Long An Portal | WHO alerts Vietnam media to false toxic fruit reports

WHO alerts Vietnam media to false toxic fruit reports

31/12/2008 11:06

The World Heath Organization (WHO) has requested that media stop using the information stating “WHO … has warned 24.5 percent of the imported fruit in Vietnam's markets have toxic preservative chemicals” in an alert.

Recent media reports stating the information is incorrect, the alert said.

“This information cannot be substantiated and there is no evidence to show the report exists,” the alert said.

The circulation of this misleading information started on November 11 in Dat Viet newspaper. Since then it has been re-broadcast and published by other news outlets, the alert said.

The inaccurate information was also used to question Health Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu in the National Assembly about Vietnam’s food and safety laws, the media alert said.

At no time has any reporter contacted WHO to request information or confirm the report’s existence.

Source: Thanh Nien

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