Centre for Food Safety

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) is Hong Kong's food safety watchdog, responsible for ensuring the safety and suitability of food for human consumption. It monitors food imports, conducts risk assessments, and enforces food safety regulations. The CFS is currently newsworthy due to several recent food safety concerns. These include banning poultry imports from specific regions in Japan and Denmark following bird flu outbreaks, addressing public concerns about the origins of risky raw oysters after food poisoning cases, and investigating potential contamination in infant milk formula. Specifically, the CFS ordered recalls of Aptamil formula and found toxins in multiple batches of Nestlé baby milk formula, prompting widespread concern and investigations. These events highlight the CFS's crucial role in protecting public health by identifying and mitigating food safety risks, and ensuring that unsafe products are removed from the market.