Advertising Content Confirmation is publicly available on the websites https://vfa.gov.vn/, https://dichvucong.moh.gov.vn/ and https://congkhaiyte.moh.gov.vn/. People can look up information before deciding to buy the product.

In addition, it is necessary to carefully check product information, on the product label or sub-label (for imported products) to ensure that there is complete information: product name; date of manufacture, expiry date; ingredients, quantity; instructions for use, storage instructions; warnings about risks (if any); write the phrase "Health protection food"; write the phrase "This food is not a medicine, does not have the effect of replacing medicine"...

When viewing advertisements on social networks, people need to pay attention to distinguishing signs of violations in advertisements, such as drinking health protection foods and then being cured of diseases or having images of doctors and medical staff introducing the product, without the line "This food is not a medicine and does not have the effect of replacing medicine"... These are advertising contents that violate the law.

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/xa-hoi/202504/nguoi-dan-can-phan-biet-cac-dau-hieu-vi-pham-trong-quang-cao-thuoc-chua-benh-thuc-pham-bao-ve-suc-khoe-35905e5/