Pork and beef are sold for tens of thousands of dong.
Without shelves or covers, ribs and pork are piled up on dirty tarps spread out on the ground on Minh Khai Street (Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi).
According to our records, most of these meat shops sell from morning to afternoon; the pork is not stamped with slaughter control. When we asked about the quality of this meat, the sellers waved their hands and did not answer.
A Tet pork stall along Tam Trinh Street (Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi) also sells pork right on the ground, without any dust protection or refrigerator. The vendor uses a large knife to chop the bone, rolling each piece on the ground and then picking it up and putting it in a plastic bag to sell to customers.
Despite the potential risk of food safety, these types of shops still attract many customers because of their surprisingly low prices.
The seller said that his family owns a slaughterhouse, so the price of beef is "soft", while in other places it is usually sold at double the price. According to records, 1kg of beef brisket here costs 250,000 VND, while the market price at this time is up to nearly 500,000 VND/kg; 1kg of beef ribs costs 25,000 VND, and bone marrow costs 10,000 VND/kg.
On Ba La street (Phu Lam ward, Ha Dong district), these days, vendors also display pork everywhere, no different from a makeshift market.
"Restaurants and eateries all come here to buy. At the market, rump meat is sold for 100,000 VND/kg, but here we sell it for 75,000 VND/kg. The meat is not selling well so we have to sell it so cheaply," said a vendor.
Video of animal bones and "dirty" pork piled up on the sidewalk.
May be severely punished
According to lawyer Tran Van Linh - Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association, the above pork business has two violations: First is the act of avoiding veterinary inspection, meat of livestock is not controlled slaughter by stamping the slaughter control stamp on the carcass of livestock. Second is the violation of regulations on general conditions to ensure food safety in food production, business and preservation.
When there is a violation as mentioned above, administrative sanctions will be imposed according to Clause 6, Article 20 of Decree No. 90/2017/ND-CP on administrative sanctions in the veterinary field.
Accordingly, cases of evading veterinary inspection, not stamping the slaughter control stamp on the carcass of livestock or poultry or affixing veterinary hygiene stamps, marking veterinary hygiene-inspected packaging will be subject to administrative penalties as follows:
Fines of 60-70% of the value of animal products but not exceeding 50 million VND for the act of transporting and trading livestock and poultry meat and products from livestock and poultry without slaughter control marks, veterinary hygiene stamps, or packaging marked as having passed veterinary hygiene inspection.
Remedial measures: Compulsory veterinary hygiene inspection of animal products. In case of unsatisfactory veterinary hygiene inspection, compulsory destruction or heat treatment to change the purpose of use.
And administrative sanctions according to Clause 5, Article 9 of Decree 115/2018/ND-CP dated September 4, 2018 on violations of regulations on general conditions to ensure food safety in the production, trading, preservation of food, food additives, food processing aids, utensils, packaging materials, and containers that come into direct contact with food.
Fine of 10-15 million VND for one of the following acts: Production, processing, trading and storage locations are not isolated from sources of dust pollution, toxic chemicals and other harmful factors.
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