HCM City needs to develop a cold storage system and raw material storage areas for the food processing industry, the Food and Foodstuff Association of HCM City said.
Food processing firms in HCM City have mapped out plans to gradually restore production when the city relaxes social distancing regulations in the near future.
Many of its members have promised not to increase the prices of goods, especially essential goods, to share consumers’ difficulties amid the Covid-19 outbreak.
Viet Nam has become an increasingly attractive destination for international enterprises in the food, beverages and packaging industry thanks to its rapid economic growth and rising consumer demand.
The Ministry of Health has yet to implement a Government decision issued in May 2017 to scrap or amend regulations that require salt used in processed food to be fortified with iodine and wheat flour with iron and zinc, causing...