Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) today (June 12) announced that dogs will be allowed to enter permitted food premises starting from July 9. The FEHD conducted an open balloting today and allocated 1 000 quotas for allowing dogs to enter food premises according to the ballot result.
The FEHD invited the Chairman of the Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene of the Legislative Council, Ms Chan Hoi-yan, to officiate the open ballot this morning. During the process, five different sequences were randomly generated by computer using the licence numbers of all applying food premises, after which Ms Chan manually drew one of the sequences for the allocation of quotas. The first 1 000 applications in the sequence drawn were considered successful, while the remaining ones will be placed on a waiting list. The ballot results have been uploaded to the FEHD’s dedicated webpage (www.fehd.gov.hk/english/licensing/dog_restaurants/index.html