Tuckshop licences proposed
School tuckshops may have to get licences to sell food under a Provisional Regional Council proposal.
The proposal came in the wake of a suspected food poisoning case at Kowloon Tong's Maryknoll Convent School when up to 20 girls became sick after eating lunch.
Members of the council's ad hoc committee on food surveillance inspected the Tseung Kwan O factory of the lunch supplier, Sun Generation, yesterday and said they were satisfied with its standard of hygiene.
'This factory is one of the best I have seen in years and we believe the source of the contamination may lay somewhere else, like the tuckshop of the school,' committee vice-chairman Ting Yin-wah said.
He said there were no hygiene regulations for tuckshops because they did not need a licence to operate.
CHOW CHUNG-YAN
