The Centre for Food Safety of Hong Kong's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department announced on October 12, 2026, that a sample of bottled preserved bean curd contained Bacillus cereus at 140,000 per gram. Under the Microbiological Guidelines for Food, ready-to-eat food with more than 100,000 per gram is considered unsatisfactory.

The product, labelled 公和荳品廠 — 玫瑰腐乳 with no English product name, weighs 340.5 grams and originated in China, according to the centre. It was collected from a retailer in Shum Shui Po under the routine Food Surveillance Programme. The sales period for the affected batch was September 24 to October 9, 2026.

The centre said it informed the retailer and instructed it to stop sale, remove the product from shelves and recall the batch. The batch comprised only 48 bottles, 26 of which were sold at the retailer during that period, and the retailer voluntarily surrendered the remainder for disposal. The centre said Bacillus cereus is common in the environment and can grow under unhygienic processing and storage conditions, and that consuming contaminated food may cause vomiting and diarrhoea. It said its investigation is ongoing.