Hong Kong Food Business Regulation (Cap.132X)

Highlights
Regulation 2 Interpretation
Regulation 4A Labelling of prepackaged food
Regulation 4B Nutrition labelling of prepackaged food and nutrition claim
Regulation 5 Offences and penalties
Schedule 1 Food and Drugs (Composition and Labelling) Regulations
Schedule 2 Marking and Labelling of Foods and Drugs
Schedule 3 Marking and Labelling of Prepackaged Foods
Schedule 4 Items exempt from Schedules 3
Schedule 5 Nutrition labelling and nutrition claim
Schedule 6 Items Exempt from part 1 of scheule 5
Schedule 7 Nutrient reference values for different nutrients for purpose of nutrition labelling
Schedule 8 Conditions for nutrient content claim

Section 4 Interpretation of food business

4(1) In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "food business" (食物業) means, subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, any trade or business for the purpose of which any person engages in the handling of food or food is sold by means of a vending machine.

4(2)The said expression does not include any agricultural activity, any canteen in any naval, military or air force establishment or provided in any school or work place (other than a factory canteen referred to in section 31) for the use exclusively of the pupils of the school and the persons employed in the work place, respectively, any club or (except so far as the handling of food may be involved in the course of a retail business or in the course of supplying food for immediate consumption) so much of any trade or business as consists of the handling of food at, in or upon-