Status of implementing International standard at national level in ASEAN Countries - analysis result

of questionnaire : section 1

Ramesh V Bhat

M 11, Kakateeyanagar,

Habshiguda, Hyderabad 500007, India

rameshvbhat@yahoo.com

Why questionnaire ?

• For seeking inputs from countries on the support they would like

• to prioritize the area of relevance and the contents of future main activities

Questions posed

• Do you have national standards in the area of food ?

• Have you already established a National Codex Committee in your country?

• Do you have a National Codex website established in your country?

• Have you developed/published a Codex country manual?

• Do you have system for data collection for

a) national standard setting?

b) international standard setting?

• Have you provided data for international standardization?

• Do you have capacity for data analysis ?

• Any other details you may like to provide

Replies received

• National Standard of Food : All countries have

• National Codex committee : All countries except Brunei

• National Codex website: All countries except Brunei and Lao PDR

• Codex country manual: only Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand

• Data Collection system : All countries have except Brunei, Cambodia

• Data for international standard provided : Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

• Data analysis capacity : All countries except Brunei, Cambodia and Lao PDR. According to Vietnam validity may not be consistent

Reply from Myanmar not received

Do you have national standards in the area of food ?

• Brunei : Mainly for halal foods • Cambodia: Voluntary standards , adopts Codex norms for some standards,

regulated by sub decree, ASEAN stds. Diff. from Codex transposed thru Ministerial notification

• Indonesia: 788 SNI standards : f & b products, fresh fruit & veg., fish and fishery products, husb. & animal husbandry products, food addt & cont.

• Lao PDR: 16 standards from Dept of Stds, MOH adopts codex Stds • Malaysia: Mandatory stds. by MOH, covers hygiene, labelling, food addits,

conts, commodities standards , Voluntary stds by Dept of Stds, MST&I • Philippines: 110 standards BAFPS of DA, Std for proc. foods by FDA of

MOH, Guidelines by various units of DA • Singapore: 200 food standards by AVA of Ministry of National Devpt • Thailand : agri stds by NBACF Grouped under Commodity stds 72, Prod

syst stds 77 General requirement stds 32 • Vietnam : 46 Natl tech regulations MOH, 752 Vietnamese Std by MST

Cambodia: List of Codex General Standards

Recommended to be adopted as Technical Regulations

• CAC/MRL1: Maximum Residues Limits for Pesticides

• CAC/MRL2: Maximum Residues Limits for Veterinary drugs.

• CAC/MRL3:Extraneous Maximum Residue Limits

• Codex Stand 192-1995: General Standard for Food additives

• Codex Stand 193-1995: General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in Food and Feed

• List of Codex Commodity Standards Recommended to be adapted ( from relevant) as Technical Regulations:

• Codex Stand No 33; 72; 7;,74;88;98;106;107;108; 146; 153; 180;198;243;247;279;280; 281;282; 283; 288;289;290;296.

( total 24 Commodity standards)

Do you have a National Codex Committee established in your country

• Brunei: Under process of establishment

• Cambodia- E 2000, MOC/CAMCONTROL- 4 TWG. MAFF,MOH, ME, MI

• Indonesia- Natl Std Agency SNI, Govt 8, Industry 1, Expert 3, Consumer 1

• Lao PDR - Chair MOH, others- MST, MOH,MA&F

• Malaysia: E 1985, MOH, Govt, ind., academia, professional body, consumer, Mirror of ICC

• Philippines: E 2005, NCO in 2008, Jt.DA and DH, Govt, ind, academia, S&T Inst, prof group, NGO

• Singapore: AVA, receiving, disseminating Codex information and coordinating participation in Codex meetings and working groups

• Thailand : Natl Agric Std Committee is NCC. Govt, pub, sector, academia, consumers, Horizontal and vertical Codex Comm.

• Vietnam : VNCC, MOH, Board 6 rep from ministries(health/agric/Industry/S&T and 46 members from Govt agencies, industry, associations, Univ & Res Inst.

Codex website

• Brunei and Lao PDR : No website

• Cambodia : Website of Camcontrol , linked to Codex site camcontrol.gov.kh

• Indonesia: codexindonesia.org now under maintenance, linked

• Malaysia: http://fsq.moh.gov.my. All codex information included

• Philippines: http://www.fdc.net.ph/index.php?id1=23; not linked to Codex Website

• Singapore : http://www.ava.gov.sg/NewsEvents/HotTopics/.

• Thailand : www.acfs.go.th/codex/index.php. in Thai

• Vietnam : www.codexvn.org, in Vietnamese links to Codex, FAO/WHO

Have you developed/published a Codex country manual

• Indonesia : manual in Bhasha Indonesia covers Organization and Management ,Operational procedure, Procedure on development of position of Indonesia in codex meeting, Delegation of Indonesia in Codex Meeting, Budgeting for Codex Indonesia Activities

• Malaysia : details in next slide • Philippines: NCO manual of operations describes processes,

policies/procedures describing functions, duties, responsibilities • Thailand : procedural manual for participation/elaboration of Thai

position • Vietnam : Introduction brochure of CAC, translated Codex

procedural manual to VN

Malaysia Codex procedural manual

• Guidelines for the National Codex Sub Committees

• Guidelines for the Ad Hoc Task Forces

• Functions of the Malaysia Codex Contact Point

• Procedures for the management of Codex documents

• Procedures for the development of Malaysian positions and national comments

• Procedures for participation in international Codex Meetings

• Other information on Codex management

System for data collection for national standard setting

• Brunei , Cambodia, Lao PDR : No system for data collection • Indonesia : Tech com. Collect data thru res, survey, data provided by

Univ./expert/pvt. sector • Malaysia: FSQ lab/Pub hlth. Lab conduct food analysis for monitoring

& Surveillance programme • Philippines: see next slide • Singapore : Obtain data from various sources • Thailand : 1. Request for comments from agencies/Res Inst 2. if inf. Recd is insufficient reseasrch on specific issue conducted • Vietnam : Natl./Internatl. data collected related to the subject of

standard

Philippines system for data collection

• Data collection conducted prior to drafting of a standard

• Samples collected using purposive sampling

• Sampling location is selected based on the regions with high volume of production for the commodity

• Farms, trading posts, markets and retail outlets to be sampled are identified and selected per municipality of each region

• Members of the Technical Working Group collect samples and submit to government/academic laboratories

• The data analyzed by the TWG, incorporated in the draft standard

• For the conduct of risk assessment prior to the development of a standard, consumption data are derived from the FNRI of DST

General Process of New Project or Review of

Philippine National Standard

• New project/ Review of existing PNS

• Creation of Technical working group (TWG)

• Secondary research

• First draft of PNS

• Deliberation by the TWG

• Second draft of PNS

• Circulation/public circulation/field validation

• Deliberation by the TWG

• Final draft of the PNS

• Notification to WTO

• Publication

• Philippine National Standard Development

System for data collection for international standard setting

• Indonesia: National mirror committees established with

scopes relevant to Int Std tech committee. Tech com. Collect data thru res, survey, data provided by Univ./expert/pvt. sector

• Malaysia : same as described earlier

• Philippines: same as described earlier

• Thailand : same as described earlier

• Vietnam : same as described earlier

Have you provided data for international standardization ?

Data provided by Indonesia for Int Std Devpt. • Contaminants in foods • Fish and fishery products • Milk and milk product • Processed fruits and vegetable • Fresh fruits and vegetables • Veterinary drugs in food • Food hygiene • Pesticide residue limits • and also to develop the Proposed Draft Regional

Standard for Tempe After data compiled, data analyzed by an expert group

Have you provided data for international standardization ?

Data provided by Philippines for Int Std Devpt.

• Data have been submitted to different Codex Committees like CCFA, CCFH, CCMAS, CCPR, CCRVDF, CCCF.

• Philippines submits consumption data to JECFA and JMPR, eg.

1. Codex Committee on Food Hygiene

a. JEMRA Call for Additional Data on Fresh Produce

b. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Risk Assessment Tools for V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus

2. Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food

- Discussion Paper on Cyanogenic Glycosides

3. Codex Committee on Sugars (Data on Panela- a product of cane sugar

Have you provided data for international standardization ?

Data provided by Thailand for Int Std Devpt.

- data for the establishment of MRLs for pesticide residues and MLs for food additives

- data on single laboratory validation for the endorsement of methods of analysis for fish sauce, and

- production/trade data and technical data for the standard development such as the standard for durian and fish sauce.

Have you provided data for international standardization ?

Data provided by Vietnam for Int Std Devpt.

• Jointly with Thailand developed the Codex Standard for Fish Sauce.

• data on production, trade, quality control, health risks have been collected and provided to relevant Codex Committee

• Vietnam participated in various EWG and provided comments with data for Codex standard development

Do you have capacity for data analysis

• Indonesia: In general, after data has been compiled, the data is analysed by an expert group consisting of experts in relevant field.

• Philippines: see next slide • Thailand : - conducted risk assessment including analysis of data

e.g. contamination data, consumption data. - Statistical programme, for example SPSS to analyze data before

submitting to Codex is used • Vietnam : Number of laboratories and department have capacity

for conducting surveys, assessment, investigations - They are also able to do data analysis for some important

indicators/characteristic of food safety both qualitatively and quantitatively.

- However, these are not consistent and, often, a validity of data and analysis results are of question

Capacity for data analysis: Philippines

• BAFPS-DA consults with international experts on data analysis particularly on risk assessment (chronic and acute dietary exposure)

• Other international government office like Australia’s Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and regional organization like ILSI are also being consulted

• Local technical officers trained by FSANZ, FAO, ILSI, APEC in conducting risk analysis are tapped as experts

• Local experts are also available particularly for Biotechnology, Pesticide Residues, Contaminants and analysis of Consumption Data and Statistics

Any other details you may like to provide

• Cambodia :Need training in the practical way to promote the work of TWGs, the efficient way the national position be developed

• Philippines : Food Development Center of NFA was created Central Contaminants Laboratory of DA . It is accredited / recognized by USDA, AQIS, Japan's Ministry of Health as accredited Laboratory for Food Testing, Food Additives and Food Processing Equipment and Packing, ISO 9001:2000.

The National Meat Inspection Service of Department of Agriculture has a concrete 10 year Strategic Action Plan and program and to strengthen the Philippine Meat Control System, the Local Government Units in Particular. Sustaining the problem is one of the major concerns

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