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Hicle 160/1

20 JUL 1984

A Hatin

Revised

Question No.

338

REPLY BY THE HON. NIGEL SHIPMAN, JP,

ACTING SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE

TO A QUESTION BY THE HON. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, CBE, JP

IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON 23 JULY 1986

Question: Will Government inform this Council what measures

have been taken to ensure that no radio-active contaminated food has been imported into Hong Kong since the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Accident?

Sir,

Immediately following the first reports in the

mass media at the end of April this year on the accident at

the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in the USSR, the following steps

were taken by the Municipal Services Branch :-

(a)

Food commodities flown in from Europe as well as

other nearby countries were sampled for detection

of radio-active contamination.

(b) Food commodities imported into Hong Kong prior to

the reactor accident were sampled for

determination of their background radiation levels

so that these could be compared with the levels in

food imported thereafter.