5-9 May 2000: COMMITTEE - Food Labelling (28th Session)

Codex Committee On Food Labelling
28th Session, Ottawa, Canada, 5-9 May 2000

The Committee:

• agreed to advance to Step 8 of the Draft Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labelling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods (livestock production)
• agreed to advance to Step 8 the Draft Amendment to the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods - section 4.2.2 on allergens (Draft Recommendations for the Labelling of Foods Obtained through Certain Techniques of Genetic Modification/Generic Engineering ).

Other Matters of Interest to the Commission

• agreed to retain at Step 7 the Draft Amendment to the Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Sticks (declaration of fish core) pending advice from the Committee on Fish and Fishery Products;
• agreed to return to Step 6 the sections on bees and on additives in the Draft Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labelling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods;
• agreed to return to Step 6 the Draft Amendment to the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods - section 2 Definitions (Draft Recommendations for the Labelling of Foods Obtained through Certain Techniques of Genetic Modification/ Generic Engineering)
• agreed to return to Step 6 the Draft Amendment to the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods (class names);
• agreed to return to Step 3 the Proposed Draft Amendment to the Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling;
• agreed to return to Step 3 the Proposed Draft Recommendations for the Use of Health Claims;
• agreed to return to Step 3 for redrafting and comments the Proposed Draft Recommendations for the Labelling of Foods Obtained through Biotechnology (additional mandatory labelling);
• agreed to discontinue work on Proposed Draft Guidelines for the Use of the Term "Vegetarian";
• endorsed the labelling provisions submitted for consideration, except for those in the Proposed Draft Standard for Aqueous Coconut Products.