This is Codex Alimentarium - 2^nd edition

Table of contents

Text and layout by
Roger W. Miller,
Washington D.C., USA

Credits: All FAO photos except page 9, courtesy National Food Processors Association, USA; page 14 lower, courtesy U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

All statistics for charts from FAO's Agrostat.

Contents

Overview

Codex Alimentarius: How it came about

International food trade

Modus operandi of Codex Alimentarius (the way codex operates)

Commodity food standards

Labeling to communicate

Food hygiene

Contaminants, additives, residues and Codex

New foods, new technologies
Other Codex documents
Thailand: A success story

Subsidiary bodies of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

Members of the Codex Alimentarius Commission