G/SPS/GEN/1520  
 
13 October 2016 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 INFORMATION ON ACTIV ITIES  
COMMUNICATION FROM T HE CODEX ALIMENTARIU S COMMISSION (CODEX)  
The following communication, received on 13 October  2016, is being circulated at the request of 
the Codex  secretariat.  
 
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1  CODEX SESSIONS SINCE  THE LAST M EETING OF THE COMMIT TEE ( JULY  2016 ) 
 72nd Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Comm ission (Geneva, Switzerland, 
30 August – 1 September 2016)  
 28th Codex Committee on Processed Fruits and Vegetab les (Washington D.C., United States 
of America , 12-16 September 2016)  
 14th FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for North America and South West Pacific (Port Vila, 
Vanuatu, 19 –22 September 2016)  
 20th FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee F or Asia (New Delhi, India, 26 –30 September 2016)  
 30th FAO/WHO Coordinating Committe e For Europe (Astana, Kazakhstan, 3 –7 October 2016)  
 23rd Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (Hous ton, United States of 
America, 17–21 October 2016)  
In particular, the SPS Committee may wish to note the following:  
1.1.  The Executive Committ ee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission  discussed on 
implementation on Critical review, Committees Working by Correspond ence and Codex Work 
management.  
Full report:  http://www.fao.org/fao -who-codexalimentarius/sh -
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Meetings%252FCX -702-72%252FReport%252FREP17_EXEC1e.pdf  
1.2.  For the following session, oral report will be made for the mat ters relevant to SPS 
Committee:  
 23rd Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (Hous ton, United States of 
America, 17–21 October 2016) . 
2  FORTHCOMING CODEX MEET INGS  
 48th Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (Los Angeles , United States of America, 
7-11 November 2016)  
 20th FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (Viña del Mar, 
Chile, 21–25 November 2016)  
 38th Codex Committe e on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (Hamburg, Germany, 
5–9 December 2016)  
 22nd FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Africa (Nairobi, Ken ya, 16–20 January 2017)  
 3rd Codex Committee on Spices and Cu linary Herbs (Chennai, India, 6 –10 February 2017 ) 
 9th FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee For Near East (TBA,  Iran (Islamic Republic of), 
20-24 February 2017)  G/SPS/GEN/1520  
 
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   25th Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,  27 February – 3 March 
2017)  
In particular, the SPS Committee may wish to note the follo wing:  
2.1.  The Codex Committee on Food Hygiene  will consider in particular: revision of the General 
Principles of Food Hygiene  (CAC/RCP 1 -1969) and its HACCP Annex; revision of the Code of 
Hygienic Practice for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables  (CAC/RCP 53 -2003); dev elopment of Guidance 
on histamine control and sampling plans for histamine.  
For the agenda  see http://www.fao.org/fao -who-codexalimentarius/sh -
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Meetings%252FCX -712-48%252FWorking%252520Document%252Ffh48_01e.pdf  
2.2.  Note: New round of FAO/WHO Regional Coordinating Committees (RCCs) started in 
September 2016 from CCNASWP. CAC38 (2015) welcomed a process of "revitalisation " of RCCs to 
make them more strategic forward thinking on food safety and quality issues related to the r egion. 
The "revitalisation " process include among others the alignment of the agenda of the six RCCs and 
the development of a platform to collect and share information on food control.  
 
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