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Codex Alimentarius is a group of international food standards, adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and uniformly presented. The very term Codex Alimentarius is taken from the Latin term Codex Alimentarius, meaning Food Law or Legal Food Code. The Codex Alimentarius standards cover all basic food types, raw, semi-processed and processed, that are intended for distribution to the costumers. The regulations of the Codex refer to food hygiene and quality, including microbiological standards, food additives, pesticides and residues from veterinary drugs, contaminants, food labeling and marketing, methods for sampling and hazard analysis, food import and export, certification system, etc.