Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
To safeguard food safety, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) and Hong Kong Customs conducted joint blitz operations in late November to inspect selling points of hairy crabs across various districts, following a similar joint operation in October. The inspections aimed to ensure that hairy crabs on sale in the market comply with relevant requirements under the laws. The FEHD and Customs also stepped up joint enforcement actions at boundary control points against suspected parallel traders bringing hairy crabs into Hong Kong for selling purpose.
A spokesman for the FEHD said today (December 2), “During the joint blitz inspections of selling points of hairy crabs, officers from the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) and the Environmental Hygiene Branch of the FEHD and Customs officers have inspected 50 premises selling hairy crabs. The source documents and health certificates of the hairy crabs were checked to ensure that the hairy crabs sold at the premises are in compliance with the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) as well as the Trade Descriptions Ordinance (TDO) (Cap. 362) and are fit for human consumption. The FEHD and Customs officers also distributed promotional leaflets to the operators of the premises, reminding them to pay attention to food safety and comply with relevant requirements under the laws. During the operations, no contravention was found.”