To advise the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene on

• existing or new food safety operational strategies and measures to protect public health;

• standards/guidelines relating to food safety and food composition and their suitable adoption in Hong Kong having regard to international practices, trends and developments;

• the strategies for risk communication to promote food safety and how best to implement relevant risk communication or public education programmes; and

• any new directions for any research to be commissioned by the Centre for Food Safety.