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ORGANIZATION   
G/SPS/N/HKG/33/Add.1 
23 June 2011 
 (11-3097) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Addendum 
 
 
The following communication, received on 16 June 2011, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of Honk Kong, China. 
 
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Publication of the Food Safety Ordinance 
 Hong Kong, China notified in G/SPS/N/HK G/33 dated 26 March 2010 a proposed Food 
Safety Bill which aimed to strengthen legislativ e control measures on food safety by introducing a 
food tracing mechanism to ensure that the gove rnment could trace the source of food more 
effectively and take prompt actions when dealing with food incidents.  The proposed new control 
measures included a registration scheme for food impo rters and distributors, and a requirement for 
food traders to maintain proper transaction records, to enhance food traceability. 
 The Food Safety Ordinance was enacted by the Legislative Council on 30 March 2011.  
This addendum notifies that the Food Safety Or dinance will enter into force on 1 August 2011. 
There will be a grace period of six months before the penalty provisions for failing to register and 
the record-keeping requirements 
This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation [ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force 
[ ] Other:   
Comment period:  (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure in 
terms of products and/or potentially affected  Members, a new deadline for receipt of comments 
should be provided, normally of at least 60 cale ndar days.  Under other circumstances, such as 
extension of originally announced final date fo r comments, the comment period provided in the 
addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable G/SPS/N/HKG/33/Add.1 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [X] National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other 
body: 
Food Branch 
Food and Health Bureau 
20/F, Murray Building 
Garden Road  Hong Kong, China Fax:  +(852) 2136 3281 E-mail:  enquiry@fhb.gov.hk 
Text available from:  [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: 
 
Food Branch Food and Health Bureau 
20/F, Murray Building 
Garden Road  Hong Kong, China Fax:  +(852) 2136 3281 E-mail:  enquiry@fhb.gov.hk 
Full text of the Food Safety Ordinance (availabl e in English and Chinese) can be downloaded from 
the following websites: 
In English 
"http://www.gld.gov.hk/cgi-
bin/gld/egazette/gazettefiles.cgi?lang=e&ex tra=&year=2011&month= 04&day=08&vol=15&no=14
&gn=5&header=1&part=1&df=1&nt=s1&acurre ntpage=12&agree=1&newfile=1&gaz_type=ls1 " 
In Chinese 
"http://www.gld.gov.hk/cgi-
bin/gld/egazette/gazettefiles.cgi?lang=c&y ear=2011&month=04&day= 08&vol=15&no=14&gn=5
&header=1&acurrentpage=12&df=1&nt=s1&agr ee=1&gaz_type=ls1&part=1&newfile=1&pid " 
 
 
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