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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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February 24, 2006
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Courts
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Illicit butcher jailed

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Food & Environmental Hygiene Department

A two-way permit holder who operated an illegal poultry slaughtering factory in Yuen Long has been jailed three months and fined $2,000 by Tuen Mun Magistracy.

 

He was convicted today of operating an unlicensed food factory, keeping livestock without a licence, and breaching conditions of stay.

 

Food & Environmental Hygiene Department officers arrested the man at the Kai Pak Leng factory on February 17.