Lesson 5: International Standards and Organizations

Topic 3: Summary

In this lesson, you learned about the three international standard-setting organizations named in the SPS Agreement: the World Organization for Animal Health, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, and the International Plant Protection Convention. Although each organization follows a different standard setting process, harmonization is the goal of all international standards.

- Robert G. Ahern, PhD

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