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Food items sold in Hong Kong’s public markets, supermarkets and even on online portals are safe 99.9 per cent of the time, according to the latest food safety report for 2025 of the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
“This indicates that food safety has been maintained at a
high standard in Hong Kong," it added.
The CFS said the findings came from tests in which only four
food samples were found unsatisfactory as against 6,600 samples (including food
items purchased online) found to be satisfactory, for an overall satisfactory
rate was 99.9 per cent.
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A CFS spokesman said about 1,500 food samples were collected
for microbiological tests, and about 5,100 samples were taken for chemical and
radiation level tests.
“The microbiological tests covered pathogens and hygiene
indicators; the chemical tests included testing for pesticides, preservatives,
metallic contaminants, coloring matters, veterinary drug residues and others;
and the radiation level tests included testing for radioactive caesium and
iodine in samples collected from imported food from different regions,” CFS
said.
The samples comprised about 2,100 samples of vegetables and
fruit and their products; about 500 samples of cereals, grains and their
products; about 700 samples of meat and poultry and their products; about 900
samples of milk, milk products and frozen confections; about 800 samples of
aquatic and related products; and about 1,600 samples of other food commodities
(including beverages, bakery products and snacks).
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The four unsatisfactory samples comprised three white radish
samples detected with pesticide residues exceeding the legal limits and a
bamboo fungi sample detected with sulphur dioxide exceeding the legal limit.
The breaches in unsatisfactory samples were not serious and
would not pose adverse health effects to the general public, CFS said.
The CFS has informed the vendors concerned of the test
results, instructing them to stop selling the affected food items and tracing
the sources of the food items in question.
