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Event |
| 1 July to 31 December |
A new multi-media publicity drive is launched to encourage people to maintain their efforts in keeping Hong Kong clean and to curb littering from motor vehicles. The campaign features television and radio announcements, posters, banners, advertisements and billboards.
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| 6 July |
A series of workshops and seminars on the HACCP-based Food Safety Plan is arranged in July for food premises with fish tanks.
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| 6-8 July |
A representative of the Veterinary Public Health Section (VPHS) gives a presentation at the World Meat Hygiene and Inspection Congress 2004 held in Cambridge, England.
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| 9 July |
The Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling) (Amendment) Regulation 2004 is enacted updating labelling requirements to include certain additives in milk products in line with international practice.
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| 10 July |
A "Food Safety Roadshow" at Olympian City Shopping Arcade kicks off "Food Safety Day 2004". Other packaged educational programmes include a series of television films, colouring and poster design competitions, and food hygiene seminars for food business personnel, caterers, teachers, overseas domestic helpers and the public.
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| 12 July to 7 August |
The enhancement phase of the Anti-rodent Campaign is launched to further promote and strengthen the adoption of rodent prevention and control measures in cargo working areas and warehouses.
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| 12 July to 21 August |
Old tenement buildings and other problem areas are targeted in a follow up to the second phase of the Anti-mosquito Campaign and to address high ovitrap indices recorded in the rainy season.
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| 13 July |
The "Study on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Barbecued Meat" is reported to the LegCo Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene.
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| 13 July |
The Department launches an incentive scheme for live poultry retailers to voluntarily surrender their fresh provision shop (FPS) licences, or their endorsement to sell live poultry on FPS licences, or to terminate their FEHD market poultry stall tenancies.
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| 14 July |
The Information Booklet on Public Markets and Cooked Food Markets is published to provide handy information to the public on FEHD markets and cooked food centres.
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| 22-23 July |
The half-yearly meeting on food safety with Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureaux is held in Shenzhen.
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