SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

The Seventh Session of the Codex Committee on Sugars reached the following conclusions:

MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND/OR THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION - Draft Revised Standard for Honey for adoption at Step 8 (para. 50); - Proposed amendments to the Revised Standard for Sugars for adoption at Step 5/8 (para. 66); - The following proposed future work of the Committee: Consideration of Proposed Amendments to the Codex Standard for Sugars; Development of Standards for Unifloral Honeys; Completion of Part two of the Standard for Honey covering industrial uses; for approval (para 69). OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMISSION - Agreed to report back to the Codex Committee on General Principles that in its own work the following factors were relevant elements of other legitimate factors: · Economic considerations; · Consumer information; · Good agricultural and manufacturing practices (para. 6). - Agreed to refer the proposal to elaborate the Code of Hygienic Practice for Honey to the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene in order to examine the necessity of its preparation (para. 68). - Agreed to retain an Annex and the disclaimer appearing at the top of the annex understanding that discretionary elements should be placed in the Annex while noting that the disclaimer would not change the legal status of the Annex (paras 5, 31). - Noted that the establishment of concrete quantitative provisions for arsenic and lead to be included in the Draft Revised Standard for Honey, as was referred to this Committee by the 21st Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (ALINORM 99/23A, Part II of Appendix V), fell under the Terms of Reference of the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants rather than the Committee on Sugars (para. 18).