Date |
Event |
4 to 30 July |
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.
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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. |