Company: LHI
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: DRS/A
Source: 0001213900-25-014190
Chunk: 161

Company: Living Homeopathy International Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: DRS/A
Chunk 161
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 Hong Kong is set out in Part V of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance and the relevant sub-legislations thereunder. The Public Health Ordinance requires the manufacturers and sellers of food to ensure that their products are fit for human consumption and comply with the requirements in respect of food safety, food standards and labeling.

Section 50 of the Public Health Ordinance prohibits the advertising and sale in Hong Kong of food or drugs that are injurious to health. Anyone who fails to comply with this section commits an offense that carries a maximum penalty of HKD10,000 and imprisonment for three months.

Section 52 of the Public Health Ordinance provides that, subject to a number of defenses in section 53 of the same ordinance, if a seller sells to the prejudice of a purchaser any food or drug which is not of the nature, substance or quality of the food or drug demanded by the purchaser, the seller shall be guilty of an offense that carries a maximum penalty of HKD10,000 and imprisonment for three months.

According to section 54 of the Public Health Ordinance, any person who sells or offers or exposes for sale or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or preparation for sale or deposits with, or consigns to, any person for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale, any food intended for, but unfit for, human consumption, or any drug intended for use by human but unfit for that purpose, shall be guilty of an offense. The maximum penalty for contravention of section 54 is a fine of HKD50,000 and imprisonment for six months.

Section 61 of the Public Health Ordinance provides that it shall be an offense for any person to give with any food or drug sold by him/her, or to display with any food or drug offered for sale by him/her, any label which falsely describes the food or drug or which is calculated to mislead as to its nature, substance or quality. Further, it shall also be an offense if any person publishes, or is a party to the publication of, an advertisement falsely describing any food or drug or that is likely to mislead as to the nature, substance or quality of any food or drug. However, the offender can rely on warranty as a defense.

Food Safety Ordinance (Chapter 612 of the Laws of Hong Kong)

Food Safety Ordinance establishes a registration scheme for food importers and food distributors to require the keeping of records by persons who acquire, capture, import or supply food and to enable food import controls