Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

The provisions of the notified Decree, drafted to implement Law No. 28-07 on food safety, seek primarily to:

• Define marketed edible vegetable fats and oils;

• Establish the names under which such fats and oils can be marketed;

• Establish physico-chemical characteristics by Ministerial Order;

• Define lawful and unlawful operations involving vegetable fats and oils;

• Remove the provision on the nominal volumes in which oils can be presented to the

  buyer in retail trade; and

• Define modalities for the labelling and presentation for sale of edible vegetable fats and

  oils.

  The notified draft Decree provides for the repeal of the provisions on vegetable fats and oils set out in the above-mentioned Order of 22 November 1921, in particular those of Articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 8 bis, and the repeal of Decree No. 2-62-217 of 3 Hija 1381 (8 May 1962) governing the manufacture of edible oils.

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