A long-awaited report on decisions taken at the latest Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting has finally been published. The United Nations food standards body met in Rome in November 2022. Codex is ...

Fresh berries are healthy but also prone to microbiological contamination and associated with Hepatitis A, Norovirus, bacteria E.coli and protozoa The UN food standards body Codex Alimentarius has ...

A member survey has revealed good support for Codex standards, but concerns have been raised again about timeliness. The Codex Alimentarius, or “Food Code” is a collection of international standards, ...

What standard is used when countries are defining their food safety policies? When multinational companies such as Nestlé are developing products, what standards do they comply to? The Food and ...

The global food standards body Codex Alimentarius Commission has adopted a landmark agreement on how to assess the risks to consumers from foods derived from biotechnology, the FAO and the World ...

World food standards body Codex Alimentarius is consulting on three new standards for specialist foods and two on manufactured fish products. Its committee on nutrition and foods for special dietary ...

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, which is holding its meeting in Rome from November 10 to 14 to adopt food safety and quality standards, has fixed the maximum limit at 2.5 mg/kg for lead in spices ...

The Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs (CCSCH) has finalised and recommended quality standards for five spices -- allspice, juniper berries, star anise, turmeric, and cardamom -- during its ...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Public Health participated in the forty-eighth session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was recently held in Rome, the Italian capital, with representatives ...

What started out as a conventional UN bureaucracy has become the subject of wild speculation and fear - just what is the UN's Codex Alimentarius, and what does it mean for our food and health? Imagine ...

From 3 to 7 February 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Zimbabwe conducted a training session for 20 members of the National Codex technical ...