The United States might be happy to host the Codex Committee on Processed Fruits and Vegetables (CCPFV) Sept. 15-20 in Arlington, Va., but it's not happy with the panel's painfully slow deliberations. Opening 3.public preparatory meeting last week at USDA headquarters, U.S. delegate DOrlan LaFond, international fruit and vegetable standards coord,inator in the Agricultural.Marketing Service, noted that the CCPFV was revived several years ago to revise and simplify existing Codex standards, but member countries have instead requested new ones.
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