Food and health bureau chief of the HKSAR government - put forth effort to reduce the food security risk

Food and health bureau chief of the HKSAR government - put forth effort to reduce the food security risk
Food and health bureau chief of the HKSAR government - put forth effort to reduce the food security risk
Www.xinhuanet.com Hong Kong 6 The intersection of moon and 4 cable (the intersection of reporter and pieces of refined the intersection of poem and favor Liu guide) Taiwan some food is test, appear, mould, take pharmaceutical content exceed standard and Europe break out enterorrhagia nature Escherichia coli epidemic situation recently, in the face of bunches of food hygiene questions, Hong Kong has already taken the corresponding measure rapidly, reduce citizen's healthy and influenced chance. "Reduce the risk with some methods, this is our main challenge. " Wife's parents say while accepting Xinhua News Agency's special visit a few days ago on Monday for food and health bureau chief of special zone government. "We pay attention to the food security very much, especially the food of Hong Kong 95 is an alien. " Think on Monday, follow up and know the situation about food security in all parts of the world constantly in the high mountain, and release relevant information to the public in time, it is to make citizens healthy a precise a great key that ensures. And as each discovery has the new chemical, additive off specificationses, recently when Taiwan has moulded and melted pharmaceutical incident, the special zone government spends a lot of time studying relevant risks, this the intersection of Hong Kong and Ministry of Health in loud challenge most one of at food security control. After Taiwan produces the food and is moulded pharmaceutical and melts and pollutes the question, the panel of expert of security centre of Hong Kong food determined to melt moulding pharmaceutical a few days ago " Neighbor benzene two first sour 2 ' Own ester of 2 - second base) " List in constant testing range, and include 1 by per kilogram of food. 5 milligrams are action level, any food exceeds this level and is forbidden to sell in the business. New Escherichia coli wreaking havoc in Europe, because news claims the source comes from the vegetables and fruits made in locality, Hong Kong National Health Administration establish close connection with World Health Organization, relevant Ministry of Health and the intersection of Hong Kong and importer,etc. already, in order to know the latest situation. The food safety management of Hong Kong is mainly responsible for by food and food security centre and Food and Environmental Department which the health bureau has under its command. Among them the key work of the food security centre includes from importing, authorizing for dispatch and retails 3 aspects and collect the food sample to test in order to assess the risk of the food, and announce the result regularly, in order to improve citizen's understanding of different food risks. The high mountain shows, they will decide what respect needs are strengthened and inspected by random samples on the basis of analysis of the food risk on Monday, and measure the special food and for example examine different types of Zongzi on the market to the Dragon Boat Festival, results are all qualified. Hong Kong inspects about 7 ten thousand food samples by random samples every year, quantity is one of the best in the world, and the whole detection qualification rate in recent years exceeds 99. Because the Hong Kong food mainly depends on inputting outside the border, once the food incident happens, whether could be traced back to the food source and become the important element which handles the incident rapidly. According to the introduction of wife's parents on Monday, special zone Legislative Council passed " regulations of food security " in March of this year. According to the regulations, all food importers and retail traders need to register to Food and Environmental Department, and keep the trade record; The retailer must keep and buy the goods record. The living aquatic products are and the food under 3 months in quality guarantee period, the trade record must be kept for 3 months; Food such as tin for over 3 months of quality guarantee period,etc., have something to do with and must keep to record for two years. The implementation of this regulations helps the relevant department to grasp the whole food production and selling procedure, thus is traced back to the source. Wife's parents served as the hygiene department head of special zone government since 2004 on Monday, have dealt with different kinds of food incidents for many years. He says, though it is unavoidable to meet the pressure during the course, the most important thing is that can try one's bit to ensure the citizens masses to be healthy, let them afford to wipe out, this job means great to him. The high mountain thinks, system and technology of supervising the food security should be all reformed constantly on Monday, especially throw in the development in technology of the laboratory of more resources, enough to meet the challenge of the new one and crisis.


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