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TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1990

STOVES,

BY ADOPTING SOME SIMPLE MEASURES, SUCH AS FREQUENT AND REGULAR CLEANING OF PREMISES, KITCHENS AND

AND PROPER HANDLING OF RUBBISH AND FOOD REMNANTS, THE SANITARY CONDITION OF FOOD PREMISES COULD BE IMPROVED AND THE RISK OF FOOD POISONING REDUCED.

DR LEUNG HOPED THAT THROUGH GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE PUBLIC COULD BE SAFEGUARDED.

THE

HEALTH OF

ALSO SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY, REGIONAL COUNCILLOR DR PANG HOK- TUEN SAID A TOTAL OF 763 PEOPLE HAD FALLEN ILL IN 188 CASES OF FOOD FOISONING AT FOOD PREMISES AND AT HOMES LAST YEAR.

HE STRESSED THAT FOOD POISONING COULD BE PREVENTED

FOOD SIMPLE BUT BASIC PRINCIPLES IN

HYGIENE WERE OBSERVED COURSE OF FOOD HANDLING.

IF

SOME

IN

THE

ARE: ΤΟ

AND

THE TWO SIMPLE BUT OFTEN NEGLECTED FOOD HYGIENE RULES

BEFORE CONSUMPTION; COOK FOOD, ESPECIALLY SHELLFISH, THOROUGHLY NOT TO STORE FOOD AT ROOM TEMPERATURE FOR TOO LONG.

JOINTLY ORGANISED

BY THE

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE URBAN COUNCIL AND THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, THE THREE-MONTH FOOD

HYGIENE PERSONAL

AND GOOD FOOD CAMPAIGN AIMS TO AROUSE PUBLIC AWARENESS ON HYGIENE PRACTICE SO AS TO MINIMISE THE CHANCES OF FOOD-BORNE DISEASES.

DURING THE CAMPAIGN PERIOD, A TOTAL OF 25 FOOD HYGIENE SEMINARS WILL BE CONDUCTED FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOOD

INCLUDING TRADE, LICENSEES AND STAFF OF LICENSED FOOD PREMISES, COOKED FOOD STALLS CANTEENS AT CONVENIENTLY-LOCATED VENUES THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

WILL NATURE, THE SEMINARS, WHICH WILL BE EDUCATIONAL IN COMPRISE A TALK, A SLIDE SHOW AND A FILM ON FOOD HYGIENE, FOLLOWED AN OPEN DISCUSSION.

AND

EACH

BY

PRINTED EDUCATIONAL

SUPPLEMENT THE TALK.

MATERIALS WILL BE

DISTRIBUTED

TO

AT THE END OF THE CAMPAIGN PERIOD, AWARDED A CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE.

EACH PARTICIPANT WILL

BE

ORGANISED WITH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY

BE FOUR OTHER FOOD HYGIENE SEMINARS WILL ALSO THE SUPPORT FROM THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS, WHO WILL IN TURN CONVEY THE MESSAGES TO THEIR

STUDENTS.

A FOOD HYGIENE EDUCATION KIT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO SCHOOLS THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

TO DRIVE HOME

THE FOOD

EDUCATION HOTLINE (723 0013)

IN

HYGIENE MESSAGE, A 24-HOUR HEALTH WILL BE SET UP

TO ANSWER ENQUIRIES

BE WILL ON FOOD HYGIENE MATTERS AND A BROADCASTING VAN STEP UP PUBLICITY AT VARIOUS STRATEGIC LOCALITIES.

DEPLOYED то

ALSO PRESENT AT TODAY'S CEREMONY WAS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

OF

HEALTH (HYGIENE), DR MOHAMMED BIN ALI.

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