The Food and Health Bureau and Centre for Food Safety of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region notified the World Trade Organization of the Consultation Document on Proposed Amendments to the Food Adulteration (Metallic Contamination) Regulations.
The amendments seek to better protect public health, facilitate effective regulation and promote harmonization between local and international standards. The Regulation is amended along the following directions/principles: to adopt specific maximum levels (MLs) targeting individual food/food groups and Codex MLs unless otherwise justified, to update the food descriptions and nomenclatures in the Regulations and to incorporate interpretation of MLs into the Regulations.
The deadline for comments is September 5, 2017.
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