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Codex Alimentarius Commission Details
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade ...
 
Integrated food control systems Details
The "Food Control System" is the official institutional set up, at national and sub-national level, responsible for ensuring the quality and safety of the food supply. It includes the relevant food legislation and regulation, food inspection, food analysis, food import/export inspection and ...
 
International Portal on Food Safety, Animal & Plant Health - IPFSAPH : Legislation and Regulations Details
This page provides direct access to laws , legislation and regulations . The International Portal on Food Safety, Animal & Plant Health (IPFSAPH) facilitates trade in food and agriculture by providing a single access point to authorized official international and national standards, legislations, ...
 
International Portal on Food Safety, Animal & Plant Health - IPFSAPH : Related to WTO Agreements > Sanitary and Phytosanitary - SPS - Agreement Details
This section contains information on SPS : The Sanitary and Phytosanitary ( SPS ) Agreement binds signatories to the application of science-based sanitary and phytosanitary measures which do not arbitrarily discriminate between countries where identical or similar conditions prevail. Sanitary ...
 
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) Details
The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) is an international expert scientific committee that is administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It has been meeting since 1956, initially to ...
 
Right to Food Details
This site includes information and links about Strategy, Implementation Goals, Guiding Principles, Newsroom, Publications, and the Right to Food Portal.
 
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