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According to a senior government food hygiene official, the production and distribution of dietary supplements
management
are critical if Vietnam plans to
to prevent
from potentially threatening consumers.Quang Trung, Director of food safety and health at the Ministry of Food Safety and Health, said
"We have seen a rapid growth in the trade in supplements in Vietnam, where more than
50% of urban adults
consume dietary supplements."most supplements do not provide sufficient, official information on the role of supplements in human health, " he stressed. He acknowledged that the country also lacked proper regulations for functional food management, which led to the flooding of legitimate and shoddy products throughout the market and confusion.The Korean
-ginseng
for example, there are hundreds of
brands with
the same
labels, buyers can not identify the difference between genuine and fake." " large-scale increase in " said Tran Dang, president of the VietnamEse Dietary Supplements Association, which is the fastest growing product in the food industry over the past decade.imports and domestic supplements has narrowed from 65 per cent in 2007 to 35 per cent today. In 2000, there were only
products from
, 15 importers, and by the end of 2010 there were 3,700 supplements and 1,626 producers and importers., however, many functional foods allowed in the local market have not yet been clinically tested.people need protein at the same time, functional food producers and traders have accused the Vietnamese government of exaggerating the importance of supplements, causing harm and even death to users.Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long announced this week that he had asked
agencies to regulate the
functional food
industry
.also confirmed the government's plans to issue labeling regulations that would require the use of information, clinical testing and post-production quality checks."We should make the health of
people'
health a top priority," Long said. ”