Vietnam’s Food Safety Department ordered Shopee to stop selling Sausando Slimming capsules and remove the product information after a post-market check found that the certificate number advertised with the product did not match the department’s issuance records. Officials also requested further checks on the product’s production, trading and advertising. The reports describe a certificate problem—not a laboratory finding that the capsules were harmful.
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What the certificate check found
The product was listed on Shopee with product-declaration registration certificate No. 5218/2023/ĐKSP, dated June 16, 2023. The Food Safety Department said its records showed it had not issued that certificate for Sausando Slimming capsules. The department also said the product was being advertised and sold without the required registration acknowledgment.
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That distinction matters: the finding reported was that the certificate was not issued for this product. The available reports do not establish the capsules’ ingredients or provide test results showing whether they are safe or unsafe.
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What officials asked Shopee and local authorities to do
In its October 16 action, the Food Safety Department instructed Shopee to stop selling Sausando Slimming capsules and remove the product information from the platform.
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In a follow-up, the department asked Ho Chi Minh City’s Food Safety Department to inspect and verify the product’s production, trading and advertising activities and collect samples for testing. The product was associated with Junda Trading Co., Ltd.
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The department later flagged Sausando advertising and sales on TikTok as well. The reports supplied here establish that TikTok promotion was identified, but do not provide enough detail to verify every agency instruction or a single written-report deadline covering all the follow-up actions.
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What this case does—and does not—show about registration
The case reports identify a product-declaration registration acknowledgment, Giấy tiếp nhận đăng ký bản công bố sản phẩm, as a requirement at issue for Sausando. They also report that Slimaura Care x3 was targeted for lacking the same type of acknowledgment.
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For a buyer or marketplace checking a listing, the central lesson from this case is narrow but practical: a displayed certificate number should be checked against the issuing authority’s records. Here, the Food Safety Department said the number and date shown in Sausando’s listing had not been issued for that product.
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The available sources do not set out the complete current registration rules for every category of functional food or health supplement. They also do not establish a separate national food-safety-database listing requirement, so neither should be inferred from this case alone.
How the Sausando case fits wider enforcement
Sausando was not the only weight-loss product facing platform action in 2026. In the Slimaura Care x3 case, the Food Safety Department issued instructions to Shopee and Lazada on August 4; reports published August 5 said the product lacked a product-declaration registration acknowledgment and that the platforms were asked to stop sales and remove listings.
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Separately, an October 19 report attributed figures to a deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s e-commerce agency: since early 2026, the agency had coordinated the removal of 116,000 products and taken action against more than 51,000 infringing online stores.
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The Sausando case’s documented sequence is more specific: officials checked the advertised certificate against issuance records, ordered Shopee to remove the listing, and sought further inspection and product sampling. The supplied reports do not confirm claims about sellers evading checks by changing accounts or addresses, or a new electronic identity-check rule taking effect in 2027.