Announcement by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region dated 16 July 2018

Under the Food Business Regulation (Chapter 132X), save with the written permission of the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, no person shall sell any restricted foods, including shell fish. The hairy crab is a kind of shell fish. In this connection, written permission must be obtained from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department for the sale of hairy crabs. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has prepared a new permit for operators selling hairy crabs to apply. The permit requires, inter alia, that hairy crabs for sale must be obtained from lawful sources accompanied with health certificates acceptable to the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene.