Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
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| agency_name = Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
| nativename_a = 食物環境衞生署
| logo = Food and Environmental Hygiene Department logo.png
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| headquarters = 44/F Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong
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| employees = 11,127 (March 2008) [http://www.budget.gov.hk/2008/eng/pdf/head049.pdf]
| budget = 4,390.7m [[HKD]] (2008-09) [http://www.budget.gov.hk/2008/eng/pdf/head049.pdf]
| chief1_name = Mr WH Cheuk [[Justice of the Peace#Hong Kong | JP]]
| chief1_position = Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene
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| website = [http://www.fehd.gov.hk/ www.fehd.gov.hk]
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'''Food and Environmental Hygiene Department''' ({{zh-t|t=食物環境衞生署}}), or '''FEHD''' (食環署) for short, is a department of [[Hong Kong Government]], reporting to the [[Health, Welfare and Food Bureau]]. It is The department 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, Hong Kong|Regional Council]] and the [[Regional Services Department]].
The Chief Executive announced in October 2005 in his [[policy address]] the plan to restructure the department into a new [[Food Safety, Inspection and Quarantine Department]], with the responsibility of environmental hygiene transferred to the [[Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department]].
==Re-organisation of Policy Bureaux==
Because of Re-organisation of Policy Bureaux, which will be effective on [[July 1]], [[2007]], FEHD was divided into two bureaux:
* [[Food and Health Bureau]]
* [[Environment Bureau]]
==Health Education Exhibition and Resources Centre==
It now manages [[Health Education Exhibition and Resources Centre]] in [[Kowloon Park]].
[[Category:Hong Kong government departments and agencies]]
[[Category:Law enforcement agencies of Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Public health and safety in Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Waste management in Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Hong Kong government departments and agencies]]
[[Category:Hong Kong Government]]
[[zh:食物環境衞生署]]