El Comité Coordinador para África fue creado por la Comisión del Codex Alimentarius en 1972, con el mandato de ejercer “la coordinación general en la preparación de normas relativas a la región de África”. El comité celebró su primera reunión en la FAO en 1974, con la asistencia de 19 países.
Al iniciarse el mandato del nuevo coordinador regional, el Acuerdo sobre la Zona de Libre Comercio Continental Africana (AfCFTA, por sus siglas en inglés), que entró en vigor en mayo de 2020, ha reforzado la necesidad de contar con un sistema eficiente y eficaz para gestionar las medidas sanitarias y fitosanitarias, en particular la inocuidad alimentaria, en todo el continente a medida que sus fronteras se abren al comercio.
El coordinador regional tiene su sede en la Oficina Nacional de Normalización de Uganda, un organismo estatutario dependiente del Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Cooperativas que supervisa, en el marco de su mandato, la promoción y el uso de las normas.
Como coordinador regional, Uganda tiene la intención de colaborar estrechamente con los diferentes países a través de encuestas, seminarios web y talleres para identificar las necesidades y los nuevos problemas, y generar conciencia sobre los temas prioritarios en materia de inocuidad de los alimentos y sobre las normas del Codex. También se analizará la situación de la inocuidad de los alimentos en la región en términos más amplios a través de un estudio piloto. Al fortalecer la colaboración con organismos regionales como la Unión Africana, la Organización Africana de Normalización y la Secretaría de la Zona de Libre Comercio Continental Africana, Uganda pretende asimismo mejorar la labor de incidencia en la región.
Nigeria’s Consumer Advocacy for Food Safety and Nutrition Initiative (CAFSANI) will hold a World Food Safety Day webinar on the subject of “mycotoxins and pesticide residues in some selected Nigerian crops ad products”.
The event will take place on Monday 6 June and will be hosted and moderated by Olugbenga Ogunmoyela, President and CEO of CAFSANI. Joining him will be:
- John O. lgene from the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology and Professor of Research and Innovation at the University [...]
The Cabinet d’Expertise Six Sigma in Chad is to celebrate World Food Safety Day over the first week of June and has called upon local influencers to promote the planned events across social media.
Between 1 and 7 June, a series of “tasting” sessions will be hosted by restaurants around the capital city, N’Djamena, which will be accompanied by relevant food safety messages.
Around 250 people have been invited to events on 7 June, which have been scheduled to take place at [...]
A week of food safety awareness to start in Nigeria
A food safety academy in Nigeria named after the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) is organizing a week of awareness-raising activities in honour of World Food Safety Day.
The HACCP Food Safety Academy Nigeria is planning daily events as of 1 June as follow:
Day 1 – farm visit
Day 2 – visit to logistics companies
Day 3 – school visit
Day 4 – visit to a market
Day 5 – food safety podcast
Day [...]
On 25 May, the National Codex Committee of Senegal, together with the national offices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), will host a World Food Safety Day “science day” on this year’s theme, “safer food, better health”.
The French-language event will involve conferences, round tables and discussions and will take place at the Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Odonto-Stomatology (FMPO) at Dakar’s Université Cheikh Anta Diop. Two plenary sessions on [...]
By Hakim Mufumbiro, Regional Coordinator CCAFRICA
On Tuesday, 3rd May 2022 at the Tribe Hotel in Nairobi, the Codex Contact Point (CCP) Officers from Burundi, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda met to formally launch the East African Community (EAC) Codex Trust Fund Project for the five countries to pave way for implementation of priority planned activities. The group project seeks to build solid and sustainable Codex systems within the EAC Partner States.
The launch and regional workshop was held to mainly [...]
By John Oppong-Otoo, Food Safety Officer at AU-IBAR and Hakim Mufumbiro, Regional Coordinator CCAFRICA
A total of 18 Member States (Botswana, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia) met from 20 to 22 April 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda as part of the initiatives to enhance Codex work management within the Member States on the continent.
The regional workshop was held to mainly undertake an assessment of the status of operation [...]
By Codex Contact Point, Kenya
The Kenya Codex Contact Point at Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) in conjunction with the national Codex committee held an consultative workshop on 29 March 2022 with manufacturers, importers/exporters, local traders, consumer organizations and the general public. The workshop aimed to create awareness amongst various stakeholders who are potential users of Codex standards and have a responsibility for safeguarding consumer health.
The objectives of the workshop were to enlighten the participants on the use and importance of [...]
by CCAFRICA coordinator
On 21 March 2022, during a hybrid meeting hosted in Entebbe, Uganda officially took over from Kenya as the new Regional Coordinator for the African region (CCAFRICA). This follows the appointment of Uganda for the period 2020 to 2022 by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) during its 43rd meeting held virtually in November 2020.
Uganda has been a member of CODEX since 1964 and this is the second time Codex Alimentarius Commission has appointed Uganda to coordinate Codex activities [...]
Hakim Mufumbiro, Uganda Regional Coordinator CCAFRICA
A total of 14 Member States within the Economic Community of West African States (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote D’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo) participated in an online training on Codex Electronic Working (EWG) Platform and Online Commenting System (OCS) as one of the capacity building activities to enhance the skill and knowledge of stakeholders in the region in order to better engage and participate [...]
The Codex Secretariat has learned of the sad death of Dr. Claude John Shara Mosha, Tanzania, who served as the first ever Codex Alimentarius Chairperson from an African country from 2006 to 2008.
Hakim Mufumbiro, the current Regional Coordinator for the Codex African region said: “Dr Mosha will be remembered for his astute leadership, dedication, hard work, negotiation prowess, unwavering commitment and deep passion for Codex and food safety as well as his wisdom and extremely joyful and imaginative nature.”
John Oppong-Otoo [...]
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