Fresh berries are healthy but also prone to microbiological contamination and associated with Hepatitis A, Norovirus, bacteria E.coli and protozoa The UN food standards body Codex Alimentarius has ...

A long-awaited report on decisions taken at the latest Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting has finally been published. The United Nations food standards body met in Rome in November 2022. Codex is ...

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, ...

What standard is used when countries are defining their food safety policies? When multinational companies such as Nestlé are developing products, what standards do they comply to? The Food and ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the National Codex Committee (NCC) have presented and disseminated the revised National Codex Committee Procedural Manual towards ...

Codex Alimentarius Commission or Food Code, a combination of international standards on food items drawn up within the United Nations System has clocked 50. While waiting for the official celebration ...

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 ...

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, which is holding its meeting in Rome from November 10 to 14 to adopt food safety and quality standards, has fixed the maximum limit at 2.5 mg/kg for lead in spices ...

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 ...

From 3 to 7 February 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Zimbabwe conducted a training session for 20 members of the National Codex technical ...