Tu Hoang and Minh Tam
According to the Ministry of Finance’s proposal, if those products are actually milk or have dairy properties, the Ministry of Health would have to ask the Government and the National Assembly Standing Committee to include them in the list of items subject to price stabilization as regulated by the Pricing Law to protect consumers, especially children.
The proposal was submitted on Thursday, just two days after the Ministry of Health sent a similar document to the Prime Minister stating that no matter how those products were called are still on the price stabilization list. Therefore, this is a responsibility of the Ministry of Finance, according to the Health Ministry.
The problem emerged when the Ministry of Health allowed a series of products for children to have their names changed from milk to nutritional food products or supplements. This name change has effectively made those products immune from the Pricing Law since January 1, 2013.
As a result, production, distribution and trading enterprises of dairy products are not required to declare prices of powered milk for children aged under six when they change prices.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the name change has led prices of many dairy products for children to increase.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
