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NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT 1. In October 1949, the Committee on Agricultural Problems established the Working Party on Standardization of Perishable Foodstuffs. 2. The Working Party was entrusted with the task of determining common standards for perishable foodstuffs and studying the steps to be taken at the international level in order to secure the general adoption of standards and control systems. 3. It should be noted that the standards drawn up by the Working Party concern only goods moving in trade between and to European countries and that they are applied at the dispatch stage and