Focus Area 3.4 Food safety across sustainable food systems
Sub-focus Area 3.4.3 Protecting consumers from food safety risks in food supplies
Recommendation Number: 3.4.3.c
Governments are invited to acknowledge, and adapt legislations, regulations and guidelines, to assess and manage emerging and potential health risks as well as possible benefits for food security and nutrition including for new food products created by emerging technologies as appropriate taking into account, other relevant factors in the risk management process as described in Codex Alimentarius Commission Procedural Manual, scientific risk assessments and Codex Alimentarius Commission standards, guidelines and recommendations, where available, as with any new food product.
The identified documents have been grouped into four categories: UN evidence-informed documents, UN normative guidance documents, UN operational/technical guidance documents and other documents that have been published by non-UN bodies.