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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1987
"CONSIGNMENTS OF VEGETABLES FROM THE SUSPECTED SOURCE
OF PESTICIDE RESIDUES AND
THE UNLESS
OF SAMPLES
DETAINED FOR RELEASED TO THE SATISFACTORY.
EXAMINATION
MARKET
RESULTS
ARE NOW
NOT
ARE TAKEN ARE
"IN ADDITION, THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT, THROUGH HAD THE FEDERATION OF
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES, VEGETABLE
WHO IMPORTERS
ΤΟ SUSPECTED
HAVE IMPORTED ASKED
· CONTAMINATED VEGETABLE TO WITHHOLD SUPPLIES TEMPORARILY.
VEGETABLE
MARKETING
WERE
"THE VEGETABLE MARKETING ORGANSATION IS ACTION BY REFUSING TO HANDLE THESE VEGETABLES AT THE VEGETABLE WHOLESALE MARKET."
ALSO TAKING CHEUNG
PARALLEL SHA WAN
MR CHAMBERS STRESSED THAT
WOULD THESE MESAURES
WAS SATISFIED THAT GOVERNMENT
BE CONTINUED VEGETABLES IMPORTED FROM
UNTIL THE CHINA WERE SAFE.
SAID
THE
GOVERNMENT
WOULD
LIAISE
HE
WITH THEIR ASSISTANCE AUTHORITIES WITH A VIEW TO OBTAINING SUPPLY OF CONTAMINATED VEGETABLES AT SOURCE.
THE IN ADDITION,
AND
THE CHINESE TO STOP THE
FISHERIES DEPARTMENT
HAD
AGRICULTURE
RESPECT OF AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE STEPPED UP ENFORCEMENT ACTION IN
TO LOCAL FARMERS CONTROLS AND HAD STRENGTHENED ITS ADVISORY SERVICE ON THE SAFE USE OF REGISTERED PESTICIDES, MR CHAMBERS SAID.
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MTR FULLY PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES
LEUNG,
FULLY CONSCIOUS EMERGENCIES,
TOLD
THE
THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY CORPORATION (MTR) IS OF THE NEED TO EVACUATE PASSENGERS QUICKLY AND SAFELY IN
FOR THE SECRETARY
TRANSPORT,
THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
HON
MICHAEL
HON CHIU HIN-KWONG, MR REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE
LEUNG STATIONS AND SAID THAT FROM THE PLANNING AND DESIGN STAGE OF ALL MTR
AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS HAD ALREADY BEEN TRAINS, MAJOR DISASTER
TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AND INCORPORATED.
STANDING
IS
MR LEUNG SAID: "THERE ARE AT PRESENT WELL ESTABLISHED
THE FIRE SERVICES AND INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEDURES AGREED WITH BOTH THE POLICE TO DEAL WITH ALL THE EMERGENCIES. IN ADDITION, THERE SEPARATE EMERGENCY PLAN FOR EACH STATION.
"FURTHERMORE, ALL