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"To improve the situation, actions have been taken by the two Municipal Services departments to put premises preparing, serving and selling sashimi and sushi under licensing control," Dr Leung said.
All the 413 samples for radioactive examination were found to be within acceptable level.
During the same period, DH had received 67 reports of food poisoning cases compared with the 97 reports received during the same period last year. The number of people affected had also dropped from 583 to 395.
The number of food poisoning cases due to pesticide contaminated vegetables had decreased from 13 in the first half of 1995 to two in the corresponding period this year. The number of persons affected had also decreased from 24 to six.
More than half of the food poisoning cases were due to bacterial contamination. The public are reminded to observe strict personal and environmental hygiene when preparing food, particularly in the summer months.
To enhance its public health education efforts, DH's Hygiene Division today launched a computerised telephone system for public to obtain food hygiene information.
Through the interactive voice and response system on "Hygiene Information For You", Tel 2380 2580, members of the public can get to know more about selected hot topics for the month, food safety, food hygiene, environmental hygiene, current health education campaign as well as procedures for import and export of food.
The hot topic for the month is E Coli 0-157:H7.
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Annual report on environment released
The Environmental Protection Department has handled some 10,000 pollution complaints, set up an air pollution index and forecast system, and completed more than 30 major environmental impact assessment studies last year.
These are all part of the information contained in the annual report "Environment Hong Kong 1996" released by the department today ( Monday ).
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