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- 2013.01.08
Woman arrested for illegal Internet sale of unregisteredpharmaceutical product with controlled drug ingredient
A 65-year-old woman was arrested today (January 8) for the illegal sale of an unregistered pharmaceutical product called "Lidiprine Cream", which contains a Part I poison, during a joint operation by the Police and the Department of Health (DH) in...
- 2013.01.07
Man arrested for illegal sale of unregistered pharmaceuticalproduct on the Internet
A 23-year-old man was arrested today (January 7) in a joint operation by the Police and the Department of Health (DH) in Mong Kok for illegal sale of an unregistered pharmaceutical product. A complaint was received through the DH's surveillance...
- 2013.01.04
DH investigates case of aconitum alkaloid poisoning
The Department of Health (DH) today (January 4) announced for the public's information a case of aconitum alkaloid poisoning after consumption of Chinese herbs. A DH spokesman said that the department received notification of the case from the...
- 2013.01.03
Woman arrested for illegal sale of Part I poison on the Internet
A 26-year-old woman was arrested today (January 3) in a joint operation by the Police and the Department of Health (DH) in Cheung Sha Wan for illegal sale of Diane 35, a medicine containing Part I poisons. During the DH's surveillance programme, it...
- 2013.01.02
Recall of Chinese herbal medicine contaminated by solanaceousalkaloids
The Department of Health (DH) today (January 2) instructed a licensed Chinese medicines wholesaler, Hang Lung Trading Co, located at G/F, 11 Ko Shing Street, Sheung Wan, to recall from consumers its marketed Chinese herbal medicine Rhizoma et Radix...
- 2012.12.31
Alert on bottled fermented bean curd with suspected pathogencontamination
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) today (December 31) advised people not to consume a kind of bottled fermented bean curd cubes imported from China which might have been contaminated with Bacillus cereus, a pathogen. The trade should immediately stop...
- 2012.12.31
Recall of lead-tainted proprietary Chinese medicine
The Department of Health (DH) today (December 31) ordered a licensed wholesaler of proprietary Chinese medicine (pCm), Fung Wah (Hong Kong) Company (Fung Wah) (operated by Honour Essence Trading Limited), to recall from shelves a batch (batch number:...
- 2012.12.28
Japanese infant formula found to have low biotin content
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (December 28) called on parents to refrain from feeding their babies with an infant formula imported from Japan as it was found to have low biotin content and...