Policy Address

Protecting People's Interests

Food Safety

54.      To better ensure food safety, the Government has been working on a comprehensive Food Safety Bill for introduction in the current legislative session.  The recent milk product incidents have highlighted the inadequacies of existing laws and the need to speed up the legislative work.  The Government has set up an expert group to thoroughly assess the impact of the melamine incidents and to recommend follow-up measures to the Chief Secretary for Administration on the healthcare and food safety fronts.

55.      The Government will give priority to drafting the relevant part of the Food Safety Bill so that the authorities can promptly ban the import and sale, and order the recall of, problem food when necessary.  We will soon introduce the Bill into the Legislative Council.

 

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