Food Law News - FAO/WHO/WTO/Codex - 2000
3-6 October 2000
FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Europe (22nd Session)
The Regional Committee:
- Agreed to discontinue work on the revision of the Regional Standard for Vinegar and to propose that the Commission should revoke the current Standard;
- Agreed to return the Proposed Draft Revised Standard for Mayonnaise to Step 3 and to ask the advice of the Commission on the need for a Regional Standard for Mayonnaise and for regional standards in general;
- Agreed to nominate the Slovak Republic for appointment as Regional Coordinator by the 24th Session of the Commission.
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- Expressed its support for the precautionary principle and considered that the debate on this question should proceed in the Committee on General Principles;
- Recommended that all concerned Committees consider the issue of gluten-free foods as a matter of priority in order to establish a level and a method of analysis applicable to gluten-free foods;
- Reviewed the measures taken by governments to improve consumer participation and agreed to consider further the integration of consumer concerns in Codex work at its next session.
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