CODEX Update& Natto Export
Opportunity/Challenges
Nov 11 2022
Federation ofJapan NATTO Manufactures
Cooperative SocietyPresenter2

Kentaro Hasegawa
Executive Managing Director

NATTO-REN
・30years ago Naval Aviator, Ensign
・2016 Promoted to Lieutenant junior grade(reserve)
・2021 Promoted to Lieutenant (reserve)

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Codex progress overview
コーデックスの進捗状況の概要• Sep. 2016 – Proposed at CCASIA20, postponed• Sep. 2019 – Proposed at CCASIA21• Dec. 2020 - Posted 1st draft to EWG.
• Jun. 2021 - Posted 2nd draft to EWG.
• Nov. 2021 - Posted 3rd draft to EWG.
• Feb. 2022 - EWG report and draft standard submitted to CCASIA22• 2016年9月 - CCASIA20で提案、延期される。
• 2019年9月 - CCASIA21で提案。
• 2020年12月- EWGに1st ドラフトの投稿。
• 2021年6月– EWGに2ndドラフトの投稿。
• 2021年11月- EWGに3rdドラフトを投稿。
• 2022年2月– EWG報告書と規格案をCCASIA22に提出

Date to bedetermined6

Committee

Codex progress overview

Discussionpaper

Sep. 2016
20th. CCASIA Project

document

Commission(adoption)

Dec. 2020
Exective Committee
st. draft
Sep.
2019
1(Critical review)st.
21 CCASIA

EndorsementbyDate
to begeneralcommittees
determined

Nov. 2021
3rd. draft

Date to be
determined

Proposed draft standard

S1

Feb. 2022
22nd. CCASIA

Jun. 2021
2nd. draft
Committee

S2

S3

S4

elaboration

consullation

discussion

Draft standard

S5
S6

S7

consullation

discussion

S8
Codex
standard
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Codex progress overview
コーデックスの進捗状況の概要• Sep. 2016 – Proposed at CCASIA20, postponed• Sep. 2019 – Proposed at CCASIA21• Dec. 2020 - Posted 1st draft to EWG.
• Jun. 2021 - Posted 2nd draft to EWG.
• Nov.
Jun. 2022
2021 -- Posted
Posted 33rdrd draft
draft toto EWG.
EWG.
• Feb.
Oct. 2022 - EWG report and draft standard submitted to CCASIA22• 2016年9月 - CCASIA20で提案、延期される。
• 2019年9月 - CCASIA21で提案。
• 2020年12月- EWGに1st ドラフトの投稿。
• 2021年6月– EWGに2ndドラフトの投稿。
• 2022年6月- EWGに3rdドラフトを投稿。
2021年11月EWGに3rdドラフトを投稿。
• 2022年10月–
EWG報告書と規格案をCCASIA22に提出
2022年2月– EWG報告書と規格案をCCASIA22に提出

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Codex progress overviewコーデックスの進捗状況の概要

9most of the issues
had beenresolved.

PROPOSED DRAFT REGIONAL STANDARD FOR SOYBEANPRODUCTS FERMENTED WITH
BACILLUS SPECIES (Agenda Item 7)14
43. Japan, as Chair of the Electronic Working Group (EWG) and Virtual Working Group (VWG),
introduced theitem. He recalled that the scope of this work had been expanded from a single commodity i.e. Natto toa group of commodities with similar traits to ensure an inclusive approach before being approved as
new work. He further recalled three rounds of consultations had been undertaken within the EWGfollowed by a VWG prior to CCASIA22 organized to address outstanding issues and stated that most of
the issues had been resolved. The report of the VWG together with the updated text was presented inCRD2.

PROPOSED DRAFT REGIONAL STANDARD FOR SOYBEANPRODUCTS FERMENTED WITH
BACILLUS SPECIES (Agenda Item 7)14

44. CCASIA22 agreed to consider CRD2 as thebasis for discussion of this item.

Conclusion

CCASIA22 agreed to forward:

50. CCASIA22 agreed to forward:i. the proposed draft standard for soybean products fermented with Bacillus
species to CAC46 for adoption at Step 5/8 (Appendix VI); andii. the provisions on food additives, food labelling, and methods of analysis andsampling to CCFA, CCFL and Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis andsampling (CCMAS) for endorsement respectively.

Committee

Discussion
paper

Sep. 2016
20th. CCASIA Project

document

Oct. 2022
22nd. Endorsement
byCCASIA
generalvWG committees

Codex progress overview
Commission(adoption)

Jun. 2021
2nd. draft
Committee

S1

Proposed draft standard

Dec. 2020
Exective Committee
st. draft
Sep.
2019
1(Critical review)st.
21 CCASIA

Jun. 2022
3rd. draft

Codex
Novenber
60th Anniversary
2023
General Meeting
S2

S3

S4

elaboration

consullation

discussion

Draft standard

S5

S8
Codex
standard

S6

S7

consullation

discussion

NATTO
will certified
CODEX standard!

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A world attacked by a virus

Griffin (Eng.)
Cerberus

Griffon (Fre.)Japanese Government's Export
Expansion Strategy
Currently, the Japanese government is trying toexpand food exports.
Fermented soybeans【NATTO】 has become one of the products of thatexport expansion.

Japanese
Government's Export
2022
2023
SepOctNovDecJanFebExpansion
Strategy

Implementation Schedule

Website development(English, Chinese)
Overseas Version Natto
Video Production

Natto information organization,translation, material photography,interviewing, etc.

Video Uploading

HP construction work

MarOpento the public

Working onTranslation work
(English and Chinese)

Promotional Materials
Data production

Editing and message insertion

Design, layout work, creation of data for
pamphlets and panels

Dissemination ofinformation to membersof the Natto Federation

SNS measures
Collection of photos and videos ofnatto cooking, translation of recipes,
and preparation for distribution

Target Countries MarketResearchInstagram Campaign and TikTok Campaign by Nebaru-kunInternet survey preparation, survey design, andquestion setting by target country

Field inspection and report writingOpen
to the public

Japanese Government's ExportExpansion Strategy
Currently, the Japanese government is trying toexpand food exports.
Fermented soybeans

is not NATO!

【NATTO】 has become one of the products of thatexport expansion.
There is a thing that must be taken into
consideration when exporting NATTO.

NATTOto the whole world!
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NATTOis going global!
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NATTOis going global!
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For sustainable
relationshipWe can create the future wewant. Certainly!
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Thankyou
For Sustainable

See you
KentaroHasegawa
tomorrow.

Tomorrow,more interesting!
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Executive
Managing Director,
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