Dispatch No. 1504/BYT-ATTP dated March 25th, 2022 of the Ministry of Health regarding strengthened cooperation in managing advertisement of health protection foods

This Dispatch requests Ministries, branches to coordinate with the Ministry of Health in strengthening the inspection, strictly sanctioning organizations, individuals, social networks, platforms like facebook, tiktok, twitter, youtube, coccoc, etc., that advertise incorrect attributes of the advertised products, advertise products without undergoing the validation process, without clear origin, etc.

At the same time, the Ministry of Health also requests the Ministries, branches to coordinate in deploying these solutions:

- Closely examine and supervise to see whether active websites and domain names conform to eligibility conditions for starting them in order to ensure that violating domain names can be temporarily suspended or permanently terminated.

- Strengthen the inspection and examination of advertisements for health protection foods on e-commerce exchanges and multi-level marketing businesses in food protection foods.

- Impose strict sanctions against domain name administrators running advertisements in breach of law on advertising on social networking sites to set precedents for future cases of violation.