Licensed food premises in Hong Kong (other than restaurants)

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Licensed food premises in Hong Kong (other than restaurants)

Besides restaurants, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department licenses food factories, fresh provision shops, bakeries, siu mei and lo mei shops, frozen confection and milk factories, cold stores and factory canteens. This page lists all 16,463 such licences on FEHD’s daily list — 11,523 of them food factories: search by shop sign, address or licence number, or browse by district.

Lists: Fresh provision shop 3,085 · Bakery 406 · Siu mei and lo mei shop 353 · Frozen confection factory 554 · Factory canteen 443 · Cold store 90 · Milk factory 9 · Live poultry 41 · Fresh poultry 22 · Shell fish 756 · Hairy crab 283 · Lunch boxes 211 · Sashimi 659 · Sushi 641 · ISO 22000 110

How to check a food licence

1. Search FEHD’s list of licensed food premises by shop sign or address, and compare the licence number and address. FEHD says customers can verify through its list whether a food supplier is issued with a food business licence.
2. FEHD updates its list daily and this site copies it weekly, so FEHD’s list is the authority.

What each licence covers is explained in FEHD’s Guide on Types of Licences Required; the table below quotes it. Restaurants are on their own list: see licensed restaurants.

What is on the list

Licensed food premises (other than restaurants) by district

An entry belongs to the district its address is in: the point FEHD’s geotagged copy of the list gives for it (matched by licence number), inside the Home Affairs Department’s district boundary; an entry without a usable point is placed by the district FEHD’s list gives (it splits Yau Tsim Mong into Yau Tsim and Mong Kok, one district here), and failing that from its address. Each district page lists every entry there, 250 to a page.

What each licence covers

In the words of FEHD’s Guide on Types of Licences Required, a licence is needed for a food business which involves:

• Food Factory Licence: the preparation of food for sale for human consumption off the premises — the common trades include operating a take-away food shop or providing catering service, roasting meat or poultry, and making noodles
  11,523 on the list
• Fresh Provision Shop Licence: the sale of fresh, chilled or frozen beef, mutton, pork, reptiles (including live reptiles), fish (including live fish) or poultry (including live poultry)
  3,085 on the list
• Bakery Licence: the baking of bread and other bakery products for sale
  406 on the list
• Siu Mei and Lo Mei Shop Licence: the sale by retail of siu mei or lo mei, supplied by licensed food factories or other lawful sources
  353 on the list
• Frozen Confection Factory Licence: the manufacture of any frozen confection, including soft ice cream made from a pre-prepared mixture in a dispensing machine for direct retail
  554 on the list
• Factory Canteen Licence: the sale or supply of meals or unbottled non-alcoholic drinks (other than Chinese herb tea) in a factory building, for consumption on the premises by persons employed in any factory in that building
  443 on the list
• Cold Store Licence: the storage of articles of food under refrigeration in any warehouse
  90 on the list
• Milk Factory Licence: the processing or reconstitution of milk or any milk beverage
  9 on the list
• Composite Food Shop Licence: the sale and preparation for sale of various specified types of simple or ready-to-eat foods that do not involve complicated preparation, for consumption off the premises (electricity only as fuel)
  0 on the list

What FEHD’s information codes mean

FEHD’s list marks a licence’s special endorsements with an information code. In FEHD’s words, with how many licences on the list carry each:

• #D Licensed food premises that are recognized by FEHD for the revised inspection regime after fully implemented the food safety system under ISO 22000 and obtained the ISO 22000 Certification
  110 licences on the list (1%)
• #G Licensed restaurant approved to sell sashimi for consumption on the premises
  659 licences on the list (4%)
• #H Licensed restaurant approved to sell sushi for consumption on the premises
  641 licences on the list (4%)
• #I Licensed fresh provision shop approved to sell live poultry (excluding live water birds and live quails)
  41 licences on the list (0%)
• #J Licensed food factories approved to supply lunch boxes
  211 licences on the list (1%)
• #Q Licensed fresh provision shop approved to sell fresh poultry (excluding water birds)
  22 licences on the list (0%)
• #R Licensed fresh provision shop approved to sell shell fish (other than hairy crab)
  756 licences on the list (5%)
• #S Licensed fresh provision shop approved to sell shell fish (hairy crab)
  283 licences on the list (2%)

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