Food Safety in Hong Kong: 2014

2014年12月9日星期二

Research Skills Big6 - Step 2. Information Seeking Strategies

The purpose of this step is to help students to determine a focus for the research, narrow the topic and develop questions.

1. What are the best sources to use ?

You can select relevant information from reliable sources. You can use the following criteria to help you assess the quality of sources:

whether the author is listed
credentials of an author
whether there is a bias or a commercial interest
how current the information is
provision of links to other references and resources

2. What type of information do I need?

You can include both primary and secondary sources. As for primary sources, you can include pictures, facts, statistics, data and figures. Commentary, editorials and opinions are examples of secondary sources.

The tutorials below tell you how to use the resources on the Internet effectively to do yourresearch. They can also help you differentiate primary and secondary sources.

Tools
1. Information Seeking Method
http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/Big_Six_Step_2.asp

2.Making a List of Possible Sources
http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/05_Possible_sources_List.asp

Research Skills Big6 - Step 1. Task definition

Guideline to students – Following the research skill Big 6 framework

What are the questions I need to answer?

You need to raise questions about the food safety in Hong Kong that you find interesting and would like to explore, for example the contaminated meat that McDonald uesd in Hong Kong.

How is it relevant in my life?

You need to explain why you choose a particular area of interest and explain how it interests you.

Tools

Selecting a topic

http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/01_Selecting_A_Research_Topic.asp

Focusing on a small topic

http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/08_focusing_a_topic.asp

2014年12月8日星期一

Information Sources

Government Websites

1. Food Safety Center

http://www.cfs.gov.hk/eindex.html

2. Risk Assessment in Food Safety

http://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/programme/programme_rafs/programme_rafs.html

3. Food Surveillance Programme

http://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/programme/programme_fs/programme_fs.html

4.Food Safety andHygiene
http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/health/foodsafe/foodsafety.htm

Recommendation:Students can fond the latest news from the Centre for Food Safety's website.

Online Feature Articles and Commentary

1. ‘Gutter Oil’ Scandal Raises Food-Safety Fears Once Again in Greater China From Time

http://time.com/3300093/taiwan-gutter-oil-hong-kong-chang-guann-maxims-cakes-starbucks-7-eleven/#3300093/taiwan-gutter-oil-hong-kong-chang-guann-maxims-cakes-starbucks-7-eleven/

Recommendation: An acticle from Time reporting the food safety problem in Hong Kong.

2. Radioactive Oatmeal Found in Hong Kong Supermarket

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/08/radioactive-oatmeal-found-in-hong-kong-supermarket/

Recommendation: An acticle from Food Safety News website reporting the food safety problem in Hong Kong.

Book Recommentions

1.How to implement a food safety plan / Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.

Hong Kong (China). Food and Environmental Hygiene Dept. ,2002.

Details:

Bib ID	002128609
Call Number	614.3 FOO
Author	Hong Kong (China). Food and Environmental Hygiene Dept
Physical Description	47 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Publication	Hong Kong : The Dept., [2002]
Notes	Cover title. "6/2002"--Back cover.

Relevent Videos

1. https://hk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrwNFr_AGtUPiEADwezygt.?

p=food+safety+in+hong+kong&fr=uh3_news_web_gs&fr2=piv-web

Food Safety

2. https://hk.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrwNFr_AGtUPiEADwezygt.?

p=food+safety+in+hong+kong&fr=uh3_news_web_gs&fr2=piv-web

McDonalds Meat

2014年12月2日星期二

Inquiry Learning : Food Safety in Hong Kong

This blog is designed for students studying issue concerns on 'Food Safety in Hong Kong' related to the topic 'Public Health' in HKDSE Liberal Studies through inquiry learning. Selected resources, e.g. web sites, news clips, video clips are provided to inspire and guide the student to conduct the research on their own.

Research Topic