Kenya, in an effort to streamline and increase efficiency for participation in Codex work recently reconstituted its National Codex Committee. On Tuesday 2 March 2021, the Codex Contact Point, housed in the Kenya Bureau of Standards held an induction programme for the newly reconstituted committee. “This move was to ensure maximum representation from all key food safety players,” said Maryann Kindiki who is the new Codex Contact Point for Kenya. Among the issues discussed were how the Codex Alimentarius Commission [...]

With remarkable speed the Polish Agricultural and Food Quality Inspectorate has already launched its awareness raising campaign as the world gears up for the 2021 World Food Safety Day on 7 June. Writing on their official website and on social media following the launch of the campaign on 18 February 2021, Poland encourages all its citizens to follow the events surrounding the UN Day and engage with others to celebrate “safe food now for a healthy tomorrow”, the theme of this [...]

Países de todo el mundo observaron atentamente a la Secretaría francesa con motivo de la celebración de la primera reunión virtual de un órgano auxiliar del Codex, el Comité del Codex sobre Principios Generales (CCGP), evento que dio inicio a la serie de reuniones técnicas del Codex de 2021. El Comité Ejecutivo ya había demostrado que era posible organizar reuniones de este modo para grupos más pequeños, y el primer periodo de sesiones virtual de la Comisión celebrado en la [...]

El 18 de febrero se difundió un boletín informativo a través del canal de Twitter del Codex, del LinkedIn de la FAO y del canal de YouTube para lanzar la campaña del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos 2021 con el tema “Alimentos inocuos ahora para un mañana saludable”. En este día, que está cobrando relevancia en todo el mundo a medida que se acerca su tercer aniversario, se hace un llamamiento para que los gobiernos, quienes trabajan con [...]

El 18 de febrero de 2021 a las 15:00 CET lanzaremos la campaña del Día Mundial de la Inocuidad de los Alimentos de 2021 y anunciaremos el tema de la celebración de este año. En un boletín informativo en el que participarán la FAO, la OMS junto con las Secretarías de Comisión del Codex Alimentarius y de la Red Internacional de Autoridades en materia de Inocuidad de los Alimentos, además de varios invitados de todo el mundo analizaremos por qué [...]

El viernes, 12 de febrero de 2021, a las 16.00 (Hora de Europa central [CET]) —las 10.00 hora local—, Agrocalidad —la Agencia de Regulación y Control Fito y Zoosanitario del Ecuador— realizará una transmisión en directo en Facebook para presentar una serie de personajes de dibujos animados con el objetivo de hacer llegar mensajes clave de la inocuidad de los alimentos a un amplio público. “Las enfermedades de transmisión alimentaria representan un grave riesgo tanto en los países desarrollados como en [...]

Welcoming delegates to the 32nd session of the Codex Committee on General Principles (CCGP) that is taking place virtually from 8 to 17 February 2021,  Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture and Food, of the host country France said that in a world facing a major pandemic, the different stakeholders in the food sector everywhere face the challenge of producing healthy and good quality food in sufficient quantity, while at the same time coping with the risk of health, economic hazards [...]

More than a year has passed since the last time a Codex technical committee met. When the Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance ended on 13 December 2019 in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, nobody could imagine that there would be a 14 month wait for experts to gather once again to continue their formal deliberations of Codex business. The task of kicking off the 2021 series of meetings, with plans currently for a virtual year and online sessions, has fallen to France [...]

A webinar taking place on 5 February 2021, 12:00-13:30 CET, entitled Feed safety – Good Practices for the Feed Sector Matter, will bring together experts from FAO and the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) to discuss the importance of feed safety in the sustainable production of safe food of animal origin. The event will also see the launch of a new manual on implementing the Codex Alimentarius Code of Practice on Good Animal Feeding. Primary producers, including farmers and the feed [...]

This year is going to be a big challenge for the Codex system as the technical committees that were suspended in 2020 due to the pandemic prepare to operate for the first time virtually. Experiences with the smaller Executive Committee and the success of the 43rd Commission have shown that both small and large groups can be brought together on line, but how easy will it be, operating virtually, to iron out more complex, technical differences on pesticides, contaminants or [...]