I thought this was interesting.. So does anyone have any idea what this
bureaucrat speak means?
Codex Seeks Comments On Sanitary and Phytosanitary International
Standard-Setting Activities
<http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/NR_060109_01/index.asp>
Codex Alimentarius website
<http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/current.jsp>
*WASHINGTON, June 1 2009 - *The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA)
Food Safety and Inspection Service today announced the publication of a
notice of sanitary and phytosanitary standard-setting activities of the
Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex).
The notice also provides a list of other standard-setting activities of
Codex, including commodity standards, guidelines, codes of practice and
revised texts. The notice, which covers the time periods June 1, 2008,
to May 31, 2009, and June 1, 2009, to May 31, 2010, seeks comments on
standards currently under consideration and recommendations for new
standards.
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.
Comments may be submitted by the following methods:
* Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov
* U.S. Mail: Docket Clerk, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food
Safety and Inspection Service, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Room
2534, South Agriculture Building, Washington, DC 20250-3700.
* Docket Room: For access to comments received, go to the FSIS
Docket Room at the address listed above between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday.
For further information contact: Karen Stuck, United States Manager for
Codex, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Under Secretary for
Food Safety, Room 4861, South Agriculture Building, 1400 Independence
Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20250-3700, or by phone at: (202) 205-7760.
Documents pertaining to Codex are accessible via the Codex Alimentarius
Web site at www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp
<http://www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp>.
Codex was created in 1963 by two United Nations organizations, the Food
and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization.
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