Codex Committee on Sugars (CCS)

CAC1 established a Codex Committee on Sugar (CCS) under the chairmanship of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to cover all types of carbohydrate sweeteners, excluding honey.  

CCS had been adjourned in 1974 because at that stage, the Committee had completed its work and had successfully elaborated standards for a variety of sugars, golden syrup, treacle, glucose syrup, dextrose, lactose and fructose. There were two matters, however, that had not been dealt with at the time of adjournment: tolerances of lead in sugar and methods of analysis. Over a period of 17 years, these issues were handled by correspondence in collaboration with the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants (CCFAC) and the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis (ICUMSA), with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 

The Committee simplified the standardization of sugar by bringing all its individual standards into one single Standard for sugars (CXS 212-1999) and it also worked with Cuba on a Standard for raw cane sugar. At CAC28, the chairperson declared that the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland would not continue hosting CCS. In 2011, to support the elaboration of a worldwide standard on panela, Colombia offered to host the CCS.