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The official account of the @FAO @WHO Codex Alimentarius tweeting on International Standard setting and food safety issues.

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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
26 days
📝 | #FoodSafety policies, standards and practices are guided by the work of: 🔸microbiologists 🔸toxicologists 🔸chemists 🔸epidemiologists 🔸biologists 🔸geneticists 🔸people working in many other scientific disciplines 👉 Food safety is everyone's business❗️
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📝 | An avocado from Latin America, a date from Near East or lychee from Asia can reach your table safely. 👉 Codex texts are used by @wto as reference standards for foods traded globally. #Codex | #FoodSafety
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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🤔 | #DYK | #Doogh is a drink based on fermented milk, obtained by mixing yoghurt, with potable water, optionally food grade salt. It's served chilled, often with grilled meat/rice. 👉Its name derives from the Persian word for milking "dooshidan". ➕ℹ️➡️
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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👨‍🍳 | In love with fish fillets❓ 👉Pour 1 inch of oil in a pan & heat to 190ºC. Combine flour (1/2 cup), salt🧂 pepper and paprika. Dip the fillets into the flour mix. Cook 🐟 for about 5 minutes on each side. Read the #Codex standard & serve hot. 📙➡️
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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👨‍💻👩‍💻 | Codex Members and Observers are invited to join the pre #CCFICS27 webinar. 🗓️ Thursday, 5 September 2024 🕚 12:00 - 13:30 CEST ➕ℹ️➡️ #CCFICS27 | #FoodSafety
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📚 | #CodexDictionary | Agricultural product/product of agricultural origin means any product or commodity, raw or processed, that is marketed for human consumption (excluding water, salt and additives) or animal feed. ➕ℹ️➡️ 🍏🧺🍎 #FoodSafety | #Codex
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📝 | Le Codex Alimentarius est un code alimentaire constitué en 1963 par la FAO et l'OMS qui établit les normes internationales. 👉Il regroupe un ensemble de normes, de directives et de recommandations liées à la sécurité alimentaire à l'échelle mondiale. #Codex
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@WHOMauritius
WHOMauritius
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@WHOMauritius continues to support the Ministry of Agro-Industry & Food Security in the implementation of activities under the Building Codex Mauritius project, the latest of which is the the harmonization of national food regulations with Codex standards.
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📙 | The canned tuna industry is over 150 years old. Today canned tuna remains the workaday fish eaten by thousands of people across the world either in 🥗 or 🥪 📙 To protect consumer health, #Codex adopted a standard for 🥫🐟 ➕ℹ️➡️ #FoodSafety
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📝 | Rich in Vitamin E, carotenoids, and other antioxidant-rich nutrients avocado oils are linked to improved heart and eye health. 👉To protect consumer health, #Codex is working on the inclusion of avocado oil in CXS 210-1999 ➕ℹ️➡️ #FoodSafety
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📚 | A #MustRead publication ⤵️
@FAOSocioEcon
FAO Social & Economic Development
7 days
Now available❗️ State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 Financing to end hunger, food security and malnutrition, in all its forms Download YOUR copy of #SOFI2024 today👇 📙
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📚 | #WeekendReading 4⃣ U❗️ 👉 "Understanding Codex" a useful tool to introduce the Codex Alimentarius and its collection of international food standards to everyone. Available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. 📲➡️ #FoodSafety
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@UN_Nutrition
UN-Nutrition
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Important messages❗️ from the FAO and WHO-powered Codex Alimentarius, and good opportunity to remind us that #FoodSafety is part and parcel of good #nutrition
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Codex Alimentarius
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📬 | #Codex work never stops❗️ 👉Keep up to date with all requests for comments on Codex texts via the circular letters page. 📩➡️ #FoodSafety
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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🤓 | Practice #FoodSafety every day❗️ ✅Cleanliness. Is. A. Must. 👉 Wash your cutting boards, dishes, utensils and counter tops with soap and hot water before and after cooking. 👉 Clean kitchen sink drains thoroughly, daily, as they could harbor harmful bacteria 🦠
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@FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization
10 days
If it isn’t safe, it isn’t food. Food is the starting point for 👇 🔋our energy ⚕️our health 🧘‍♀️our well-being #FoodSafety
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@FAOSriLanka
FAO in Sri Lanka & Maldives
10 days
📸 Highlights from our recent Codex Technical Workshop, uniting key ministries and academia to advance food safety in Sri Lanka through the #EU -funded #BESPA Food project! 🌱 #Codex #FoodSafety #lka #SriLanka
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📙 | The "Codex General Standard for Food Additives" sets forth the conditions under which permitted food additives may be used in all foods, whether or not they have previously been standardized by Codex. ➕ℹ️➡️ #Codex | #FoodSafety
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@FAOWHOCodex
Codex Alimentarius
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📙 | Tea can play a significant role in rural development, poverty reduction & food security in developing countries being one of the most important cash crops. 👉 #Codex texts contribute to ensuring 🍵 is safe to consume. 📚➡️ #FoodSafety
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