127. The Commission had before it ALINORM 70/40 which had been prepared by the Chairman of the Commission concerning the labelling provisions in the Step 9 sugars standards. A problem had arisen as to what was the intention of the sixth session of the Commission as to the labelling provisions in these standards.
128. There was no statement in the Report of the Sixth Session of the Commission to the effect that the provisions of the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods should be attracted to the sugars standards. However, the labelling provisions of the General Standards had been attracted in the case of a number of other Step 9 standards which had been adopted by the Commission at its sixth session. The Chairman of the Commission indicated that it was his impression that it was the intention of the Commission to apply the provisions of the General Standard as finally approved by the Commission to all the commodity standards except where the Codex Committee concerned had positively decided otherwise and its decision had been endorsed by the Codex Committee on Food Labelling.
129. The Codex Committee on Sugars did not meet during 1969 but it was the Chairman's opinion that the final position of the Sugars Committee was that, apart from the special provisions on labelling which the Committee had included in its standards, it was ready to accept the final provisions of the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods for inclusion in the standards in the form finally approved by the Codex Committee on Food Labelling and the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The major discrepancy so far as the sugars standards were concerned was the provision on country of origin, though the point of principle was a more general one. The Commission agreed with the Chairman's view and decided that the relevant provisions of the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods should be attracted in the Step 9 sugars standards. As far as the declaration of country of origin was concerned, this would mean that such a declaration would not be mandatory.
130. At the Fifth Session of the Codex Committee on Sugars, held in London in September 1968, the question of a standard for powdered dextrose (icing sugar) was considered and Member Countries were asked to let the Secretariat know whether a standard was necessary, accompanied by information concerning national production and international trade. Information had been received from a number of countries. The Committee decided to refer to the Commission the question of whether a standard for powdered dextrose should be elaborated. A first draft of a standard for this product was attached as Appendix II to ALINORM 70/36.
131. The Commission agreed that a standard for powdered dextrose should be proceeded with. The Commission decided that the draft appearing in Appendix II to ALINORM 70/36 could be regarded as sufficient ly satisfactory at Step 2 of the Procedure for it to be sent out to governments for comment at Step 3. The Commission instructed the Secretariat to draw the particular attention of governments to paragraphs 6 and 7 of ALINORM 70/36 regarding the quality criteria and the designation of the product. The comments received should be collated by the United Kingdom Secretariat of the Sugars Committee, who should advise the Commission on whether the nature of the comments made it seem possible and advisable for the Commission itself to deal with Steps 4 and 5 at its next session, or whether a further session of the Sugars Committee to deal with Step 4 was required.
