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New Zealand imports of green fish fillets with mercury exceeding 2.4 times the FEHD order to suspend sales and remove shelves

2020-07-01T20:27:00.981Z


The Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (30th) that a sample of pre-packaged refrigerated T. gigas imported from New Zealand was found to contain metal impurities mercury (commonly known as mercury) with a content of 1.69 parts per million. The legal standard of 0.5 parts per million exceeds the standard by 2.4 times. It is understood that the sample was purchased at a fresh food shop on the ground floor of Po Ling Building, 6 Po Lington Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.


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Written by: Zheng Qiuling

2020-06-30 21:26

Last update date: 2020-06-30 21:27

The Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced today (30th) that a sample of pre-packaged refrigerated T. gigas imported from New Zealand was found to contain metal impurities mercury (commonly known as mercury) with a content of 1.69 parts per million. The legal standard of 0.5 parts per million exceeds the standard by 2.4 times.

It is understood that the sample was purchased at a fresh food shop on the ground floor of Po Ling Building, 6 Po Lington Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

Importer is recycling

The Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department stated that the Centre took the above samples from a fresh food shop in Wan Chai for testing through the constant food monitoring programme. The sample is called "New Zealand Tuna Fish Fillet", the origin is New Zealand, the distributor is Xin Guohua, imported by Haisheng Food Co., Ltd., "the best before this date" is November 26, 2020.

The center is known to be involved in the above-mentioned violations of the merchants, and ordered them to stop the sale and removal of affected batches of products; the relevant importers are also recycling according to the instructions of the center. The public can call the importer hotline 2563 8878 during office hours for enquiries For the recycling of the above products, the center is also tracing the source of the products.

According to the Food Doping (Metal Impurity Contents) Regulations (Chapter 132V), anyone who sells food with a metal impurity concentration above the statutory upper limit level is illegal and the offender will be prosecuted. Once convicted, the maximum fine is 50,000 yuan and imprisonment for six months.

Mercury can damage the brain Pregnant women and young children should not eat

A spokesman for the center said that mercury can damage the human nervous system, especially the developing brain. Ingestion of large amounts of mercury will affect fetal brain development, and it will damage the vision, hearing, muscle coordination and memory of adults; in addition, some international agencies such as the World Health Organization have long pointed out that eating predatory fish is the main source of mercury intake by humans way. The Center’s total diet research report also indicates that larger or predatory fish may have higher mercury content (eg, tuna, snapper, shark, swordfish, swordfish, orange snapper, king mackerel, etc.). Therefore, people who are more susceptible to mercury, including pregnant women, women planning to become pregnant, and young children, should choose smaller fish when choosing fish, avoid eating fish that may have higher mercury content, and reduce intake. Risk of excessive metal contaminants that can damage the health of the fetus and infants.

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Source: hk1

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