Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (), or FEHD (食環署) for short, is a department of Hong Kong Government, reporting to the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau. 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, which is to be renamed Agriculture, Fisheries, Environmental Hygiene and Conservation Department.
Hong Kong government departments and agencies | Law enforcement agencies of Hong Kong | Public health and safety in Hong Kong | Waste management in Hong Kong
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