В ходе 18-й сессии Комиссии “Кодекс Алиментариус”, состоявшейся в 1989 году, было принято решение об учреждении нового Координационного комитета по Северной Америке и Юго-Западному Тихоокеанскому региону, призванного объединить, по словам делегации Новой Зеландии, “дальние страны, у которых много общих интересов”.
Координационный комитет по Северной Америке и Юго-Западному Тихоокеанскому региону представляет невероятно разнообразный по своему составу регион, объединивший страны со зрелой экономикой, такие как США, Канада, Австралия и Новая Зеландия, и 10 малых островных государств, самым крупным из которых является Папуа-Новая Гвинея с населением более 7 млн человек, а самыми маленькими – Острова Кука и Науру с населением около 10 000 человек.
Штаб-квартирой регионального координатора стало Министерство сельского хозяйства Республики Фиджи.
Республика Фиджи готова к внедрению стандартов на национальном уровне и оказанию поддержки всем странам региона – особенно малым островным развивающимся государствам, – которая необходима для создания крепкой нормативной базы, способной обеспечить безопасность пищевых продуктов. Эти инициативы благотворно повлияют на общественное здравоохранение и позволят гарантировать безопасность и определенный уровень качества импортируемых пищевых продуктов и расширить доступ к международным рынкам.
Региональный координатор продолжит поддерживать работу над региональными стандартами и стремиться к расширению участия региона в работе Кодекса. Чтобы обеспечить более активное участие большего количества стран в работе Кодекса, необходимо продолжить наращивание потенциала на национальном уровне, усиливая роль национальных координаторов и контактных лиц.
Agrilinks, an “online hub where agriculture, food security and development professionals connect” will celebrate World Food Safety Day in a webinar entitled Tiny Microbes with Big Business Impact: The Economic and Health Implications of Food Safety.
According to the event organizers, globally, conflict and climate change threaten advances made to reduce hunger and support economic development. Without safe food, we are not able to properly address food security issues. Through biological and chemical contamination, tiny microbes can have big impacts on [...]
The fifth annual World Food Safety Day on 7 June will focus on the ways “Food Standards Save Lives”— governments and the food industry use food safety strategies, standards, and regulations to guide food safety legislation and ensure best practices.
Raising awareness of and promoting the adoption and enforcement of food safety standards requires government agencies to collaborate closely. Join this upcoming webinar, hosted on behalf of the United States of America Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan Food Safety Subgroup, on [...]
The Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST) will hold a World Food Safety Day webinar to discuss the importance of food regulation.
AIFST CEO Fiona Fleming will host a panel of food scientists including:
Todd Redwood, British Standards Institution group (BSI)
Robin Sherlock – Safe Food Queensland
Nick Fletcher – Food Standards Australia
Andrew Mathieson – Australian National University (ANU)
Jasmine Lacis-Lee – Bureau Veritas AsureQuality (BVAQ)
Duncan Craig – Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC)
Each panellist will be asked to give a 2-minute introduction [...]
Murray Watt, Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management, speaking via video message, welcomed delegates gathering in Hobart, Tasmania, and online, for the opening of the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS) taking place from 1-5 May 2023.
Watt said that achieving sustainable productivity growth in agriculture was increasingly critical to meet global food security concerns arising from the world's growing population. It was also vital to deliver on international [...]
By Scott Mersch Codex Contact Point, Australia
On 8 February 2023, the Chairperson of the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS), Nicola Hinder, Australia, and Michelle Catlin, United States of America, the Chairperson of the Electronic Working Group (EWG), along with EWG Co-Chairpersons, delivered a virtual workshop to discuss progress to date on drafting the guidance on the Prevention and Control of Food Fraud. The draft guidance will be considered at Step 4 by CCFICS26 [...]
At the 16th session of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for North America and the South West Pacific held from 30 January to 3 February 2023 in Nadi, Fiji, Steve Hathaway, New Zealand, gave the keynote address on lessons learned from the COVID pandemic, which he said had “irrevocably changed international thinking on food control … [and] dramatically illustrated the importance of effective and science driven risk management by all sectors throughout the food chain.”
Hathaway went on to outline how the [...]
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Co-operatives, SMEs and Communications, Hon. Manoa Kamikamica (pictured centre), speaking on behalf of the Prime Minister and the Government of Fiji, opened the 16th Session of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for North America and the South-West Pacific (CCNASWP), taking place from 30 January to 3 February 2023 in Nadi, Fiji.
“Today’s rapid changes in trade, travel and commerce call for an international standard-setting system that is able to respond more quickly to new [...]
“After last having met as a region in 2019, the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for North America and the South West Pacific (CCNASWP16) provides an excellent opportunity to reconnect and exchange views concerning food standards and food control in the region,” said FAO’s Dirk Schulz, in Nadi, as preparations for the session neared completion.
WHO will be represented at the meeting by Jessica Kayamori Lopez. "This meeting will be a great opportunity to revisit the priorities of the region and hear from [...]
Vinesh Kumar is the Permanent Secretary for Agriculture in Fiji and will chair the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for North America and the South West Pacific (CCNASWP) that will take place in Nadi from 31 January to 3 February 2023.
Hosting the meeting puts Fiji and the region on the global map and gives us a better platform to be recognized in Codex. We have been involved in the development of the kava standard and other national areas of interest include pesticide [...]
World Food Safety Day (WFSD) activities in Samoa took place from 31 May to 7 June 2022, with the participation of over 1000 people. Activities consisted of interviews with Samoa National Codex Committee members, the screening of the interviews on television and social media, a World Food Safety Day-themed Trivia session on national television, and food-safety booths located next to the Accident Compensation Corporation Building (ACC) in Apia, Samoa.
Interviews with Tagaloa Eddie Wilson, Managing Director of Wilex, Samoa; Christina Ulberg, [...]
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