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Officers of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (July 17) smashed an unlicensed food factory in Kung Um Road, Yuen Long.
Seventeen boxes of fried food, including fried dough sticks, and five kilogrammes of flour were seized in the operation.
A man was arrested and charged with operating an unlicensed food factory and dirty food premises.
Under the Food Business Regulation, the maximum penalty for operating an unlicensed food factory is a fine of $50,000 and six months' imprisonment.
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"We will continue our stringent enforcement action against unlicensed food businesses to safeguard food safety and public health," a department spokesman said.
"People should report such illegal activities through the department's hotline at 2868 0000."
A man and a woman were fined today by the Kwun Tong Magistrates' Courts for operating unlicensed food premises. The man was fined $4,000 for operating an unlicensed food factory and the woman was fined $20,000 for operating an unlicensed fresh provision shop. She was also sentenced to two months' imprisonment, suspended for 18 months.
The sentences follow a raid by department officers on unlicensed food premises in Wong Tai Sin on July 13.
Ends/Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Issued at HKT 19:01
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