Food Law News - FAO/WHO/WTO/Codex - 2011
Codex Report (REP11/PR-Rev). 4 - 9 April 2011
CODEX COMMITTEE - Report of the 43rd Session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues, Beijing, China
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The summary and conclusions of the 43rd Session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues are as follows:
MATTERS FOR ADOPTION BY THE 34TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION
The Committee agreed to forward:
Draft and proposed draft MRLs for pesticides and other related texts
- Draft and proposed draft MRLs for pesticide at Steps 8 and 5/8 with omission of Steps 6/7;
- Proposed draft revision to the Guidelines on the Estimation of Uncertainty of Results for the Determination of Pesticide Residues at Step 5/8 with omission of Steps 6/7;
- Proposed Draft MRLs for pesticides at Step 5;
- Proposed Draft Revision of the Codex Classification of Foods and Animal Feeds: Assorted Tropical and Sub-tropical Fruits - Edible peel and Assorted Tropical and Sub-tropical Fruits - Inedible Peel at Step 5;
Revocation of MRLs for pesticides and other related texts
- Revocation of Codex MRLs for pesticides; and
- Revocation of CODEX STAN 229-1993 - Analysis of Pesticide Residues: Recommended Methods.
Approval of new work
- Priority List for the Establishment of MRLs for Pesticides;
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMISSION
The Committee:
- agreed that the revision of the Risk Analysis Principles applied by the Codex Committeed on Pesticide Residues in relation to their consistency with the Working Principles for Risk Analysis and their applicability to animal feed should be considered in the framework of the ongoing revision of the Risk Analysis Principles;
- agreed that further discussion on the revision of the definition of “hazard” was no longer necessary;
- noted a number of matters arising from the 2010 JMPR including replies to specific concerns raised by the last session of the Committee;
- agreed to retain several draft and proposed draft MRLs for pesticides at Steps 7 and 4 awaiting for the JMPR evaluation;
- agreed that the 2011 JMPR could elaborate MRLs proposals with and without making use of the concept of proportionality so that the result could be compared and discussed at the next session of the Committee;
- agreed to hold the three commodity groups on tree nuts, herbs and spices at Step 7 pending finalization of the revision of the Classification of Foods and Animal Feed;
- agreed to return the entry for “Edible Flowers” under the commodity group “Herbs” to Step 6 for comments and consideration at the next session of the Committee;
- agreed to proceed with the elaboration of new groups for several types of vegetables for comments and consideration at its next session;
- agreed to hold the draft Principles and Guidance for the Selection of Representative Commodities for the Extrapolation of Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides for Commodity Groups (including Table 1 on fruit commodities) at Step 7 pending the finalization of the revision of the Classification of Foods and Feeds as per the fruit commodity groups;
- agreed that the IAEA would continue to support the maintenance of the web-based method database with a direct link to the Codex website;
- agreed that Member Countries should monitor the presence of lindane in food commodities and to provide data to JMPR within a period of 2 years for JMPR to review the monitoring data in 2015 prior to decision of conversion of MRLs to EMRLs;
- agreed that CCPR could not solve the problem of resource issues faced by JMPR in the provision of scientific advice to CCPR and that this issue should be raised by Member Countries at the highest level including the next session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission;
- agreed that, in relation to the capacity of JMPR to provide scientific advice to CCPR, the Working Group on Priorities should consider ranking the compounds eligible for Periodic Review on the basis of health risks to assist in the establishment of the Priority List at the next session of the Committee.
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