All 239 samples of Lunar New Year festive food have passed chemical and microbiological tests by the Centre for Food Safety.

Samples were collected from food factories, restaurants and retailers, including dried aquatic product shops, supermarkets and bakeries.

They included turnip puddings, sweet cakes, fried sesame balls, crispy triangles, sweetened fruit, glutinous rice balls, melon seeds, dried vegetable and soybean products, dried aquatic products and preserved meat.

Chemical tests targeted preservatives, colourings, antioxidants, metallic contamination and aflatoxin while microbiological tests covered pathogenic bacteria, like salmonella, Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureus.