CCLAC22 / Quito meeting an opportunity to address pressing food safety topics
At the FAO/WHO Regional Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC), which gets underway from Quito, Ecuador on Monday 24 October 2022, the Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Steve Wearne, United Kingdom, will describe how the Codex strategic plan continues to inform Codex responses to the new opportunities and challenges that are posed by an ever-changing operating environment.
With the first strategic goal addressing current, emerging and critical issues as identified by Codex Members, each of the six regional committees come together to discuss their most pressing food safety topics, sharing perspectives and catalyzing action.
At CCLAC the topic for the keynote address is “new technologies in the agri-food chain” which Wearne hopes will spark a productive discussion that helps to identify how Codex can best respond to issues for food safety and trade that technologies, old and new, might generate.
Learn more
All working documents available on the CCLAC22 web pages
Photo credit © FAO/Di Chiera
Staff from CCLAC Secretariat with FAO/WHO and Codex Secretariat in Quito, Ecuador
At the heart of the Codex mandate are the core values of collaboration, inclusiveness, consensus building and transparency. Governmental and non-governmental, public and private organizations alike play a vital role in ensuring Codex texts are of the highest quality and based on sound science.
Codex would have little authority in the field of international standard setting if it did not welcome and acknowledge the valuable contributions made by observers. Expert technical bodies, industry and consumer associations
contribute to the standard-setting process in a spirit of openness, collaboration and transparency.
Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can apply for observer status in Codex in order to attend and put forward their views at every stage of the standard-setting process.
Current Codex Alimentarius Commission
CCLAC22 / Quito meeting an opportunity to address pressing food safety topics
At the FAO/WHO Regional Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (CCLAC), which gets underway from Quito, Ecuador on Monday 24 October 2022, the Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Steve Wearne, United Kingdom, will describe how the Codex strategic plan continues to inform Codex responses to the new opportunities and challenges that are posed by an ever-changing operating environment.
With the first strategic goal addressing current, emerging and critical issues as identified by Codex Members, each of the six regional committees come together to discuss their most pressing food safety topics, sharing perspectives and catalyzing action.
At CCLAC the topic for the keynote address is “new technologies in the agri-food chain” which Wearne hopes will spark a productive discussion that helps to identify how Codex can best respond to issues for food safety and trade that technologies, old and new, might generate.
Learn more
All working documents available on the CCLAC22 web pages
Photo credit © FAO/Di Chiera
Staff from CCLAC Secretariat with FAO/WHO and Codex Secretariat in Quito, Ecuador
Codex and Observer
around the world since ancient times.
We might not always know where it comes from,
but we expect it to be available, safe and of good quality.
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