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Hong Kong,China

  • The Legislative Council is the legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and consists of 70 seats. In addition to its legislative functions, the Legislative Council is also responsible for debating public interest matters, reviewing and passing budgets, hearing and debating the Chief Executive’s policy address, and agreeing to the appointment and removal of judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the Chief Justice of the High Court.

  • The Food and Health Bureau is the policy decision-making body in the field of food safety, and maintains close cooperation with various food providers, formulate relevant policies to provide Hong Kong citizens with high-quality hygiene, food and environmental hygiene services. The Food and Health Bureau is also responsible for the affairs of the Legislative Council and answers questions from the Legislative Council.

  • The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department is the main enforcement agency responsible for food safety supervision in Hong Kong. It is responsible for the implementation of food safety supervision in all aspects of food import and export, production, sales, catering, import supervision of fresh food animals, and handling food poisoning accidents. It consists of the Center for Food Safety, the Ministry of Environmental Hygiene and the Ministry of Administrative Development.

  • The Center for Food Safety consists of the Food Inspection and Control Division, the Risk Assessment and Communication Division and the Administration Division of the Center for Food Safety. Among them, the Food Inspection and Control Division is responsible for supervising the food inspection plan; supervising the handling of all food safety incidents, including food-borne disease incidents in restaurants; coordinating food safety work; supervising food import control and export certification; responsible for the inspection of food imported from the Mainland to Hong Kong, and supervising the chemical testing of food imported from the Mainland at the Man Kam To Food Control Office. The Risk Assessment and Communication Division is responsible for conducting risk assessment research, supporting risk assessment management, providing opinions on food standards, conducting research on food consumption in the Hong Kong market and related food hazards and nutrition, investigating and supervising food safety risk communication, and strengthening government and enterprises Cooperate with consumers and provide support for the formulation of new food safety regulations based on the assessment work. The Risk Assessment and Communication Division is responsible for conducting risk assessment research, supporting risk assessment management, providing opinions on food standards, conducting research on food consumption in the Hong Kong market and related food hazards and nutrition, investigating and supervising food safety risk communication, and strengthening government and enterprises Cooperate with consumers and provide support for the formulation of new food safety regulations based on the assessment work.

  • The Ministry of Environmental Hygiene is responsible for planning and supervising local environmental sanitation services in Hong Kong, and responsible for the daily supervision of hawkers, the licensing qualifications of various catering establishments or food processing and manufacturing establishments; after the licensing, the Ministry of Environmental Sanitation conducts inspections on license holders and business premises Risk classification, according to the risk level, the corresponding inspection plan is formulated, and the daily inspection work is carried out by the health inspector regularly or irregularly.

  • The responsibilities of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department mainly include: 1. Provide plant and fishery supervision and technical services, including quarantine of imported animals and plants, regulation of medicines for livestock farms, and issuance of licenses for livestock farms and marine fish farms. 2. Manage fishery and agricultural matters and fresh non-staple food wholesale markets, including providing technical guidance to farmers and fishermen, conducting technical research, and managing and supervising government fresh non-staple food wholesale markets. 3. Protect nature and country parks and promote biodiversity.

  • In the field of food safety, the government laboratory provides analysis and consulting services for the public health and food safety work of the Food and Hygiene Administration, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, thereby supporting a number of laws, including the detection of additives in food , Food ingredients, genetically modified foods, pesticide residues, etc. The test result analysis report will be used as a factor for the court to judge whether the food meets the relevant legal requirements.