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Notices
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 51
Thursday, March 18, 2021

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Codex Office Codex Alimentarius Commission:
Meeting of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods U.S. Codex Office, USDA.
Notice of public meeting and request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The U.S Codex Office is sponsoring a public meeting on April 12, 2021. The objective of the public meeting is to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States U.S.
positions to be discussed at the 14th Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods CCCF of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius and the Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs recognize the importance of providing interested parties the opportunity to obtain background information on the 14th Session of the CCCF and to address items on the agenda.

SUMMARY:

The public meeting is scheduled for April 12, 2021 from 1:004:00 p.m.
EDT.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will take place virtually. Documents related to the 14th Session of the CCCF will be accessible via the internet at the following address: http ww.fao.org/
fao-who-codexalimentarius/meetings/
detail/en/?meeting=CCCF&session=14.
Dr. Lauren Posnick Robin, U.S.
Delegate to the 14th Session of the CCCF, invites U.S. interested parties to submit their comments electronically to Dr. Henry Kim at the following email address: henry.kim@fda.hhs.gov.
Registration: Attendees may register to attend the virtual public meeting here: https fda.zoomgov.com/meeting/
register/vJIsce6tpz0uGCiuxe2thMQL6-

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For Further Information about the 14th Session of the CCCF and the Public Meeting, contact Henry Kim, Ph.D., FDA, at henry.kim@fda.hhs.gov, or the U.S. Codex office at uscodex@usda.gov, 202 7207760.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background Codex was established in 1963 by two United Nations organizations, the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO and the World Health Organization WHO.
Through adoption of food standards, codes of practice, and other guidelines developed by its committees, and by promoting their adoption and implementation by governments, Codex seeks to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade.
The Terms of Reference of the CCCF
are:
a To establish or endorse permitted maximum levels or guidelines levels for contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants in food and feed;
b to prepare priority lists of contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants for risk assessment by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives;
c to consider methods of analysis and sampling for the determination of contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants in food and feed;
d to consider and elaborate standards or codes of practice for related subjects; and e to consider other matters assigned to it by the Commission in relation to contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants in food and feed.
The CCCF is chaired by the Netherlands. The United States attends the CCCF as a member country of Codex.
Issues To Be Discussed at the Public Meeting The following items on the Agenda for the 14th Session of the CCCF will be discussed during the public meeting:
Matters referred to the Committee by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and/or its subsidiary bodies Matters of interest arising from FAO
and WHO including the Joint FAO/
WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
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Matters of interest arising from other international organizations Maximum level for cadmium in chocolates containing or declaring <30% total cocoa solids on a dry matter basis Maximum levels for cadmium in chocolates containing or declaring 30% to <50% total cocoa solids on a dry matter basis and cocoa powder 100% total cocoa solids on a dry matter basis Code of practice for the prevention and reduction of cadmium contamination in cocoa beans Maximum levels for lead in certain food categories Revision of the Code of Practice for the prevention and reduction of lead contamination in foods Maximum levels for total aflatoxins in certain cereals and cereal-based products including foods for infants and young children Sampling plans and performance criteria for total aflatoxins in certain cereals and cereal-based products including foods for infants and young children Maximum level for total aflatoxins in ready-to-eat peanuts and associated sampling plan Maximum levels for total aflatoxins and ochratoxin A in nutmeg, dried chili and paprika, ginger, pepper and turmeric and associated sampling plans Methylmercury in fish:
Maximum levels for additional fish species Sampling plans Other risk management recommendations Hydrogen cyanide and mycotoxin contamination in cassava and cassava-based products Cadmium and lead in quinoa Radioactivity in feed and food including drinking water in normal circumstances Guidance on data analysis for development of maximum levels and for improved data collection Approach to identify the need for revision of standards and related texts developed by CCCF
Forward work-plan for CCCF:
Review of staple food-contaminant combinations for future work of CCCF
Project plan for the evaluation of implementation of COPs of CCCF

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