Environmental pollution - The cause of food insecurity

A US radio station has just mentioned a post about food insecurity in Vietnam, which highlights one of the main reasons for the serious environmental pollution.

The article stated: The crisis in the Vietnamese food market has emerged since 2 months now after a series of export processing products announced by the US is dirty or contains impurities and toxic substances through the processing process, Besides press releases about soy sauce, oyster oil contains high levels of carcinogenic precursors from a few dozen times the allowable level.

In addition to this finding, it is also known that Vietnam is warned that it may lose a few large seafood markets such as the Japanese market with over US $ billion per year, because exports violate safety regulations.

This is not the first time many countries that import goods and seafood discover Vietnamese export products that are contaminated with banned antibiotic residues. For decades, many Vietnamese seafood exporters have been canceled or returned by many customers to export fish, crab, squid, shrimp . because they did not meet the committed safety standards.

Hanoi wastewater pollutes Nhue and Day rivers.(Photo: Labor)

Officials occasionally raise alarms about the situation of aquatic and vegetation in the context of contaminated farming environment. Shrimp fish die mass, reduced harvest crops, vegetables contain toxins . proved to be the main reason is the waste of many industrial plants directly pouring into rivers and streams instead of being treated as rule.

Environmental pollution in Vietnam has been considered escalating in parallel with economic development in recent years. In the air is gasoline smoke, smoke factory. In the water source is garbage of all kinds, slag, waste and wastewater from the technology zones.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Mai Ai Truc once confirmed that the living environment now shows signs of pollution when he said: " This is a serious problem and the Government has allocated resources to carry out the protection task. People are increasingly concerned about the benefits of the environment, but are not aware of what to do to protect the environment, we are always interested in raising people's awareness in this work. ".

Toxins in seafood and plants are proven by chemicals discharged from industrial facilities. Under Vietnamese law, dyeing factories, cement factories, paper mills . must build waste treatment systems, but according to domestic press releases, countless project owners disobey according to that request.

According to the press, many factories " forget " to build filtering systems are common. Then once unfortunately being inspected by the government, the owners of the facilities and projects are only warned or lightly punished. So many years have passed, violations continue to continue.

With an environment that continues to degenerate as it is now, many foods will continue to directly bring toxins into the human body. These toxins, from death to transmission of serious diseases, are a disaster for future generations.

The World Health Organization (WHO) once affirmed environmental pollution, such as unsanitary water, if minimized, it will help improve the health status of people. Environmental improvement is one of the factors that helps reduce serious illnesses. One of the headlines that the agency noted last month was the government's interest in the issue of clean water and garbage disposal.

Environmental pollution in Vietnam due to industrial waste is now at an alarming level. A number of urgent measures are being proposed such as the project of setting up a specialized inspection force by the end of this year, issued by the HCM City Department of Health to check the quality of processed goods, or to establish police environment is examples .