FEHD strives to ensure food safety of school lunch boxes
To prepare for the new school year, and to enhance food safety and hygiene awareness among licensed food factories supplying school lunch boxes, the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) and the Environmental Hygiene Branch of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) launched a series of operations to inspect licensed food factories supplying school lunch boxes in various districts of Hong Kong with a view to ensuring food safety.
A spokesman for the FEHD said today (August 19), "The FEHD has enhanced inspections of food factories supplying school lunch boxes to ensure that the licensing conditions in respect of food handling and processing are observed by the operators, and that hygienic standards stipulated in the laws are met. Food samples are continuously collected for testing. Meanwhile, FEHD staff will also provide health education to operators and staff of food factories, distributing food safety pamphlets to remind them of the proper way of handling school lunch boxes."
The CFS hosted an online trade meeting on July 9 to remind lunch box suppliers to adhere to good hygiene practices and establish a food safety plan based on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system. Suppliers may refer to the relevant guidelines for more safety information on lunch box production. Furthermore, to ensure food safety on campuses, the CFS arranged an online seminar for schools on July 29, highlighting food safety hazards such as choking and food allergies, and advising schools to choose lunch box suppliers that hold a valid Food Factory Licence issued by the FEHD and are endorsed to provide lunch boxes. Before placing orders, schools should visit the premises to ensure that food handlers observe food safety and hygiene practices.
The CFS has published "A Practical Guide for Ensuring Food Safety in Schools and Childcare Facilities", to which schools and childcare facilities can refer when choosing lunchbox suppliers and ensuring food safety on campus. For further details, please visit the "Safe Food at School" thematic webpage.
The Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department hosted an online trade meeting on July 9 to remind school lunch box suppliers to adhere to good hygiene practices and establish a food safety plan based on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
To prepare for the new school year, and to enhance food safety and hygiene awareness among licensed food factories supplying school lunch boxes, the Centre for Food Safety and the Environmental Hygiene Branch of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has launched a series of operations and stepped up inspections of licensed food factories supplying school lunch boxes in various districts of Hong Kong, with a view to ensuring food safety. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office leads Hong Kong professional services delegation to Guangzhou to promote Hong Kong's professional intellectual property services
To align with the National 15th Five-Year Plan Outline, which calls for the strengthening of intellectual property (IP) protection and utilisation, and support for Hong Kong in deepening its development as a regional IP trading centre, and to promote Hong Kong's professional IP services to enterprises in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), the Commissioner for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Miss Pamela Lam, led a delegation of over 30 representatives from the Hong Kong professional services sector to Guangzhou today (September 9) to attend a Synergising with the GBA: Advancing IP Trade and Business Opportunities seminar (the seminar) organised by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office. The seminar attracted over 300 industry representatives from Hong Kong and various GBA Mainland cities.
The seminar aimed to promote Hong Kong's strengths as a regional IP trading centre to Mainland enterprises in the GBA, and to demonstrate how Hong Kong's professional IP services can assist Mainland enterprises in leveraging IP to expand overseas. It also sought to establish a co-operation platform between Hong Kong professional service providers and GBA enterprises.
Delivering her opening remarks, Miss Lam said that amid the current global economic restructuring, technological innovation has become the core engine of high-quality development. IP is not only about a legal safeguard, but also a core corporate asset and a strategic resource for market competitiveness, representing a substantial source of economic value. The GBA has close to 820 000 valid invention patents, accounting for nearly one-sixth of the national total, fully reflecting its innovation strength. The World Intellectual Property Organisation released yesterday (September 8) the Global Innovation Index 2026 ranking of the top 100 innovation clusters, in which the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster once again ranked first globally, reaffirming the GBA's leading position on the international innovation stage. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government will continue to capitalise on Hong Kong's strengths in areas such as legal, taxation and professional services, to seize the opportunities arising from national support for deepening the development of Hong Kong as a regional IP trading centre, strengthen full-spectrum IP protection, and facilitate the commercialisation and industrialisation of innovations.
The seminar was supported by the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Department, relevant Mainland government authorities and business organisations, with the Hong Kong Productivity Council and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Promotion Centre as the implementing organisations. Three experts were invited to deliver keynote speeches on "Strategic Roadmap for End-to-end IP Management", "Intellectual Property Trading, Valuation, and Financing", and "Cross-Border Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution". Two panel discussions were also held, during which Assistant Director of Intellectual Property Mr Derek Lau together with five Hong Kong experts and representatives of Mainland enterprises, shared practical experience on how Mainland enterprises leveraged Hong Kong's professional services to expand overseas, as well as success stories of GBA enterprises in IP commercialisation.
Corporate representatives actively asked questions, creating a lively and interactive atmosphere that reflected the strong interest of GBA enterprises in leveraging IP to expand business opportunities, and their keen demand for Hong Kong's professional services. Hong Kong will continue to play the roles of "super connector" and "super value-adder", joining hands with GBA Mainland cities to promote the development of IP trading and jointly explore further co-operation.
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office leads Hong Kong professional services delegation to Guangzhou to promote Hong Kong's professional intellectual property services Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office leads Hong Kong professional services delegation to Guangzhou to promote Hong Kong's professional intellectual property services Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Office leads Hong Kong professional services delegation to Guangzhou to promote Hong Kong's professional intellectual property services Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
