Food safety recall round-up 4-10 August 2017
Veterinary drug in buffalo meat
Hong Kong: The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) has received a notification from the Macau authorities that a batch of Indian frozen buffalo meat imported from Hong Kong was found to contain chloramphenicol.
No meat sold in Hong Kong for human consumption is allowed to contain the veterinary drug.
Fresh Frozen Meat 20kg of the brand Frigerio imported by Viewfull International Company with date March-April, 2019 is affected.
A CFS spokesman said: "Preliminary investigation found that an importer, Viewfull International Company Limited, had imported the affected batch of the product from India.
"According to the information provided by the importer, a total of 1,400 cartons of the affected product were imported. Among these, 30 cartons were re-exported to Macau while the remaining 1,370 cartons were sold to local distributors."