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Centre for Food Safety Consultant Dr Ho Yuk-yin hopes a mandatory imported food registration system will be implemented to ensure food safety at origins.
Speaking on a radio talk show today, Dr Ho said a voluntary enrolment scheme on some food is already in place, and he hopes a mandatory one will be implemented on a wider range of food.
Hong Kong's food-poisoning cases have been on an increasing trend in the past three years, but up to August there have have been fewer cases than in the previous two years, Dr Ho said. Although there have been less cases this summer, he urged people to stay alert to the high food-poisoning risk during summer.
The main reasons for food poisoning include eating food which is not thoroughly cooked, cross-contaminations between ready-to-eat and uncooked food, and restaurant staff handling food in unhygienic ways, he said.
As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, Dr Ho said people should store snowy mooncakes in rthe efrigerator and avoid exposing them to room temperature for more than two hours, as they get microbiologic contamination more easily than traditional mooncakes.
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