The Centre for Food Safety announced today (11th) that a bulk fish ball sample from "Zhang Kee Aberdeen Fish Ball King", located on the ground floor of 150 Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mong Kok, contained 0.2ppm of methylmercury. The metal content of related complex foods may affect health, including affecting fetal brain development, and in adults, it can impair vision, hearing, muscle coordination and memory.
Regarding this violation, the Center for Food Safety has asked the restaurant involved to stop selling the relevant products.
A bulk fish ball sample from "Zhang Kee Aberdeen Fish Ball King", G/F, 150 Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mong Kok, contains 0.2ppm of methylmercury. If the related compound food is consumed for a long time, its metal content may affect the healthy.
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Sample methylmercury content of 0.2 parts per million
The Centre for Food Safety took the above-mentioned samples from the restaurant in Mong Kok for testing through the routine food surveillance programme. The detected metal impurity methylmercury content may violate the Food Adulteration (Metallic Contamination) Regulation. The methylmercury content of the relevant samples It is 0.2 parts per million, such as long-term consumption of related complex food, its metal content may affect health.
According to the Food Adulteration (Metallic Contamination) Regulations (Cap. 132V), it is an offence for any person to sell food with a metal content sufficient to endanger or damage health.
Offenders are liable to a maximum fine of $50,000 and six months' imprisonment upon conviction.
Larger fish may have higher mercury levels, pregnant women and young children should avoid them
The center pointed out that the mercury in fish is mainly methylmercury. Consuming a large amount of mercury will affect the brain development of the fetus, 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 already pointed out that eating predatory fish is the main way for humans to ingest mercury.
The Centre's total diet study report also indicated that larger or predatory fish may have higher levels of mercury (eg tuna, goldeneye, shark, swordfish, swordfish, orange snapper and king mackerel, etc.).
Therefore, people who are more susceptible to the effects of mercury, including pregnant women, women planning to become pregnant, and young children, should prefer smaller fish when choosing fish, and avoid eating the above-mentioned fish, so as to reduce the intake of excessive metal contaminants.
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