United States and Viet Nam Sign Agreement on the Safety of Food, Medical Products | June 24, 2008 – HHS Deputy Secretary Tevi Troy and Vietnamese Vice Minister of Health Cao Minh Quang, M.D., sign the Memorandum of Understanding on the safety of food, animal feed, and medical products. |  | June 24, 2008 – Tevi D. Troy, Ph.D., the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and Cao Minh Quang, Ph.D., the Vice-Minister of Health of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam signed a Memorandum of Understanding pledging to work together to enhance the safety of food, feed, drugs and medical devices traded between the two nations. |
June 24, 2008 – The Honorable Tevi D. Troy, Ph.D., Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Honorable Cao Minh Quang, Ph.D., Vice Minister of Health of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance the safety of food, feed, drugs, and medical devices traded between the two nations. The agreement is the product of discussions in Hanoi between U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Mike Leavitt and senior Vietnamese officials in April of 2008, and it exemplifies the new import-safety strategy adopted by the U.S. Government in November 2007. The MOU calls for better information-sharing and collaboration on training to ensure the quality and safety of a range of products exchanges between the two countries. “Trade between our two nations has grown exponentially in recent years and our societies are better off as a result, and our cooperation in health is stronger than ever” said HHS Deputy Secretary Tevi D. Troy, Ph.D., in signing the MOU. “With this agreement, we’re increasing our joint efforts to ensure the safety of goods our citizens consume on a daily basis. This is an important step forward for the health of the American and Vietnamese people.” For more information:
Last revised: June 26, 2008 | 
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