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Public Meeting to Address Agenda Items for the 3rd Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods
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Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Bryn Burkard
WASHINGTON, February 19, 2009 - The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) are sponsoring a public meeting to provide information and
receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 3rd Session of the
Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF),
which will be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from March 23-27, 2009.
The public meeting will be held on Thursday, March 5, 2009, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Harvey Wiley
Federal Building, Room 1A-001, FDA, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), 5100 Paint Branch
Parkway, College Park, MD.
Documents and agenda items related to the 3rd Session of the CCCF will be accessible at the Codex Web site at
www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) was established in 1963 by two United Nations organizations, the Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Through adoption of food standards,
codes of practice, and other guidelines developed by its committees, and by promoting their adoption and
implementation by governments, Codex seeks to protect the health of consumers and ensure that fair practices
are used in trade.
Established by Codex in 2006, the CCCF acts as a separate Committee to establish or endorse maximum levels for
contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants in food and feed; to prepare priority lists of contaminants and
naturally occurring toxicants for risk assessment by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA);
to consider methods of analysis and sampling for determination of contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants
in food and feed; to consider and elaborate standards or codes of practice for related subjects; and to consider
other matters assigned to it by the Commission in relation to contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants
in food and feed.
The U.S. Delegate to the CCCF, Dr. Nega Beru, invites all interested U.S. parties to submit their comments
electronically to the following e-mail address:
henry.kim@fda.hhs.gov.
For further information about the 3rd Session of the CCFO, please contact Dr. Henry Kim, Office of Food Safety,
CFSAN, FDA, by phone: (301) 436-2023, or e-mail: henry.kim@fda.hhs.gov.
For further information about the public meeting, contact Paulo Almeida, U.S. Codex Office, Food Safety and
Inspection Service, at (202) 205-7760 or by e-mail at
paulo.almeida@fsis.usda.gov.
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