Maintaining food safety techniques in the supply chain management require special food safety labelling techniques during distribution in the retail food industry. The food products have to be of good quality and labelling inbound, manufacturing, and outbound in the supply chain contributes to this aim. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how food safety labelling is managed in Vietnam’s retail food industry with a special focus on food in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photography was used in an observational study conducted among five separate retail market chains all located in this city. In which ways are the applications of the developed food safety labelling techniques among three separate retail food markets similar and dissimilar being accounted for? The results show that the packaging and labelling in Big C, Aeon Citimart, and Giant using the symbols of food safety build trust for their customers. The Big C indicates guidelines for VietGAP and green labelling. Aeon Citimart indicates the name of the good, expiration date and instructions for use as well as guidelines for the government factor (VietGAP) to the food safety practices in the Vietnamese food retail sector.
Research Article|
December 31 2018
Food Safety Labelling Management in the Green Supply Chain Management: A Direct Observational Study in the Vietnamese Retail Food Sector
Eunsung Kim;
Eunsung Kim
*
a
School of Graduate Research, RMIT University
, Australia
*Corresponding author: School of Graduate Research, RMIT University Australia, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia; Email: casio947@gmail.com
Search for other works by this author on:
Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald
b
Department of Logistics & Supply Chain Management, School of Business & Management, RMIT University
, Vietnam
Search for other works by this author on:
*Corresponding author: School of Graduate Research, RMIT University Australia, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia; Email: casio947@gmail.com
Publisher: Emerald Publishing on behalf of Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
Received:
October 10 2018
Accepted:
December 15 2018
Online ISSN: 2508-7592
Print ISSN: 1738-2122
© 2018 Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
2018
Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Journal of International Logistics and Trade (2018) 16 (3): 95–108.
Article history
Received:
October 10 2018
Accepted:
December 15 2018
Citation
Kim E, McDonald S (2018), "Food Safety Labelling Management in the Green Supply Chain Management: A Direct Observational Study in the Vietnamese Retail Food Sector". Journal of International Logistics and Trade, Vol. 16 No. 3 pp. 95–108, doi: https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2018.16.3.95
Download citation file:
