{"id":5832,"date":"2018-03-21T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-52-47-187-244.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2018-04-03T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:27:11","slug":"codex-alimentarius-is-considering-a-reduction-of-the-lead-limit-in-wines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/codex-alimentarius-is-considering-a-reduction-of-the-lead-limit-in-wines\/","title":{"rendered":"Codex Alimentarius is considering a reduction of the lead limit in wines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hover_box\"><div class=\"hover_box_wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"scale-with-grid visible_photo\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-52-47-168-51.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/reglementation_22032018.jpg\" alt=\"Codex Alimentarius is considering a reduction of the lead limit in wines\" width=\"\" height=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"scale-with-grid hidden_photo\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-52-47-168-51.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/reglementation_22032018_02.jpg\" alt=\"Codex Alimentarius is considering a reduction of the lead limit in wines\" width=\"\" height=\"\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 12th Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) was held from 12 to 16 March 2018.<br \/>\nDuring this session, the revision of the maximum levels for lead in foodstuffs whose wine has been discussed.<br \/>\nThe working group recommended lowering the current Codex limit for lead in wines from 0.20mg\/kg to 0.05mg\/kg.<\/p>\n<p>The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) present at this meeting notified the CCCF of some problems in establishing this new limit.<br \/>\nOn the one hand, data obtained on drinks other than grape wines were used and the specific characteristics of fortified wines were not taken into account.<br \/>\nThe Organisation also indicated that the introduction of such a strict limit would have a strong impact on international trade.<br \/>\nThe application of this limit would eliminate 3% of commercial wines and 24% of fortified wines.<\/p>\n<p>Following these elements brought by the OIV, the CCCF decided to postpone this discussion until next year\u2019s session in order to take into account the case of fortified wines.<\/p>\n<p>At present, EU regulations and the OIV set a lead limit for wines at 0.15mg\/kg.<\/p>\n<p>You will find the summary of this discussion via the link below :<\/p>\n<p>Request for comments at steps 3 and 6 on proposed draft and draft maximum levels of lead in selected commodities in the General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in food and feed (CX\/CF 18\/12\/5)<\/p>\n<p>Please note that our laboratory carries out lead analysis in wines with a LQ of 0.01mg\/kg.<br \/>\nFor any technical, pricing and\/or regulatory information, please do not hesitate to contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The 12th Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods (CCCF) was held from 12 to 16 March 2018. During this session, the revision<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulatory-watch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}