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- 2011.07.12
Recall of five proprietary Chinese medicines due to quality issue
The Department of Health (DH) today (July 12) instructed a local manufacturer of proprietary Chinese medicine, Chaisentomg Pharmaceutical Factory Limited, to recall from consumers five powdered medicines as they were found to have exceeded the stated...
- 2011.07.05
Recall of proprietary Chinese medicine found to contain excessivelead
The Department of Health (DH) today (July 5) orders the manufacturer of a proprietary Chinese medicine, Chaisentomg Pharmaceutical Factory Limited, to recall from consumer a product [Chaisentomg] Chaisentomg Baby's Kam Chik San Powder (Registration...
- 2011.07.04
Call to stop sale and consumption of a kind of pineapple pieimported from Taiwan
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department noted from the Macao authority recently that "EDO Pack Pineapple Pie", produced in Taiwan, was detected with a plasticiser di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). As the...
- 2011.06.30
Herbal aconitum alkaloid poisoning alert
The Department of Health (DH) today (June 30) announced that a case of herbal aconitum alkaloid poisoning is at least being traced to a licensed Chinese herbal medicines retailer, Fu Hong Medicine Co, at Fu Tung Shopping Centre in Tung Chung on...
- 2011.06.28
Recall of four Welfore sennosides drugs
The Department of Health (DH) today (June 28) instructed a licensed drug wholesaler, Welfore Co Ltd, to recall four of its sennosides drugs from shelves as market surveillance conducted by DH pharmaceutical inspectors found that a sample failed the...
- 2011.06.27
Call to stop sale and consumption of a plasticiser-tainted instantnoodle imported from Japan
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (June 27) called on the public to stop consuming the following instant noodles, which were imported from Japan and sold at a supermarket within a local department...
- 2011.06.24
Recall of arsenic-tainted proprietary Chinese medicine
The Department of Health (DH) today (June 24) ordered a proprietary Chinese medicine wholesaler, Wah Shun Medicine Limited, to recall from consumers a batch (batch no: 801128A1) of [W.S] Gan Mao Ling (registration no: HKP-00916) as it was found to...
- 2011.06.23
Alert on performance of two automated external defibrillators
The Department of Health (DH) has drawn public attention to performance defects in two brands of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), MEDUCORE Easy and LIFEPAK 500, made respectively by two medical device manufacturers, Weinmann and Medtronic,...