News and Activities

Adulterated Products Talk HKHFA has the pleasure to have invited the Pharmaceutical Service, Department of Health to conduct an educational talk on “Adulterated Products”. A number of cases have been detected lately. Department of Health had warned consumers and required total recall of the concerned products. The talk was held on 11 November 2005 at the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre in the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong. The event was attended by over 70 company representatives and the audience has raised a variety... Details

ICMCM 2005 Exhibition HKHFA has set up an exhibition booth at the International Conference & Exhibition of the Modernization of Chinese Medicine & Health Products (ICMCM) during the period 11 to 15 August 2005. Over 10,000 pieces of the HKHFA health index card and 3,000 healthy menu booklets published by Department of Health were distributed to visitors. Ms. Angela Lau, the Association's President, was at the Forum to introduce HKHFA to the trade visitors. Details

Meeting with the Deputy Director of Health The President and several Council Members made an appointment with the Deputy Director, Dr. T.H, Leung, on 6 July 2007 expressing industry’s opinion on the requirement for pharmaceutical product registration of health supplements containing vitamin or mineral. Since most health supplements are imported from overseas where they are not classified them as pharmaceuticals, certain documents required for registration application may not be available from the manufacturers. Small & middle enterprises can hardly afford the costs in obtaining those documents, in... Details

Donation to the Earthquake Catastrophe in Sichuan On May 12, 2008, a disastrous earthquake of 7.8 Grade suddenly erupted in the Wenchuan County of the Sichuan province killing tens of thousands of people, destroying many thousands of houses and schools, leaving numerous people homeless and creating lots of orphans. For humanity, the Association has initiated a fund raising campaign encouraging members to donate money helping the rebuilt of homes and schools in the earthquake affected areas. A total of HK$45,000 donation was collected and re-directed to the... Details

Nutrition Labeling and Nutrition Claim Regulation "The Food and Drugs (Composition and Labeling) (Amendment: Requirements for Nutrition Labeling and Nutrition Claims) Regulation 2008" has been passed by the Legislative Council on 28 May 2008 requiring pre-packaged food to label the energy value and 7 other nutrient amounts. The aforesaid shall come into operation on 1 July 2010. The regulation has allowed a number of exemptions, for instance, products of annual sales of not exceeding 30,000 unit or products total package surface area of less than 100... Details