THE MINISTRY OF
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
08/2015/TT-BNNPTNT
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Hanoi, March 02,
2015
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CIRCULAR
PROVIDING
FOR THE INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF VETERINARY HYGIENE, FOOD SAFETY FOR
PRODUCTION, TRADING OF EXPORTED HONEY
Pursuant to Ordinance on Veterinary medicine
dated April 29, 2004;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No.
199/2013/NĐ-CP dated November 26, 2013 defining the functions, tasks,
entitlements and organizational structure of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural development;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No.
33/2005/NĐ-CP dated March 15, 2005 on guidelines for the Ordinance on
Veterinary Medicine; the Government's Decree No. 119/2008/NĐ-CP dated November
28th 2008, amending and supplementing the Government's Decree No.
33/2005/NĐ-GOVERNMENT;
At the request of the Director of Department of
Animal Health,
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural
development promulgates the Circular providing for the inspection and
supervision of veterinary hygiene, food safety for production, trading of
exported honey
Chapter I
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Article 1. Governing scope and
regulated entities.
1. This Circular provides for inspection of
veterinary hygiene, food safety for production, trading exported honey;
supervision system, responsibilities of supervisory authorities and
establishments engaged in production and trading of exported honey.
2. This Circular applies to the establishments of
the production, trading chain of exported honey including: beekeeping
establishments; establishments of collecting, processing, and trading of
exported honey.
Article 2. Interpretation of
terms
In this Circular, the following
terms are construed as follows:
1. Honey includes honey and royal jelly.
2. Production of honey includes one, several or all
of the activities of beekeeping, honey extraction; collecting, processing, and
trading honey.
3. Beekeeping establishment is the place where the
beekeeping and honey extraction is conducted.
4. Processing of honey means the process in which
raw honey is processed by industrial method or manually in order to produce
food ingredients or food products.
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6. Supervisory authorities are specialized ones
assigned to implement the plan for supervising the veterinary hygiene, food
safety in beekeeping; collecting, processing, and trading honey.
Chapter II
INSEPCTION AND
SUPERVISION OF VETERINARY HYGIENE, FOOD SAFETY
Article 3.
Formulation and approval of supervision plan.
1. The basis of formulation of
annual supervision plan:
a) Production of exported honey in the year; Season
of honey extraction and processing, and expected production for the following
year;
b) Last year’s result of veterinary hygiene, food
safety supervision with regard to honey production and trading, warning about
quality and food safety of exported honey to determine items of high risk on
food safety of competent State agencies.
c) Number of establishments producing and/or
trading honey and result of inspection, assessment, and classification of
conditions of veterinary hygiene, food safety corresponding to entities
mentioned in Article 2 of this Circular.
2. The Department of Animal Health shall take
charge to formulate the annual plan for supervision and request the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural development for approval, funding, and implementation.
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4. Contents of the supervision plan:
a) Inspection and assessment of conditions on
veterinary hygiene and sampling of honey at beekeeping establishments;
establishments of collecting, processing, and trading honey;
b) Sampling of honey at beekeeping establishments;
establishments of collecting, processing, and trading honey;
c) Analysis of residues in honey taken at
beekeeping establishments; establishments collecting, processing, and trading
honey;
d) Consolidation of reports on the supervision plan
at the request of management and of importing countries.
Article 4.
Supervisory authorities.
1. The system of inspection and
supervision of veterinary hygiene, food safety in beekeeping; collecting,
processing, and trading honey includes:
a) Department of Animal
Health ;
b) Regional Veterinary
Authorities;
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d) Sub- Department of Animal Health of provinces
having beekeeping establishments.
2. The supervisory authorities , within the ambit
of their tasks and powers, shall perform assigned tasks in order to ensure a
closed supervision system of production, transportation, processing, and
export.
Article 5.
Entities subject to inspection, supervision of production and processing of
honey
Beekeeping establishments; establishments
collecting, processing, and trading honey shall inspected, supervised by, and
must comply with requests of supervisory authorities.
Article 6.
Time of inspection, supervision, and sampling.
1. From February to April and from
August to October every year, the Department of Animal Health shall inspect,
assess, and classify veterinary hygiene, food safety and take samples in order
to supervise toxic residues in beekeeping establishments; establishments of
collecting, processing, and trading honey.
In case of necessity,
establishments shall be inspected and samples of honey shall be taken without
prior notice.
2. Inspection, assessment, and classification of
veterinary sanitation, safe food for beekeeping establishments; establishments
of collecting, processing, and trading honey shall comply with the provisions
of Article 7 of this Circular.
3. Samples shall be taken randomly or intentionally
in order to supervise and assess the conformity with National technical
regulation, regulations on food safety of honey, and requirements of the
importing countries (under the guidance in Appendix 1 enclosed with this
Circular); sample structure, number of samples taken to analyze residues under
the annual plan.
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a) The area where samples of honey in beekeeping
establishments are taken shall base on the season and the extraction area of
honey;
b) The area where samples of honey in
establishments of collection, processing, and trading are taken shall base on
the time of inspection, supervision and centralize in the provinces where the
establishments collecting and/or processing honey are located.
5. Requirements for samplers.
a) Samplers must be trained in sampling techniques
and assigned to take samples by competent agencies.
b) Samplers must be provided adequately with
necessary devices and equipment serving the sampling, sample preservation.
Article 7. Inspection,
assessment, and classification of conditions on veterinary hygiene, food safety
for beekeeping establishments, processing establishments of exported honey.
1. The assessment and classification of beekeeping
establishments; establishments of pre-processing, processing exported honey
shall comply with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development’s Circular
No. 45/2014 / TT-BNN dated March 12, 2014.
2. Record on inspection, assessment, and
classification of veterinary hygiene, food safety for beekeeping establishments
shall use the form in Appendix 2 enclosed with this Circular;
3. Record on inspection, assessment, and
classification of veterinary hygiene, food safety for establishments of
pre-processing, processing of honey shall use the form in Appendix 3 enclosed
with this Circular;
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Article 8.
Regulations on the inspection, sampling, and analysis of samples.
1. Center for Veterinary Hygiene Inspection I shall
take charge and cooperate with Regional Veterinary Authorities
and Center for Veterinary Hygiene Inspection II to
inspect, take samples and analyze samples for beekeeping establishments,
establishments of collecting, processing, and trading honey.
2. Honey must be tested for
residues such as antibiotics, heavy metals, plant protection chemicals and
other residues according to the approved annual plan.
Within 20 working days from receipt of the sample,
the laboratory must notify the results to the supervisory authority to
aggregate the analysis results.
3. Sample analysis results shall
be retained by the analyzing agency and sent to the relevant authorities.
Article 9.
Regulations on quarantine of shipments of exported honey.
1. Only the establishments
producing and/or tranding honey that participate in veterinary hygiene, food
safety supervision program and are issued with the certificate of eligible for
veterinary hygiene shall be allowed to export honey.
2. Quanrantine of exported honey
shall be carried out at the request of the importing countries.
3. When detecting the shipments that contain
residues exceeding the permitted limits, the agency in charge of quarantine of
exported animals shall immediately notify the honey producer or trader and
implement necessary measures as prescribed.
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USE OF VETERINARY
MEDICINES AND FEED IN BEEKEEPING
Article 10. Use of veterinary
medicines in beekeeping
1. Only veterinary medicines permitted for sale in
Vietnam may be used to prevent and treat diseases in bees as prescribed.
2. When medicines are used to prevent and treat
diseases in bees, indications on the labels and instructions of the
manufacturers or veterinary officers must be complied with. Beekeeping
establishments must have logbooks to monitor the diseases, treatment and use of
medicines for bees.
3. In addition to implementing the provisions of
the law on the use of veterinary medicines and food in beekeeping, beekeeping
organizations and individuals must comply with the requirements of importing
countries.
Article 11.
Use of food in beekeeping.
Only food used for beekeeping and
permitted for sale in Vietnam which has adequate information labels as
prescribed is used. It is strictly prohibited to mix antibiotics, hormones and
other harmful chemicals in bee food.
Chapter IV
ACTIONS AGAINST
VIOLATIONS
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In the process of analyzing
samples of honey, if detecting that the veterinary hygiene, food safety
required to inspect exceeds the allowed limit, supervisory authorities assigned
to handle violations shall:
1. Immediately notify the
establishment of which honey was found violations of sanitary veterinary and
food safety; the following information must be included in the notification:
a) Name of establishment of which product is
detected violation;
b) Reasons of violation;
c) Shipment, the number of products detected
violation;
d) Date of sampling and inspection
results.
c) Request the establishment for
not using raw material for honey in processing or suspension of the export of
shipments of honey detected violation.
2. Take samples for reinspection
of items detected violation.
3. Request the establishment to
trace the origins, determine the cause of violation, implement appropriate
remedial measures, and report the results to the supervisory authorities.
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5. Implement tightened supervision measures and
take samples intentionally at establishments of which samples are found
unsatisfactory until the results of the monitoring show that the establishments
meet regulations.
a) Put them in the warning list and apply tightened
supervision to at least 30% of a shipment of 5 consecutive shipments;
b) If the violation continues to be detected, the
establishment shall be put on list of establishments under special supervision,
100% of the shipments shall be inspected before they are sold on the market or
exported.
c) If the result of improved
supervision shows that the establishment still has samples that do not ensure
food safety, the supervisory authorities shall send a written notification to
the agency assigned to conduct specialized inspection to consider and inspect
(if necessary) and handle according to current regulations; and notify the
Department of Animal Health for consideration and taking measures to strengthen
the inspection of conditions on veterinary hygiene, food safety or imposing
suspension on exporting of the establishment.
d) If there is no violation detected, the
establishment’s name shall be deleted from the warning list.
6. Handling unsafe honey:
a) Honey whose physical and chemical properties are
altered shall be repurposed and used as raw material for industrial alcohol
distillation or processing of products not used for human.
b) Honeys that contain prohibited antibiotics or
contain heavy metals exceeding the allowed limit shall be repurposed or
destroyed depending on the severity.
Article 13. Actions against
honey not meeting requirements of importing countries.
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2. Department of Animal Health shall cooperate with
establishments of production and trading honey to trace the origins and take
necessary measures as prescribed in paragraphs 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Article 12 of
this Circular.
3. Goods owners must bear all the costs for the
shipment handling.
Chapter V
IMPLEMENTATION
Article 14.
Responsibilities of Department of Animal Health
1. Inspect and supervise in
accordance with the approved plan.
2. Guide the Sub-Department of
Animal Health in provinces, cities relating to beekeeping to supervise the
production and use of veterinary medicines in beekeeping.
3. Propagate regulations on
production food used for beekeeping; use of veterinary medicines in prevention
and treatment of diseases in bees; veterinary hygiene, food safety in
collecting, processing, trading of honey and handling violation.
4. Monitor the activities of other
agencies in the system of inspection and supervision; establishments of
production, trading exported honey.
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6. Summarize information, analyze,
assess, and adjust operations in accordance with set requirements.
7. Aggregate annual plans; report
to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on the result of
inspection, supervision, sample analysis, the adjustment and handling
violations in production, trading, and exporting honey and notify the competent
authorities of the importing country as required.
8. Make a list and update documents, codes of
beekeeping establishments, establishments of production of exported honey.
Article 15.
Responsibility of Regional Veterinary Authorities.
1. Inspect and supervise the
production, trading, and export of honey from establishments of production,
trading honey in the management areas.
2. Implement the quarantine and
issue honey export quarantine certificate at the request of importing
countries.
3. Verify the traced origins and
the remedy result of violating establishments in the production, trading, and
export of honey
4. Report on the result of operations to the
Department of Animal Health and notify other relevant entities.
Article 16.
Responsibilities of the Sub-Department of Animal Health or provinces where
honey is produced.
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2. Cooperate with supervisory
authorities under the Department of Animal Health in inspection and supervision
of establishments of production and trading honey in their provinces
Article 17.
Responsibilities of
Centers for Veterinary Hygiene Inspection I, II ;
1.
Center for Veterinary Hygiene Inspection I : Formulate
a plan for inspection, conduct inspection, take samples and analyze samples
annually according to the plan notified importing countries; aggregate and
report figures to Department of Animal Health after sampling. Prepare documents
of establishments of production, trading, and export of honey and the retaining
system of relevant information and data.
2.
Center for Veterinary Hygiene Inspection II :
Participate in inspections of beekeeping establishments; establishments of
producing, trading honey as assigned by the Department of Animal Health.
Article 18.
Responsibilities of establishments collecting, processing, and/or trading
exported honey.
1. Implement the program of Good
Manufacturing Practice (GMP) or hazard analysis and critical control point
system (HACCP) or ISO 22000: 2005 in the processing of honey; guide, inspect
beekeeping establishments in following procedures for beekeeping satisfying
conditions on veterinary hygiene, food safety or procedure for Vietnamese Good
Animal Husbandry Practices in beekeeping (VietGAHP) satisfying the requirements
on veterinary hygiene, food safety for exported honey and consumers.
2. Comply with regulations on
inspection, supervision and guidance of the supervisory authorities in ensuring
food safety for honey.
3. Take samples, analyze samples,
retain samples for inspection of residues under their plans.
4. Establish books to monitor the
origin of each shipment, establish origin-tracing systems to ensure the ability
to identify, trace the product at the determination stages of beekeeping,
processing and distribution of honey.
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6. Abide by decisions on handling violations of
competent Authority when honey that does not guarantee food safety is detected.
7. Notify the result of operation
of establishments, violations, actions against violations, relevant information
to supervisory authorities.
8. Make a list of all beekeepers providing raw
material honey for processing establishments of honey according to appendix 4
enclosed with this Circular. Such list must be sent to the Department of Animal
Health, Center for Veterinary Hygiene Inspection I at
the latest on January 15 every year.
9. Cooperate with supervisory authorities to trace
origins in case of violations.
Article 19. Responsibilities
of beekeeping establishments.
1. Follow procedures for
beekeeping ensuring veterinary hygiene, food safety. Be encouraged to adopt the
procedure for Vietnamese Good Animal Husbandry Pratices for beekeeping
(VietGAHP).
2. Only use veterinary medicines in the list of
veterinary medicines permitted for sale in Vietnam. Honey shall only be used as
food if it complies with the withdrawal period as directed by the
manufacturers.
3. Regularly notify epidemic diseases of bees,
honey production to the relevant authorities.
4. Keep a log of each swarm of bees to serve the
traceability.
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IMPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
Article 20. Effect.
This Circular takes effect from April 15, 2015 and
replaces the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development’s Circular No.
23/2009 / TT-BNN dated April 29, 2009 provides for inspection and supervision
of veterinary hygiene for production and trading honey.
Article 21. Responsibility for
implementation.
Director of the Department of Animal Health, Heads
of units affiliated to Ministries and related organizations and individuals
shall be responsible for the implementation of this Circular./.
PP. MINISTER
DEPUTY MINISTER
Vu Van Tam
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