The Viet Nam Social Work Centre for Adolescents yesterday signed an agreement with C.P.Viet Nam Livestock Corporation and a social enterprise, Development Sharing Foods Viet Nam, to organise a programme to provide assistance and practical training to young people who want to start up food businesses.

After the training the start-ups will be franchisees of CPFoods.vn’s safe food chain, which opened its first store yesterday in HCM City’s Binh Thanh District.

The chain, which sells meat and poultry products, uses food with clear origins to feed livestock while its production processes meet food safety and hygiene standards.

Cao Hong Hung, the centre’s head, said through the programme more and more safe food start-ups would be set up in the country to mitigate fears about unsafe foods. —VNS