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Codex Alimentarius to approve codes on animal feeding and foods for children


The 27th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission takes place in Geneva from 28 June to 3 July 2004. The Codex is a joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), aiming at setting food standards, guidelines and codes of practice.

In particular, the 27th session of the Codex Commission is urged to formally approve a Code of Practice on Good Animal Feeding establishing a feed safety system for food producing animals as well as to revise the 23-year-old Recommended International Code of Practice for Foods for Infants and Children. The Commission will also consider re-establishing the ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology.

 27th session agenda and related documents
 Press release WHO/FAO

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The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission has 170 member countries, all of which are members of FAO or WHO or both. The European Community is also a Codex member organization. The main work on standard setting is carried out in the more than 20 Codex Committees and Task Forces. The Codex Commission adopts the standards proposed by these Committees and Task Forces and sets the Commission’s future work plan.

Last modified on July 2 2004.

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