Comptant plus de 600 millions d'habitants, la région Amérique latine et Caraïbes est l'une de celles qui présentent la plus grande diversité de la planète, non seulement sur le plan ethnique mais aussi du point de vue social, culturel et démographique.
L'économie des pays de la région repose en grande partie sur l'exploitation de ressources naturelles, principalement le pétrole et les mines, le secteur manufacturier et l'agriculture.
Au cours de la dernière décennie, la région a connu une transformation économique et sociale profonde, qui a tiré des millions de personnes de la pauvreté et s'est traduit par un essor de la classe moyenne. Ces progrès sont dus à une forte croissance économique, alimentée à la fois à des réformes nationales et à un environnement économique mondial favorable.
Les principales langues officielles des pays de la région sont l'espagnol, l'anglais et le portugais. Certains pays sont toutefois aussi francophones ou néerlandophones.
Parmi les 46 pays de la région, 33 sont membres du Comité. Ils représentent 20 pour cent de tous les pays membres du Codex.
The Codex Chairperson Mrs Awilo Ochieng Pernet and the Codex Secretary Mr Tom Heilandt met with the communications team from the Chilean Agency for Food Safety and Quality (ACHIPIA) to learn about the Chilean experience in raising consumer awareness about the importance of food safety and nutrition.
Everyone's responsibility
With the Agency’s motto being “Safe and nutritious foods, everyone’s responsibility”, ACHIPIA has set out to explain to the general public not only the Chilean national food safety and quality control system, but [...]
These meetings provide an incredibly important opportunity for dynamic discussion on major and emerging food safety and quality issues facing the region.
Dr Kazuaki Miyagishima - WHO
The 20th meeting of the Codex Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC) began today in Viña del Mar, Chile. Nearly 100 delegates from the 33 countries in the region are attending as well as Codex representatives from Canada, Switzerland and the United States.
Codex Regions
There are six Codex regions each represented by a joint [...]
In order to strengthen the Codex Alimentarius work in Bolivia, the Bolivian Codex Commitee (CNCA) organized a 2 day symposium involving country authorities, food producers, laboratory experts, exporters, universities, consumers and the Chair of Codex Alimentarius Mrs. Awilo Ochieng Pernet. The symposium demonstrated the work of Codex in Food Safety.
First visit of Codex Chair to Bolivia
Held earlier this month, the CNCA workshop successfully highlighted the importance of Food Safety and the relevance of Codex work in the country. For this [...]
Chilean Agency for Food Safety and Quality ACHIPIA
Thursday May 14, 2015 - Santiago, Chile
The Codex training workshop was organized by the Secretariat of the National Committee of Codex, in response to a request that emerged in the National Codex Committee (NCC), based on the need to reaffirm the knowledge on the functioning of Codex, both for members of the CNC and for the coordinators of the the National Codex Subcommittees.
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The Codex Secretariat in Peru has put together a wonderful video from World Health Day on April 7th which exactly captures the spirit the work Standard setting and Codex does in contributing to #safefood.
You will see some familiar Codex faces and many of those who work behind the scenes in Peru.
Importantly, the video also captures stall holders and vendors at work - all part of the process of ensuring that food is in every home safely.
Belize Internship in Costa Rica.
Within the framework of twinning project of CCLAC and with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), in November 2014, three officials visited Costa Rica from Belize for the purpose of perform an internship to receive a training on management and planning of Codex Alimentarius.
This internship was aimed at:
Strengthening the management capabilities of the contact point and the Belize National Codex Committee, through an exchange of experiences between Costa Rica and Belize.
Identifying [...]
