Proposal for a Regional Kava Standard Tabled at 40th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

[kasa_balavu]

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=409126

The proposal tabled this week.

 

[Alia]

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=409126

The proposal tabled this week.

This is really a key issue...maybe the most important for kava in modern times. We have been working with the US Codex Office, to include Hawai'i, back and forth and have great hopes. "Tabled this week" (at first) reads like they are putting it aside but actually they will consider it and very much so! Thank you for bringing it to attention of others.

 

[verticity]

This is really a key issue...maybe the most important for kava in modern times. We have been working with the US Codex Office, to include Hawai'i, back and forth and have great hopes. "Tabled this week" (at first) reads like they are putting it aside but actually they will consider it and very much so! Thank you for bringing it to attention of others.

Yup, that threw me off too. It's the British sense ("put on the table"), not the American sense ("take off the table") of the word:

I was similarly confused about an earlier news item about the new Vanuatu kava act being "gazetted" (meaning publish and announce officially...)

 

[verticity]

On page three: Today I learned about the tiny nation of Kiribati, which consumes more kava than the United States apparently...

 

[kasa_balavu]

On page three: Today I learned about the tiny nation of Kiribati, which consumes more kava than the United States apparently...

Fishing and drinking kava. There's really nothing else to do on Kiribati.

 

[kasa_balavu]

It's being streamed live, but I have no idea when this particular proposal will be discussed.

 

[Alia]

Yup, that threw me off too. It's the British sense ("put on the table"), not the American sense ("take off the table") of the word:
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I was similarly confused about an earlier news item about the new Vanuatu kava act being "gazetted" (meaning publish and announce officially...)

Language and communication are remarkable. The Kava Forums are remarkable, in part, for their diverse, intelligent, contributors.

 

[kasa_balavu]

Yup, that threw me off too. It's the British sense ("put on the table"), not the American sense ("take off the table") of the word:
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I'd have used "shelved" for the opposite

 

[Zaphod]

On page three: Today I learned about the tiny nation of Kiribati, which consumes more kava than the United States apparently...

For less money!

 

[verticity]

I'd have used "shelved" for the opposite

That makes a lot more sense than the American "table"...

 

[kasa_balavu]

 

[verticity]

 

[Zac Imiola (Herbalist)]

@verticity haha that country is consistently in the double digits for tons lol

 

[verticity]

@verticity haha that country is consistently in the double digits for tons lol

Total kava imported by Kiribati from Vanuatu and Fiji in 2015: 78 tons (78,000 kg)
Population of Kiribati in 2015: 112,407
Per capita kava imports: 1.5 pounds for every man, woman and child in the country.

 

[verticity]

I think Wallis and Futuna imported even more per capita, plus they grow their own kava!

Like Wallace and Grommit with cheese...

 

[sɥɐʞɐs]

"watchu talkin' 'bout Wallis!"

 

[sɥɐʞɐs]

Glad to see medicinal kava listed alongside noble in the codex. I've seen some instances where it's listed as banned, like it's (unenforced) export from Vanuatu. For all the hubbub about tudei and the occasional spat over whether or not it's a getting a fair shake. Banning 'medicinal' varieties is unquestionably unfair, as their FK-B levels are nearly identical to noble, they just happen to have more DHM than a typical noble kava.

 

[HeadHodge]

Fishing and drinking kava. There's really nothing else to do on Kiribati.

Fishing for kava? Sounds like fun!