Hospital, factory sewage flows into Hai Phong rivers

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VietNam News English 3 week(s) ago 1 duplicate news

Hospital, factory sewage flows into Hai Phong rivers

Biggest rivers of Da Do, Gia and Re of northern port Hai Phong City, as the city's main water source, are getting seriously polluted.

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Meat, vegetables top for bacterial contamination and chemical residues

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VietnamNet English 1 month(s) ago

Meat, vegetables top for bacterial contamination and chemical residues

VietNamNet Bridge - According to tests conducted in 2012, meat and vegetables took the lead for being contaminated with bacterium and chemical residues among agricultural products.

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Ministry wants to expose food safety offenders

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Ministry wants to expose food safety offenders

Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said at an online meeting that a determined effort was needed to expose food safety violators and names of such offenders must be made public and consumers too must boycott them.

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E. coli found in Chinese vegetables in central Vietnam market

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Báo Thanh Niên English 8 month(s) ago

Authorities in the central city of Da Nang said they have found excessive levels of E. coli in samples of Chinese common beans and lettuce sold at a wholesale market.

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Two facilities use chemicals to produce soybean sprouts

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VietNam News English 7 month(s) ago

Two facilities were caught using dengerous chemicals to produce bean sprouts, according to the Department of Agricultural and Rural Development of central Quang Binh province.

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Market vegetables spark fresh scare

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VietNam News English 7 month(s) ago

Two samples of vegetables found at Hoa Cuong Wholesale Market recently tested positive for the harmful E.Coli bacteria, according to the Da Nang Sub-department of Rural Development and Management of Agro Forestry and Fisheries Products.

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Bean shoot health warning

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VietNam News English 8 month(s) ago

Bean shoot health warning

Up to 40 per cent of tested bean sprout samples sold in Ha Noi's markets are infected with harmful bacteria, including E.coli, prompting national food safety officials to call for tightened controls on raw vegetables.

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Consumers fear Chinese cabbage after E-Coli deaths in Japan

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Hanoi Times English 9 month(s) ago

The Hanoitimes - After the Vietnam Food Administration released news of food poisoning cases in Japan from pickled Chinese cabbage, consumers are concerned of such Chinese vegetables selling in huge quantities in markets in the country.

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Consumers fear Chinese cabbage after E-Coli deaths in Japan

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SaiGon GP English 9 month(s) ago

Consumers fear Chinese cabbage after E-Coli deaths in Japan

After the Vietnam Food Administration released news of food poisoning cases in Japan from pickled Chinese cabbage on August 22, consumers are concerned of such Chinese vegetables selling in huge quantities in markets in the country.

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Pollution contaminating water sources in Dong Nai Province

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SaiGon GP English 12 month(s) ago

Pollution contaminating water sources in Dong Nai Province

Pollution levels in almost all rivers and springs in the southern province of Dong Nai continues to increase with unabated and unchecked dumping of wastewater and substances from businesses, industrial zones along with garbage from local households.

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The “itching canal” and “breathless canal” in HCM City

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VietnamNet English 15 month(s) ago

The “itching canal” and “breathless canal” in HCM City

VietNamNet Bridge – The itching canal and breathless canal seem to be found only in Vietnam. The canals in HCM City are being poisoned by about 40 tons of garbage of all kinds and 70,000 m3 of industrial untreated waste water everyday.

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Food and preparation areas a source of danger

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Báo Dân Trí English 18 month(s) ago

Food and preparation areas a source of danger

After conducting a survey of household kitchens in 10 cities, Vietnam Military Medical University has given out a stark warning about hygiene.

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U.S. FDA approves new drug to treat leukemia

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VietnamNet English 19 month(s) ago

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Erwinaze to treat patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), who have developed an allergy to E. coli derived asparaginase and pegapargase chemotherapy drugs used to treat ALL.

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World prone to food-borne disease outbreaks: WHO

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Báo Dân Trí English 20 month(s) ago

World prone to food-borne disease outbreaks: WHO

The world has become more vulnerable to outbreaks of disease caused by contaminated food because of growing global trade, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.

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Engineered E.coli designed for secret communication

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VietnamNet English 21 month(s) ago 2 related news

Scientists have developed a method of encrypting information into genetically-engineered E. coli bacteria to deliver secret messages.

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