Code of practice for fish and fishery products

Nutrition Division

Code of practice for fish and fishery products

second edition

Year of publication 2012

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 250 p.

Author Nutrition Division

Publisher FAO/WHO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-107018-5

Series title Codex Alimentarius Commission Procedural Manual

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Synopsis (short abstract) The Code of practice for fish and fishery products is intended for all those engaged in the handling, production, storage, distribution, export, import and sale of fish and fishery products. The Code will help in attaining safe and wholesome products that can be sold on national or international markets and meet the requirements of the Codex Standards. All related individual standards for fish and fishery products, as well as other related specific hygiene guidance, such as t he Guidelines on the Application of General Principles of Food Hygiene to the Control of Pathogenic Vibrio species in Seafood and the Application of General Principles of Food Hygiene to the Control of Viruses in Food (annex on Control of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) and Norovirus (NoV) in bivalve molluscs), can be found on the Codex website. The Code is a work in progress and a number of appendixes remain under development. This second printed edition contains revisions to the te xts adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission up to 2011.

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