Food and Environmental Hygiene Department

Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
食物環境衞生署
Agency overview
Formed1 January 2000 (2000-01-01)
Preceding agencies
Headquarters44/F Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong
Employees11,153 (March 2014)[1]
Annual budgetHK$5,667,200,000 (2014-15 estimate)[1]
Agency executive
  • Irene Young, Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene
Parent agencyEnvironment and Ecology Bureau
Child agency
Websitewww.fehd.gov.hk
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
Traditional Chinese食物環境衞生署
Simplified Chinese食物环境衞生署
JyutpingSik6 mat6 waan4 ging2 wai6 sang1 cyu5
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShíwù Huánjìng Wèishēng Shǔ
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationSihk maht wàahn gíng waih sāng chyúh
JyutpingSik6 mat6 waan4 ging2 wai6 sang1 cyu5
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese食環署
Simplified Chinese食环署
JyutpingSik6 waan4 cyu5
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShíhuánshǔ
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationSihk wàahn chyúh
JyutpingSik6 waan4 cyu5

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) is a department of the Hong Kong Government, reporting to the Environment and Ecology Bureau. It is responsible for food hygiene and environmental hygiene. It replaced part of the role of the Urban Council and the Urban Services Department, and the Regional Council and the Regional Services Department.

  1. ^ a b "Estimates for the year ending 31 March 2015" (PDF). 2014-15 Budget. Hong Kong Government. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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