Randell A W, Whitehead A J
Food Quality and Standards Service, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Economic and Social Policy Department, Rome, Italy.
Rev Sci Tech. 1997 Aug;16(2):313-21. doi: 10.20506/rst.16.2.1019.
Since 1962, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation/World Health Organisation has been responsible for developing standards, guidelines and other recommendations on the quality and safety of food to protect the health of consumers and to ensure fair practices in food trade. The mission of the CAC remains relevant, but a number of factors have shown the need for new techniques to form the basis of food standards, the most important of which is risk analysis. The authors give a brief description of the role and work of the CAC and the efforts deployed by the Commission to respond to the challenges posed by new approaches to government regulation, harmonisation of national requirements based on international standards and the role of civil society.
自1962年以来，联合国粮食及农业组织/世界卫生组织食品法典委员会（CAC）一直负责制定有关食品质量和安全的标准、准则及其他建议，以保护消费者健康并确保食品贸易中的公平做法。食品法典委员会的使命依然重要，但一些因素表明需要新技术作为食品标准的基础，其中最重要的是风险分析。作者简要介绍了食品法典委员会的作用和工作，以及该委员会为应对政府监管新方法、基于国际标准统一国家要求以及民间社会作用所带来的挑战而做出的努力。
