The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the United Nation’s food standards body, has announced new food standards. The maximum amount of melamine permitted in powdered infant formula was set at 1 mg/kg and at 2.5 mg/kg for other foods and animal feed. The Codex also set maximum levels for aflatoxins in ready-to-eat Brazil nuts at 10 µg/kg and at 15 µg/kg for shelled Brazil nuts intended for further processing. For fresh salads, the Codex issued guidance on production, packing, processing, storage, distribution, marketing and consumer education. Specific advice for controlling bacteria in seafood throughout the food chain was also announced. Also adopted were new guidelines for tests to determine if foods were biotechnologically derived, to authenticate food varieties and to detect allergens.

Source: World Health Organization