A new phase of the Anti-rodent Campaign is launched to improve rodent control in and around shopping centres faced with persistent rodent problems, and to reinforce prevention messages for shopping centre managements.
11 July to 6 August
Strengthening mosquito prevention and control at old tenement buildings and problem spots is the theme of a special operation to sustain the Anti-mosquito Campaign.
14 July
The freeze on rents for all public markets is extended to the end of June 2006.
24 July
A ceremony is held at Plaza Hollywood, Diamond Hill, to highlight "Food Temperature Control" and the "Signing of a Food Safety Charter". Other packaged educational programmes include a series of food hygiene seminars for food business personnel, teachers and the public. Roving exhibitions are also held in other shopping centres.
25 July to 23 August
The Department steps up the inspection and quarantine of imported pigs and pork from the Mainland as well as ante-and-post-mortem inspections of pigs in slaughterhouses, following the Streptococcus suis incident in Sichuan.