В ходе 18-й сессии Комиссии “Кодекс Алиментариус”, состоявшейся в 1989 году, было принято решение об учреждении нового Координационного комитета по Северной Америке и Юго-Западному Тихоокеанскому региону, призванного объединить, по словам делегации Новой Зеландии, “дальние страны, у которых много общих интересов”.
Координационный комитет по Северной Америке и Юго-Западному Тихоокеанскому региону представляет невероятно разнообразный по своему составу регион, объединивший страны со зрелой экономикой, такие как США, Канада, Австралия и Новая Зеландия, и 10 малых островных государств, самым крупным из которых является Папуа-Новая Гвинея с населением более 7 млн человек, а самыми маленькими – Острова Кука и Науру с населением около 10 000 человек.
Штаб-квартирой регионального координатора стало Министерство сельского хозяйства Республики Фиджи.
Республика Фиджи готова к внедрению стандартов на национальном уровне и оказанию поддержки всем странам региона – особенно малым островным развивающимся государствам, – которая необходима для создания крепкой нормативной базы, способной обеспечить безопасность пищевых продуктов. Эти инициативы благотворно повлияют на общественное здравоохранение и позволят гарантировать безопасность и определенный уровень качества импортируемых пищевых продуктов и расширить доступ к международным рынкам.
Региональный координатор продолжит поддерживать работу над региональными стандартами и стремиться к расширению участия региона в работе Кодекса. Чтобы обеспечить более активное участие большего количества стран в работе Кодекса, необходимо продолжить наращивание потенциала на национальном уровне, усиливая роль национальных координаторов и контактных лиц.
The Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is organizing for World Food Safety Day a half-day hybrid event to be held in the nation’s capital, Canberra, and online on Tuesday 11 June 2024.
The Department is the lead agency in Australia for Codex Alimentarius and sees World Food Safety Day as an opportunity to promote international food safety standard-setting among partner Codex agencies, industry and consumer organizations and food and beverage businesses. This year’s World Food Safety Day theme, [...]
Staff of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) joined the global celebrations for the 60th Anniversary of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), dressing up accordingly for the occasion. CRN, a stalwart supporter and regular attendee of CAC as well as of other Codex committees, raised a glass of orange juice – a perfect match with the outfits – in recognition of Codex work over the past six decades. wishing for many more years providing food standards, guidelines and codes of [...]
In mid-June 2023, just weeks after marking World Food Safety Day, New Zealand celebrated 60 years of success in Codex at The Beehive, New Zealand Parliament.
The anniversary festivities were attended by the Minister for Food Safety, Hon Rachel Brooking and the Minister of Agriculture, Hon Damien O’Connor. Representatives from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) also attended, including Director-General Ray Smith, Deputy Director-General (DDG) Policy and Trade Julie Collins, acting DDG New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) Jenny Bishop, and other [...]
World Food Safety Day was celebrated in a high-level event in Suva, Fiji on 7 June. Officials from the government and international organizations gave speeches in the morning, which were followed by two competitions.
The Chief Health Inspector of Fiji, Vimal Deo, opened proceedings, offering welcome remarks and an introduction to the day’s events. He then handed over to two chief guests, the Minister for Agriculture, Hon. Vatimi Rayalu, and the Minister for Health and Medical Services, Hon. Dr Ratu Atonio [...]
Agrilinks, an “online hub where agriculture, food security and development professionals connect” will celebrate World Food Safety Day in a webinar entitled Tiny Microbes with Big Business Impact: The Economic and Health Implications of Food Safety.
According to the event organizers, globally, conflict and climate change threaten advances made to reduce hunger and support economic development. Without safe food, we are not able to properly address food security issues. Through biological and chemical contamination, tiny microbes can have big impacts on [...]
The fifth annual World Food Safety Day on 7 June will focus on the ways “Food Standards Save Lives”— governments and the food industry use food safety strategies, standards, and regulations to guide food safety legislation and ensure best practices.
Raising awareness of and promoting the adoption and enforcement of food safety standards requires government agencies to collaborate closely. Join this upcoming webinar, hosted on behalf of the United States of America Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan Food Safety Subgroup, on [...]
The Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST) will hold a World Food Safety Day webinar to discuss the importance of food regulation.
AIFST CEO Fiona Fleming will host a panel of food scientists including:
Todd Redwood, British Standards Institution group (BSI)
Robin Sherlock – Safe Food Queensland
Nick Fletcher – Food Standards Australia
Andrew Mathieson – Australian National University (ANU)
Jasmine Lacis-Lee – Bureau Veritas AsureQuality (BVAQ)
Duncan Craig – Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC)
Each panellist will be asked to give a 2-minute introduction [...]
Murray Watt, Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management, speaking via video message, welcomed delegates gathering in Hobart, Tasmania, and online, for the opening of the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS) taking place from 1-5 May 2023.
Watt said that achieving sustainable productivity growth in agriculture was increasingly critical to meet global food security concerns arising from the world's growing population. It was also vital to deliver on international [...]
By Scott Mersch Codex Contact Point, Australia
On 8 February 2023, the Chairperson of the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS), Nicola Hinder, Australia, and Michelle Catlin, United States of America, the Chairperson of the Electronic Working Group (EWG), along with EWG Co-Chairpersons, delivered a virtual workshop to discuss progress to date on drafting the guidance on the Prevention and Control of Food Fraud. The draft guidance will be considered at Step 4 by CCFICS26 [...]
At the 16th session of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for North America and the South West Pacific held from 30 January to 3 February 2023 in Nadi, Fiji, Steve Hathaway, New Zealand, gave the keynote address on lessons learned from the COVID pandemic, which he said had “irrevocably changed international thinking on food control … [and] dramatically illustrated the importance of effective and science driven risk management by all sectors throughout the food chain.”
Hathaway went on to outline how the [...]