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Also speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of the Regional Council Environmental Hygiene Select Committee, Mr Ting Yin-wah, pointed out that Hong Kong people were intelligent consumers who cared much about the safety and hygiene of food.
Mr Ting said the adoption of hygienic methods to prepare food was the most effective means for the catering trade to gain confidence from the consumers.
Mr Ting called on seminar participants to take the knowledge they gained back to their workplace and practise food hygiene to prevent food borne diseases.
Apart from the 24 seminars, two further separate seminars has also been organised in collaboration with the Education Department for primary and secondary school teachers.
Through the "training of trainer" method, teachers attending the seminars could later convey health messages to their students.
Each food hygiene seminar consists of a talk by a Chief Health Inspector, a film show and a discussion session on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point concept and its implementation.
In addition, a 24-hour hotline - 2723 0013 will provide taped messages on food safety during the campaign period which will last until the end of August.
Callers can leave their questions and telephone numbers with the hotline and staff of the Health Education Unit will call them back.
Furthermore, mobile broadcasting teams of the Unit will be deployed to disseminate food hygiene messages throughout the territory.
Printed educational materials such as leaflets and posters can be obtained free from the district offices and the environmental hygiene offices of the Urban Services and Regional Services departments.
End/Wednesday, June 14, 1995
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