The Austrian Codex Alimentarius was established in 1891 by the Austrian trade commission of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a group of standards and descriptions describing a wide variety of foods and foodstuffs.
The codex consists of three volumes, which were completed between 1910 and 1917 by O. Dafert. It was commonly used as a by many courts in the Germanic world to determine the identity and quality of specific foods. It was not integrated into the Austrian food laws until 1975.
In his time, it was exemplary work on food. As such, it became the model of the later European Codex Alimentarius which was the precursor of the Codex Alimentarius. The latter is the current international codex for food produced collaboratively within the framework of FAO and WHO.
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