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- 2015.12.17
Hong Kong bans import of poultry meat and products from Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, Vietnam
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (December 17) that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian...
- 2015.12.16
HK bans import of poultry meat and products from Pyrénées-Atlantiques Department, France
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (December 16) that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N9 avian...
- 2015.12.11
Import ban on a kind of ice-cream from New Zealand lifted
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (December 11) announced that the import ban imposed on New Zealand Natural brand's Chocolate Ecstasy Ice Cream manufactured in New Zealand has been lifted with...
- 2015.12.11
Two prepackaged food samples not in compliance with nutrition label rules
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (December 11) announced that the nutrient contents of two prepackaged food samples, namely a soft brown sugar sample and a grapeseed oil sample, were found to be...
- 2015.12.10
HK bans import of poultry meat and products from Landes Department and Haute-Vienne Department, France
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (December 10) that in view of notifications from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N9 avian...
- 2015.12.09
DH raids shop for suspected illegal sale of slimming product with undeclared banned drug ingredient (with photo)
A retail shop in Sham Shui Po was raided today (December 9) in a joint operation by the Department of Health (DH) and the Police for suspected illegal sale of a slimming product called 4C Cosmoslim, which is suspected to contain an undeclared banned...
- 2015.12.09
HK bans import of poultry meat and products from District of Cham, State of Bavaria, Germany
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (December 9) that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza...
- 2015.12.09
No more chloramphenicol found in local live pigs
Following up on a case early last month in which urine samples from pigs supplied from a farm in San Tin, Yuen Long, tested positive for the prohibited veterinary drug chloramphenicol, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) has...