CODEX ALIMENTARIUS GUIDELINES CAN SAFEGUARD HEALTH CONTROLS ON IMPORTED FOODSTUFFS
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLHAVING a crystal ball can be useful for environmental health teams wanting to get ahead of the game and know what regulatory changes might be coming in a few years time. But how can they achieve such prescience? One tactic is to exploit globalisation. Top-down development of international food safety regulations is reality at the United Nations' Codex Alimentarius Commission, in Rome. As the world's global food safety body, not only are its guidelines, recommendations, standards and codes of practice hugely influential, since the birth of the ...
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