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The Hong Kong government maintains a Food Incident Surveillance System (FISS) to monitor and proactively respond to foreign food incidents that could impact food products entering Hong Kong. In 2021, the CFS detected around 2,200 food incidents from the FISS.

On April 6, the Hong Kong government announced that during precautionary testing at the point of import, the packaging sample of a Brazilian offal shipment tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.

The Hong Kong government notified the World Trade Organization that it adjusted the ban on commercial imports of live rodents and lagomorphs to cover only commercial imports of live hamsters effective on April 1, 2022. In 2021, Hong Kong’s global imports of small mammals grew 14 percent to $2.5 million.

There are no changes since the last report. There is no mandatory labeling regulation for Genetically Engineered (GE) products.

Hong Kong is expected to implement regulatory control of edible fats and oils following a public consultation period which will impact $14 million in U.S. exports of vegetable and animal fat exports..

ATO Hong Kong conducted a two-day outreach program with interested stakeholders on the regulation and utilization of genetically engineered products in the U.S. food chain.