Guidelines for food labeling adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission are located on Volume 1A of the Codex
Alimentarius, General Requirements.
The 38th Session of Codex Committee on Food Labelling will take place in Quebec City, Canada May 3-7, 2010.
The Committee will continue to work on:
- Proposed Draft Revision of the Guidelines on Nutrition Labeling (CAC/GL 2-1985) concerning the list of nutrients that are always declared on a voluntary or mandatory basis (at Step 3 of the Procedure)
- Proposed Draft Recommended Principles and Criteria for the Legibility of Nutritional Labeling (at Step 3 of the Procedure)
- Proposed Draft recommendations for the labeling of foods of obtained through certain techniques of genetic modification/genetic engineering (at Step 3 of the Procedure)
- Draft Amendment to the General Standard for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods (Codex Standard 1-1985): Definitions for "Food and food ingredients obtained through certain techniques of genetic modification/genetic engineering," "Organism," "Genetically modified/engineered organism," and "Modern biotechnology" (at Step 7 of the Procedure)
- Draft Amendment to the Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labeling and Marketing of Organically Produced Food (CAC/GL 32-1999), Section 5.1 relating to other uses of ethylene
DELEGATES
U.S. Delegate
Barbara O. Schneeman, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA (HFS 800)
5100 Paint Branch Parkway
College Park, MD 20740
Phone: (301) 436-2373
Fax: (301) 436-2636
Barbara.Schneeman@fda.hhs.gov
Alternate Delegate
Heejeong Latimer
Risk Analyst
Risk Assessment Division
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA
1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 333
Washington, DC 20250
Phone: (202) 690-0823
Fax: (202) 205-3625
Email: Heejeong.Latimer@usda.gov
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