August 1966 



COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW 



51 



International (Contd.): 



into individual commodity standards by the 

 separate Commodity Committees. The entire 

 program is jointly sponsored by the Food and 

 Agriculture Organization and the World Health 

 Organization.) 



The main work of the Food Hygiene Com- 

 mittee at its Rome meeting was the revision 

 of the paper on "General Principles of Food 

 Hygiene. The revised document reflects 

 many comments offered by member countries 

 and interested groups. An important revision 

 was to broaden the use of clean water permis- 

 sible for such purposes as washing, so as to 

 include clean sea water where applicable. 

 This takes into consideration the limited sup- 

 ply of potable water aboard fishing vessels 

 and at some shore facilities. 



The revised "General Principles of Food 

 Hygiene" was considered ready for submis- 

 sion to the Codex Alimentarius Commission. 



No draft hygiene codes of practice for fish 

 and shellfish were presented at the Meeting. 

 Countries having responsibility for items con- 

 cerning fish and shellfish directly or indirect- 

 ly were instructed to revise their reports so 

 as to take into consideration the amended 

 basic document, "General Principles of Food 

 Hygiene," and the instructions of the Hygiene 

 Committee to use sections of these principles 

 verbatim whenever possible. 



The question of including retail food hand- 

 ling in hygiene codes was discussed briefly. 

 The Chairman concluded this discussion by 

 noting that the Hygiene Committee should con- 

 sider hygiene codes from production to re- 

 tailing for certain product-s, for example, mol- 

 luscan shellfish. 



The Committee also discussed problems 

 concerned with standards for feedstuffs and 

 frozen foods. The Committee decided that it 

 would be necessary to maintain a distinction 

 between frozen foods generally and frozen 

 precooked foods. 



The Food Hygiene Committee will probably 

 hold its next meeting in June 1967. (U.S. Em- 

 bassy, Copenhagen, June 15, 1966.) 



Notes: (1) The Third Meeting of the Committee on Food Hygiene 

 was attended by delegates from Australia, Canada, Cuba, Den- 

 mark, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, 

 Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States, 

 as well as by representatives from the World Health Organiza- 

 tion, Food and Agriculture Organization, European Economic 

 Community, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and 

 Development, 



(2) See Commercial Fislieries Review , Feb. 1966 p. 44. 



OCEANOGRAPHY 



UNITED STATES EXHIBIT 



IN GERMANY RESCHEDULED: 



The U. S. Department of Commerce has 

 rescheduled its oceanographic equipment sym- 

 posium and exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany, 

 to capitalize on a rising tide of international 

 interest in the event. The symposium and 

 show at the U.S. Trade Center in Frankfurt, 

 originally set August 31 -September 7, willbe 

 held November 2-9, 1966, by the Department's 

 Bureau of International Commerce. 



After the first announcement of the sym- 

 posium-exhibition in early April, preliminary 

 development work indicated such widening in- 

 terest that it was decided to reschedule the 

 event to permit a broader development cam- 

 paign. 



The Trade Center symposium will feature 

 technical papers by U. S. and foreign experts 

 on ocean sciences and engineering. The ex- 

 hibition will be a show -and -sell promotion of 

 the newest in U. S. oceanographic equipment, 

 systems, and services. 



U. S. firms interested in the event may ob- 

 tain additional information from the Bureau 

 of International Commerce, U. S. Department 

 of Commerce, Washington, D. C. 20230. 



NORTH-EAST ATLANTIC HSHERIES COMhflSSION 



FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING: 



The North-East Atlantic Fisheries Com- 

 mission (NEAFC) held its Fourth Annual 

 Meeting, May 10-13, 1966. at Edinburgh, Scot- 

 land. The meeting was attended by delegates 

 from all member countries (Belgium, Den- 

 mark, West Germany, France, Iceland, Ire- 

 land, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Por- 

 tugal, Spain, Sweden, U.S.S.R., and the United 

 Kingdom). Observers were present from the 

 United States, the International Council for 

 the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), the Inter- 

 national Commission for the Northwest At- 

 lantic Fisheries (ICNAF), and the Food and 

 Agriculture Organization (FAO). 



The NEAFC is concerned with the conser- 

 vation of fish stocks and the rational exploita- 

 tion of the North-East Atlantic Ocean. The 

 NEAFC may make recommendations to mem- 

 ber countries for measures concerned with 

 (1) fish gear, (2) size limits of fish, (3) closed 

 seasons, (4) closed areas, and (5) improve- 

 ment and the increase of marine resources. 



