Meeting Slated for Codex Committee on Fish and Fishery Products

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, the
Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, and the Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition have announced a March 16, 2011, public meeting in
College Park, Maryland, to provide information and receive public comments
on draft U.S. positions to be discussed at the 31st session of the Codex
Committee on Contaminants on Fish and Fishery Products (CCFFP) on April
11-16 in Tromso, Norway. CCFFP “is responsible for elaborating worldwide
standards for fresh, frozen (including quick frozen) or otherwise processed
fish, crustaceans, and mollusks.”

Agenda items include proposed draft standards for fish sauce, smoked fish,
smoke-flavored fish, and smoke dried fish; proposed draft codes of practice
for fish and fishery products and scallop-meat processing; proposed methods
for determining biotoxins in raw and live bivalve mollusks; and proposed
revisions to food-additive standards for fish and fishery products. See Federal
Register, February 25, 2011.