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Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products
Host Government: Norway
The Fish and Fishery Products Committee is responsible for elaborating standards for fresh and frozen fish, crustaceans, and mollusks.
Fish and Fishery Product standards and codes of practice adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission are located in Volume 9 of the Codex Alimentarius, Fish and Fishery Products Standards.

The next meeting of the Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products will be held in Morocco in October 2009.

The Committee will continue to work on:
  • Draft Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products (Crabs and relevant Definitions)
  • Draft Standard for Sturgeon Caviar
  • Proposed Draft List of Methods for the Determination of Biotoxins in the Draft Standard for Raw and Live Bivalve Molluscs
  • Proposed Draft Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products (other sections)
  • Proposed Draft Standard for Quick Frozen Scallop Adductor Muscle Meat
  • Proposed Draft Code of Practice on the Processing of Scallop Meat
  • Proposed Draft Standard for Smoked Fish, Smoke-Flavoured Fish and Smoke-Dried Fish
  • Revision of the Procedure for the Inclusion of Additional Species in Standards for Fish and Fishery Products
  • Proposed Draft Standard for Fish Sauce
  • Amendment to the Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Sticks (Nitrogen Factors)
  • Proposed Draft Standard for Fresh/Live and Frozen Abalone

DELEGATES

U.S. Delegate
Donald Kraemer
Acting Director, Office of Seafood
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration
5100 Paint Branch Parkway
College Park, MD 20740-3835
Phone: (301) 436-2300
Fax: (301) 436-2599
Email: donald.kraemer@fda.hhs.gov

Alternate Delegate
Timothy Hansen
Director, Seafood Inspection Program
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Department of Commerce
Room 10837
1315 East West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone: (301) 713-2355
Fax: (301) 713-1081
Email: Timothy.Hansen@noaa.gov

Current CCFFP Documents Requesting Comments
CX or CL Subject Comments Due Send comments to:
CL 2008/5-FFP (PDF Only; 805kb)

Incorporated in ALINORM 08/31/28
Distribution of the Report of the 29th Session of the Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products Apr 15, 2008 Mr. Kraemer at above address 
Delegate's Report of the 28th Session of the Committee held September 18-22, 2006 in Beijing, China
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Last Modified: June 2, 2008

 

 

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