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The department's orange colour is adopted in the Centre logo plus the green colour representing "safety and hope". The letters 'C', 'F' and 'S' are abbreviation for
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Within the first months after the centre is set up, legislators complained that the centre had been doing too little to effective control food safety in Hong Kong.
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Plans to form a separate agency to specifically tackle food safety were proposed in 2005, following multiple food safety incidents including an outbreak of
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on 18 January 2006, citing concerns of marginalising veterinarians and lacking clarity.
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Dr WONG Wang, Christine, Controller, Centre for Food Safety
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