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Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (CCFO)

Eva ZAMORA ESCRIBANO European Commission

4th Regional Training Workshop "Enhancing Effective Participation in Codex Activities in ASEAN Countries" Tokyo, 8 – 11 September 2015

General Information

• 1st session in 1965, United Kingdom
• Chaired by Malaysia since 2007
• Acronym: CCFO
• Meetings every 2 years
• Mandate: To elaborate worldwide standards for fats and
• ils of animal, vegetable and marine origin

including margarine and olive oil.

Codex Committee on Fats and Oils

Standards and related texts

Few Standards but big impact on trade

Code of Practice for the Storage and Transport of Edible Fats and Oils in Bulk

SCOPE Handling, storage and transport of all crude or processed edible oils and fats in bulk Over 75 million tons

• f edible oils and

fats are transported in bulk by sea each year The quantity of oils imported worldwide has increased from 56 million tons in 2006 to 75 million tons in 2013

Code of Practice for the Storage and Transport of Edible Fats and Oils in Bulk

Defines: types of deterioration that can occur in oils and fats during the

• perations dealt with in this Code

Oxidation Hydrolysis Contamination residues of a previous material handled in the equipment, dirt, rain, sea water or through the accidental addition of a different product

Code of Practice: Contamination - residues

• f a previous material

List of Banned Immediate Previous Cargoes List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes 4 Criteria Ad hoc Expert meeting

List

• f

Acceptable Previous Cargoes

Revision of the List: Standing Agenda Item of CCFO 93 substances confirmed 1 removed 23 (including a new substance) to be assessed by an ad hoc FAO/WHO expert meeting ENDORSED CAC 38

Code of Practice

STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION

Tanks Pipelines

OPERATIONS

Loading and Unloading Cleaning Maintenance Others

Appendix 1 temperatures during storage, transport, loading and discharge

Draft Standard for Fish Oils

Good progress at the last CCFO Adopted at Step 5 by CAC 38

inclusion of several named oils within the scope of the Standard and

their fatty acid profile (i.e. Menhaden, Salmon and Krill)

labelling provisions (e.g. declaration of the percentage of EPA,

vitamins, etc) Circular Letter requesting additional information on the fatty acids profiles of anchovy and krill oils and proposals for alternative texts in Section 7.3 “Other Labelling Requirements”

Approved in 2011 Target year 2015

Standards and related texts

New work approved

 Revision of the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils:

• Addition of palm oil with high oleic acid (Colombia

and Ecuador)

• Revision of Fatty Acid Composition and Other

Quality Factors of Peanut Oil (Argentina)

 Revision of the Standard for Olive Oil and Olive

Pomace Oil): Revision of Section 3 (Argentina, Australia and Italy)

Future work (I)

Amendments to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils:

• Replacement of Acid Value with Free Fatty Acids for

Virgin Palm Oils (Malaysia)

• Inclusion of Quality Parameters of Crude Rice Bran Oil

(India)

• Inclusion of Cold Pressed Oils (Iran)
• Revision of limits of Oleic and Linoleic Acids of

Sunflower Seed Oils (Argentina) Amendment to the Standard for Named Animal Fats inclusion of unrefined edible tallow (Australia) To be decided in February 2017! At CCFO 25

Thank you for your attention

Eva ZAMORA ESCRIBANO European Commission