2. The Session was opened by Dr E. Borst-Eilers, the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport. She welcomed the Committee to The Hague and acknowledged the increased significance of the work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in recent years, especially within the framework of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She mentioned the growing role of risk analysis in establishing MRLs, which would be focussed in the future on the issues relating to acute exposure. There was an urgent need to incorporate acute risk analysis into the decision-making process at the international level.
