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Decision 988/QD-BYT Amending Circular No. 15/2024 /TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health, Promulgating the List of Imported Foods, Food Additives, and Food Packaging & Container that must Receive the State Food Safety Inspection at Ports within the Scope of MOH’s Management
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Quyết định 988/QĐ-BYT Quyết định về việc đính chính Thông tư số 15/2024/TT-BYT ngày 19 tháng 9 năm 2024 của Bộ trưởng Bộ Y tế ban hành Danh mục thực phẩm, phụ gia thực phẩm và dụng cụ chứa đựng thực phẩm, vật liệu bao gói tiếp xúc trực tiếp với thực phẩm đã được xác định mã số hàng hóa theo Danh mục hàng hóa xuất khẩu, nhập khẩu Việt Nam phải kiểm tra nhà nước về an toàn thực phẩm nhập khẩu thuộc phạm vi quản lý của Bộ Y tế.
Country/Region:
Vietnam
Competent Authority:
Ministry of Health
Type:
Notice
Status:
In force
Release Date:
2025-03-24
Implementation Date:
2025-03-24
Applicable Scope:
Food additive; Food contact materials; Health food
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Official Decision 988/QD-BYT Amending Circular No. 15/2024 /TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health, Promulgating the List of Imported Foods, Food Additives, and Food Packaging & Container that must Receive the State Food Safety Inspection at Ports within the Scope of MOH’s Management
Decision 988/QD-BYT Amending Circular No. 15/2024 /TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health, Promulgating the List of Imported Foods, Food Additives, and Food Packaging & Container that must Receive the State Food Safety Inspection at Ports within the Scope of MOH’s Management
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Summary

This decision mainly revises two minor points to "Circular No. 15/2024 /TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health: Promulgating the List of Imported Foods, Food Additives, and Food Packaging & Container that must Receive the State Food Safety Inspection at Ports within the Scope of MOH’s Management".

1. At point d of Article 3, it was previously stated: “Commodities not included in the List, except for cases stipulated at point b of Article 2 of this Circular”; now it is amended to: “Commodities not included in the List, except for cases stipulated at point b of Article 3 of this Circular”. 3.

2. In the List of food, food additives, and food containers, and packaging materials that come into direct contact with food, the goods have been identified with a product code according to the List of Export and Import Goods of Vietnam. They must undergo state food safety inspections for imported food within the scope of the Ministry of Health's management as stipulated in Circular No. 15/2024/TT-BYT dated September 19, 2024; now the first line of the List is omitted, which reads “II. Single food additives:”.

History
2025-03-24
Decision 988/QD-BYT Amending Circular No. 15/2024 /TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health, Promulgating the List of Imported Foods, Food Additives, and Food Packaging & Container that must Receive the State Food Safety Inspection at Ports within the Scope of MOH’s Management
In force
Release Date: 2025-03-24
Implementation Date : 2025-03-24
2024-09-19
2020-02-12
2018-04-05
Invalid
Release Date: 2018-04-05
Implementation Date : 2018-05-21
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