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     The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) announced today (February 27) that open auctions for a total of 91 stalls in 20 public markets will be held in March.

     The retail commodities allowed for sale in these stalls cover chilled meat/frozen meat, fresh meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, cooked food, ready-to-eat food, siu mei and/or lo mei, food-related dry goods and wet goods, non-food related dry goods and wet goods, service trades (including manicures, beauty and Chinese medicine practitioners), etc. The tenancy agreement is a three-year fixed term from April 1, with no right of renewal upon expiry of the tenancy agreement. The upset prices of the monthly rent of the stalls vary depending on the sizes and locations of the individual stalls. Relevant information is available on the FEHD website.

     A spokesman for the FEHD said, “Bidders for the market stalls must be at least 18 years old and ordinarily reside in Hong Kong. To allow more people to bid for the stalls and increase customer choices by enhancing the diversity in terms of the variety of stalls, there will be a restriction on the number of stalls to be rented in the same market by a single tenant. Any person who is currently a stall tenant is not allowed to bid in the first round of auction for any stall in the same market, and will only be allowed to bid for one stall in the second round of auction, while no existing tenant under the new three-year fixed term tenancy scheme (i.e. those persons who became the stall tenant through the market open auctions after August 2022) shall be allowed to bid for a stall in the same market in any event. Any person who is currently a stall tenant of the Aberdeen Market is allowed to bid on a stall in the Aberdeen Market in the auction, but shall deliver vacant possession of the current stall to the FEHD before the effective date of commencement of the tenancy agreement. The terms and conditions of the auctions have been uploaded to the FEHD website, with details of qualifications of the bidders listed.”

     The date and venue of the auctions and the number of stalls are as follows:

Aberdeen Market
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Auction date: March 5 (Tuesday) (am)
Auction venue: Room 410, 4/F, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Nam Cheong Offices and Vehicle Depot, 87 Yen Chow Street West, Kowloon
Number of stalls: nine

Hong Kong Island (except Aberdeen Market)
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Auction date: March 5 (Tuesday) (pm)
Auction venue: Room 410, 4/F, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Nam Cheong Offices and Vehicle Depot, 87 Yen Chow Street West, Kowloon
Number of stalls: 27

Kowloon
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Auction date: March 6 (Wednesday)
Auction venue: Room 410, 4/F, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department Nam Cheong Offices and Vehicle Depot, 87 Yen Chow Street West, Kowloon
Number of stalls: 20

New Territories
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Auction date: March 8 (Friday)
Auction venue: Shek Wai Kok Community Hall, Shek Wai Kok Estate, Tsuen Wan
Number of stalls: 35

     Limited seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The admission tickets will be issued 30 minutes prior to the commencement of each auction. Persons who want to attend the auctions must wait at the waiting area of the auction venue and produce their Hong Kong identity card or passport for registration. The registered person will then be provided with an admission ticket for the auctions. In addition, eligible bidders after verification will be issued with a bidding paddle for the auction. The FEHD has also invited representatives of the Police, the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Competition Commission to monitor the auctions at the auction venue in order to ensure that the open auctions are conducted in an orderly and fair manner.

     Details of the open auctions as well as of the public market stalls concerned have been uploaded to the FEHD website (www.fehd.gov.hk/english/pleasant_environment/tidy_market/open_auction_coming.html). Bidders interested in the auctions may visit the department’s website or contact the respective District Environmental Hygiene Office. read more

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     This year’s Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park for 10 days from March 15 to 24, running from 9am to 9pm daily, featuring the colourful angelonia as the theme flower and “Floral Joy Around Town” as the main theme. Angelonia, also known as “angel flower”, has a small and unique shape with a refreshing fragrance. Heavily covered with little flower buds, its stem produces lush and bushy flowers when in full bloom. Angelonia, literally “fragrant colourful bird” in Chinese, looks like little birds jumping about when swaying in the breeze, adding to the beauty of springtime.
 
     Angelonia, a herbaceous plant of the plantain family (Plantaginaceae) native to the tropical Americas, boasts vibrant colours and flourishes the most in spring, summer, and autumn. Its petite and richly fragrant flowers blossom from bottom up along the stem. With a long flowering period, angelonia thrives in hot and humid conditions and is suitable for growing in Hong Kong.
 
     There are many species of angelonia, with heights ranging from 30 to 100 centimetres, offering a profusion of flowers with unique spotted patterns inside the corolla. Angelonia has great ornamental value and a wide range of hues. Common colours include pure white, pinkish red, light purple, purple and two-tone stripes.
 
     Growing angelonia is simple and easy. It can either be grown in pots and placed in gardens, parterres, flower pathways and balconies, or be planted directly in the ground. Some varieties are frequently used as cut flowers for making flower baskets and bouquets. Deeply adored by flower enthusiasts, angelonia is a popular exhibit in flower shows.
 
     In addition to this year’s theme flower and other flowering plants, the event will showcase a large collection of exquisite potted plants, beautiful floral arrangements and well-crafted landscape displays by local, Mainland and overseas organisations. There will also be commercial stalls selling flowers and horticultural products. A wide variety of educational and recreational fringe activities will also be provided for the enjoyment of visitors of all ages.
 
     For more details of the flower show and its admission fee arrangements, please visit the flower show webpage at www.hkflowershow.hk/en/hkfs/2024/index.html or call 2601 8260 for enquiries.
 
     The flower show is organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust is supporting the flower show for the 12th consecutive year and has been its major sponsor since 2014.

            

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     â€‹ The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (February 26) urged the public not to consume a kind of imported prepackaged pork floss product, as the product might contain sudan dyes, a colouring matter which is not permitted in food. The CFS is following up on the case.

     Product details are as follows:

Product name: SPICY PORK SHREDDED
Brand: (Not available in English)
Place of origin: Taiwan
Net weight: 150 grams
Best-before date: August 9, 2024 – February 5, 2025
Importer and Agent: SANWORLD (H.K.) DEVELOPMENT LIMITED

     A spokesman for the CFS said, “The CFS, through its Food Incident Surveillance System, noted a notification from the Taiwan authority that the above-mentioned product might have used an ingredient which contained sudan dyes. Upon learning of the incident, the CFS immediately contacted the retailer for follow-up. A preliminary investigation found that the above-mentioned vendor had sold the affected batch of the product concerned.

     For the sake of prudence, the above-mentioned vendor has stopped sales and removed from shelves the affected product, and has initiated a recall according to the CFS’s instructions. Members of the public may call its hotline at 2323 3028 during office hours for enquiries about the recall. 

     The spokesman said, “Sudan dyes are synthetic chemical dyes for industrial use. Under the Colouring Matter in Food Regulations (Cap. 132H), sudan dyes are not permitted in food. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $50,000 and six months’ imprisonment.”

     The CFS has alerted the trade and will continue to follow up on the case and take appropriate action. The CFS has also enhanced relevant surveillance and will closely monitor the latest developments in the Taiwan authority’s recalls of incriminated food.” Investigation is ongoing. read more