Codex Proposes Guidelines for Controlling Food Fraud
A Codex committee has made progress on guidelines for preventing and controlling food fraud. The draft guidance has been sent to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for adoption, which will meet in Switzerland in November.
The United States chaired the electronic working group. Food safety regulators from 60 countries and international organizations met to discuss food standards. Four new work proposals have also been put forward. These include guidance on appeals mechanisms due to the rejection of imported food, harmonizing the use of food establishment listing for market access, guidelines for the presentation of sanitary attestations on export certificates to better enable the transition to paperless trade, and principles to guide the digitalization of national food control systems.
These must be approved at Codex’s November meeting.
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