Codex alimentarius.
By: Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Contributors: Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme.; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.; World Health Organization.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; World Health Organization; FAO
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Food -- Biotechnology.; Health risk assessment.; Food -- Safety measures.
Other titles: Foods derived from biotechnology
Description: The Codex Alimentarius Commission at its twenty-sixth session in 2003 adopted overarching principles on the risk analysis of foods derived from modern biotechnology and guidelines for food safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants or produced using recombinant-DNA micro-organisms. This compact volume contains these adopted texts to promote wide use and understanding of the risk analysis process of food derived from modern biotechnology by governments, food industries and consumers.--Publisher's description.
Notes: The Codex Alimentarius Commission at its twenty-sixth session in 2003 adopted overarching principles on the risk analysis of foods derived from modern biotechnology and guidelines for food safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants or produced using recombinant-DNA micro-organisms. This volume contains these adopted texts to promote wide use and understanding of the risk analysis process of food derived from modern biotechnology by governments, food industries and consumers.
"ISSN 0259-2916"--P. [4] of cover.