This paper, published in the International Food Risk Analysis Journal, attempts to present some of the key accomplishments of the Codex Alimentarius Commission over the past 50 years, viewed through my own lens as a food scientist and a food regulator. It also offered me the opportunity to share some of my views as to a few challenges that I have identified and that the organisation is facing currently and in the near future with suggestions as to how possibly address them.

I welcome input of the Codex membership and peer food safety, nutrition and food quality scientists and regulators on these thoughts and considerations.