People dialling the Food & Environmental Hygiene Department hotline on 2868 0000 will now hear the department's new year wishes and messages on food safety and environmental hygiene in Cantonese, Putonghua and English.

Besides delivering the best wishes for the year of the rooster, the trilingual system will also furnish people with important health messages covering food updates, food safety, food poisoning and other gastro-intestinal diseases, mosquito prevention and environmental hygiene issues.

Interesting stories on various subjects have been uploaded onto the hotline system to arouse public interest. Fax transmission service is also available to enable callers to obtain fax copies of the information they need.

More information on the hotline system is available here.