I have found an interesting comment on the social website facebook with respect to the street food which makes one of biggest Vietnam's charms to the world.Sadly enough I heard through the social website that all the street food vendors in Hoi An have been eliminated and the other cities are expected to follow:
Health Ministry to get tough on food hygiene
08/06/2007 -- 8:35 PM
Ha Noi (VNA) – The Health Ministry (MoH) is planning a nation-wide crack down on food safety violators and the building of standards for food hygiene in general, said a Health Ministry official.At the top of the list of a new MoH plan is a public awareness campaign on food safety, to be followed by a system to manage food hygiene, a programme to analyse the risks of food pollution, a system to examine food poisoning and food transmitted diseases, a greater number of food inspections and the doling out of stricter punishments to violators.
The country's medical sector is also expected to become a major contributor to the initiative by boosting scientific research and application of hygiene standards in the area.
The new directives come hard on the heels of the recent detection of carcinogenic found in brands of soy sauce sold in markets across the country.
