At the 19 - 23 September meeting of the international WHO/FAO Codex Alimentarius task force on biotech food attended by 263 delegates from 53 countries in Chiba, Japan no substantial progress on key issues such as labelling, food contamination with unapproved GMOs, genetically engineered animals and traceability. There is a lifely debate, which can be followed closely, even in life broadcast at the blogs below.</p><p><a href="http://iacfo.blogs.com/codex/biotech_task_force_2005_september/index.html">Life streaming and reports from the Coces meeting by IACFO</a></p><p><a href="http://martinjapan.blogspot.com/2005/09/codex-meeting-begins.html">codex blog by Martin Frid</a></p><p><a href="http://www.codexalimentarius.net/download/report/653/bt05_01e.pdf">Official agenda of the Codex task force</a>