食典委观察员
食典委的中心职能是协作、包容、建立共识和透明等核心价值观。政府和非政府组织以及公共和私营组织,都在确保食典文本具备最高质量并以坚实科学为基础方面发挥着至关重要的作用。
如果食典委不欢迎并认可观察员所做出的宝贵贡献,那么在国际标准制定领域就不会具备权威性。专家技术机构、行业协会和消费者协会本着开放、协作和透明的精神,推动标准制定进程。
目前,食品法典委员会拥有:211 个法典观察员 - 48 个国际政府间组织、147 个非政府组织、16 个联合国机构。
Observer News
Observer spotlight: Consumers International
Consumers International represents the voice of consumers in international policy-making forums and the global marketplace, including in the Codex Alimentarius Commission as an Observer organization. The vast partnership – with more than 200 organizations in more than 100 countries – strives to ‘drive change in the global marketplace on a scale that cannot be achieved at a national level alone, to ensure consumers are treated safely, fairly and honestly’. The Codex Secretariat recently spoke with Anna Glayzer, who is an [...]
11 September 2018
Observer spotlight: International Dairy Federation
The International Dairy Federation (IDF), a longstanding Codex Observer organization, now has more than 1 200 dairy experts dedicated to helping ‘nourish the world with safe and sustainable dairy’, a mission that aligns well with ‘protecting health and facilitating trade’. IDF has been contributing to the development of standards for the dairy sector since 1903. With member countries representing the entire dairy chain – from farmers and processors to research centers and academia – IDF has served as technical advisor [...]
27 July 2018
Organizations discuss food integrity and authenticity
Two side events with international governmental and non-governmental organizations
International governmental and non-governmental organizations agreed that Codex is the ideal forum to address issues related to food fraud and authenticity on the margins of the 41st Codex Alimentarius Commission.
During the side sessions moderated by Carlos Laorden of El País, participants reported the need to speak the same language on food fraud, to define an agreed terminology and that steps should be taken to mitigate risks associated with deliberate tampering and substitution, [...]
04 July 2018
Comment on the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food 12th Session
Dr Martin Slayne - International Council of Grocery Manufacturers Associations Global Head Scientific & Regulatory Affairs The Hershey Company
The Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF) provides a global forum for governments to harmonize regulatory management measures, based on common science, risk assessment and best practices. At the recent 12th meeting of the Committee, good progress was made in some areas, although a key observation when discussing the setting of Maximum Levels for contaminants was an increasing pattern of country [...]
26 March 2018
Observers in Codex
This video highlights the role observer organisations play in Codex.