Code of Practice on Keeping Records Relating to Food
CHAPTER 1 : BACKGROUND
1.1 The Food Safety Ordinance (Cap. 612) was published in the Gazette on 8 April 2011. Under Part 3 of the Ordinance which will come into force on 1 February 2012, food traders are required to keep records of the businesses from which they obtained their food and the business to which they supplied their food.
1.2 The record keeping requirement aims to help tracing, in case of food incidents, where the problem food comes from and where it has gone to. This is in line with international trend that food businesses are required to maintain a “one-step-backward, one-step-forward” approach in record-keeping.
1.3 This Code of Practice is issued under section 43 of the Ordinance. This Code of Practice (hereinafter referred to as the “Code”), is identified as “Code of Practice on Keeping Records Relating to Food” in Gazette Notice (G.N. 4482), and takes effect on 1 February 2012.
