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Risk Assessment of Food Allergens Part 3: Review and Establish Precautionary Labelling in Foods of the Priority Allergens

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Autoría:

Joe L. Baumert ; POLENTA, GUSTAVO ALBERTO

Resumen *

The third in a series of three meetings of an ad hoc Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens was held from 18 to 29 October 2021, with an additional day for the report finalization and adoption on 3 November 2021. The main purpose of this third meeting was to review and evaluate the evidence in support of precautionary labelling.If conditions had permitted, this meeting would have been held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. Because of the travel restrictions and lock-downs due to the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries, the joint FAO/WHO secretariat was unable to convene a physical meeting. Therefore, the meeting was held as a videoconference using a virtual online platform.In view of the time differences in the countries of origin of the invited experts, the time for a videoconference was restricted to a 3-hour time slot (12:00?15:00 CET) each day. To make up for the usual daily length (8?10 hours) of a joint FAO/WHO scientific expert meeting and efficiencies associated with in-person meetings, virtual sessions were held daily over the course of three weeks.Dr Stefano Luccioli served as Chairperson.Dr N Alice Lee served as rapporteur.An Expert Committee, comprising scientists, regulators, physicians, clinicians and risk managers from academia, government and the food industry were selected to participate in the series of meetings of the FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk assessment of Food Allergens (FAO and WHO, 2020a).This document summarizes the conclusions of this meeting and is made available to facilitate the deliberations of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) and Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH). The full report of the meeting will be published as part of the Food Safety and Quality Series and will describe the scientific evidence available to the Expert Committee and its deliberations during the meeting. Información suministrada por el agente en SIGEVA