Arsenic limit clarified
*********************** In response to media enquiries about a news report today (September 16) on some hairy crabs allegedly tested and found to contain arsenic exceeding the limit of 1.4 parts per million (ppm), a spokesman for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said that the maximum permitted concentration of arsenic in shellfish and shellfish products in solid form, including hairy crabs, as stipulated in the law should be 10 ppm, not 1.4 ppm.
*********************** In response to media enquiries about a news report today (September 16) on some hairy crabs allegedly tested and found to contain arsenic exceeding the limit of 1.4 parts per million (ppm), a spokesman for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said that the maximum permitted concentration of arsenic in shellfish and shellfish products in solid form, including hairy crabs, as stipulated in the law should be 10 ppm, not 1.4 ppm.
Ends/Friday, September 16, 2005
Issued at HKT 18:45
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