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Public Meeting to Address Codex Committee on Milk and Milk Products |
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Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Bridgette Keefe
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2006 - The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety and
the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug
Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will sponsor a public meeting to
provide information and receive comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed
at the Seventh Session of the Codex Committee on Milk and Milk Products (CCMMP) of the
Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex). The formal committee session will be held at the Millenium
Hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand, March 27-April 1, 2006.
The public meeting, which precedes the Codex session, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday,
March 14, 2006, in Room 2504, South Building, USDA, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20250. Agenda items may be accessed at
www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp.
Pre-registration for the public meeting is required.
The CCMMP was established to elaborate codes, guidelines, standards and related texts for milk and milk products.
Codex was created in 1963 by two United Nations organizations, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the
World Health Organization. Codex develops food standards, guidelines and codes of practice in order to
protect the health of consumers, ensure fair food trade practices and promote coordination of food standards
undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
For further information pertaining to the Seventh Session of the CCMMP or pre-registration for the
public meeting, contact Susan Sausville, Assistant to the U.S. Delegate to the CCMMP, Chief Dairy
Standardization Branch, AMS, by phone at (202) 720-7473 or by e-mail at
susan.sausville@usda.gov.
Persons requesting a sign language interpreter for the meeting or other special accommodations should contact
Amjad Ali, International Issues Analyst, U.S. Codex Office, FSIS, by phone at (202) 205-7760 or by fax at
(202) 720-3157.
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