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- 2019.03.21
Public urged not to buy or consume health product with doubtful composition (with photo)
The Department of Health (DH) today (March 21) urged the public not to buy or consume a health product named BIONERGY as it was found to contain an undeclared controlled substance. Acting upon intelligence, the DH collected samples of...
- 2019.03.14
DH investigates suspected illegal possession of unregistered proprietary Chinese medicine (with photo)
The Department of Health (DH) is today (March 14) investigating Wai Yuen Tong (Health Supplement) Company Limited, at Wang Lee Street, Yuen Long, for suspected illegal possession of an unregistered proprietary Chinese medicine (pCm) called Wai Yuen...
- 2019.03.11
Batch recall of four losartan-containing pharmaceutical products (with photos)
The Department of Health (DH) today (March 11) endorsed a licensed drug wholesaler, Hind Wing Co Ltd (Hind Wing), to recall four products, involving seven batches, containing losartan from the market as a precautionary measure due to the potential...
- 2019.03.06
Kind of French raw milk cheese suspected to be contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (March 6) announced that a kind of raw milk cheese imported from France might have been contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and is...
- 2019.02.28
Recall of three types of compound Chinese medicine granules (with photo)
The Department of Health (DH) today (February 28) endorsed a licensed wholesaler of proprietary Chinese medicine (pCm), Hong Kong Premier Concentrated Chinese Herbs Limited (Premier), to voluntarily recall a total of three batches of three types of...
- 2019.02.22
Bottled drinking water imported from Japan suspected to exceed WHO's guideline value
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) today (February 22) noted that since a batch of bottled drinking water imported from Japan was found with excessive bromic acid, the following products...
- 2019.02.21
CFS urges public not to consume a batch of bottled salted egg paste suspected to contain excessive Staphylococcus aureus
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (February 21) said that a notification was received from the Food Safety Centre, Macau that a batch of bottled salted egg paste imported from Hong Kong was found...
- 2019.02.19
CFS follows up on incident of imported prepackaged cereal products which may contain allergens (gluten and wheat)
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (February 19) said that following further investigation on the incident of American prepackaged cereal products containing allergens, gluten and wheat,...