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BY THE 24TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION The Committee recommended to the Commission: -
Draft MRLs for adoption at Step 8, Proposed Draft MRLs at Step 5/8 and Proposed
Draft MRLs at Step 5 (Appendices II, III and V);
- Proposed Draft Amendments
to the Codex Classification of Foods and Animal Feeds for adoption at Step 5 of
the Accelerated Procedure (Appendix IV);
- revocation of certain existing
Codex MRLs (Appendix VI); and
- Priority List of Pesticides for new pesticides
and periodic evaluations by the JMPR (Appendix IX).
MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION
BY THE 24TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION The Committee: - decided to
propose to the Commission an EMRL level for DDT of 5mg/kg and a level of 3mg/kg
in square brackets and to ask the Commission to take a decision regarding the
level, taking into account that the Committee would not be able to reach consensus
by deferring consideration of this matter to a later session (para. 195);
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while considering the request of Mexico regarding the inclusion of some antibiotics
to the priority list as they met criteria for inclusion, the Committee decided
that it could not make a decision because of a lack of consensus at this time
and referred the issue to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, requesting coordination
among the other committees involved, including the Codex Committees on Residues
of Veterinary Drugs in Foods and Food Hygiene (para. 222).
- deferred discussion
on other legitimate factors in the framework of risk analysis until further progress
had been achieved in the CCGP and Codex with the understanding that the Commission
could provide general orientation to Codex committees concerning the role of other
factors and the application of risk analysis principles in the decision process
(para. 240).
FOR INFORMATION TO THE COMMISSION The Committee: -
while reviewing the procedure dealing with chronic dietary exposure concern recognized
that current procedures should be retained for the time being and reasserted its
earlier decision that no MRL should be advanced to Step 8 when the ADI was exceeded
in one or more of the regional diets (para. 43);
- noted general consideration
items of 2000 JMPR, and the initiative and the new developments that pesticide
specifications be developed and reviewed by FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Specifications
before a compound is evaluated by the JMPR and that this process will be initiated
in 2003 giving the priority to compounds under the periodic review programme (paras
13-27);
- agreed that there was no need to develop an additional document
on risk analysis at this stage and noted that future action would depend on the
recommendations of the Commission in this area (para. 51);
- supported
the development of the 13 revised regional diets and noted that further refinement
of the diets would be required, including examples of calculation MRLs for fruits
and vegetables, before recommending their use for the purposes of JMPR (para.
56);
- agreed to discontinue the collection of information through the
questionnaire about processing studies while recognizing the importance of collection
information by GEMS FOOD currently required by national governments (para. 62);
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agreed that a case by case approach should be followed in establishing MRLs for
genetically modified crops and metabolite residues (paras 63-66), and for isomeric
mixtures (para. 222)
- agreed to consider a position paper identifying
the more important spice/pesticide combinations, the availability of GAP information
and residue data (field trial and monitoring data) together with information on
trade problems and policy guidance on further steps in the establishment of MRLs/EMRL
for spices (para. 234)
- agreed to apply procedures when establishing priorities
as indicated in paras 211, 212 and 215;
- agreed to consider at the next
session:
- cumulative risk assessment especially in relation to the development
of common understanding of methodology (para 78);
- acute exposure assessment
(paras 246-247);
- to what extent the Codex Classification of Foods and
Animal Feeds should be reviewed and updated and in what structure the updated
version would be (paras 241-245);
- establishment of priority lists; and
review of the paper on the working procedures of JMPR to be prepared by the FAO/WHO
Secretariat (para. 224); and
- requested JMPR to consider a number
of matters of general nature (paras 33, 77).
MATTER OF INTEREST TO
OTHER COMMITTEES The Committee: - following the referral from the
CCNASWP regarding the Trade Vulnerabilities Arising from the Lengthy Codex MRL
Process, agreed to acknowledge the existence of the problem and requested the
Delegation of the USA with assistance of other interested Member states and international
organizations to prepare a paper for consideration by the next session of the
Committee (para. 12);
- further following the request of the CCNFSDU, and
considering the appropriateness of ADI and MRL setting for infants and children
concluded that ADIs and MRLs should cover all population groups including infants
and children and that the possible increased vulnerability of infants and children
was an important issue which needed to be explicitly integrated into the work
of the CCPR and JMPR and therefore agreed that the development of cumulative risk
assessment required further consideration, especially regarding the development
of common understanding of methodology (paras 67-78).
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