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- 2020.05.12
Import of poultry meat and products from areas of Vietnam suspended
Reposted from Food and Environmental Hygiene Department webpage:The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (May 12) that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health...
- 2020.05.12
Prepackaged fruit juice sample in breach of food labelling regulation
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (May 12) that a sample of prepackaged fruit juice was found to contain sulphur dioxide, a preservative which is allowed to be used in fruit juice, but...
- 2020.05.07
Coliform bacteria exceeds legal limit in Frozen Confections sample
Product name: Creamy Milk Choco Cookies Sundae Place of origin: Hong Kong Non-compliant test parameters: Contains more than 100 coliform bacteria per gram Detected content: Contains 630 coliform bacteria per gram Sampling location: A restaurant in...
- 2020.05.06
CFS finds traces of malachite green in grass carp sample
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 6) announced that a trace amount of malachite green was found in a grass carp sample. Follow-up is in progress. A CFS spokesman said, "The CFS collected the...
- 2020.05.04
Import of poultry meat and products from Békés County in Hungary suspended
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (May 4) that in view of a notification from the Ministry of Agriculture of Hungary about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza in...
- 2020.05.04
Recall of Thioridazine HCl Tablets 25mg (Neuraxpharm)
The Department of Health (DH) today (4 May) endorsed two licensed drug wholesalers, namely Trackcircle.com Limited (Trackcircle) and Link Healthcare Hong Kong Limited (Link) to recall Thioridazine HCl Tablets 25mg (Neuraxpharm), from the market due...
- 2020.04.29
CFS announces food safety report for March
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (April 29) released the findings of its food safety report for last month. The results of about 13,100 food samples tested were satisfactory except for five...
- 2020.04.24
Turnip pudding sample found to contain excessive Bacillus cereus
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (April 24) announced that a turnip pudding sample was detected to contain an excessive amount of Bacillus cereus, a pathogen. The CFS is following up on the case....