IFU REport 2011 - NZJBA - The New Zealand Juice & Beverage ...

� Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) 43 rd session of the Codex
Committee on Pesticide Residues 4-9 April 2011 Beijing, China (Dr David
HAMMOND)
� Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) 34 th session 4-9 July 2011 Geneva,
Switzerland (Paul ZWIKER)
The IFU also monitored the following Codex Committee in the course of the year 2011:
� Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling 32 nd session 7-11 March
2011 Budapest, Hungary (Dr David HAMMOND)
� Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) 5 th session 21-25 March 2011
The Hague, The Netherlands
An extensive report on the outcomes of the above mentioned Codex sessions can be found
in the report on the activities of the Commission for Legislation by Dr Hany FARAG.
2) Letter to the European Commission
The IFU sent a letter to the European Commission asking its support to oppose the
proposals from the eWG of the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) (CX/FA
12/44/9-Add. 1) as well as the respective comments (CX/FA 12/44/99-Add. 2) to replace the
individual additives for the fruit and vegetable juices and nectars in the categories 14.1.2.1 –
14.1.3.4 of the GSFA by the functional classes of acidity regulators and
thickeners/stabilizers.
3) Finalisation of the IFU nutrition policy paper
After a phone conference held on 14 th February 2011, the IFU nutrition paper was finalised
by the Scientific and Technical Commission under the leadership of Professor HELMUT
DIETRICH who also wrote an “easy-to-understand version” based on a draft prepared by Dr
CANCALON. This paper contains essentially all aspects of “fruit juice and health” based on a
thorough literature survey and insists that there is no link of fruit juices to obesity. It is
available for downloading from the home page of IFU website. This document is an important
communication tool to present to public officials and/or health professionals working for
health institutions regarding the benefits of fruit juices for healthy life. It may also be used by
companies for their own publicity.
4) Review on carbendazim in orange juice
At the end of 2011 the US Food and Drug Administration was notified by a US company that
it had detected very low levels of carbendazim in their and their competitors finished products
and also in orange juice concentrate from Brazil. In the light of this, the US authorities
imposed import restrictions in early January 2012 and started a sampling program for orange
juice/orange juice concentrate imports. This meant that all incoming raw materials would be
checked for carbendazim prior to release or rejection at the “border” by the Customs Agency.
The carbendazim controversy spread beyond the USA to other parts of the world with
various governments either investigating the future use of the pesticide or affirming
prohibition of the pesticide as is the case in some countries. This issue has had a
Report on the activities 2011
May 2012
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