From July 1, 2026, the authority to license advertising for health supplements will be transferred from the central government to the People's Committees of provinces and cities.
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued an urgent recall of a Nature's Own brand dietary supplement due to the risk of glass fragments being present inside the product container.
The Thanh Hoa Provincial Police Investigation Agency announced that it is investigating a case of "Producing and trading counterfeit food products".
The Thanh Hoa Provincial Police have just dismantled two counterfeit medicine and dietary supplement production rings worth hundreds of billions of VND, and prosecuted 26 people.
The police in Lao Cai province have initiated legal proceedings against Mr. Doan Trung Duc, General Director of Medistar Vietnam Co., Ltd., and five accomplices for producing counterfeit goods with revenue of nearly 1.8 trillion VND.
The Food Safety Department has requested Shopee to remove the product "MINAMI 12kg Weight Loss" as it has not been licensed for sale, and to review all dietary supplements.
A woman in Hanoi was hospitalized with fatigue, loss of appetite, and nausea due to liver damage after self-medicating with over-the-counter drugs and supplements online.
Taking advantage of the guise of free health checkups, Hien and her accomplices impersonated doctors, "diagnosing illnesses" and then selling overpriced dietary supplements to poor people in mountainous areas.
Ho Chi Minh City police have just initiated a criminal case and temporarily detained Vo Thi Ngoc Ngan (Ngan 98) for investigation into the production and sale of counterfeit food products.
According to the lawyer, Hoang Huong and her accomplices will face severe sentences for the crime of violating accounting regulations resulting in serious consequences.
Before being prosecuted, the Hoang Huong brand dominated social media with its extensive advertising clips; however, behind this were numerous violations in product promotion.
Businesswoman Hoang Huong is a notorious figure on social media known for her shocking and offensive statements and exaggerated claims about the effectiveness of her product line.
After receiving complaints, Hanoi authorities arrived at the scene to investigate and handle the situation, but almost all of the cosmetics had been "stolen" by local residents overnight.
Many Vietnamese businesses have traveled to Thailand to seek opportunities for cooperation and business in the dietary supplement and functional nutrition industry.
The Quang Ninh Provincial Police have just dismantled a large-scale ring producing and selling counterfeit dietary supplements in the area.
The Food Safety Administration has ordered a temporary halt to the distribution of a batch of Apiroca-B effervescent tablets due to substandard quality and a vitamin B2 content lower than the declared standard.
Former Director of the Food Safety Department, Nguyen Thanh Phong, is accused of receiving bribes totaling over 60 billion VND to "legalize" approximately 10.000 functional food products.
The Ministry of Health believes that dietary supplements should be subject to mandatory product declaration registration, instead of being subject to self-declaration as is currently the case.
A 32-year-old male office worker in Hanoi was hospitalized with kidney failure after exercising at the gym and using unverified dietary supplements to build muscle.
From the beginning of 2023 until now, the gang led by Tran Quang Dao has embezzled hundreds of billions of VND from hundreds of thousands of people, mainly the elderly and those with low incomes.
The Food Safety Department has requested the Departments of Health and Food Safety Sub-departments nationwide to urgently recall all "Hai Be Appetite-Enhancing Syrup" products as they have been found to be counterfeit.
A mother asked this indignant question after learning that Hai Sen's "appetite-stimulating syrup" was fake; she bought it because of the empathy she felt from other parents after seeing Hai's daughter livestreaming with her father.
Thousands of expired boxes of dietary supplements were dumped at a landfill in a residential area of Ha Long City, Quang Ninh province.
The Food Safety Administration warns people not to believe advertisements for Cao Viet Hoang dietary supplements as if they were medicines on some websites that violate regulations.
Counterfeit products are becoming increasingly sophisticated in order to evade detection by authorities, posing a potential risk of causing cancer.
Authorities are investigating a group of doctors from Hanoi who provided free medical examinations in mountainous communes of Nghe An province, but then sold dietary supplements at exorbitant prices.
The mastermind behind the illegal dumping of counterfeit health supplements in Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, confessed that he had one more warehouse of fake goods that he hadn't had time to dispose of yet, and he has now handed it over to the police.
Upon discovering that the batch of dietary supplements his company was distributing was counterfeit, S. recalled the products and hired someone to dispose of them to avoid detection by authorities.
The increasing number of fake rice products discovered on the market is causing confusion and anxiety among consumers.
The owner of the batch of medicines and dietary supplements that spilled on the roadside in Ho Chi Minh City is the director of a retail business selling pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.
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