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The Secretary for Food and Health, Dr Ko Wing-man, will depart for Shenzhen tomorrow morning (November 7) to attend the 2013 Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao, Shenzhen, Zhuhai Health, Animal and Plant Quarantine and Food Safety Control Meeting.
The meeting will be held tomorrow and on November 8 in Shenzhen. By facilitating exchanges and discussion among experts from the five places, the annual meeting serves as a platform for further strengthening co-operation in health, animal and plant quarantine and food safety control. Topics including health inspection and quarantine issues, animals and foods of animal origin, plants and foods of plant origin, and food safety and control will be discussed in this year's meeting.
Dr Ko will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the meeting tomorrow morning and will attend a ceremony to witness the signing of an action plan on facilitation of inspection and quarantine clearance by representatives of the five places. The action plan will reaffirm and strengthen exchange and co-operation in areas including health inspection and quarantine issues, animal and plant quarantine, food safety control and clearance facilitation.
Other representatives of the Hong Kong delegation attending the meeting will include the Permanent Secretary for Food and Health (Food), Mrs Marion Lai; the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation, Mr Alan Wong; and the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Mr Clement Leung.
Dr Ko will return to Hong Kong tomorrow afternoon.
Ends/Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Issued at HKT 17:00
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