News Archive
Keeping food safe - FAO collaboration with CiBi |
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6 Oct 2016
In September 2016 the Italian magazine CiBi published an edited version of this article as part of an ongoing collaboration between FAO and CiBi. The CiBi articles aim to raise awareness with the magazine's readership about the different areas of work in FAO.
St Anthony's Fire
In the Middle Ages a type [...] |
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First meeting of Codex European Committee in Central Asia |
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2 Oct 2016
The FAO/WHO RCCs provide an incredibly important opportunity for dynamic discussion on major and emerging food safety and quality issues facing the region.
There are six Codex regions each represented by a joint FAO/WHO Regional Coordinating Committee (RCC).They meet every two years. Each committee is responsible for defining the problems and [...] |
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User manuals for online commenting system published |
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27 Sep 2016
The Online Commenting System (OCS) is a new way for Codex members and observers to provide input during the standard setting process.
The Codex OCS uses the Please Review software by PleaseTech
All users of the OCS, including Codex members and observers can now download the updated OCS user manual, available in [...] |
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Ten years of integrated food law in India |
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23 Sep 2016
The second of the Joint FAO/WHO Regional Coordinating Committees (CCASIA) meets 26-30 September in New Delhi India. Each committee is responsible for defining the problems and needs of the region concerning food standards and food control. By working collectively at the regional level countries are able to highlight regulatory issues [...] |
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At UN, global leaders commit to act on antimicrobial resistance |
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21 Sep 2016
OPGA/WHO/FAO/OIE Joint News Release
Collective effort to address a challenge to health, food security, and development
21 September 2016, New York – World leaders today signalled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi [...] |
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Codex Regional Meetings begin in Vanuatu |
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18 Sep 2016
The RCCs provide an incredibly important opportunity for dynamic discussion on major and emerging food safety and quality issues facing the region.
There are six Codex regions each represented by a joint FAO/WHO Regional Coordinating Committee (RCC).They meet every two years. Each committee is responsible for defining the problems and needs [...] |
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FAO to support countries in tackling spread of AMR |
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14 Sep 2016
Global leaders will meet at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next Friday - 21 September 2016 to debate the emerging challenge posed by medicine-resistant "superbugs". Only on three other occasions (HIV, noncommunicable diseases and Ebola) has the General Assembly held a high-level meeting to discuss such matters, clearly [...] |
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Processed Fruits and Vegetables - Washington DC |
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9 Sep 2016
28th session from 12th-16th September - Washington D.C.
This Codex commodity committee (CCPFV) has a mandate to elaborate worldwide standards and related texts for all types of processed fruits and vegetables, including canned, dried and frozen products as well as fruit and vegetable juices and nectars.
The meeting will be focusing on completing [...] |
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