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2005

• Document: Report of the Sixteenth Session of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Africa.
• Source: Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Twenty-Eighth Session , Italy , 4 – 9 July 2005.
• Extract: There is no comprehensive legislation for food safety in Lesotho. However, general elements of food safety are contained in the Public Health Order of 1970, administered by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Legislation on marketing of agricultural products also contains some aspects of food safety as do laws on tourism and trade. Efforts are at an advanced stage to enact a more comprehensive and modern legislation, the principal objective of which will be to bring together stakeholders through constitution of a representative Governing Board. Current thrust of activity is to develop policy instruments, including institutional arrangements, to ensure wider participation by stakeholders, political support to food safety activities and national ownership of food safety initiatives.The Standards and Quality Assurance Department, the lead agency responsible for food control programme, has evolved from the consumer section of the same Ministry, and has good collaborative relationship with that section on all activities, including Codex related initiatives. However, direct collaboration with consumer organizations is hampered by fragmentations and weakness of the latter. The Food Control Act, currently in draft, has a provision for formal consumer representation at the Board level. At the same time there is draft legislation on consumer protection which seeks to streamline relationships with government’s structures.
• Link: http://www.codexalimentarius.net/download/report/632/al28_28e.pdf

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