Codex Alimentarius: food quality and safety standards for international trade.

Food control from farm to fork: implementing the standards of Codex and the OIE.

The Codex Alimentarius (Codex) international food standards help to ensure food safety and promote fair practices in the international food trade. Implementing these standards using a risk management framework (RMF) approach to decision-making is an increasingly common aspect of the food control programmes of national governments. The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) provides guidance at bot...

Assuring food safety: the complementary tasks and standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the World Trade Organization specifically recognises the international standards developed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC). OIE standards focus on animal health and zoonoses and those of the CAC on food safety, but since zoonoses can affect food safety, it is ...

WHO and FAO have a recipe for safer food.

This month (May 2003), the World Health Assembly will be discussing an issue which is of interest to all citizens of all countries, irrespective of their level of development: how can the world’s food supply be made safer?(1) Having faced a variety of crises in the past few years stemming directly from food-related scares, countries have been forced by circumstances to give food safety and regu...

FDA's consideration of Codex Alimentarius standards in light of international trade agreements.

Centre on Regulation and Competition WORKING PAPER SERIES

States have regulated public health for centuries by providing public goods such as clean air, water, and food to their citizens. Governments mandate levels of quality in food to prevent poisoning and deception of their people. In the United States, public health regulation has been one of the few areas where the courts have recognized a subjugation of individual rights to the common good, begi...