IDFA对新的加工干酪标准失望

食品伙伴网导读：食品法典委员会（CAC）批准的新的加工干酪标准为推荐规范，国际乳制食品协会（IDFA）对此表示失望。据悉，本月在日内瓦的会议上，CAC决定批准这一推荐规范的。

原文报道： By Guy Montague-Jones, 28-Jul-2010

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) has described a decision from the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to approve recommendations to work on a new standard for processed cheese as “disheartening”.

At a meeting this month in Geneva the UN-backed CAC adopted the recommendations from the Codex Committee on Milk & Milk Products to scrap existing processed cheese standards and work on the creation of a new one.


“Outdated” standards

Allen Sayler, IDFA vice president of regulatory affairs and international standards, said the US-based trade body welcomed the decision to scrap the existing standards, claiming that they were outdated and failed to reflect the processed cheese that is now being traded internationally.

But the IDFA opposed the move to start work on the creation of a new standard. Sayler said: “The decision to continue efforts to revise the processed cheese standard is disheartening because, after 12 years of work, there have been no positive outcomes.

IDFA believes Codex resources would be better targeted in other areas."


The IDFA said it is opposed to accepting poorly written updates that might compromise the US processed cheese domestic market. In particular, the lobby group said it was afraid that a new Codex processed cheese standard would result in lower-quality imitation cheese being covered by the same international standard as high-quality American processed cheese.