In order to improve the efficiency of state management on food safety, strengthen management, quality control and traceability of agricultural products in Hanoi, the City People's Committee has just issued the next plan. plan on maintaining and developing electronic information traceability system using QR codes for food and agricultural products in the city in the period of 2018-2020.

Hanoi strives to achieve 100% production and supply chain of safe agricultural products in 2020

Use QR codes for traceability. (Artwork: kt)

Accordingly, this year, Ha Noi piloted the application of electronic information system software using QR codes in management, identification and traceability, ensuring safe agricultural products for fruit products. at fruit shops in the inner city of Hanoi, at the same time piloting the application of authentication code process against fake goods.

Electronic information system QR code traceability ensures safe food products produced in chains, focusing on high-risk products of food insecurity such as vegetables, meat, seafood.

By 2019, Hanoi will expand the application of electronic information system software using QR codes for traceability in other agricultural products and foodstuffs, concentrated in production and cooperation facilities. Communes, farms, centralized slaughter facilities, preliminary processing, large-scale processing, production chains, specialized stores, supermarkets, wholesale markets. Support businesses, Market Management Board to arrange areas, interactive equipment, support consumers to practice online traceability of safe agricultural products.

In 2020, strive for 100% of the chain of production and supply of safe agricultural products in the city to apply electronic information system using QR codes for traceability and transparency of information to consumers. Increase the rate of traceability in small-scale production and business establishments and retail markets from 30% to 50%.