Food Law News - FAO/WHO/WTO/Codex - 2009
Codex Report (ALINORM 09/32/17), 16-20 February 2009
CODEX – Committee on Fats and Oils (21st Session), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
The summary and conclusions of the 21st Session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils are as follows:
Matters for adoption by the Commission:
The Committee:
- agreed to advance to Step 8 the Draft Amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oil: Inclusion of Rice Bran Oil (para. 30, Appendix II);
- agreed to advance to Step 5 the Proposed Draft Criteria to Assess the Acceptability of Substances for Inclusion in a List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes (para. 55, Appendix III);
- agreed to advance to Step 5 the Proposed Draft Amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oil: Inclusion of Palm Kernel Olein and Palm Kernel Stearin (para. 85, Appendix IV);
- agreed to propose to discontinue work on the amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils on total carotenoids in unbleached palm oil (para. 78);
- agreed to propose a revised list of additives in the standards for fats and oils for endorsement by the Committee on Food Additives and adoption by the Commission (para. 23, Appendix VII);
- agreed to request the Commission to approve the amendment to the section on Contaminants in the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils to replace it with the standard language in the Format for Codex Commodity Standards (para. 82).
Other Matters of Interest to the Commission
The Committee:
- agreed to retain at Step 7 the Draft List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes and to return to Step 3 the Proposed Draft List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes for comments and consideration at the next session (para. 71 and 75, Appendix V);
- agreed to return to Step 3 the Proposed Draft Amendment to the Standard for Olive Oils and Olive Pomace Oils on the level of linolenic acid and related footnote (para. 96, Appendix VI);
- agreed not to consider further the proposal for future work on the composition and naming of fatty acid modified vegetable oils (para.. 105).
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