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The result showed that the methylmercury content was 1.1 mg per kilogram, exceeding the legal standard of 0.5 mg per kilogram; the merchant involved was informed and ordered to stop selling the affected product.<br \/>The Food Safety Centre is tracing the source and distribution of the product and will continue to follow up. If there is sufficient evidence, prosecution will be initiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food Safety Centre, through its routine food monitoring program, took a silver cod fish sample from a merchant in North Kwai Chung Market for testing and found that the metallic impurity methylmercury exceeded the legal standard. 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