COVER
REPORT OF THE SIXTH SESSION
OF THE
JOINT FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
Geneva, 4–14 March 1969

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issued by the Secretariat of the
Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, FAO, Rome
Ref. No. ALINORM 69/67, April 1969



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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

Participants and Officers of the Commission Adoption of Agenda

PART II

Executive Committee - Reports on the Twelfth and Thirteenth Sessions

PART III

Membership of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

PART IV

General Principles
- Codes of Practice
- Amendment of the Purpose of the Codex Alimentarius
- Amendment of the Scope of the Codex Alimentarius
- Amendment of the Nature of Codex Standards
- Acceptance of Codex Commodity Standards
- Acceptance of Codex General Standards
- Withdrawal or Amendment of Acceptance

PART V

Amendments to the Procedure for the Elaboration of Codex Standards
Procedure for consideration of Standards by the Commission at Step 8
Guide to the Procedure for the Revision and Amendment of Recommended Codex Standards
Amendments to the Procedure for the Elaboration of Milk and Milk Products Standards

PART VI

Amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Commission
- Amendment of Rule II.4(a)  ) Appointment of
- Amendment of Rule II.4(b)  ) Coordinator
- Proposal to amend Rule VI.3 (Regional or group of countries standards)
- Proposed Argentine amendment to Rule XII.3 (Languages)

PART VII

Guidelines for establishing future work priorities and new subsidiary bodies

PART VIII

Finance of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme for 1968/69 and 1970/71

PART IX

Amendments to the Guidelines for Codex Committees
- Methods of Analysis and Sampling

- Normal practice
- Methods of analysis and sampling of general application to foods
- Methods of analysis of food additives as such
- Methods of analysis of pesticide residues in food
- Microbiological methods of analysis and sampling

- Food Labelling
- Codex Committee reports

PART X

Information on the activities of other international organizations working on the standardization of foods and related matters
- UN Economic Commission for Europe
- International Olive Oil Council
- International Organization for Standardization
- Commission of the European Economic Community
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Council of Europe (Partial Agreement)
Future reports on related activities within FAO and WHO

PART XI

Soups and Broths

PART XII

Information on Food Standards Work in Asia, Africa and Latin America

PART XIII

Codex General Subject Committees
Reports of the Codex Committees on
- General Principles
- Food Labelling
- Food Hygiene
- Food Additives
- Pesticide Residues
- Methods of Analysis and Sampling

PART XIV

Codex Commodity Committees
- Codex Committee on Meat and Meat Products and Sub-Committee I
- Codex Committee on Poultry Meat

Reports of the Codex Committees on
- Cocoa Products and Chocolate
- Sugars
- Processed Fruits and Vegetables
- Fats and Oils
- Fish and Fishery Products
- Sub-Committee IV on Processed Meat Products and Consumer Packaged Meat
- Foods for Special Dietary Uses
- Natural Mineral Waters

Report of the Coordinating Committee for Europe
Reports of the Joint ECE/Codex Alimentarius Groups of Experts on
- Standardization of Fruit Juices
- Standardization of Quick Frozen Foods

PART XV

Code of Principles concerning Milk and Milk Products
- Report on the Eleventh Session of the Joint FAO/WHO Committee of Government Experts
- Relationship between the Commission and the Committee of Government Experts (governing paragraph 10)
- Edible Ices

PART XVI

Consideration of Standards at Step 8 of the Procedure for the Elaboration of Codex Standards
- General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods
- Standard for Honey
- Standard for Margarine
- Standards for Lard and Rendered Pork Fat
- Standards for Premier Jus and Edible Tallow
- General Standard for Edible Fats and Oils not covered by individual standards
- Standards for Edible Oils (soya bean oil, arachis oil, cottonseed oil, sunflowerseed oil, rapeseed oil, maize oil, sesameseed oil, safflowerseed oil)
- Standard for Canned Pacific Salmon
- Standards for Sugars
   - White Sugar
   - Powdered Sugar (Icing Sugar)
   - Soft Sugars
- General Standard for Quick Frozen Foods
- Tolerances for Pesticide Residues

PART XVII

Consideration of Standards at Step 5 of the Procedure for the Elaboration of Codex Standards

- Edible Fungi
- General Standard for Edible Fungi and Fungus Products
- Standard for Dried Edible Fungi
- European Regional Standard for Fresh Fungus Chanterelle

- European Regional Standard for Natural Mineral Waters

- Fats and Oils
- Standard for Olive Oil
- Standard for Mustardseed Oil

- Fruit Juices
- Standards for apricot, peach and pear nectars, apple, orange, grape, tomato, lemon and grapefruit juices, and concentrated apple, orange and grape juices

- Processed Fruits and Vegetables
- Standards for canned green garden peas, canned mushrooms, canned strawberries, canned plums, canned raspberries, canned fruit cocktail

- Fish and Fishery Products
- Standards for frozen gutted Pacific salmon, frozen fillets of cod and haddock, canned shrimps and prawns

- Sampling Plans for Prepackaged Foods
- Technical Procedure for Sampling Foods
- Codes of hygienic practice for dried fruits, desiccated coconut, dehydrated fruits and vegetables including edible fungi, quick frozen fruit and vegetable products
- Tolerances for Pesticide Residues
- Food Colours

PART XVIII

Amendments proposed to certain Step 9 Standards for Processed Fruits and Vegetables (canned green and wax beans, canned peaches, canned applesauce)

PART XIX

Progress report on the work of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme

PART XX

Timetable of Codex sessions, 1969/70

PART XXI

Future work

APPENDICES

Appendix I - List of Participants

Appendix II - Report of the Thirteenth Session of the Executive Committee

Appendix III - Opinion of the Legal Counsels of FAO and WHO on codes of practice in relation to the Codex Alimentarius

Appendix IV - General Principles of the Codex Alimentarius

Appendix V - Procedure for the Elaboration of Codex Standards and Codes of Practice

Appendix VI - Procedure for the Elaboration of Milk and Milk Product Standards

Appendix VII - Guide to the Procedure for the revision and amendment of recommended Codex Standards

Appendix VIII - Guide to the consideration of standards at Step 8 of the Procedure for the Elaboration of Codex Standards

Appendix IX - Criteria for the Establishment of work priorities and for the Establishment of subsidiary bodies of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

Appendix X - List of Food Colours which have been found acceptable for use in food and which have been given acceptable daily intakes for man by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives