What started out as a conventional UN bureaucracy has become the subject of wild speculation and fear - just what is the UN's Codex Alimentarius, and what does it mean for our food and health? Imagine ...

What is the Codex? More Michael Pollan and less Dan Brown–we hope. The little-known Codex Alimentarius Commission was established in 1963 under the joint auspices of the United Nations and the World ...

Although Codex Alimentarius was established in 1962, it has risen in prominence in recent years as more countries have aligned their national food standards, particularly in the case of so-called ...

A member survey has revealed good support for Codex standards, but concerns have been raised again about timeliness. The Codex Alimentarius, or “Food Code” is a collection of international standards, ...

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The Codex Alimentarius Commission agreed on a range of standards but had to delay adoption of the final report after running out of time during its latest meeting. The Commission met online in ...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Public Health participated in the forty-eighth session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was recently held in Rome, the Italian capital, with representatives ...

Karen Hulebak chaired the Codex Alimentarius Commission from 2008 to 2011. The European Union is currently picking an arcane but hugely consequential bureaucratic fight at the United Nations. And if ...

The global food standards body Codex Alimentarius Commission has adopted a landmark agreement on how to assess the risks to consumers from foods derived from biotechnology, the FAO and the World ...

SAN DIEGO, December 03, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chosen Foods, America’s #1 Avocado Oil*, and one of the few brands guaranteed to be 100% pure, has released a statement praising the Codex Alimentarius ...

The 44th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission will be held online from 8 to 18 November 2021 with members of the international food standards-setting body expected to approve a series of ...

The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), the authority that develops food standards for composition, labelling and contaminants for food products for sale in Australia and New Zealand - ...