This article was published in World Food Regulation Review, April 2023, p. 26-31.
The 53rd meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Additives (CCFA53) was held in Hong Kong from 24 to 31 March 2023. CCFA53 succeeded in covering the entirety of its agenda. CCFA53 adopted about 800 food additive provisions for adoption, revision
This article was published in World Food Regulation Review, March 2023, p. 30-31.
The 43rd meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU43) successfully completed its entire agenda by meeting in person. In terms of accomplishments:
This article was published in World Food Regulation Review, February 2023, p. 30-34.
The forthcoming 53rd meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Additives (CCFA53) and related meetings will be held in Hong Kong from 23 to 31 March 2023 in person for the first time since 2019. CCFA53 is expected to finalize the
This article was published in World Food Regulation Review, January 2023, p. 29-34.
By Christophe Leprêtre1 (Keller and Heckman LLP)
The once-a-year Codex Alimentarius Commission session (CAC45) recently adopted eleven (11) new international norms in various areas ranging from national food law template to new limits for heavy metals, pesticides, new standards on dried
This article was published in World Food Regulation Review, November 2022, p. 33-34.
By Christophe Leprêtre1 (Keller and Heckman LLP)
The 45th plenary session of the Codex alimentarius Commission (CAC45) was held on the week of 21 to 25 November 2022. It generally made expected progresses on important standards such as heavy metals and
This article was published in World Food Regulation Review, November 2022, p. 30-34.
By Christophe Leprêtre1 (Keller and Heckman LLP)
The 6th session of the Codex alimentarius Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs (CCSCH6), chaired by India, concluded on several important commodity standards while meeting virtually end September 2022. CCCSH6 concluded on new Codex
The 52nd session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), chaired by the USA, was held virtually in early March 2022.
During this session, the CCFH52 reported that it finalized its work on:
This article was published in World Food Regulation Review, October 2021, p.29-34.
Early September, food additive risk managers from record-breaking 85 participating countries attended the 52nd session of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Additives (CCFA52) through electronic means (called “virtual meeting”), after three successive postponements in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic
The 43rd Codex Alimentarius Plenary Commission meeting will be held remotely this year, in multiple online sessions. The digital format is new, but the program essentials remain the same: adopting new CAC texts, revoking old texts and revising those which have reached the end of the development process.
This article was published in Les Marchés
This article was first published in the World Food Regulation Review January 2020, Vol. 29, Number 8
This article explains the main topics discussed by 400+ global food safety and nutrition regulators during the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU41) in Düsseldorf from 24 to 29 November 2019.
