The decisions of the CTCPA

The CTCPA's mission is to disseminate the Decisions, codes of practice specifying the characteristics and names of about fifty canned products. The CTCPA also distributes the decisions for frozen vegetables on behalf of the FIAC.

 

What is a decision?

The missions of general interest of the technical center financed by the TFA are defined in a multiannual performance contract signed between the State, the CTCPA and the FIAC - Federation of preserved food industries.

The drafting, updating and dissemination of codes of practice of the profession are part of the mission of support to companies. Essential element at the time of the creation of the Technical Center of the Preservation of the Agricultural Products in 1950, these decisions exist for some for more than 60 years and were regularly updated by the professionals, with the assistance of the CTCPA. The updated projects of these codes of use are systematically presented to the DGCCRF.

The CTCPA decisions specify for about 50 canned and dehydrated products:

  • product definitions and names,
  • the characteristics of the raw materials and the general characteristics of the coded product,
  • qualitative criteria, with the definition of defects and tolerances (target values - defective units, etc.)
  • the nominal quantities to be respected by format, in particular the total net mass and the drained net mass, the methods of analysis.

The contribution of codes of practice to the assessment of facts by the courts can be made from two different angles:

  • avoid any deception of the consumer on the qualities expected by the consumers, in particular on the nature, the substantial qualities of the product, its composition, the quantity.
  • to fight against unfair competition, to allow fair transactions between the different operators of the sector

Decisions, which are based on practices, are not fixed and evolve over time. It is a matter of the professions modernizing their practices, while preserving their image of quality and taking into account the evolution of the regulatory context, particularly in Europe, and of technologies. These decisions are a consensual and voluntary approach of the professions. They are the guarantee of a tradition, a use and a quality.

Canned goods

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