News & Insights

On January 30, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service published a Food and Agricultural Regulations and Standards (FAIRS) report for Hong Kong. 

On August 8, Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety published a revised version of its Guidelines on Food Classification for the Pesticide Residues in Food Regulation.

Relevant MRL updates resulting from these food classification changes will display when the revised Guidelines go into effect on November 1, 2018.

On December 16, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service published a Food and Agricultural Regulations and Standards (FAIRS) report for Hong Kong. This report contains information on food additive regulations. 

 
Hong Kong's food additive regulations are included in the International Food Additive Database. If you are interested in subscribing, please contact BCI.

Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Service published Food and Agricultural Import Regulations and Standards (FAIRS) Country Reports for the following countries:

• Chile
• El Salvador
• Ghana
• Hong Kong
• Lithuania
• Poland

Information on pesticides and other contaminants is included in Section III for Ghana, Hong Kong, and Poland, Section IV for Lithuania, and Section V for Chile and El Salvador. The Global MRL Database currently displays relevant established and proposed MRLs for these markets.

Recently, the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service published a Food and Agricultural Regulations and Standards (FAIRS) report on Hong Kong. This report includes information on food additive regulations.

Hong Kong's regulations are included in the International Food Additive Database. If you are interested in subscribing, please contact BCI for more information.

Bryant Christie Inc. will be attending Asia Fruit LOGISTICA in Hong Kong from August 31 - September 4. We will showcase our Global MRL Database, which includes chemical residue regulations on over 700 commodities and 900 active ingredients in 100+ markets around the world.

• You are invited to visit Booth AB - 22 in Hall 3 for a demonstration of our Global MRL Database.
• A visit to our booth comes with benefits! View our demo and receive a free 60-day trial of the Global MRL Database.

BCI's President James Christie and Vice President of Global Access Matt Lantz will also present at Asiafruit Congress. You will not want to miss “Managing Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs)” on Tuesday, September 1 from 3:15 - 4:15pm as Breakout Session 4.

Interested in a demonstration or 30-day trial of Global MRL? Please contact Sales@GlobalMRL.com to schedule a time or for more information.

      

Bryant Christie Inc. will be presenting GlobalMRL.com at AsiaFruit Logistica in Hong Kong at booth AB-22 in Hall 3 during the week of August 31 – September 4, 2015.   Please stop by for a demonstration.

 

Hong Kong's first-ever national MRL standard, Pesticide Residues in Food Regulation, entered into force today.

Relevant MRLs have been entered in www.mrldatabase.com and are currently live.

As background, Hong Kong announced in late 2007 its intention to move away from a full Codex deferral toward a positive list system. A version of the standard was published in 2012 with an effective date of August 1, 2014. The grace period was instituted to give trading partners adequate time to adjust to the new pesticide residue regime.  

Now that the national regulation has taken effect, pesticide residue levels should not exceed the limits set forth in this standard. 

The Hong Kong government is considering prohibiting the use of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) as a food additive, based on safety concerns.  Hong Kong has requested information regarding U.S. regulations on BVO.

For more information, please refer to this USDA GAIN Report. 

Hong Kong's food additive use regulations are included in the International Food Additive Database.

Hong Kong will have its first-ever enacted Pesticide Residues in Food Regulation come into force August 1, 2014. The regulation will remain as it was published in June 2012.

Meanwhile, the proposed amendments, which include the latest changes to MRLs and extraneous maximum residue limits (EMRLs) adopted by Codex in 2012 and 2013 and proposals put forth by stakeholders since the enactment of the regulation in June 2012, are to be reviewed by a “Working Group”.