Hong Kong CFS releases food safety report for July
07 September 2009
The Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety (CFS) has released its Food Safety Report for July covering food surveillance results for the month.
Around 4,400 food samples including milk, milk products and frozen confections, vegetables, fruit and their products, meat, poultry and their products, aquatic products, and cereals, grains and their products, were tested in July.
Of these, about 2,900 were taken for chemical tests and about 1,300 for microbiological and other tests.
According to the report the overall satisfactory rate was 99.4 percent, with 28 samples being found unsatisfactory.??
The breaches included excessive or illegal use of food preservatives, veterinary drug residues, metallic contamination or colouring matters.
A CFS spokesman urged the food trade to use only permitted food additives, follow good manufacturing practices and comply with legal requirements.??
"The food trade should procure from reliable suppliers and keep a good record to facilitate source-tracing when necessary," the spokesman said
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