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The guidelines recognise that companies supplying the food products carried the prime responsibility of implementing the recall and require them to notify DH immediately after the recall had been initiated and to inform its consumers of the recall at the earliest possible moment, he said.
The supplier also needs to prepare a report on the recall exercise, based on which, DH will assess the effectiveness of the recall.
Copies of the guidelines are available to the public at environmental hygiene district offices of the two Municipal Services departments and Health Education Resource Centre of DH at eighth Floor, Urban Council Fa Yuen Street Complex, 123A Fa Yuen Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon.
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Professional guidance on building maintenance work
Major maintenance or repair works to buildings should be co-ordinated and supervised by authorised persons to ensure public safety, the acting Director of Buildings, Mr Cheng Wei-dart, said today (Monday).
Mr Cheng made the appeal when commenting on an incident happened earlier today when a portion of external wall tiles fell off from a building in North Point.
Mr Cheng said the Buildings Department staff arrived at the scene soon after the accident and required the building owner to remove immediately other loose tiles from the external wall.
Public safety has now been restored and no structural danger on the building was found.
The department will carry out an investigation into the incident and will later issue a statutory order to require the building owner to employ an authorised person to carry out the necessary repair works.
Mr Cheng also noted that several cases of falling concrete from external walls had occurred in the last few days.