JOINT FAO/WHO FOOD STANDARDS PROGRAMME

CODEX COMMITTEE ON METHODS OF ANALYSIS AND SAMPLING

Twenty-fifth Session
Budapest, Hungary, 8 – 12 March 2004

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

The Twenty-fifth Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling will be held
in the Novotel Budapest Centrum (Palace Hotel) Rákoczi ut 43-45, H-1088, Budapest,
from Monday 8 March 2004 at 10.00 hours through Friday 12 March 2004

Agenda Item	Subject Matter	Doc. Ref. No.
	Opening of the Session
1.	Adoption of the Agenda	CX/MAS 04/1
2.	Matters Referred to the Committee by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and Other Codex Committees The Use of Analytical Results: Ssampling, Relationship between the Analytical Results, the Measurement of Uncertainty, Recovery Factors and Provisions in Codex Standards (English)	CX/MAS 04/2 CX/MAS 04/2-Add.1
3.	Draft General Guidelines on Sampling	ALINORM 03/23 Appendix IV CL 2003/29-MAS
	- Government comments at Step 6	CX/MAS 04/3
4.	Draft Guidelines on Measurement Uncertainty	ALINORM 03/23 Appendix V CL 2003/29-MAS
	- Government comments at Step 6	CX/MAS 04/4 CX/MAS 04/4-Add.1
5.	Proposed Draft Guidelines for Evaluating Acceptable Methods of Analysis	ALINORM 03/23 Appendix VII CL 2002/53-MAS
	- Government comments at Step 3	CX/MAS 04/5
6.	Criteria for Evaluating Acceptable Methods of Analysis
	a) Proposed Draft Guidelines for Settling Disputes over Analytical (Test) Results	CX/MAS 04/6
	- Government comments at Step 3	CX/MAS 04/6-Add.1
	b) Consideration of the Fitness-For-Purpose Approach to Evaluating Methods of Analysis	CX/MAS 04/7
7.	*Review of the Analytical Terminology for Codex Use* in the Procedural Manual**	CL 2003/43-MAS
	- Government comments	CX/MAS 04/8 CX/MAS 04/8-Add.1
8.	Endorsement of Methods of Analysis Provisions in Codex Standards - Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Endorsement of Methods of Analysis to be held on 6 March 2004	CX/MAS 04/9 CX/MAS 04/9-Add.1 CX/MAS 04/9-Add.2 CRD 1
9.	Criteria for the Methods for the Detection and Identification of Foods Derived from Biotechnology	CX/MAS 04/10
10.	Methods of analysis for the determination of dioxins and PCBs	CX/MAS 04/11
	- Additional information from WHO on the determination of dioxins	CX/MAS 04/INF.1
11.	Report of an Inter-Agency Meeting on Methods of Analysis	CRD 2
12.	Other Business and Future Work
13.	Date and Place of Next Session
14.	Adoption of the Report

NB: Delegates are kindly requested to bring with them to the meeting all documents which have been distributed as the number of additional copies which can be made available at the meeting is limited.

The Ad Hoc Working Group on Endorsement of Methods of Analysis will be held in the Novotel Budapest Centrum (Palace Hotel) Rákoczi ut 43-45, H-1088, Budapest from 9.00 hours to 13.00 hours on Saturday 6 March 2004.

The Ad Hoc Working Group on the Draft General Guidelines on Sampling will be held in the Novotel Budapest Centrum (Palace Hotel) Rákoczi ut 43-45, H-1088, Budapest from 9.00 hours to 17.00 hours on Saturday 6 March 2004.