8/8/2019 Codex Milk

1/18

Codex work on milk and milk

products (overview)

Annamaria Bruno and Jeronimas Maskeliunas

Food Standards Officers

Codex Secretariat

Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

2/18

Codex Alimentarius Commission

Established in 1961/1963

174 members countries and 1

Member organisation 219 observer organisations

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

3/18

Codex Alimentarius Commission -

mandate

Dual objective:

Protecting the health of consumers

Facilitating fair practices in food trade

Non-mandatory in nature, Codex standards

and related texts have since 1995 become

international benchmarks for harmonizationunder the SPS and TBT Agreements of WTO

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

4/18

General Principles

(France)

Food Additives (China)

Contaminants in Foods(Netherlands)

Food Hygiene

(USA)

Codex organizational chart

Food Labelling

(Canada)

Methods of Analysis and

Sampling

(Hungary)

Pesticide Residues

(China)

Residues of Veterinary

Drugs in Foods

(USA)

General Subject Committees Commodity Committees

Milk and Milk

Products (New Zealand)

Processed Fruits

and Vegetables (USA)

Meat Hygiene

(New Zealand)

Fish and Fishery

Products (Norway)

Fresh Fruit and

Vegetables (Mexico)

Fats and Oils

(United Kingdom)

Nutrition and Foods for

Special Dietary Uses

(Germany) Cereals, Pulses andLegumes (USA)

Vegetable Proteins(Canada)

Natural Mineral Waters

(Switzerland)

Cocoa Products andChocolate (Switzerland)

ad hocIntergovernmental Task Forces

Biotechnology

(Japan)

Antimicrobial Resistance

(Republic of Korea)

Processing and Handling ofQuick Frozen Foods

(Thailand)

Regional Coordinating Committees

Africa

(Morocco)

Asia

(Republic of Korea)

Europe

(Switzerland)

Latin America

and the Caribbean

(Argentina)

Near East

(Jordan)

North America and

the Southwest Pacific

(Samoa)

Executive Committee Secretariat

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION

-Food Import andExport Inspection

and CertificationSystems (Australia)

Sugars

(United Kingdom)

active

adjourned

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

5/18

Codex work on milk and milk

products

Codex Committee on Milk and Milk Products

Codex Committee on Food Hygiene

Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods Codex Committee on Pesticides

Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary

Drugs in Foods

Codex Committee on Food Additives

Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for

Special Dietary Uses

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

6/18

Codex Committee on Milk and Milk

Products

Hosted by New Zealand

Elaborate world-wide standards , codes and

related texts for milk and milk products

Meets every two years; 8th Session in

February/March 2008

16 Standards for individual cheese, 19 Standards

cheese products

Codex General Standard for the Use ofDairy

Terms (CODEX STAN 206/1999)

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

7/18

Codex Standards for Milk and Milk

Products - format

Scope

Description

E

ssential Composition and Quality Factors Food Additive

Contaminants

Hygiene

Labelling Methods of Analysis and Sampling

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

8/18

Codex Standards for Milk and Milk

Products - Contaminants

The products covered by this Standard

shall comply with the maximum limits forcontaminants and the maximum residue

limits for pesticides and veterinary drugs

established by the Codex Alimentarius

Commission.

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

9/18

Codex Standards for Milk and Milk

Products - Hygiene

It is recommended that the products covered by theprovisions of this standard be prepared and handled inaccordance with the appropriate sections of the

Recommended International Code of Practice GeneralPrinciples of Food Hygiene (CAC/RCP 1-1969), the Code ofHygienic Practice for Milk and Milk Products (CAC/RCP 57-2004) and other relevant Codex texts such as Codes ofHygienic Practice and Codes of Practice.

The products should comply with any microbiologicalcriteria established in accordance with the Principles forthe Establishment and Application of MicrobiologicalCriteria for Foods (CAC/GL 21-1997).

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

10/18

Codex Standards for Milk and Milk

Products Ongoing work and

Outstanding issues

Ongoing work

Export certificate for milk and milk products

Fermented milk drinks

Processed cheese

Oustanding issues

Food labelling provisions of revised individual cheesestandards (country of origin)

New work on elaboration of a Standard for Parmesancheese

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

11/18

Codex Committee on Food

Hygiene

Relevant texts

International Code of Practice General

Principles of Food Hygiene (CAC/RCP 1-1969)

Code of Hygienic Practice for Milk and Milk

Products (CAC/RCP 57-2004)

Relevant on-going work proposed draft Code of Practice for Powdered

Formulae for Infants and Young Children

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

12/18

Code of Hygienic Practice for Milk and

Milk Products outstanding issues

Codex Guidelines for the application of the

lactoperoxidase system (CAC/GL 13 - 1991)

While adopting the above Guidelines, the Commission at

its 19th Session agreed to emphasize that the

lactoperoxidase system should not be used for products

intended for international trade and should never be used

as a substitute for refrigeration (ALINORM 91/40,

para.234)

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

13/18

Pesticide Residues in Milks

The Codex Alimentarius Commission has established

MRLs/EMRLs in milks for the following 88 pesticides :

2,4-D , abamectin*, aldicarb, aldrin and dieldrin, amitraz, azocyclotin, bentazone,

bifenthrin, carbaryl, carbofuran, carbosulfan, chlordane, chlormequat, chlorpyrifos,

chlorpyrifos-methyl, clethodim, clofentezine, cyfluthrin*, cyhexatin, cypermethrin,

cyprodinil, cyromazine, DDT, deltathrin*,diazinon, dichlorvos, dicofol, diflubenzuron,

simethipin, dimethoate, diphenulamine, diquat, disulfoton, dithiocarbamates, endosulfan,

ethephon, ethoprophos, famoxadone, fenamiphos, fenbucanazole, fenbutatin oxide,

fenitrothion, fenpropathrin, fenpropimorph, fenpyroximate, fipronil, fludioxonil, flumethrin,

flusilazole, flutolanil, glufosinate-ammonium, glyphosate, heptachlor, imidacloprid, kresoxin-methyl, lindane, methamidophos, methidathion, methomyl, methoprene, methoxyfenozide,

myclobitanil, oxamyl, paraquat, penconazole, permethrin, phorate, piperonyl butoxide,

pirimicarb, pirimiphos-methyl, prochloraz, profenogos, propargite, propiconazole, spinosad,

tebuconazole, tebufenozide, terbufos, thiabendazole*, triadimefon, triadimenol, triazophos,

trifloxystrobin, vinclozolin

* - Used also as veterinary drug

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

14/18

Veterinary Drug Residues in Milks

The Codex Alimentarius Commission has established

MRLs in milks for the following 27 veterinary drugs :

albendazole, benzylpenicillin/procaine benzylpenicillin, ceftiofur,

chlortetracycline/oxytetracycline/tetracycline, clenbuterol,

cyfluthrin*, cyhalothrin*, cypermethrin and alpha-cypermethrin,

deltamethrin*, dihydrostreptomycin/streptomycin, diminazene,

doramectin, eprinomectin, febantel/fenbendazole/oxfendazole,

gentamicin, imidocarb, isometamidium, ivermectin, lincomycin,neomycin, pirlimycin, spectinomycin, spiramycin, sulfadimidine,

thiabendazole*, tilmicosin, trichlorfon (metrifonate)*

.

* - Used also as pesticide

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

15/18

Codex Committee on Nutrition and

Food for Special Dietary Uses

Relevant texts

Codex Standard on Infant Formula (Codex STAN 72-

1981)

Ongoing work

Draft revised Standard for Infant Formulas and

Formulas for Special Medical Purposes intended for

Infants. Final draft of Section A provisions for infant

formulas and Section B provisions for Formulas for

Special Medical Purposes to be submitted for adoption

at 30th CAC (July 2007)

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

16/18

Others

Contaminants and toxins

Codex General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in Food GSCTF (CODEX

STAN 193-1995): Aflatoxin M1, Lead

Additives

Codex General Standard for Food Additives GSFA (CODEX STAN 192-1995) -

Food Category 01.0 Dairy Products and analogues

Methods of Analysis

Recommended Methods of Analysis and Sampling

(CODEX STAN 234-1999)

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

17/18

8/8/2019 Codex Milk

18/18

For more information visit the Codex

website: http://www.codexalimentarius.net