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The 56th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commit­tee on Pesticides and Pesticide Residues in and on Foods (CCPR56) addressed all topics on its agenda. CCPR56 approved about two hundred new maximum residue limits for various pesticides for final adoption by the next CAC meeting (End November 2025, CAC48). CCPR56 final­ized new guidelines for countries and

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The 18th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commit­tee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF18) successful­ly addressed all the topics on its draft agenda and a few more under “other business”. Worth noting that CCCF18 approved two new international maximum limits (MLs) for the ‘heavy metal’ lead, in dried bark spice and in dried culinary herbs at