The 36th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) takes place from 28 April to 2 May 2008 in Ottawa, Canada. Item nr. 5 on the provisional agenda is "Labelling of foods and food ingredients obtained through certain techniques of genetic modification/genetic engineering". See the meeting agenda at http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/current.jsp (in English, French and Spanish); some background to the CCFL`s work on labelling of GM foods at http://www.fao.org/ag/agn/agns/biotechnology_labelling_en.asp (in English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for further information.
