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Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK

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Food Law News - FAO / WHO / WTO / Codex - 2018

Codex Meeting Report, 14 April 2018

CODEX - Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (50th Session)

Given below is the Summary and Status of Work table presented in the Report of the 50th Session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues held in Haikou, P.R.China, 9-14 April 2018.

Report of the 50th Session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues

A copy of the report can be downloaded from the Codex website (click on image)

 

Responsible Party

Purpose

Text/Topic

Code

Step

Para(s). App

Members CCEXEC75 CAC41

Adoption

MRLs for different combinations of pesticide/commodity(ies) proposed by adoption by CCPR49

-

5/8

App. II 117

CCEXEC75 CAC41

Revocation

CXLs for different combinations of pesticide/commodity(ies) proposed for revocation by CCPR49

-

-

App. III 117

JMPR 2018  (or future sessions) Members CCPR51  (or future sessions)

Action / Information

MRLs for different combinations of pesticide/commodity(ies) that were retained by CCPR awaiting further assessment from JMPR

-

4 7

App(s) IV & V 117

CCEXEC75 CAC41

Information

MRLs for different combinations of pesticide/commodity(ies) that were withdrawn (discontinued) by CCPR

-

4 7

App. VI 110

Members CCEXEC75 CAC41

Adoption

Revision of the Classification of Food and Feed:  Type 04: Nuts, seeds and saps; Type 05: Herbs and spices

-

5/8,

8

App(s) VII & VIII 118 & 120

Tables on examples of representative commodities for vegetable commodity groups (for inclusion in the Principles and Guidance for the Selection of Representative Commodities for the Extrapolation of MRLs for Pesticides to Commodity Groups (CXG 84-2012)) Table 4: Nuts, seeds and saps Table 5: Herbs and spices

 

-

5/8

App(s) VII & VIII 127

EWG (USA and Netherlands) Members CCPR51

Action

Revision of the Classification of Food and Feed for selected commodity groups

Tables on examples of representative commodities for selected commodity groups

 

-

2/3

App. X 124 & 129

 

Codex Secretariat CCPR51

Action /  Information

Impact of the revised commodity groups and subgroups in Type 03, Type 04 and Type 05 on the CXLs

-

-

App. IX 121

EWG (Netherlands, Australia, Uganda) CCPR51

Action

Review of the IESTI equations (possible revision of the IESTI equations)

-

-

App(s) XI & XII 137

CCEXEC75 CAC41 JMPR 2019

Approval  (new work)

Priority list of pesticides for evaluation by the 2019 JMPR

-

1/2/3

App. XIII 153

EWG (Australia  with the assistance of Kenya, Chile and Canada) Members CCPR51

Action  (follow-up by CCPR / JMPR)

JMPR schedules for evaluations of pesticides

-

-

Action

Discussion paper on management of unsupported compounds

 

 

EWG  (Germany and Australia) Members CCPR51

Action

Information on national registration of pesticides

Establishment of a Codex database of national registration of pesticides

-

-

157

EWG (Chile, India and USA) Members CCPR51

Action

Discussion paper on biopesticides

-

-

160

EWG (Iran and Costa Rica) Members CCPR51

Action

Discussion paper on the revision of the Guidelines on the use of mass spectrometry for the identification, confirmation and quantitative determination of residues  (CXG 56-2005)

-

-

166

EWG (Canada, Costa Rica and Kenya) Members CCPR51

Action

Discussion paper on the opportunities and challenges related to the participation of JMPR in an international joint review of a new compound

-

-

168

 


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