Two FAO and WHO committees have had their local meetings recently with issues specific to each region discussed. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization Codex ...

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 ...

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 The draft guidance has been sent to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for adoption, which will meet in ...

The Codex Alimentarius Commission recently agreed to adopt new international guidelines on the use of precautionary allergen labelling (PAL), marking an important step towards making “may contain” ...

The Commission adopted seven Codex standards and guidelines developed under India's chairmanship and co-chairmanship, ...

India achieved a significant milestone in international food standard-setting with the adoption of three Codex standards for large cardamom, coriander and vanilla at the Forty-Ninth Session of the ...

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 ...

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 Codex Alimentarius Committee will be meeting this week to debate setting a global limit for melamine levels in food. The body, which is part of the World Health Organisation (WHO), will be ...

GENEVA, 24th July, 2026 (WAM) -- The United Arab Emirates has reinforced its influential role in shaping international food standards through its participation in the 90th Session of the Executive ...

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