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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.

ד

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