A global food standards setting agency has supported guidance on several topics to try and improve food safety, including traditional markets and ciguatera. The United Nations food standards body, the ...

A member survey has revealed good support for Codex standards, but concerns have been raised again about timeliness. The Codex Alimentarius, or “Food Code” is a collection of international standards, ...

What standard is used when countries are defining their food safety policies? When multinational companies such as Nestlé are developing products, what standards do they comply to? The Food and ...

The United Nations advisory body on food safety, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, has adopted a landmark agreement on how to assess the risks to consumers from foods derived from biotechnology, ...

Although Codex Alimentarius was established in 1962, it has risen in prominence in recent years as more countries have aligned their national food standards, particularly in the case of so-called ...

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, a collection of international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice has been launched to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in food trade in ...

The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), a gathering of countries to set food safety and labeling standards, has a reputation for being a slow deliberative body focused more on international trade ...

What started out as a conventional UN bureaucracy has become the subject of wild speculation and fear - just what is the UN's Codex Alimentarius, and what does it mean for our food and health? Imagine ...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Public Health participated in the forty-eighth session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was recently held in Rome, the Italian capital, with representatives ...

From 3 to 7 February 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Zimbabwe conducted a training session for 20 members of the National Codex technical ...

The 47th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC47) was held physically at the Centre International de Conférences (CICG) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 25 to 30 November 2024. This session ...