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Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on Food Poisoning Related to Home-based Food Businesses

25 September 2025

Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on Food Poisoning Related to Home-based Food Businesses by Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment

Question:

To ask the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment in the past five years (a) what is the annual number of food poisoning cases that have occurred as a result of consuming food sold by home-based food businesses; and (b) what actions are taken in these cases.


Answer:

1 Over the past five years, SFA investigated an annual average of one suspected case of food poisoning incident linked to consuming food sold by home-based food businesses. The investigations did not find any causative link between the food sold and the food poisoning incidents.

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