CX 5/15 CL 2005/47-FO December 2005 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: Codex Contact Points Interested International Organisations Secretary, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy Draft Amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils; Inclusion of Rice Bran Oil request for comments at Step 6 Proposed Draft Amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils; Amendment for the total carotenoids in unbleached palm oil request for comments at Step 3 DEADLINE: 10 June 2006 COMMENTS: To: Copy to: Secretary Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome, Italy Fax: +39 (06) 5705 4593 E-mail: codex@fao.org Miss Mariam Shah Food Standards Agency Room 115C Aviation House 125 Kingsway London WC2B 6NH Fax: +44 20 7276 8193 ccfo@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk INTRODUCTION 1. The 19 th Session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (CCFO) in 2005 agreed to advance the Proposed Draft Amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils, Inclusion of rice bran oil, to the 28 th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission for adoption at Step 5 with the understanding that the requested data and information would be provided to the next session of the Committee for its further consideration of this standard (ALINORM 05/28/17 para. 43, Appendix V). 2. The 19 th Session of the CCFO also agree to propose amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils, the amendment of the total carotenoids for unbleached palm oil as new work to the 28 th Session of the Commission. 3. The 28 th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission adopted the Proposed Draft Amendment to the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils, Inclusion of Rice Bran Oils at Step 5 and approved the proposal for new work to amend total carotenoids for unbleached palm oil in the Standard as accelerated procedure. (ALINORM 05/28/41, para. 96, Appendix VI, Appendix VIII).
4. Annex I to this circular letter is the Draft Amendment to include rice bran oils as was agreed in the 19 th Session of the CCFO, and Annex II is the Proposed Draft Amendment to the total carotenoids for unbleached palm oil (the proposal is to alter the current range of 500-2000 mg/kg to the new range 400-2000 mg/kg) as was submitted by Indonesia in the project document submitted to the 28 th Commission (Appendix VI of ALINORM 05/28/8). 5. With respect to the rice bran oils, it should be reminded that the 19th Session of CCFO requested further information and data for better understanding of the original proposal of rice bran oils and for completion of the standard. The Committee therefore requested India and other member countries to provide the following data and information for consideration by the next session of the Committee (ALINORM 05/28/17, para. 41). the trade volumes on international market (export) the origin and importance of samples analysed (industrial batch; commercial oil; number of batches; number of samples per batch) and their nature (crude or processed; oil extracted in a laboratory from a raw material) the method of analysis used (among those listed under point 5 of the standard) the method for analysis for oryzanols in Section 2.10 in Appendix clarification as to the existence of the data for the Delta-7-stigmastenol in Table 3 the total data for tocopherols and tocotorienols that should be included in Table 4 three independent data for Beta tocopherol, Gamma tocopherol and Gamma tocotrienol derived from crude rice bran oil that should be included in Table 4 It should be also reminded that clarification was required for the data on Relative density in Table 2 Chemical and physical characteristics of crude vegetable oils in Appendix OTHER QUALITY AND COMPOSITION FACTORS of the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils. 6. Attention should be drawn to the fact that the inclusion of Rice Bran Oils to the Standard for Named vegetable Oils is the addition of provisions specific to rice bran oils and therefore provisions other than those presented in Annex I are not to be changed by this task. This means that the comments are requested only to those provisions relevant to rice bran oils as are listed in Annex I and not requested to the unchanged provisions (common to all types of vegetable oils) in the Standard. 7. This rule also applies to the amendment to the total carotenoids for unbleached palm oil where the proposal is just to change one specific vlalue in Section 2.6 in Appendix OTHER QUALITY AND COMPOSITION FACTORS in the Standard. Governments and international organizations wishing to submit comments to Annex I, Annex II and information requested in the paragraph 5 above should do so in writing (preferably by electronic file) to the Secretary, Codex Alimentarius Commission, Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, FAO, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy (E-mail:codex@fao.org, Fax: +39 (06) 5705 4593), with a copy to Miss Mariam Shah, Food Standards Agency, London, United Kingdom (Fax: +44 20 7276 8193 Email: ccfo@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk) by 10 June 2006.
DRAFT AMENDMENT TO THE STANDARD FOR NAMED VEGETABLE OILS (INCLUSION OF RICE BRAN OIL) 2. DESCRIPTION 2.1 Product Definition (At Step 6 of the Procedure) 2.1.15 (rice oil) is derived from the bran of rice (Oryza sativa L). 3. ESSENTIAL COMPOSITION AND QUALITY FACTORS Annex I Table 1: Fatty acid composition of vegetable oils as determined by gas liquid chromatography from authentic samples (expressed as percentage of total fatty acids) Fatty acid Fatty acid C6:0 ND C18:2 29-40 C8:0 ND C18:3 0.1-2.9 C10:0 ND C20:0 ND-0.9 C12:0 ND-0.2 C20:1 ND-0.8 C14:0 0.2-0.6 C20:2 ND C16:0 14-23 C22:0 ND-0.5 C16:1 ND-0.5 C22:1 ND C17:0 ND C22.2 ND C17:1 ND C24.0 ND-0.6 C18:0 0.9-2.5 C24:1 ND C18:1 38-46 OTHER QUALITY AND COMPOSITION FACTORS 2. COMPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS 2.1.10 The gamma oryzanols in rice bran oil shall be in the range of 0.9-2.0 %. 3. CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Table 2: Chemical and physical characteristics of crude vegetable oils Relative density [0.910 to 0.920]* (xºc/water at 20ºC) Refractive index (ND 40 0 C) 1.460 1.473 Saponification value (mg KOH/g oil) 180 195 Iodine value 90-115 Unsaponifiable matter (g/kg) 50 APPENDIX 1 * Whether this data corresponds to relative density needs to be confirmed since the originally 1 This is the footnote attached by Codex Secretariat: this Appendix is Appendix which appears in the Standard for Named Vegetable Oils and not Appendix to this CL.
proposed title for this data was specific gravity (Annex I of CX/FO 05/19/5). 4. IDENTITY CHARACTERISTICS Table 3: Levels of desmethylsterols in crude vegetable oils from authentic samples as percentage of total sterols Cholesterol ND- 0.5 Brassicasterol ND Campesterol 11-35 Stigmasterol 6-40 Beta-sitosterol 25-67 Delta-5-avenasterol ND Delta-7 stigmastenol [-] Delta-7-avenasterol ND-2 Others ND-60 Total Sterols (mg/kg) 16000-31000 Table 4: Levels of tocopherols and tocotrienols in crude vegetable oils from authentic samples (mg/kg) Alpha-tocopherol 49-583 Beta-tocopherol Gamma-tocopherol Delta-tocopherol ) [26-441] ) ND-31 Alpha-tocotrienol 38-627 Gamma-tocotrienol [195-860 (sum of Beta/Gamma) ] Delta-tocotrienol Total (mg/kg) ND-59
Annex II PROPOSED DRAFT AMENDMENT TO THE STANDARD FOR NAMED VEGETABLE OILS (Amendment to total carotenoids in Unbleached Palm oil) At Step 3 (accelerated procedure) N01-2005 2.6 The total carotenoids (as beta-carotene) for unbleached palm oil, unbleached palm olein and unbleached palm stearin should be in the range 500-2000 400-2000, 550-2500 and 300-1500 mg/kg, respectively.