HONG KONG — Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Laboratory will increase the number of chemical tests of food outsourced in the coming year, Secretary for Food and Health York Chow said here Wednesday.
However, there is no plan to outsource microbiological tests at this stage, he added.
Chow told lawmakers the laboratory outsourced 22,000 chemical tests of food to private laboratories in 2008-09, equivalent to about 15 percent of the routine food tests in the fiscal year.
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