EU slams Codex Alimentarius approval of animal growth drug
By Ed Bray | Friday 06 July 2012
The European Commission has slammed the adoption by the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of an international threshold for the presence of ractopamine - a drug used in the US and Brazil to enhance growth in pigs and cattle - claiming that risks to human health have not been ruled out. Despite the EU leading a group of countries, including China, Russia and India, which sought to block approval of an accepted residue level, the UN’s food standards-setting body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, adopted on a single vote difference limits of ten micrograms per kilogram in pig or cattle muscle, 40 mg/kg in liver and 90 mg/kg in kidneys.
An analysis by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), conducted in 2009, had strongly criticised the data and methodology used by the CAC to calculate the acceptable daily intake. Commenting on the vote, Commission officials were quick to defend the EU’s ban, saying that an international ractopamine standard was not justified and that human health concerns still remained. The EU also attacked the CAC for taking the decision on the basis of a single vote rather than consensus-based decision making, “one of the fundamental principles of the organisation”. “It is clear that for standards to be universally acceptable they also need to be universally accepted,” the Commission said. Trade analysts suggest that the move could make the EU more vulnerable to challenges at the WTO, which would be more likely to rule against countries with zero-tolerance policies in the case of challenges from ractopamine users. “Given its outstanding safety concerns, the EU’s current legislation will remain in place,” officials said.
The CAC also adopted new standards for the presence of melamine - a substance used to make kitchenware and the cause of a number of health scandals in recent years – in liquid infant milk.大滿貫動物生長的藥物法典法典批准 埃德布雷|星期五2012年07月06日， 歐盟委員會已經砰然通過食品法典委員會（CAC）國際萊克多巴胺的存在門檻-在美國和巴西用於藥物加強在豬和牛的生長-聲稱對人體健康的風險沒有被排除在外。儘管在領先1的國家集團，包括中國，俄羅斯和印度，它試圖阻止1公認的殘留水平的批准歐盟，聯合國的食品標準制定的身體，食品法典委員會，通過對1單票10微克的差異限制每公斤豬或牛的肌肉，40毫克/千克，在肝臟和腎臟中的90毫克/公斤。 由歐洲食品安全局（EFSA）在2009年進行的，分析了強烈批評由CAC到的數據和方法計算可接受的每日攝入量。在表決時，歐盟委員會官員捍衛歐盟的禁令，他說，國際萊克多巴胺標準是沒有道理和人類健康的關注仍然。歐盟還襲擊的一票，而不是共識為基礎的決策，“該組織的基本原則之一”的基礎上決定的CAC。“這是明確的標準是普遍接受的，他們也需要被普遍接受的，該委員會說。” 貿易分析家認為，此舉可能使歐盟在WTO的挑戰，這將是對萊克多巴胺用戶的挑戰的情況下“零容忍”政策的國家更容易排除更容易。“鑑於其出色的安全關切，歐盟目前的立法會仍到位的官員說。 食品法典委員會還通過了新的標準，三聚氰胺的存在-近年來，廚具和健康醜聞的原因1物質-在液體中的嬰幼兒奶粉。自動翻譯
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