CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND
1.1 The Food Safety Ordinance (Cap. 612) (“the Ordinance”), which was published in the gazette on 8 April 2011 and will come into force on 1
August 2011, re-enacted Part VA of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) by empowering the Director of Food and
Environmental Hygiene (“the Director”) to make a food safety order (“the order”) under section 30 of the Ordinance if the Director has reasonable
grounds to believe that the making of the order is necessary to prevent or reduce a possibility of danger to public health or to mitigate any adverse
consequence of a danger to public health. The orders may –
(a) prohibit the import of any food;
(b) prohibit the supply1
of any food;
(c) direct that any food supplied be recalled;
(d) direct that any food be impounded, isolated, destroyed or otherwise disposed of; or
(e) prohibit the carrying on of an activity in relation to any food or permit the carrying on of any such activity in accordance with conditions.
