Vietnam Re-consults on Food Safety Law with Risk-Based Approach

Dec 29, 2025

Lennie Tao

1. Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has issued a draft comprehensive amendment to the Law on Food Safety to establish a risk-based management system, expand GMP/advanced quality system requirements for high-risk foods, and clarify ministerial responsibilities.
2. The draft introduces differentiated controls for high-, medium-, and low-risk foods, tighter and more substantive inspection of imported foods, and a dynamic control regime for high-risk substances, while requiring product declarations/registrations to be renewed every five years.
3. Stakeholders can submit feedback to the MOH before late January 2026, with the amended law expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration in April 2026.

On December 26, 2025, Vietnam's Ministry of Health (MOH) released a draft policy dossier for a comprehensive amendment to the Law on Food Safety, inviting public consultation. The proposed amendment aims to modernize the country's food safety framework by replacing the one-size-fits-all approach with a risk-based management system, clarifying ministerial responsibilities, and strengthening post-market surveillance. The move comes after a comprehensive review of the current Law No. 55/2010/QH12 on Food Safety, effective since July 1, 2011, which identified significant overlaps and practical shortcomings.

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