Held from 10-14 April 2006, in Paris, France, the Codex Alimentarius Committee on General Principles achieved little progress on the proposed draft working principles for risk analysis for food safety, and decided to forward them to a newly established working group for examination before considering them again.

While a set of Working Principles for Risk Analysis to be applied within the Codex framework have been adopted in 2002, these negotiations concern development of standards for governments, with the role of precaution being the main point of disagreement. To avoid deadlock, Members agreed to convene a working group to: discuss the rationale for guidance to governments related to the application of risk analysis by governments, on the basis of the Committee’s discussions; describe the output to respond to this rationale; and draft principles on the implementation of risk analysis by governments for further discussion.
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ICTSD Bridges Trade BioRes, “Little progress on risk analysis standards at Codex,” 28 April 2006