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The Codex Alimentarius wants to clean up our food!
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is taking up arms against the pollutants found in our food: acrylamides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – PAHs – are at the top of their list…
New standards are going to be drawn up to “strengthen food safety”. Establishing food standards to increase consumer protection is the principal mission of this body created in 1963 by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (the FAO) and the World Health Organisation (the WHO). In total, 600 people representing 122 countries took part in the Commission’s 32nd session, held recently at the FAO headquarters in Rome.
The Commission aims to reduce acrylamide formation in food. “Its recommendations” – soon to be passed on globally – “relate to raw materials, the adding of other ingredients and the processing and heating of foods”.
Measures to reduce the absorption of PAHs have also been adopted. Some elements of these PAHs that are formed during the curing or drying process in fact present a cancer risk for humans.
The Commission finally ratified 30 new international standards and directives. “All will have positive effects on the lives of people the world over”, Commission president Karen Hulebak assures us. Only time will tell…
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