Health :: Agenda Items for the 38th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene

The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a public meeting to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions for the 38th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), to be held Dec. 4 – 9, in Houston, Texas.

The public meeting is scheduled on Thursday, Nov. 9, from 1 – 4 p.m., in the conference room at the south end of the USDA cafeteria located in the USDA South Agriculture Building, 1400 Independence Ave, SW, Washington, D.C. Pre-registration is not required for this meeting; however, attendees must present a photo ID for identification to gain admittance to this meeting.

Agenda items and documents related to the 38th Session of the CCFH will be available prior to the public meeting at http://www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp.

Codex was created in 1963 by two United Nations organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization. Codex develops food standards, guidelines and codes of practice in order to protect the health of consumers, ensure fair food trade practices and promote coordination of food standards undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations. The CCFH was established to elaborate codes, standards and related texts for food hygiene.


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