Employees 11,153 (March 2014) | Parent agency Food and Health Bureau | |
Preceding agencies Urban CouncilRegional Council Annual budget 5,667.2 million HKD (2014-15 estimate) Agency executive Miss Vivian LAU JP, Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene | ||
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (Chinese: 食物環境衞生署), or FEHD (食環署) for short, is a department of Hong Kong Government, reporting to the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau. It is responsible for food hygiene and environmental hygiene. It replaced part of the role of the Urban Council and the Urban Services Department, and the Regional Council and the Regional Services Department.
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History
The department was founded in 2000 along with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. These two departments were intended to absorb most of the functions of the former Urban Council and Regional Council, which were dissolved at that time.
The Chief Executive announced in October 2005 in his policy address the plan to restructure the department into a new Food Safety, Inspection and Quarantine Department, with the responsibility of environmental hygiene transferred to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department.
Duties and operations
The department's responsibilities include food inspection, food standards, food safety licence issuing, refuse collection, street washing, hawker control, operation of Lunar New Year fairs, and municipal building cleansing. Facilities operated by the department include markets, cooked food centres, public toilets, slaughterhouses, refuse collection points, cemeteries, crematoria, and columbaria.
Health Education Exhibition and Resources Centre
It now manages the Health Education Exhibition and Resource Centre in Kowloon Park.