U.S. Codex Delegates to Address Food Labeling Issues

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Under Secretary for
Food Safety and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are holding
an April 13, 2016, public meeting in College Park, Maryland, to discuss
U.S. draft positions for consideration at the 43rd Session of the Codex
Committee on Labeling in Foods (CCFL) in Ottawa, Canada, on May
9-13. CCFL is charged with drafting food labeling provisions and
addressing issues related to the advertisement of food with particular
claims or misleading descriptions.

Agenda items for the April 13 meeting include discussion papers focused
on Internet food sales and the labeling of non-retail containers; proposed
revisions to guidelines for use of the term “Halal”; and date marking. See
Federal Register, February 26, 2016.

Issue 598