Isn CODEX a Voluntary Standard?
From its inception, the CODEX Alimentarius Committee has promoted that compliance with the standards and guidelines it puts forward is purely voluntary and nonbinding. According to a 2005 publication of the US FDA, ” All Codex standards and related texts are voluntary, and vitamin and mineral food supplement products sold in the U.S. would not be required to comply with provisions that are more restrictive than U.S. law (i.e., DSHEA).” However, in a 2006 Report to their Secretariat, the WHO raised the alarm that the adoption of CODEX standards may no longer be voluntary. This report stated, “WTOs Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade recognizes Codex standards, guidelines and recommendations as reference points for international trade within the context of WTO, regardless of their formal acceptance by the States Parties to those agreements. This development consequently casts doubts as to the relevance of the Co
From its inception, the CODEX Alimentarius Committee has promoted that compliance with the standards and guidelines it puts forward is purely voluntary and nonbinding. According to a 2005 publication of the US FDA, “All Codex standards and related texts are voluntary, and vitamin and mineral food supplement products sold in the U.S. would not be required to comply with provisions that are more restrictive than U.S. law (i.e., DSHEA).” However, in a 2006 Report to their Secretariat, the WHO raised the alarm that the adoption of CODEX standards may no longer be voluntary. This report stated, “WTO’s Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade recognizes Codex standards, guidelines and recommendations as reference points for international trade within the context of WTO, regardless of their formal acceptance by the States Parties to those agreements. This development consequently casts doubts as to the relevance of the Co
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