FOOD 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Consumer Protection
15 Jul 2020
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Publications as earlt as the old testament dictate methods to preserve food and also outline foods prohibited for food safety reasons. Food laws have been in place to serve as standards of food identify and uniformity and to outline food safety needs. Food laws have played key roles for ensuring consumer protection and to facilitate domestic and international trade. The world: most important are fao and who, their recommendations and guidelines often provide direction for individual countries to develop legislation that will enable their products to be traded on the world market. In 1962, a joint initiative between who and far created the following. Expert committee on food additives (jecfa) and joint foa/who expert. The food rules outlines in cac are the reference for any international. Canada: regulated at the federal, provincial and local levels but varies between provinces, act: statute of canada that has been passed by parliament.
