The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority: The spokesperson of Tseung Kwan O Hospital (TKOH) today (July 23) announced the following incident regarding a delayed follow-up on a Computerised Tomography … read more
The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority: The spokesperson of Tseung Kwan O Hospital (TKOH) today (July 23) announced the following incident regarding a delayed follow-up on a Computerised Tomography … read more
The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, will visit Beijing from July 25 to 28. The Director of the Chief Executive’s Office, Mr Chan Kwok-ki, will accompany Mrs Lam on the visit. The Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Mr Nicholas W Yang; the Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr Lau Kong-wah; and the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip, will join parts of the visit.
Mrs Lam will depart for Beijing in the evening on July 25 and will watch a performance by the Sing Fai Cantonese Opera Promotion Association from Hong Kong in the evening on July 27, which will be part of a Chinese opera show that brings together different local opera performances from across the nation. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Ministry of Culture signed the Agreement between the Mainland and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Enhancing the Arrangement for Closer Cultural Relations in November last year to provide more chances for Hong Kong arts organisations to perform in the Mainland. Arranged and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Sing Fai Cantonese Opera Promotion Association’s performance in Beijing will provide opportunities for 30 Hong Kong actors aged 6 to over 20 to promote Cantonese opera to Mainland audiences and showcase the results of the Hong Kong new generation in learning Cantonese opera.
While in Beijing, Mrs Lam will also pay visits to central ministries and other organisations and meet young participants from Hong Kong who have joined internship programmes in the Mainland.
Mrs Lam will return to Hong Kong in the afternoon on July 28. During her absence, the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, will be the Acting Chief Executive. read more
Professor Peng Liyuan visited Yau Yat Chuen School when she accompanied President Xi Jinping on his visit to inspect Hong Kong last year. The students wrote a letter to Professor Peng earlier this year, attaching a picture drawn by them, and Professor Peng wrote them a personal reply.
The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, today (July 23) specially hosted the three students who had written to Professor Peng at Government House to present them personally Professor Peng’s letter.
During the gathering, Mrs Lam read out the letter and conveyed Professor Peng’s warm regards to the teachers and children of the school. “President Xi Jinping and Professor Peng Liyuan celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Return of Hong Kong to the Motherland with us last year, showing their care for Hong Kong. During her trip to Hong Kong, Professor Peng visited the kindergarten as part of her busy schedule. While at the kindergarten, she watched a performance by the students, played games with them and presented gifts to them. Now she has written them a personal reply, fully showing her care for Hong Kong students. I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Peng on behalf of the people of Hong Kong,” Mrs Lam said.
Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Ms Qiu Hong, entrusted by the Director of the Liaison Office, Mr Wang Zhimin, attended the gathering. The Chairman of the School Management Committee of Yau Yat Chuen School, Mr Yu Kwok-chun; the school’s Supervisor, Mr Kenneth Fang; the school’s Principal, Ms Lee Ming-chu; parents of the students; and some teaching staff of the school also attended the gathering. The school, with some 1 100 students, is a non-profit-making kindergarten that joined the Free Quality Kindergarten Education Scheme.
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (July 23) announced that a sample of ham and egg bun was found to contain an excessive amount of Bacillus cereus, a pathogen. The CFS is following up on the case.
“Subsequent to announcing that a sample of ham and egg bun taken from a convenience store in Sheung Wan was found to contain excessive Bacillus cereus, the CFS detected a similar irregularity in another ham and egg bun sample of the same kind but with a different production date taken from the same convenience store for testing during follow-up investigation. The test result showed that the sample contained Bacillus cereus at a level of 1.1 million per gram. Under the Microbiological Guidelines for Food, if ready-to-eat food contains Bacillus cereus at a level of more than 100 000 per gram, it is considered unsatisfactory,” a CFS spokesman said.
“The CFS has informed the vendor concerned of the irregularity. The vendor has already, according to the CFS’ instructions, stopped selling the affected kind of food at all branch stores and the food factory concerned has also stopped production of the affected product. The above-mentioned unsatisfactory sample was taken before the sale of the affected product was stopped. The CFS has also inspected the food factory and its hygiene conditions are satisfactory. Health education on food safety and hygiene has been provided for the staff of the vendor and the food factory. Should there be sufficient evidence, prosecution will be instituted,” the spokesman said.
According to Section 54 of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap 132), all food available for sale in Hong Kong, locally produced or imported, should be fit for human consumption. An offender is subject to a maximum fine of $50,000 and imprisonment for six months upon conviction.
Bacillus cereus is commonly found in the environment. Unhygienic conditions in food processing and storage may give rise to its growth. Consuming food contaminated with excessive Bacillus cereus may cause gastrointestinal upset such as vomiting and diarrhoea.
The CFS will continue to follow up on the incident, and take appropriate action to safeguard food safety and public health. read more