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Upcoming Committee Meetings
The 33rd Session of the
Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) will meet
in Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany, Nov. 14 –18. The main agenda items are:
- Selecting criteria and identifying authoritative independent scientific bodies for establishing nutrient
reference values (NRV) consistent with the "General Principles for Establishing NRVs of Vitamins and
Minerals" adopted by the Commission in July as an annex to the Guidelines on Nutrition Labeling.
- Revising the proposed draft NRVs for Nutrients Associated with the Risk of Diet-Related Non-Communicable
Diseases for the General Population (NRV-NCDs), and proposals for setting NRVs for saturated fatty acids and
sodium as well prospects for integrating the NRVs-NDC principles with the recently adopted NRV principles
annexed to the Guidelines on Nutrition Labeling.
- Revising the General Principles for the Addition of Essential Nutrients to Foods.
- Revising the Guidelines on Formulated Supplementary Foods for Older Infants and Young Children.
- Amending of the Standard for Processed Cereal-based Foods for Infants and Young Children by including a new
part concerning underweight children.
- Considering new work to revise the Codex Standard for Follow-up Formula.
New Electronic Working Groups (eWG)
Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products:
Canada will chair a new eWG (working in English) with the mandate
of proposing criteria/parameters on Screening Methods for Biotoxins in the Standard for Live and Raw Bivalve Mollusks.
Individuals in the United States interested in contributing to the eWG should send their name, official title, and
email address to the U.S. Codex Office
(uscodexoffice@fsis.usda.gov).
Codex Members and Observers interested in participating in the eWG should provide the names, official positions, institutions and email addresses of their representatives to: Rod Penney
Rod.Penney@inspection.gc.ca)
and Codex Canada
(codex_canada@hc-sc.gc.ca)
by Nov. 16.
EXPERT REPORT
The Joint FAO/WHO JMPR Secretariats have posted the links below to the summary report of the Joint Meeting on
Pesticide Residues held in September 2011. For additional information please refer to the Joint FAO/WHO JMPR
Secretariats: Mrs Yong Zhen Yang
(YongZhen.Yang@fao.org)
and Dr Philippe Verger
(vergerp@who.int).
FAO: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates
/agphome/documents/Pests_Pesticides
/JMPR/2011_JMPR_Sum_Rep.pdf
WHO: http://www.who.int/foodsafety/chem/jmpr/
summary_2011.pdf
CALL FOR DATA
The Joint FAO/WHO JMPR Secretariat has issued a call for data for toxicological and residue evaluations of the list of substances
scheduled for evaluation or re-evaluation at the September 2012 meeting. For additional information please refer to the FAO/WHO
JMPR Secretariats: Mrs Yong Zhen Yang
(YongZhen.Yang@fao.org)
and Dr Philippe Verger
(vergerp@who.int).
The deadline for submission of data and information is December 1. The call for data is available at the FAO and WHO websites at:
FAO: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/
agphome/documents/Pests_Pesticides/
JMPR/Call_data_2012.pdf
WHO: http://www.who.int/foodsafety/chem/
jmpr/JMPR_2012_call_final.pdf
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