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- 2020.06.05
Hong Kong Customs arrests pharmacy director and salespersons suspected of supplying surgical masks with false trade description (with photos)
Hong Kong Customs today (June 5) searched four pharmacies in Mong Kok and Tsuen Wan and seized 464 boxes containing a total of 23 200 surgical masks with a suspected false description of the distributor's address. A director and three...
- 2020.06.04
Import of poultry meat and products from areas of India suspended
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (June 4) that in view of notifications from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in...
- 2020.06.03
Hong Kong Customs reminds public to avoid using loose-packed surgical masks (with photo)
Hong Kong Customs today (June 3) said the latest test results of surgical masks revealed that the bacterial counts of one type of loose-packed surgical mask exceeded the maximum permitted limit, in contravention of the Consumer Goods Safety Ordinance...
- 2020.06.02
CFS urges public not to consume a kind of bottled fruit juice drink contaminated with patulin
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (June 2) announced that a sample of a bottled fruit juice drink imported from Australia was found to be contaminated with a mycotoxin, patulin, at a level...
- 2020.05.29
CFS announces food safety report for April
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 29) released the findings of its food safety report for last month. The results of about 11,400 food samples tested were satisfactory except for 13 samples...
- 2020.05.29
CFS urges public not to consume a kind of bottled apple juice drink contaminated with patulin
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 29) announced that a sample of a bottled apple juice drink imported from Australia was found to be contaminated with a mycotoxin, patulin, at a level...
- 2020.05.28
CFS proactively follows up on suspected food poisoning cases involving sandwiches
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said today (May 28) that it has been proactively following up on the suspected food poisoning outbreak involving sandwiches produced in Hong Kong with the...
- 2020.05.28
Hong Kong Customs discovers more disinfectant alcohol with suspected false claims (with photo)
Reposted from HKSAR Government webpage:Hong Kong Customs yesterday (May 27) arrested a director of a pharmacy suspected of supplying disinfectant alcohol with false claims on its ethanol content and net volume. Customs appeals to traders to remove...