ALINORM 99/23 (E) - CODEX Alimentarius

-v-- agreed to ask Codex commodity committees to provide information as required by the Checklistscontained in the Codex Alimentarius, Volume 13, and the Codex Alimentarius CommissionProcedural Manual, when they send methods of analysis and sampling to this Committee forendorsement (para. 60);- recommended that commodity committees should select methods from the existing Codex generalmethods wherever possible and use the SI unit system in the specifications of Codex standards(paras 61-62);- agreed to refer back to the Codex Committee on Processed Fruits and Vegetables the questionregarding tolerances permitted for the declaration of net drained weight as it felt that the issue wasrather a technological problem and that it would not seem feasible to establish general tolerances fornet drained weight (para. 6);- agreed that information should be sought from commodity committees on the acceptance of thestatistical approach to sampling when defining compliance with the specifications in Codexstandards (para. 12);- agreed to refer the annex of CX/MAS 98/5 concerning trade dispute situations to the CodexCommittee on food Import and Export Inspection and Certification System for consideration (paras29-31);- felt it inappropriate to combine the Draft Revised Recommended Methods of Sampling for theDetermination of Pesticide Residues for Compliance with MRLs developed by the CodexCommittee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) with the Proposed Draft Guidelines on Sampling as theywere based on two different approaches; and agreed to forward all written and oral comments on theformer text to the CCPR for consideration (paras 14-18); and- noted the report of the 13th Inter-Agency Meeting (paras 64-69)