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EPD
to provide disposal service for contaminated products
To help
those suppliers, wholesalers and retailers who are experiencing
storage problems, Environmental Protection Department (EPD)
will provide disposal service of products which may have been
contaminated with dioxin.
An EPD spokesman said: "Suppliers, wholesalers and retailers
should preferably store the foodstuff pending Department of
Health's (D of H) confirmation of its safety.
"If,
however, private companies consider that the perishable foodstuff
has to be disposed of now, before the above confirmation,
they can contact the EPD at 2706 8888 during office hours
for disposal arrangements," the spokesman said.
The spokesman
said suspected foodstuff could be disposed of at the SENT
landfill which has been designed for co-disposal of contaminated
wastes, and special disposal arrangements will be made. This
is an acceptable means of disposal.
"In
order to ensure the foodstuff can be handled in an appropriate
manner, prior notification of delivery will be required by
contacting the above telephone number.
"The
handling of such material does not pose any immediate health
risk. The disposal arrangements will be reviewed in the unlikely
event that levels of contamination are higher than anticipated,"
he said.
He went
on to say: "Private companies should not dump the foodstuffs
at the refuse collection points.
"Although
foodstuff dumped into the refuse will not be an immediate
risk to waste handlers or the public, it is important that
the quantities of materials disposed are monitored by EPD
through the notification system mentioned before," he
said.
End/Monday,
June 14, 1999
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