Скачать или смотреть Reactions to decision to suspend mainland pork imports

(28 Jul 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Wide shot of exterior of Hong Kong Legislative Council
2. Close up of Hong Kong and Chinese flags
3. Pan of meeting
4. Wide of officials
5. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Dr York Chow, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food:
"In order to respond to citizens' concerns, we have reflected people's worries to China. The mainland's department in charge, today, the 28th of July, has voluntarily stopped the export of pork, mutton and other kinds of meat from the province of Sichuan temporarily, until the plague ceases."
6. Cutaway of government officials
7. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Dr York Chow, Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food:
"These kinds of bacteria can be found in all raw pork. However, finding these bacteria in pork doesn't mean the pork is not hygienic or not suitable for eating. Therefore, what is most important is the pork should be cooked before eating. Nobody eats raw pork. So I think it is the most important message for the citizens."
8. Wide of reporters at meeting
9. Wide of butchers in a pork shop
10. Close up of butchers cutting pork
11. Wide of customer buying pork
12. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Voxpop, May Wong:
"Government says it is safe (to eat pork), we surely dare eat it."
13. Customer buying frozen pork
14. Close up of frozen pork
15. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Voxpop, Peggy Cheng,
"It is because by observation, you won't be able to tell if it (pork) has a problem. If you know it (pork that carries the bacteria) is after you have eaten it, it is already too late."
16. Various exteriors of a supermarket

STORYLINE

Exports of pork, mutton and other meat from China's Sichuan Province to Hong Kong were temporarily suspended on Thursday after a pig-borne disease killed 27 people in the southwestern province.

Sichuan exports about 40 percent of its pork to Hong Kong, and the rest worldwide.

Also on Thursday, Hong Kong confirmed another case of the streptococcus suis infection - the tenth such case in Hong Kong since 2004 - and said it has sent a team to Sichuan to study the disease.

Dr York Chow, Hong Kong's Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, said the finding of streptococcus suis, a bacteria commonly found in pigs, didn't mean pork was not safe to eat, however.

He stressed that it was important to ensure the meat was properly cooked.

Legislators urged the government to start testing raw meat to protect the public.

Hong Kong has not conducted any special bacteria tests on 18,000 tons (19,800 short tons) of Sichuan pork imported this year.

Some Hong Kong residents on Thursday said they are still eating pork, while others expressed their fears of getting sick.

The two main supermarkets in Hong Kong, Welcome and Park'n Shop, have stopped selling pork imported from Sichuan.

The pig-borne illness has infected 131 people in Sichuan in the last month, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.

Hong Kong today has confirmed one case of Streptococcus suis infection (the pig disease), the 10th infection case since 2004 in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong government has already sent a team to Sichuan for studying the disease.

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