A workshop was organized by FAO and WHO, with support from the FAO/WHO Project and Fund for Enhanced Participation in Codex (Codex Trust Fund), at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé, Cameroun on 28 January 2013. The workshop was hosted by Codex Cameroun as the Regional Coordinator for Africa and was organized immediately preceding the 20th session of the FAO/WHO coordinating committee for Africa (CCAFRICA).

Increasing private sector involvement in Codex deliberations at national and sub-regional levels is one of the strategic objectives agreed upon by the EAC Partner States at the Codex Trust Fund (CTF) - funded workshop held in Nairobi in September 2011.

Bovine cysticercosis is a parasitic disease of cattle caused by the larval stage (Cysticercus bovis) of the human tapeworm Taenia saginata. The indirect life cycle of this taeniid involves only humans as the primary host and bovines as the intermediate host. Infection of humans with the adult tapeworm, known as taeniosis, occurs via the consumption of beef which has been insufficiently cooked or frozen to kill the cysticerci. Although multiple infections in humans can occur, most cases of taeniosis involve a single tapeworm, which can persist for years. The adult tapeworm develops to reproductive maturity as early as 10-12 weeks after infection. The adult tapeworm regularly sheds its most posterior and mature segments, called gravid proglottids, which are discharged from...

Trichinellosis is a parasitic disease of humans caused by eating raw or inadequately treated meat from domestic or game animals infected by Trichinella spp. Infective first stage larvae live in muscle cells of a wide range of meat-eating mammals, and some birds and reptiles (OIE, 2012). Human trichinellosis contracted from commercial supplies of meat have been most often linked to infected pigs, wild boar, or horses. Human cases have been also linked to the consumption of infected meat from game animals including bears and walruses. The parasite is a nematode which has an atypical direct life cycle that does not involve stages developing outside of the host. Muscle larvae are released from infected meat in the stomach of suitable host...