Food Factory Licence

Making canned, bottled or other packaged foods and drinks; making soy sauce, pickles or sauces (including seasoning powder and MSG); curing foods such as dried and cured meats, smoked ham, sausages, lo mei and preserved fruit; catering and banquet services, and roasting meat or poultry; making desserts; making tofu, soy milk, dried tofu and fermented bean curd; making noodles, rice noodles, thin noodles, macaroni, spaghetti and vermicelli; making snacks such as peanuts, prawn crackers and crisps, and pastries; making gluten and gluten products such as vegetarian lo mei; processed foods such as fish balls, prawn balls, meat balls and pork rind; and making 蒸麪水 and bottled drinking water.

A food factory selling takeaway cooked food or fast food needs a total food room area of at least 6 sq m; one that only reheats or warms cooked food for sale needs at least 3.5 sq m.

For fire safety, premises on the fourth basement level or below, and premises directly below a registered school or child care centre that pose a fire risk to it, are not suitable for this licence.

A temporary stall selling pre-cooked food for eating away from the event needs a temporary food factory licence, valid for not more than 7 days. The licensee may sell only food pre-cooked by a licensed food factory, and may reheat it electrically but not cook.