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Food & Beverage focus will be on all aspects of Hong Kong & Macau food regulation, regulatory process and enforcement, food business licensing, food importation, codes of practice, food standards standards, etc. (may or may not be regulatory), food scares/crisis, organic food. Current issues include, Mandatory Nutritional Labeling, Genetically Modified Food labeling, new pesticides in Foods Regulation, new preservatives in Foods Regulation, Food Safety Bill, heavy metals in foods, melamine in foods, composite food business licensing, importation of milk products, etc.
Committee meeting: Committee usually meets the third Wednesday of each month.
Past Events:
Event Date | Title | Speaker(s) | | Mar 4, 2010 | Food Safety Principles in the US and How They Can Be Adopted in Asia | Bernard Guillas, Executive Chef, La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, The Marine Room, La Jolla, California
| | Feb 10, 2010 | Have Consumers Returned to the Previous Purchasing Behavior? | Oliver Rust, Managing Director, The Nielsen Company Hong Kong | | Jan 13, 2010 | Planning meeting | - | | Dec 15, 2009 | Airport Tour on Fresh Food Importation Procedures | - | | Dec 9, 2009 | Supermarket walk-through on food regulations | - | | Nov 11, 2009 | Red Bull's Cocaine Experience in Hong Kong | Daniel Beatty, Marketing Director, Red Bull Asia Pacific
Gary Chui, Off Premise Manager, Red Bull Hong Kong | | Sept 9, 2009 | The Concept of Organic Certification and Why It Is Needed | Jonathan Wong, Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University and Director, Hong Kong Organic Resource Centre (HKORC) | | Aug 12, 2009 | Genetically Modified Food - Facts & Myths | Raymond Wong, Director of Plant & Animal Care Facility; Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Biochemistry, the Associate Director and Manager of the BioScience Central Research Laboratory, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
| | Jul 8, 2009 | Members Discussion Meeting | - | | Jun 10, 2009 | How to Apply for the Nutritional Labeling's Small Volume Exemption Scheme | Tam Chi-wai, Senior Superintendent of the Centre of Foold Safety, Food and Enviromental Hygiene Department
| | May 13, 2009 | Food Business Licensing and the Regulatory Process | Lam Wing-hong, Senior Superintendent, Licensing Section, Food and Enviromental Hygiene Department
; Kitty Cheung, Superintendent, Licensing Section, Food and Enviromental Hygiene Department
| | Apr 8, 2009 | Food and Beverage Committee Meeting | Leung Yuen-sheung, Superintendent of the Food Import and Export Section of the Centre for Food Sa
, Food and Enviromental Hygiene Department; Rebecca Ku, Chief Health Inspector of the Incidence Preparedness and Response Unit, Food and Enviromental Hygiene Department
| | Mar 18. 2009 | Members Discussion Meeting | - | | Feb 11, 2009 | Planning Meeting | - |
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