“That information is false,” a Vietnamese embassy official said, “and might have been intentionally forged for bad purposes.”

The FDA issues a monthly list of overseas shipments which were rejected by the US in the preceding month.

According to Vietnam’s Trade Representative Office in the US, the FDA listed 38 and 47 unqualified shipments in December 2008 and January 2009 respectively from

Vietnam accounting for a tiny percentage of Vietnam’s food exports to the US when compared to other countries.

Under FDA’s regulations, if a manufacturer has five or more different shipments of the same item found not meeting food safety standards when imported to the US in one month, all of its shipments would be tested.

No Vietnamese manufacturer has so far been listed under these regulations.

Source: VNA