FDI Project Warranties: Retention Percentage and Period?
‘How much may the employer retain for warranty, and for how long’ is the question every FDI contractor asks when negotiating a Vietnamese construction contract. One point must…
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Supplementary Labels on Imported Cosmetics: Contents and Fines for Missing Ones
Imported cosmetics arriving in Vietnam with English, Korean or Japanese original labels are normal — putting them straight onto shelves with only that label is not. The Vietnamese…
Read article ↗Imported Produce: Plant Quarantine
Fresh produce imports must clear two control gates in Vietnam at once: plant quarantine to keep harmful organisms out, and food-safety inspection to keep pesticide residues within limits.…
Read article ↗Functional Foods: How Does Announcement Differ from Ordinary Food?
The legal answer to how functional foods differ from ordinary food is short: ordinary food is self-declared, while health-protection food (functional food) requires a registered product announcement and…
Read article ↗FDI Food Processing Plants: Food Safety Eligibility Certificates
The food safety eligibility certificate is the foundational licence of every food processing plant in Vietnam: without it, a plant cannot lawfully operate however complete its enterprise registration…
Read article ↗Imported Meat: Animal Quarantine
Meat is a two-layer import into Vietnam: a commercial layer (food declaration and labelling) and a veterinary layer (animal quarantine) — and the veterinary layer decides whether the…
Read article ↗Processed Seafood for Export: HACCP and EU Codes
For processed seafood bound for Europe, the question is not whether HACCP is needed but whether the plant’s HACCP is good enough to sit on the EU list.…
Read article ↗Food-Contact Packaging: Announcements
Packaging is not a legal bystander in food law: materials and articles in direct contact with food are an independent food-safety management object, because chemical migration from material…
Read article ↗Beverage Production (Beer, Soft Drinks): Product Announcements
Beverages are where FDI producers most often under-rate declaration work because the mechanism is self-declaration — yet the two big risks sit downstream: reformulating without re-filing, and the…
Read article ↗Food Safety Violation Fines: Levels and Remedies
When a food-safety inspection team draws up a violation record, what a company needs is not just ‘how much is the fine’ but the whole sanction structure: money…
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