FSIS Reports Codex Food Labeling Committee Discussed Ethylene Use, Organics, Etc.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service said the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) held its 40th Session on May 15-18, 2012, in Ottawa, Canada, with about 165 representatives from 61 countries. Highlights include:
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- Advancing to the Commission for adoption as revisions (1 &2) to the Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labeling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods:
- Use of ethylene: (a) for ripening fruit, (b) as a flowering agent for pineapples, and (c) for degreening citrus; and
- Inclusion of spinosad, copper octanoate, potassium bicarbonate, and
- Requirements for mandatory nutrition labeling, also for the revision of Guidelines for Nutrition Labelling (CAC/GL 2-1985).
- Establishing electronic Working Group (eWG), co-chaired by the U.S. and Cameroon, to continue work on the use of ethylene for sprout inhibition in onions and potatoes for the proposed revision of Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Labeling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods.
- Endorsing the following recommendations from the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) for adoption by the Commission of:
- Additional conditions for nutrient content claims and comparative claims for the revision of the Guidelines for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims (CAC/GL 23-1997), and
- Definition for nutrient reference values as proposed for the revision of the Guidelines for Nutrition Labelling (CAC/GL 2-1985).
- Endorsing the labeling provisions for regional standards for Harissa and Halwa Tehenia, proposed by the Committee on the Near East (CCNEA) and adopted by the Commission in 2011, pending endorsement by CCFL of these labeling provisions.
- Returning work to the eWG, chaired by the European Union, to continue efforts on organic aquaculture (CX/FL 12/40/11); discontinuing work on modified standardized common names for purpose of nutritional modification.