Food and Environmental Hygiene Department

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
食物環境衞生署
Agency overview
Headquarters	44/F Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong
Employees	11,127 (March 2008) [1]
Annual budget	4,390.7m HKD (2008-09) [2]
Agency executive	Mr WH Cheuk JP, Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene
Website
	www.fehd.gov.hk

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (traditional 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 The department 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.

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.

[edit] Re-organisation of Policy Bureaux

Because of Re-organisation of Policy Bureaux, which will be effective on July 1, 2007, FEHD was divided into two bureaux: