HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
MR. WALTER M. SULKE (in English): I would have thought that this is an ideal subject for a major donation. We have two of the largest film companies in the world in Hong Kong. Could I suggest that the Chairman of Culture Select Committee as well as the Chairman of Museums Select Committee approach these two companies to see whether they will donate a museum of film for us?
MR. LO KING-MAN (in English): Mr. Chairman, since in my answers to the previous question and supplementary questions, I have already undertaken to take this matter up with the Culture Select Committee or one of its Sub-Committees, including this possibility, we should look at the feasibility of approaching for donation. Naturally, financial visits such as Mr. SULKE's own personal intervention would be of great help.
STATEMENT BY MR. LEE CHIK-YUET, CHAIRMAN OF THE MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS SELECT COMMITTEE
He said (in Cantonese): The Urban Council is in full support of the Urban Services Department's recent blitz, through the General Duties Teams, against unlicensed cooked-food hawkers in its efforts to protect public health and improve the environment.
Because of mixed public feelings towards illegal hawking, plus the large numbers of unlicensed hawkers and their belligerent attitude, the General Duties Teams have been fighting an uphill battle as they perform their thankless job.
Nevertheless, I would like to ensure the entire force of the GD Teams that they have the Council's full support in their efforts to control illegal hawking activities, most particularly those involved in the food-for-man trade. The GD Teams have a vitally important job to do and a lawful duty to perform as these illegal hawkers in the food-for-man trade pose a real threat to the health of the community at large besides seriously affecting the living environment in the neighbourhoods in which they operate.
With the arrival of the warm weather and in view of the hazards caused by the consumption of food from illegal cooked-food hawkers, the Urban Services Department cannot afford to relax its efforts; rather, it has no choice but to intensify its crackdown on illegal food hawkers in the urban area, particularly in Kwun Tong, to ensure that no contaminated food is sold to the public.
However, there is a limit to the efforts of the Department in mounting operations against illegal cooked-food hawkers. The public—the very people we are trying to protect—must, for the sake of their own health, co-operate with the Department by not patronising illegal food-for-man hawkers. Illegal cooked-food hawkers will disappear from the streets if there are no customers.
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Remember last August—when there was a cholera outbreak in Kwun Tong thanks to dirty food-for-man hawkers and make sure that you and your family, specially your sons and daughters at school, don't buy from these potential purveyors of food poisoning!
I would like to urge the fellow Councillors to set the examples yourselves and not patronize food hawkers on the streets.
MOTIONS
1. MR. L. H. KWAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, As Chairman of the Food Hygiene Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.
‘RESOLVED that the Milk (Urban Council) (Amendment) By-laws 1987 be made under section 56 of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, Cap. 132.'
The existing Milk (Urban Council) By-laws provide for public health control on the sale of heat-treated milk and milk beverages. In respect of these local products, statutory requirements also exist to safeguard their hygienic manufacture. Similar products imported into Hong Kong, however, are not being similarly covered by these by-laws.
On the other hand, bacteriological standards for pasteurized and ultra heat-treated (UHT) milk and milk beverages are imposed by these by-laws to provide protection for consumers. Except for those processed by the UHT method, other sterilized milk and milk beverages which are increasingly popular on the local market in recent years, have yet to be put under the control of these by-laws.
These amendment by-laws, therefore, will not only contribute to the updating of Hong Kong's food laws but also by so doing allow the public as consumers an up-graded protection.
Mr. Chairman, I beg to move.
MR. CHAN KWOK-MING, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, Seconded the motion (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, I second the motion.
MR. WALTER M. SULKE (in English): Mr. Chairman, unfortunately, cows eat grass, and turn grass into milk, and milk is one of the prime carriers of any kind of nuclear fallout and it is one of the lessons of Chernobyl. But there was a great deal of contaminated milk which was in fact sold overseas because there were many places in the world where there were no laws to inspect such milk. And although I support the motion, what I missed in this motion is a clause making
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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
MR. WALTER M. SULKE (in English): I would have thought that this is an ideal subject for a major donation. We have two of the largest film companies in the world in Hong Kong. Could I suggest that the Chairman of Culture Select Committee as well as the Chairman of Museums Select Committee approach these two companies to see whether they will donate a museum of film for us?
MR. LO KING-MAN (in English):-Mr. Chairman, since in my answers to the previous question and supplementary questions, I have already undertaken to take this matter up with the Culture Select Committee or one of its Sub- Committees, including this possibility, we should look at the feasibility of approaching for donation. Naturally, financial visits such as Mr. SULKE's own personal intervention would be of great help.
STATEMENT BY MR. LEE CHIK-YUET, CHAIRMAN OF THE MARKETS AND STREET TRADERS SELECT COMMITTEE
He said (in Cantonese):-The Urban Council is in full support of the Urban Services Department's recent blitz, through the General Duties Teams, against unlicensed cooked-food hawkers in its efforts to protect public health and improve the environment.
Because of mixed public feelings towards illegal hawking, plus the large numbers of unlicensed hawkers and their belligerent attitude, the General Duties Teams have been fighting an uphill battle as they perform their thankless job.
Nevertheless I would like to ensure the entire force of the GD Teams that they have the Council's full support in their efforts to control illegal hawking activities, most particularly those involved in the food-for-man trade. The GD Teams have a vitally important job to do and a lawful duty to perform as these illegal hawkers in the food-for-man trade pose a real threat to the health of the community at large besides seriously affecting the living environment in the neighbourhoods in which they operate.
With the arrival of the warm weather and in view of the hazards caused by the consumption of food from illegal cooked-food hawkers, the Urban Services Department cannot afford to relax its efforts; rather it has no choice but to intensify its crackdown on illegal food hawkers in the urban area, particularly in Kwun Tong, to ensure that no contaminated food is sold to the public.
However, there is a limit to the efforts of the Department in mounting operations against illegal cooked-food hawkers. The public-the very people we are trying to protect-must, for the sake of their own health, co-operate with the Department by not patronising illegal food-for-man hawkers. Illegal cooked-food hawkers will disappear from the streets if there are no customers.
HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
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Remember last August—when there was a cholera outbreak in Kwun Tong thanks to dirty food-for-man hawkers and make sure that you and your family, specially your sons and daughters at school, don't buy from these potential purveyors of food poisoning!
I would like to urge the fellow Councillors to set the samples yourselves and not patronize food hawkers on the streets.
MOTIONS
1. MR. L. H. KWAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, As Chairman of the Food Hygiene Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my
name.
‘RESOLVED that the Milk (Urban Council) (Amendment) By-laws 1987 be made under section 56 of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, Cap. 132,'
The existing Milk (Urban Council) By-laws provide for public health control on the sale of heat-treated milk and milk beverages. In respect of these local products, statutory requirements also exist to safeguard their hygienic manufacture. Similar products imported into Hong Kong, however, are not being similarly covered by these by-laws.
On the other hand, bacteriological standards for pasteurized and ultra heat- treated (UHT) milk and milk beverages are imposed by these by-laws to provide protection for consumers. Except for those processed by the UHT method, other sterilized milk and milk beverages which are increasingly popular on the local market in recent years, have yet to be put under the control of these by- laws.
These amendment by-laws, therefore, will not only contribute to the updating of Hong Kong's food laws but also by so doing allow the public as consumers an up-graded protection.
Mr. Chairman, I beg to move.
MR. CHAN KWOK-MING, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD HYGIENE SELECT COMMITTEE, Seconded the motion (in Cantonese): Mr. Chairman, I second the motion.
MR. WALTER M. SULKE (in English):—Mr. Chairman, unfortunately, cows eat grass, and turn grass into milk, and milk is one of the prime carriers of any kind of nuclear fallout and it is one of the lessons of Chernobyl. But there was a great deal of contaminated milk which was in fact sold overseas because there were many places in the world where there were no laws to inspect such milk. And although I support the motion what I missed in this motion is a clause making
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