Food sampling

Collected a total of 2244 individual samples on two sampling occasions within one year
  • Sampling was conducted on two sampling occasions, i.e. from February to August 2023, and from August 2023 to January 2024, to address possible seasonal variations.
  • On each sampling occasion, six individual samples were collected for each of the 187 TDS food items.
Collected samples from various retail premises across different districts in Hong Kong as well as online sales platforms
  • Sampling locations included supermarkets, wet markets, grocery shops, restaurants, etc. and also online sales platforms.
  • Samples were collected from retail premises across different districts in Hong Kong, except for prepackaged food samples which might not be sampled evenly from different districts.
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