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Last year BFBS's Hong Kong audience raised over a quarter of a million dollars and this year when the appeal gets under way at 10 am on Sunday, the organisers hope their listeners will donate even more money.
Auction items up for grabs include return flights to UK, a Hong Kong Rugby Sevens 95 ball signed by the England team, and a motorbike ridden by BFBS broadcaster Clive James McNeil at this year's Macau Grand Prix.
End/Friday, November 24, 1995
Food surveillance results announced
The Department of Health today (Friday) announced the results of its regular food surveillance programme for the third quarter of 1995.
A total of 9,006 samples were collected for chemical, bacteriological and radioactivity tests during the period.
The programme is conducted by the department's Hygiene Division to monitor that food supplied to the community is wholesome, unadulterated and properly labelled.
Of the 4,901 samples for chemical analyses, 4,847 were found satisfactory while 54 tests (1.1%) yielded unsatisfactory results.
The unsatisfactory samples were mainly due to food containing non-permitted or excessive preservatives. There were also seven other cases in which residues of prohibited pesticides were found in vegetable samples.
Following the sending of advisory letters to the food trade earlier this
year, the number of samples with non-permitted colouring matter had shown a downward trend.
As for the 2,773 samples for bacteriological examinations, 142 samples (5.1%) gave unsatisfactory results.
The majority of unsatisfactory samples were mainly frozen confections, shellfish and fish giving excessive bacterial/coliform counts.
All the 157 samples for radioactivity measurement were found to be within acceptable level.