Food Standards Program

Codex Standards for Cocoa Products and Chocolate, Cocoa Butter Standard 86-1981, CodexMlimentarius, VoL VII, 1st ed.. Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, 1981. 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines, and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. The main purposes of this Program are to protect the health of the consumers and to ensure fair trade practices in the food trade, and to promote the coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and nongovernmental organizations (CA 2007). 

The international Codex Alimentarius Commission within the United Nations FAO/WHO Food Standards Program has a CCMAS. CCMAS works out criteria... 

Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. Codex Committeee on Food Additives and Contaminants, 29th Session, Hague, Netherlands, 17-21 March, 1997. 

H. Cheftel, Tin in Food, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, 4th Meeting of the Codex Committee on Food Additives, PEPT, 1967, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Branch (Codex Alimentarius), FAO, Rome. 

Codex Alimentarius Commission (1997) Proposed Draft Standard for Named Vegetable Oils. FAOAVHO Food Standards Program. 

A range of other organizations support prudent use of pharmaceutical agents and facilitate the international harmonization of veterinary medicine within our global environment. Many of theses represent joint ventures with the WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program (Codex). 

The Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission. The Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission (the Commission) was established to implement the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. Membership of the Commission comprises those Member Nations and Associate Members of FAO and/or WHO that have notified... 

The purpose of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program is to elaborate international standards for foods aimed at protecting the health of the consumer, to ensure fair practices in the food trade, and to facilitate international trade. In addition to compositional criteria and labeling, food standards incorporate provisions in respect to food hygiene. 

Codex AUmentarius Commission, report of 1st session of Codex ad hoc intergovernmental task force on antimicrobial resistance, Seoul, Oct. 23-26, 2007, in Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. Codex AUmentarius Commission, 31st Session, Geneva, June 30-July 5, 2008, ALINORM 08/31/42 (available at ftp //ftp.fao.org/ codex/Alinorm08/al31 42e.pdf accessed 11/17/10). 

CAC/GL 72-2009, Guidelines on Analytical Terminology, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, 2009 (available at http //www. codexalimentarius.net/download/standards/11357/ cxg 072e.pdf accessed 1/28/10). 

CAC/GL 64-1995, Protocol for the Design, Conduct and Interpretation of Method Performance Studies, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, 1995 (available... 

CAC/GL 37-2001, Harmonized IUPAC Guiidelines for the Use of Recovery Information in Analytical Measurement, FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, 2001 (available at http //WWW.codexalimentarius.net/download/stand ards/376/cxG 037e.pdf accessed 2/23/10). 

CAC, Contaminants, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program, Codex Alimentarins, Vol, XVII. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1984. 

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