Melco receives food safety accreditation for all of its hotel properties

Melco Crown Entertainment has announced that all of its hotel properties in Macau have been awarded the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification by the Société Générale de Surveillance Limited (SGS). According to a press release issued by Melco, the company’s flagship integrated resort, City of Dreams, was the first in Macau to have received the HACCP food safety certification in 2011. This summer, Altira Macau, Melco’s Forbes five-star hotel in Taipa, was also granted the certification. Melco Crown Entertainment is the first and only company in Macau to have reached this achievement. It signifies that the standard of food safety at the company’s hotel properties has reached an international standard, and that the team’s efforts have been well-recognized.
HACCP is an international standard for food safety and hygiene requirements in the food and catering industry.  It has provided a uniform preventive production control program to ensure food safety.  HACCP is one of the leading food management and traceability systems used worldwide to enable food monitoring and to prevent microbiological, chemical and physical contamination along the food supply chain.
A certificate presentation ceremony was held yesterday at Altira Macau.  Mr Kristoffer Luczak, vice president of Food and Beverages at Melco Crown Entertainment, received the coveted HACCP certificate for Altira Macau from Ms Miranda Kwan, Deputy Director of SGS Hong Kong Ltd.  Melco Crown Entertainment’s Co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr Lawrence Ho, was joined by guests from the Health Bureau, Consumer Council, Food Safety Center of Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, and from various other associations. He congratulated the team on their accomplishment, which is unprecedented in Macau.

Macau gaming show receives support from two gov’t departments

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) and the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) have agreed to support the Macao Gaming Show (MGS). According to a press release by MGS, the authorities’ support “is regarded as a great motivator and an endorsement of what the organizers have achieved in promoting the healthy development of the gaming industry, as well as the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) industry, in Macau. It is also recognition of MGS’s efforts in supporting the government policy plan of diversifying the Macau economy, helping to raise the international profile of Macau as an undisputed center for the gaming industry and a leading destination for MICE.”
Jay Chun, chairman of the Macau Gaming Equipment Manufacturers Association (MGEMA) and the organizer of MGS, said: “Last year, MGS attracted 102 exhibitors and 8,000 visitors, and many of them came from overseas.  With support from IPIM, we hope that MGS 2014 can attract more international gaming companies to do business in or invest in Macau. (…) DICJ has a very close involvement with our industry. They provide guidance on the definition and execution of the economic policies on gaming to the chief executive of the Macau SAR. Gaming is now the pillar industry in Macau and, of course, it is fitting to have a leading exhibition that knows the local industry and represents it on the world stage.”