CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COURSE MADE AVAILABLE FOR EHOS
May 1st, 2008 BY KEITH NUTHALL ENVIRONMENTAL health managers wanting to better influence the detailed food safety guidelines of the Codex Alimentarius are being offered an e-learning course on its often arcane decision-making procedures. The Rome-based Codex advises on all manner of food safety issues, from seafood poisoning, to the leaching of packaging materials into food, and HACCP food manufacturing safety precautions. Although its rules are not compulsory, they are precedents guiding World Trade Organisation disputes, so have teeth. The UN Food & Agriculture ...
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