IFT’s Codex Alimentarius Activities

IFT’s Codex Alimentarius Activities
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is the major international organization created in 1962 by two United Nations groups—the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization—to develop international food standards, codes of practice, and other guidelines to protect consumers’ health and facilitate international food trade by repression of non-tariff trade barriers. The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement of the Uruguay Round of GATT r…