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Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK

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Food Law News - FAO / WHO / WTO / Codex - 2016

Codex Meeting Report, 11 November 2016

CODEX - Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (48th Session)

Given below is the summary and Status of Work table presented in the Report of the Forty-Eighth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene held in Los Angeles, United States of America on 7 – 11 November 2016.

A copy of the report is available at: CCFH48 Codex Committee on Food Hygiene

Responsible Party

Purpose

Text/Topic

Code

Step

Para.

Members

CCEXEC73

CAC40

Adoption

Proposed Draft Revision of the Code of Hygienic Practice for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

CAC/RCP 53-2003

5/8

36

CCEXEC73

CAC40

Proposal

Proposed Draft Regional Code of Hygienic Practice for Street-Vended Foods in Asia (endorsement)

-

-

9

CCFL44

Proposal

Revision of the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods: date marking

CODEX STAN 1-1985

-

7

EWG/PWG (United Kingdom, France, Ghana, India, Mexico, United States of America)

CCFH49

Redrafting

Proposed Draft Revision of the General Principles of Food Hygiene and Its HACCP Annex

CAC/RCP 1-1969

2/3

32

EWG (Japan, United States of America)

CCFH49

Redrafting

Proposed Draft Guidance on Histamine Control

-

2/3

39-51

CCFH48

Discontinuation

Proposal to Merge All Guidance for Control of Foodborne Parasites: Guidelines on the Application of General Principles of Food Hygiene to the Control of Foodborne Parasites

CAC/GL 85-2014, - CAC/GL 86-2015 and CAC/GL 88-2016

-

55

Members

PWG (United States of America)

CCFH49

Comments/ Discussion

New work proposals / Forward Workplan

-

-

59

United States of America, Uruguay

JEMRA (2017)

CCFH50

Drafting

Discussion paper on future work on Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC)

-

-

63

FAO/WHO

CCFH49

Request

Guidance for the use of clean water

-

-

64

 

 

 


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