A green group has called for food safety standards to be established after a series of food contamination scares.
Friends of the Earth director Mei Ng Fong Siu-mei urged the Government yesterday to develop its own standard of food safety.
She told the RTHK City Forum that lead content in baby milk powder in Hong Kong was 30 times higher than in Australia, Denmark and Sweden as the SAR used safety standards that covered adults.
Legislator Leong Che-hung, representing the medical sector, said the idea to set up safety standards would meet difficulties.
'Since most of the food in Hong Kong is imported, the cost of establishing our own safety standard may be very high,' he said.
He suggested a food and drug authority be set up to monitor food safety and use of drugs.
