Preface

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
JOINT OFFICE: Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 ROME Tel.: 39 6 57051 Telex: 625825-625853 FAO I Email: [email protected] Facsimile: 39 06 5705.4593
CX 4/20.2	CL 1999/34-FH

TO:	Codex Contact Points Interested International Organizations
FROM:	Secretary, Codex Alimentarius Commission Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy
SUBJECT:	Distribution of the Report of the Thirty second Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (ALINORM 01/13)

The report of the Thirty second Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH) is attached. It will be considered by the Forty-seventh Session of the Executive Committee, Geneva 2000, and by the Twenty-fourth Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Geneva, 2001.

MATTERS FOR ADOPTION BY THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION:

1. Draft Standard for Bottled/Packaged Drinking Waters Other Than Natural Mineral Waters at Step 8, ALINORM 01/13, paras 21-50 and Appendix II.

2. Draft Code of Hygienic Practice for the Transport of Food in Bulk and Semi-Packed Food at Step 8, ALINORM 01/13, paras 51-62 and Appendix III.

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS AND INFORMATION ON

1. Proposed Draft Principles and Guidelines for the Conduct of Microbiological Risk Management at Step 3; ALINORM 01/13, paras 89-100 and Appendix IV.

Governments and interested international organizations are invited to comment on the text cited above. Comments should be forwarded to the French Codex Contact Point SGCI (Comité interministériel pour le Questions de Coopération Economique Européenne) Carré Austerlitz 2, Boulevard Diderot F-75572 Paris CEDEX 12, Fax: +33 1 44 87 16 04, or Email: [email protected] with a copy to Secretary, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy, by Fax: +39 (06) 570.54593 or E-mail: [email protected] before 1 April 2000.