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intended to apply only to prepackaged foods for special dietary uses. 74. The Committee decided to defer consideration of the labelling implications until such time when the Codex Committee on Labelling has made progress on both the Guidelines on the Labelling of Non-Retail Containers and the revision of the General Labelling Standard for Prepackaged Foods. 75. The Committee further agreed that governments should be requested to express their opinion on the appropriateness of restricting some of the standards to cover Prepackaged Products only. MATTERS RELATED TO FOODS FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN 76. The Committee had before it document CX/FSDU 80/7 which contained information related to two matters: the Advisory Lists of Mineral Salts and Vitamin Compounds for Foods for Infants and Children (Part I) and the Code of Hygienic Practice for Foods for Infants and Children (Part II). ADVISORY LISTS OF MINERAL SALTS AND VITAMIN COMPOUNDS FOR FOODS FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN 77. The Committee noted that the 13th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission had agreed that (a) the lists were of advisory nature, (b) could be amended by the Committee in accordance with the criteria for such amendments laid down by this Committee and (c) should be appended to the finalized Codex Standards for Foods for Infants and Children, (d) appropriate editorial amendments to Codex Standards for Foods for Infants and Children (CAC/RS 72/74- 1976) should be made as proposed in Appendix III to ALINORM 79/26. 78. The Committee noted that the Commission had approved the inclusion of ferric ammonium citrate into the list. 79. The Committee had agreed earlier in the session that the ad hoc Working Group dealing with the above lists should review them in the light of the Report of the 13th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and report back to the Committee. REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON MINERAL SALTS 80. The Working Group included representatives from Federal Republic of Germany, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Dr. R.W. Weik (USA) acted as Chairman and presented the following report: (a) The Working Group discussed the list of proposed amendments to the approved Advisory List of Mineral Salts for Use in Foods for Infants and Children (Annex 3 to Appendix III, ALINORM 79/26) in the light of the decisions of the 13th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. (b) The U.S. delegation pointed out that several mineral compounds which were in the original list submitted by the Working Group at the 11th Session had been omitted from the Advisory List in Annex 1 to Appendix III. The reason for the omission was that their purity requirements were listed in the Merck Index as "used in food" and neither in Food Chemicals Codex nor JECFA specifications which were used for the other compounds. (c) These mineral salts in question met the other three criteria and many of them had been used for years in infant formula and other foods for infants and children. All of these mineral salts were known to be safe and biologically available and had been shown to meet the purity requirements required by the
new paragraph 3(i)d adopted by the Commission at its 13th Session. (d) The following mineral salts have therefore been included in the final list: Magnesium gluconate Ferrous citrate Ferrous lactate Ferrous carbonate Ferrous succinate Ferric citrate Ferric gluconate Sodium ferric pyrophosphate Cupric carbonate Cupric citrate Cupric sulphate Zinc acetate Zinc chloride Zinc oxide Manganese carbonate Manganese citrate Potassium gluconate (e) Other salts on the proposed list appeared to require further review before they could be moved to the approved advisory list. (f) The representative from Switzerland advised the Working Group that ferrous phosphate was used in some foods in his country but the compound had never been submitted for approval. The Working Group recommended that the representative from Switzerland submit to the Chairman of the Working Group the necessary data to demonstrate that all the criteria for amendment of the advisory list had been met. 81 The Chairman of the Committee thanked the Working Group for the valuable work on these lists. It was noted that the Advisory Lists for Mineral Salts and for Vitamin Compounds would be published in the next edition of the booklet of Codex Standards for Foods for Infants and Children (CAC/RS 72/74-1976) together with other already adopted amendments. 82 It was further noted that the list containing those substances for which further information was needed and the criteria for amendment of the lists was included as Appendix IV in the report. The review of the Advisory List would be a standing item on the Agenda of Sessions of this Committee. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CODEX STANDARD FOR INFANT FORMULA (CAC/RS 72/74-1976) 83 The Committee recalled that it had decided that no food additive should be carried over into Infant Formula from ingredients or raw materials. This provision had been adopted by the Commission subject to elaboration of an appropriate wording by the Codex Committee on Food Additives which read9 as follows: "No food additives shall be present as a result of carry-over from raw materials and other ingredients". 84 The delegation of Switzerland had considered that this provision would prohibit the use of certain special vitamin forms in infant formula as it did not allow for minute quantities of stabilizers and carrier substances listed in the Advisory List of Vitamin Compounds. Therefore Switzerland had submitted a proposed amendment to the 13th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which would exempt these substances from the general prohibition stipulated in the provision on carried-over additives. 85 The 13th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission had given its approval to an amendment of the standard in principle and had referred the matter to this Committee for consideration (paras 437-438 of ALINORM 79/38). 86 Several delegations felt that the proposed amendment was not specific enough,
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