He recalled that The Gambia joined the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 1971 and has since progressively strengthened its ...

The handover ceremony includes the transfer of coordinatorship from Uganda to The Gambia, followed by a capacity-building ...

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2012 -The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the United Nations food standards body, agreed Friday on a set of residue limits for the veterinary drug ractopamine in animal tissues.

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 Codex committee has made progress on guidelines for preventing and controlling food fraud. The draft guidance has been sent to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for adoption, which will meet in ...

Since 1962, the Codex Alimentarius Commission has implemented the Food Standards Programme developed jointly by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the FAO. Now, however, the programme is ...

The third round for countries to apply for support from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Codex Trust Fund is now open. The Codex Alimentarius, ...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — International food safety authority Codex Alimentarius (Codex) has adopted a framework that encompasses four different technologies for producing steviol glycosides, a move that ...

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 ...

Guidelines for the control of Salmonella in beef and pork and on hygiene to control foodborne parasites were among the decisions taken during the first day of the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting ...

Farming ministers today called for sustainability considerations to feature more prominently when it comes to setting food safety standards for international trade. In conclusions approved at the ...