The 33rd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) takes place on 9-13 May 2005 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Item nr. 5 on the 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/food/risk_biotech_label_en.stm, or contact [email protected] for further information.
