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[SANET-MG] codex wants comments on recombinant food animals



Request for comments to the Proposed Draft Guideline for the Conduct of
Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant - DNA Animals
DEADLINE: 1 October 2006
COMMENTS: To: Copy to:
Secretary
Codex Alimentarius Commission
FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
Fax: +39 06 5705 4593
E-mail: codex@fao.org
Dr. FUJII Mitsuru
Counsellor,
Minister’s Secretariat,
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
1-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
100-8916 Tokyo, Japan
Fax: +81 3 3503 7965
E-mail: codexj@mhlw.go.jp
The Fifth Session of the Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology agreed to start new work to elaborate a Proposed Draft Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Animals, co-chaired by Japan and
Australia.
The new work proposal was approved by the 29th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission as
N01-2006 (ALINORM 06/29/41, Appendix VII).
The Proposed Draft Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Animals (see Annex 1 in the Appendix), as presented in the Report of the Working Group, is circulated for comments at Step 3 and will be considered by the Sixth Session of the Task Force
(Chiba, Japan, 27 November – 1 December 2006).
Governments and international organizations wishing to provide comments should do so in writing,
preferably by email, to the above addresses before 1 October 2006.

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