Guide to codex recommendations concerning pesticide residues
Common and scientific names of commodities
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Common and scientific names of commoditiesA single food or animal feed is often known under several common names. In a like manner, the use of similar names for different commodities is not uncommon. In this classification uniform terminology associated with recognised scientific names has been developed. Different common names used for the same or a closely related commodity, or cultivars of the same agricultural crop have been cross-referenced as far as possible to a single common name. Similarly a qualification has been used to modify a common name, where the use of a generic name fails to identify the specific commodity adequately. However, specific cultivars distinguished by their own common names in agricultural practice and in international trade are indicated with these common and scientific species and cultivar names, eg nectarine, a specific peach variety or cultivar is distinguished from all other peach cultivars. In cases where commonly used regional or national English names are different from the correct English common name, priority is given to the latter and the other names are referred to it eg., “corn” is referred to the correct name, “maize”. The common names, scientific names and descriptions used in existing Codex standards were taken into account and given priority as far as possible. The terminology used in this classification closely follows “Plant and Plant Products of Economic Importance Terminology Bulletin (1974)” and the terminology used in various FAO statistics. Within the broad classes of Foods of Plant Origin and Foods of Animal Origin, usage distinguishes groups of similar commodities such as Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts, Mammalian Products, Aquatic Animal Products etc. The present classification uses 19 types of commodities: Class A Primary Food Commodities of Plant Origin 5 types B Primary Food Commodities of Animal Origin 5 types C Primary Feed Commodities 1 type D Processed Food of Plant Origin 4 types E Processed Food of Animal Origin 4 types
Sugar beet leaves or tops (animal feed) AM 0596 Sugar beet molasses DM 0596 Sugar beet pulp (dry) AB 0596 In this case the number 0596 is given to Beta vulgaris, L., var. saccharifera (sugar beet). The fodder beet, Beta vulgaris, var. rapa, has its own code number AM 1051. Cashew apple FT 0295 Cashew nut TN 0295 Owing to the number of related commodities in some of the groups, extra code numbers sometimes had to be used which were not related to the primary food commodity from which these commodities are derived. Reference to the additional code numbers (between 1200 and 1299) is given with the primary food commodity at its first appearance in the classification. For further details see page xxxxii and xxxxiii. In every group a sufficient number of code numbers is reserved to allow the addition of new commodities, with code numbers with the range allotted to the group. The numbers 0001 - 0200 were reserved for “Group” and “Subgroup” code numbers. The first single primary food commodity in the classification has the Code number 0201 (FC 0201 Calamondin, a species belonging to the Citrus family). In principle the four-digit code number system can accommodate 9799 individual commodities, taking into account the 200 numbers reserved for Group and Sub-Group maximum residue limits. Directory: tempref tempref -> Reporting Officer tempref -> Submitted by: g V pollard, slac-slcm date: 21 February 2006 II. Visit to Download 1.36 Mb. Share with your friends:
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