Assessing the origin food raw materials at cafeteria kitchens of foreign invested enterprises, hung yen province-2018 and implementing intervention solutions

Abstract

A cross sectional study was conducted to assess the current status of food raw materialsat cafeteria kitchens of foreign invested enterprises in Hung Yen Province, 2018. The results showed that the rates of leaf vegetables, root vegetables, fruits, and seafood purchased from approvedsuppliers with certificates of food safety eligibility were of 2.3%, 2.9%, 2.4%, and 3.6%, respectively. There were 11.1% of vegetable and fruit supplier shaving certificates of satisfaction of food safety conditions or other equivalent certificates. Only one seafood supplier has been granted a certificate of food safety eligibility. Most of the remaining seafood was purchased from small farms that have not been approved. It is necessary to develop the models of producing, preliminary processing, processing, and trading of food and food materials in the province in a safe direction such as Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) in order to satisfy the local food demand.