The European agriculture is taking the first hits against the spread of H7 avian influenza as the Hong Kong government has put the brakes on certain imports.

A team consisted of 59 legal experts has been formed in China to facilitate the country's work on tobacco control.

Yang Qing, an official from China's Ministry of Health of China, disclosed at a recent press conference that, from January 2011, smoking will be banned entirely from all indoor public places, work places, on public transportation, and other areas on the Chinese mainland.

Huang Jiefu, the vice minister of China's Ministry of Health, has disclosed to local media that China will limit vehicle use on 493 streets on 449 cities across the country on April 11, 2010 to facilitate various public health activities to be held on that day.

China Charity Federation and China Health Education Center, together with several other parties in China, have jointly launched a public welfare initiative to increase the public's awareness of rare diseases.

China's Ministry of Health will make some adjustment to iodised salt by lowering the iodine level.

Hong Kong's Consumer Council has conducted a massive test on 40 samples of bottled water and found that Perrier, a water product of Nestle which is used as a complimentary drink by some star-rated hotels to their clients, contains a high level of nitrite.