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GACC | Announcement No. 49 of 2021 on Adjusting the Format of Certificate of Origin under the China-Switzerland Free Trade Agreement

According to the relevant provisions of the Free Trade Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Swiss Confederation and the joint committee resolution, the maximum number of items in the certificate of origin of imported and exported

Jul 02, 2021

Hong Kong | CFS announces food safety report for May

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department on June 30 released the findings of its food safety report for last month. The results of about 6,000 food samples tested were satisfactory except for five samples that were

Jul 01, 2021

Hong Kong | Import of poultry meat and products from District of Osnabrück in State of Niedersachsen in Germany suspended

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on June 30 that in view of a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) about an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza in the Di

Jul 01, 2021

GACC | Emergency Preventive Measures against 8 Indian Companies

On June 30, 2021, the General Administration of Customs took emergency preventive measures against 8 Indian companies, due to the positive nucleic acid test of SARS-Cov-2 in 7 samples of a batch of frozen Thamnaconus septentrionalis, 2 samples of 2 batche

Jun 30, 2021

GACC | Emergency Preventive Measures against 3 Ecuadorian companies

On June 30, 2021, the General Administration of Customs took emergency preventive measures against 3 Ecuadorian companies, due to the positive nucleic acid test of SARS-Cov-2 in 2 samples of 2 batches of frozen Penaeus vannamei and 2 samples of one batch

Jun 30, 2021

GACC | Emergency Preventive Measures against A Pakistani Company

On June 30, 2021, the General Administration of Customs took emergency preventive measures against a Pakistani company, due to the positive nucleic acid test of SARS-Cov-2 in a sample of a batch of frozen Silver croaker from Pakistan. The national customs

Jun 30, 2021

Review summarizes microplastic exposures to humans

In a review published on June 19, 2021, in the Journal of Food Science, Mengke Jin and co-authors from Dalian University of Technology, China, summarize human exposure concentrations to microplastics via food and beverage consumption.The authors reviewed

Jun 29, 2021

Hong Kong | Prepackaged dried mushroom and date samples in breach of food labelling regulation

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on June 28 that a prepackaged dried mushroom sample and a prepackaged date sample were found to contain sulphur dioxide, a preservative which is allowed to be used

Jun 29, 2021

Weekly Review of Food Standards & Regulations (Jun. 21-Jun. 27, 2021)

Weekly Review of Food Standards & Regulations (Jun. 21-Jun. 27, 2021)

Jun 28, 2021

GACC | Emergency Preventive Measures against A Russian Processing Vessel

On June 26, 2021, the General Administration of Customs took emergency preventive measures against a Russian processing vessel, due to the positive nucleic acid test of SARS-Cov-2 in a sample of a batch of frozen Alaska pollock from Russia. The national c

Jun 28, 2021