Speaking with Tuoi Tre Online on April 14, Ms. Le Thi Hai, former director of the Nutrition Center, National Institute of Nutrition, admitted that she had cooperated and consulted to introduce a number of milk brands.

However, she confirmed that she had never worked directly with the milk company and did not introduce the types of milk, but only provided the nutritional composition of the milk and analyzed the advantages and disadvantages for consumers to choose.

"I often receive responses and cooperate with newspapers and television stations to analyze the nutritional components of milk.

When receiving product sharing, I suggest providing full documents proving the origin, license from the management agency, the Food Safety Department and advertising license. Based on the product's license, I advise consumers on the ingredients in the product.

"For products that do not have sufficient documents and licenses, I will not introduce them," said Ms. Hai.

According to Ms. Hai, doctors are professionals and can only rely on published nutritional ingredients to give appropriate advice.

These ingredients are good, what does this ingredient add... but the product cannot be tested to determine - this is the job of the authorities. The confidence of doctors to introduce the product is because these products have all been licensed.

"However, after this incident, I myself have learned a lesson in sharing nutritional products. The products must be truly good for consumers, bring benefits and be recognized by domestic and foreign authorities.

Besides, I also recommend that the authorities need to properly manage the products before putting them on the market to ensure consumer rights," said Ms. Hai.

Regarding Dr. Dinh Ngoc Hoa, who was introduced by the "fake milk ecosystem" to work at Xanh Pon General Hospital in milk commercials, the hospital's leadership confirmed that currently in the hospital's personnel list, Ms. Dinh Ngoc Hoa's name is not included.

In addition to the two people introduced as doctors above, the fake milk production companies also invited a number of celebrities and TV MCs to advertise these types of milk.