The 34th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) takes place on 1-5 May 2006 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/food/risk_biotech_label_en.stm (in English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for further information.
