Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (CCFO)

Eva ZAMORA ESCRIBANO

European Commission

4th Regional Training Workshop

"Enhancing Effective Participation in Codex Activities in ASEAN

Countries"

Tokyo, 8 – 11 September 2015

General Information

• 1st session in 1965, United Kingdom

• Chaired by Malaysia since 2007

• Acronym: CCFO

• Meetings every 2 years

• Mandate: To elaborate worldwide standards for fats and oils of animal, vegetable and marine origin including margarine and olive oil.

Codex Committee on Fats and Oils

Standards and related texts

Few Standards but big impact on trade

Code of Practice for the Storage and Transport of Edible Fats and Oils in Bulk

SCOPE Handling, storage and transport of all crude or processed edible oils and fats in bulk

Over 75 million tons of edible oils and fats are transported in bulk by sea each year

The quantity of oils imported worldwide has increased from 56 million tons in 2006 to 75 million tons in 2013

Code of Practice for the Storage and Transport of Edible Fats and Oils in Bulk

Defines: types of deterioration that can occur in oils and fats during the

operations dealt with in this Code

Oxidation

Hydrolysis

Contamination residues of a previous material

handled in the equipment, dirt, rain,

sea water or through the accidental

addition of a different product

Code of Practice: Contamination - residues of a previous material

List of Banned Immediate

Previous Cargoes

List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes

4 Criteria

Ad hoc

Expert meeting

List of Acceptable Previous Cargoes

Revision of the List: Standing Agenda Item of CCFO

93 substances confirmed

1 removed

23 (including a new substance) to

be assessed by an ad hoc

FAO/WHO expert meeting

ENDORSED

CAC 38

Code of Practice

STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION

Tanks

Pipelines

OPERATIONS

Loading and Unloading

Cleaning

Maintenance

Others

Appendix 1 temperatures during

storage, transport, loading and

discharge

Draft Standard for Fish Oils

Good progress at the last CCFO Adopted at Step 5 by CAC 38

inclusion of several named oils within the scope of the Standard and their fatty acid profile (i.e. Menhaden, Salmon and Krill)

labelling provisions (e.g. declaration of the percentage of EPA, vitamins, etc)

Circular Letter requesting additional information on the fatty acids profiles of anchovy and krill oils and proposals for alternative texts in Section 7.3 “Other Labelling Requirements”

Approved in 2011

Target year 2015

Standards and related texts

New work approved

Revision of the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils:

- Addition of palm oil with high oleic acid (Colombia and Ecuador)

-Revision of Fatty Acid Composition and Other Quality Factors of Peanut Oil (Argentina)

Revision of the Standard for Olive Oil and Olive Pomace Oil): Revision of Section 3 (Argentina, Australia and Italy)

Future work (I)

Amendments to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils:

•Replacement of Acid Value with Free Fatty Acids for Virgin Palm Oils (Malaysia)

•Inclusion of Quality Parameters of Crude Rice Bran Oil (India)

•Inclusion of Cold Pressed Oils (Iran)

•Revision of limits of Oleic and Linoleic Acids of Sunflower Seed Oils (Argentina)

Amendment to the Standard for Named Animal Fats inclusion of unrefined edible tallow (Australia)

To be decided in February 2017!

At CCFO 25

Thank you for your attention

Eva ZAMORA ESCRIBANO

European Commission