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[...] [...] prevent suicides and other sudden [...]

Some members expressed reservations about the proposal of culling all poultry when there were outbreaks of avian influenza in two local farms.

Excessive exposure to some pesticides may cause acute adverse health effects (e.g. methamidophos and triazophos, may affect the nervous system) whereas other pesticides have shown to cause chronic adverse health effects (e.g. lindane may affect the liver and kidney; and dicofol may affect foetal development) in animals.

[...] [...] standards might mislead consumers.

As a result, goods carried by road often have to be trans-shipped at border areas or loading points along a designated route.

We provide a range of preventive, supportive and remedial programmes and services through Integrated Family Service Centres (IFSCs), Integrated Services Centres (ISCs), medical social services units in hospitals and clinics, school social work service, integrated children and youth service centres, as well as outreaching social work teams, in order to help young people, families and other vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities, with suicidal risk to cope with adversities, and strengthen their support network.

One of the deceased was found to have committed suicide, five to have died by natural causes, three by accident, the remaining one was concluded by the Coroner as an open verdict case.

There were different causes to these passenger-on-track cases, which include accidents in which passengers fall onto the track (for example, under the influence of alcohol or medicine, due to sickness, and so on); suicides and attempted suicides; and trespasses onto the track (for example, passengers trying to retrieve items fallen onto the track, crossing the track to the platform on the other side, and so on).

We also announced our plan to cull all live poultry in Hong Kong’s retail markets if there are two confirmed H5N1 cases in our retail markets.

In view of the strict time schedule and the associated costs attached to any delay in the schedule of the capital master plan, the Secretary-General proposed to lease a commercial data centre facility, starting on 1 July 2009, and to engage the services of the International Computing Centre to install new information and communications technology (ICT) equipment in this readyto-use facility, migrate all systems to the new secondary data centre and manage some of the operations of the new secondary data centre (see A/63/743).

Suicide prevention is one [...]

In view of the complexity of the functions related to the occupational groups, the magnitude of the rosters, the levels of interaction with partners in the Organization and the need to mitigate the margin of error and the level of risk for the Organization, in particular, implications for the safety and security of staff and management of high-cost equipment, the scope of the function requires personnel at the P-4 level.

Any person who is convicted of manslaughter shall be liable to imprisonment for life and to pay such fine as the court may award.

The HKSAR Government is committed to working closely with different sectors including NGOs, medical and healthcare professionals, and academics by adopting a multi-pronged and cross-disciplinary approach to tackling the suicidal risk factors of persons with disabilities and promoting suicide prevention in the community.

[...] [...] account for delays in certain cases [...]

[...] [...] assessment of their suicide risk.

Moreover, Codex does not cover all the pesticides used in our major exporting countries (e.g. Codex does not provide standards for bisultap which is a registered pesticide in the Mainland) and all food items of local interest (e.g. leafy vegetables are commonly consumed in Hong Kong, however, Codex has only established standards for a limited range of these food commodities).

This will kill the direct marketing industry which has been creating employment opportunities and contributing much to the Hong Kong economy.

The VOC can be emitted from various sources such as construction materials, furnishings, cosmetics, cleansing agents, pesticides, and tobacco smoke, but not all of the VOC are harmful to human health.

The Administration also planned to cull all live poultry in Hong Kong’s retail markets if there were two confirmed H5N1 cases in retail markets.

(c) Elderly suicide prevention programme of the HA: This is a territory-wide initiative for early detection of problems at the community level, and prompt assessment and treatment at fast track clinics.

Recommendation: (The Committee) further recommends that in Hong Kong SAR, the State party continue to strengthen its efforts to prevent youth suicide.

Since 2002, dedicated services have been provided through subventing the Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong, an NGO operating a Suicide Crisis Intervention Centre, to provide outreaching, immediate intervention and intensive counselling services for persons in need.

(a) Pilot project on the prevention of elderly suicide: LWB and the Elderly Commission jointly launched the two-year Pilot Neighbourhood Active Ageing Project - Prevention of Elderly Suicide in April 2009 to disseminate the message of cherishing life among elders, identify and support elders with suicidal tendency, and step up suicide prevention work through neighbourhood support networks.

[...] [...] of elderly suicide through early [...] [...]

Concerns have arisen regarding whether microwave cooking can kill the food-borne pathogens as effective as conventional methods since microwave cooking generally requires shorter times and may sometimes result in lower temperatures at the food surface.

Pesticide” means any substance intended for preventing, destroying, attracting, repelling, or controlling any pest including unwanted species of plants or animals during the production, storage, transport, distribution and processing of food, agricultural commodities, or animal feeds or which may be administered to animals for the control of ectoparasites.