National
Joint Council
of Food
Inspection LocalsKING OF THE JUNGLE
"Risk
analysis is the overarching term."
Thomas
Billy, Codex Chairman, 1998 - 2003
"FPA (formerly the National Food Processors Association) is the voice of the $500 billion food processing industry..."
"The American Meat Institute (AMI), the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), the National Food Processors Association (NFPA) and the National Turkey Federation (NTF) appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the Codex Committee on Meat Hygiene Draft Code..."
"We recommend the bullet read 'Apply a risk management framework.'"
"A risk-based approach to post-mortem inspection for meat can achieve the following objectives: Full integration of post-mortem inspection procedures into a “production-to-consumption” approach to meat hygiene."
"The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is also one of the founding members of the International Association of Consumer Food Organizations (IACFO)...IACFO has been granted observer status before the Codex Alimentarius Commission."
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September 2005
"ISO 22000, published today, is a new International Standard designed
to ensure safe food..."
"Public sector participation in the development of the ISO 22000 family is also significant," ISO Secretary-General Alan Bryden commented, "notably that of the FAO/WHO’s Codex Alimentarius Commission."