Progress on allergen labeling at the 48th Session of the Codex Committee on Labeling
Codex
Nov 07, 2024
The Committee succeeded in finalizing three key pieces of work and progressed others. Allergen labelling has been the subject of detailed work in recent years and has culminated now in proposed revisions to the General Standard for the Labelling of Pre-Packaged Foods (CXS 1-1985): provisions relevant to allergen labelling, being forwarded to CAC47 for adoption. Proposed guidelines on the use of precautionary allergen labelling also made good progress and have been forwarded to CAC47 at Step 5.
Proposed guidelines on the provision of food information for pre-packaged foods to be offered via e-commerce were also concluded, as were proposed guidelines on the use of technology to provide food information in food labelling. Both of these proposed texts have also been forwarded to CAC47 for adoption.
The Committee discussed in depth the proposed amendments to the General Standard for the Labelling of Pre-Packaged Foods (CXS 1-1985): provisions relevant to joint presentation and multipack formats and agreed that further work is now needed on the definitions to be used within these amendments. The Colombia-led electronic working group will be re-established to continue this work in line with the Committee’s discussions.
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