Food and Environmental Hygiene Department

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department

食物環境衞生署
Agency overview
Formed	1 January 2000; 22 years ago (2000-01-01)
Preceding agencies	Urban Council Regional Council
Headquarters	44/F Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong
Employees	11,153 (March 2014)[1]
Annual budget	HK$5,667,200,000 (2014-15 estimate)[1]
Agency executive	Position vacant, Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene
Parent agency	Food and Health Bureau
Child agency	Centre for Food Safety
Website	www.fehd.gov.hk

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The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) is a department of the Hong Kong Government, reporting to the Food and Health 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.

History[]

The department was established 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, crematoriums, and columbariums.

Health Education Exhibition and Resources Centre[]

FEHD now manages the Health Education Exhibition and Resource Centre in Kowloon Park.

Directors[]

See also[]

• 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest

References[]

External links[]

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