Dear Food and Environmental Hygiene Department,

Concerning about the health problems of people in Hong Kong caused by high intake of salt, my classmate and I are doing a research based on the government programme “‘Salt/Sugar’ Label Scheme for Prepackaged Food Products” (mainly focus on salt) (relevant information that we have already found is from the website https://www.cfs.gov.hk/sc_chi/multimedia...), trying to evaluate the current condition of this programme and help promote it. Therefore, we are writing this letter to request for relevant data and information to further continue our research and give suggestions to help try to solve the problem.

Q1. Please provide the list (including total number) of manufacturers registering this programme on the label of “no salt/low salt” every year; the latest list (including total number) of registered manufacturers on the label of “no salt’ and “low salt”; the list (including total number) of products in this programme on the label of “no salt/low salt” every year; the latest list (including total number) of products in this programme on the label of “no salt’ and “low salt”.

Q2. Some relevant data responding to the Q1 are available on the website https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/programme..., but they are difficult to curate. Please kindly upload the data to the government data portal https://data.gov.hk/sc/.

Yours faithfully,

ZHANG Luting