Upcoming Codex Meeting to Address Pesticide Residues

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and
the U.S Environmental Protection Agency have announced an April 10, 2014,
public meeting in Arlington, Virginia, to provide information and receive
public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions for discussion
during the 46th Session of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues of the
Codex Alimentarius Commission in Hong Kong, China, on May 5-17, 2014.
Agenda items include (i) revision to the Codex classification of food and feed
for step 6-selected vegetable commodity groups (roots and tubers); (ii) draft
discussion paper on guidance for setting maximum residue limits (MRLs) for
pesticides for minor uses and specialty crops; (iii) revision of the committee’s
risk analysis principles on pesticide residues; (iv) priority list for establishing
MRLs for pesticides; and (v) guidance for assessing pesticide residue analysis
methods. See Federal Register, March 26, 2014.

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