The next meeting of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils is tentatively scheduled for February 21-25, 2011 in Malaysia.
The Committee is working on:
- Proposed Draft List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes
- Proposed Draft Criteria (Code of Practice for the Storage and Transport of Fats and Oils in Bulk)
- Proposed Draft Amendments to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils: total carotenoids in unbleached palm oil
- Proposed Draft Amendment to the Standard for Olive Oils and Olive Pomace Oils: linolenic acid
- Proposed Draft Amendments to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils: inclusion of palm kernel olein and palm kernel stearin
DELEGATES
U.S. Delegate
Dennis M. Keefe, Ph.D.
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-200)
Food and Drug Administration
Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building
5100 Paint Branch Parkway
College Park, MD 20740-3835
Phone: (301) 436-1284
Fax: (301) 436-2972
dennis.keefe@fda.hhs.gov
Alternate Delegate
Kathleen Warner
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1815 N. University Street
Peoria, IL 61604
Phone: (309) 681-6584
Fax: (309) 681-6668
Email: warnerk@ncaur.usda.gov
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