alinorm 10/33/41 - CODEX Alimentarius

ALINORM 10/33/41 11Status of the Proposed Draft Maximum Levels for Fumonisins in Maize and Maize-Products andAssociated Sampling Plans95. The Committee agreed to retain the proposed draft ML and sampling plans at Step 4 until further advicewas provided by JECFA.DISCUSSION PAPER ON MYCOTOXINS IN SORGHUM (Agenda Item 9) 1396. The Committee recalled that it had agreed at its last session that the Delegation of Tunisia would prepare adiscussion paper on mycotoxins in sorghum for discussion at this session. However, the Committee noted that thediscussion paper was not available and had an exchange of views on how to proceed further with this agenda item.97. The Delegation of Sudan, supported by a number of other delegations, proposed to keep this agenda itemand volunteered to take the lead on collecting all available data and preparing an overview document fordiscussion by the Committee at the next session.98. It was agreed that the Delegation of Sudan with assistance from Algeria, Brazil, Tanzania, Cote d'Ivoire,Japan, Mali, Senegal, Sweden, Nigeria, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United States of America wouldprepare a discussion paper and that the paper would focus on two main areas as follows:• the types of mycotoxins and mycotoxin-producing fungi which had been reported and could be found insorghum; and• the levels of mycotoxins in sorghum.PRIORITY LIST OF CONTAMINANTS AND NATURALLY OCCURRING TOXICANTS PROPOSEDFOR EVALUATION BY JECFA (Agenda Item 10) 1499. The Delegation of the Netherlands, as Chair of the in-session Working Group on the Priority List ofContaminants and Naturally Occurring Toxicants for evaluation by JECFA, presented the report on the outcome ofthe discussion of the Working Group (Part I, CRD 2).100. The Committee noted that lead and cadmium were scheduled for evaluation by the 73 rd JECFA Meeting(June 2010) and therefore removed from the priority list. The Committee agreed with the recommendations of theworking group in regard to 3-MCPD esters, fumonisins and cyanogenic glycosides.101. It was reported that, with the current available methods, the levels of 3-MCPD esters in food weredetermined as the total content of ester bound 3-MCPD and glycidol, and that a more accurate direct method forthe determination of 3-MCPD esters was under development. In view of this, the Delegations of Japan andThailand indicated that reliable occurrence data would be provided by 2013.CONCLUSION102. The Committee endorsed the priority list of contaminants and naturally occurring toxicants for JECFAevaluation as proposed by the working group (Appendix VII) and agreed re-convene the in-session working groupat its next session. The Committee further agreed to continue to request comments and/or information on thePriority List for consideration by the next session of the Committee.OTHER BUSINESS AND FUTURE WORK (Agenda Item 11) 15Follow-up on results of JECFA evaluations for CCCF103. The Delegation of The Netherlands presented the report of the in-session Working Group on Priorities (Part2, CRD 2). It was reported that the working group was only able to discuss 3 of the 6 substances evaluated byJECFA, namely, acrylamide, arsenic and deoxynivalenol (DON).104. The Chairperson of the Working Group noted the value of this exercise and the Committe may wish toconsider the same approach in future.131415CX/CF 10/4/9 (no document available at the session); CRD 4 (comments of Kenya).ALINORM 09/32/41 Appendix IX; CX/CF 10/4/10 (comments of Australia and the United Kingdom); CRD 2-Part 1(Report of the in-session Working Group on Priorities); CRD 4 (comments of Kenya); CRD 8 (comments of Mali);CRD 19 (comments of Philippines).CRD 2-Part 2 (Report of the in-session Working Group on Priorities) CRD 3 (Arsenic in rice); CRD 7 (Maximumlevels for total aflatoxins in dried figs); CRD 17 ( (proposal for work on Ochratoxin A in cocoa).