CODEX AND FEED & FOOD SAFETY 5 th GFFC, Antalya (Turkey), 18-20 April 2016 Plenary III: Global Regulations & Feed Trade Facilitation Tuesday, 19 April 2016 Annamaria Bruno Secretariat of Codex Alimentarius Commission
Content Codex mandate and interest in animal feeding Codex recent and ongoing work Conclusion
Objective of the Codex Alimentarius Commission Dual objective/mandate Protecting health of consumers Ensuring fair practices in food trade Achieved through its standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations
Codex interest in animal feeding Recognizes that animal feed contributes to production of safe food Modern approach to food safety Preventing the entry of hazards at early stage of the food chain Established two ad hoc Task Forces Now work on animal feeding is carried out by Codex committees within their mandate
Codex recent and ongoing work relevant to animal feeding
Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) Code of Practice for Weed Control to Prevent and Reduce Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Contamination in Food and Feed (CAC/RCP 74-2014) Code of Practice for the Reduction of Hydrocyanic Acid (HCN) in Cassava and Cassava Products (CAC/RCP 72-2013) Ongoing work General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in Food and Feed (CODEX STAN 193-1995) Revision of the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Mycotoxin Contamination in Cereals (CAC/RCP 51-2003) Discussion Paper on an Annex for Ergot and Ergot Alkaloids to CAC/ RCP 51-2003
Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (CCRVDF) Ongoing work MRLs for veterinary drugs (ivermectin, zilpaterol hydrochloride, teflubenzuron, lasalocid sodium) Risk management recommendations for veterinary drugs for which no ADI and/or MRLs has been recommended by JECFA due to specific human health concern (gentian violet) Discussion paper on unintended presence of residues of veterinary drugs in food commodities resulting from the carry-over of drug residues into feed
Codex Veterinary Drug Residue in Food Online Database Maximum Residues Limits (MRLs) and Risk Management RecommendaBons (RMRs) (CAC/MRL 2) For 74 veterinary drugs or combina5on of veterinary drugs in different 5ssues of different species of food producing animals
Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) Ongoing work MRL for pesticides (JMPR recommendations) Revision of the Classification of Food and Animal Feed (section on primary animal feed commodities)
Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH) Guidelines for the Control of Taenia saginata in meat of domestic cattle (CAC/GL 85-2014) Guidelines for the Control of Non-typhoidal Salmonella spp. in beef and pork meat (to be adopted by CAC39) Guidelines on the Application of General Principles of Food Hygiene to the Control of foodborne parasites (to be adopted by CAC39) Ongoing work New Work on the Revision of the General Principles of Food Hygiene (CAC/RCP 1-1969) and it s HACCP Annex
Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS) Principles and Guidelines for the Exchange of Information Between Importing and Exporting Countries to Support the Trade in Food (to be adopted by CAC39) Revision of the Principles and Guidelines for the Exchange of Information in Food Safety Emergency Situations (CAC/GL 19-1995) Revision of the Guidelines for the Exchange of Information Between Countries on Rejections of Imported Food (CAC/GL 25-1997) Ongoing work Discussion paper on the use of electronic certificates by Competent Authorities and migration to paperless certification
Antimicrobial Resistance Resolutions of WHO and FAO on antimicrobial resistance and WHO Global Action Plan The next session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (June 2016) will consider proposals for new work in relation to antimicrobial resistance
Conclusion Work on animal feeding is continuing in Codex Feed sectors should actively participate and contribute to the feed-related work in Codex Important to provide information and data to allow Codex to take into account animal feed
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