1) Started in 1962 by UN, Imposed by WTO Sanctions
Codex Alimentarius was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN to control the international trade of food. Its initial intentions may have been altruistic but it has been taken over by corporate interests, most notably the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotechnology and chemical industries.
Codex Alimentarius is backed up by the crippling trade sanctions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Any non Codex-compliant nation would face huge economic punishment since they would automatically lose in any food-trade dispute with a Codex compliant country.
2) “Nutrients are Toxins” Is Junk Science
Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition.
One of them, the “Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses” (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the “top-guy” for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that “nutrition is not relevant to health”.
As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared nutrients to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements! It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus happens to own the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on this issue. This company makes money when its toxicology services are used for the “assessment” of nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call that a “conflict of interest”.
Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients.
While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.
Nutrients are not toxins - they are essential for life.
No matter what Codex Alimentarius officials say to convince you that Risk Assessment is a “science-based” approach to nutrients, it is not.
And it is worth repeating that Dr. Grossklaus, the head of Codex Alimentarius, owns the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on the “benefit” of using Risk Assessment to assess nutrients.
Don't think that the UN is not going to try and bring the Codex here to the US, it is already happening.
Unfortunately, one-time defenders of health freedom such as National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have joined the propaganda bandwagon and are spreading false information saying that Codex Alimentarius is either “harmless” or benevolent “consumer protection”. Neither is true.
The membership of these one-time defenders of health freedom has become permeated by people from the pharmaceutical industry (for example, CRN counts as its members corporations such as Monsanto® and Bayer®).
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If Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America, therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals (and all other nutrients soon to follow) will become unavailable because they will literally become illegal.
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Codex Alimentarius is a shrewd vehicle for protecting the pharmaceutical industry from the loss of income it stands to suffer due to the inevitable growth of natural healthcare.
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Furthermore, Codex is based in the Napoleonic Code, not Common Law. That means that under Codex Alimentarius, anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden. Under Common Law, we hold that anything not explicitly forbidden is permitted. The difference is the difference between health freedom and health tyranny. Codex Alimentarius would be able to ban supplements by default.
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Codex Alimentarius will go into global implementation by December 31, 2009, unless We, the People, avert it. We must act now because right now, with $758 Million spent on declared Congressional lobbying by Big Pharma last year, there are members of Congress who are trying to overturn DSHEA and allow Pharma-friendly free reign for Codex. If protective laws like DSHEA are destroyed, the sanctioning power of the autocratic WTO kicks in, and it will be impossible to get out from under Codex Alimentarius. We can protect our access to high potency nutrients and stave off an adulterated food supply only by putting pressure on Congress.
You must stay on top of this one. I urge you to read up on this, start with Health Freedom USA's website linked to at the top of the page and again here. Do whatever you can to ensure the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA, 1994), an American law classifying our supplements and herbs as foods (which can have no upper limit set on their use) does not get overturned or altered in any way.
Here are links to two videos dealing with the same topic:
Codex and Nutricide - This is with Dr. Rima E. Laibow who has studied the Codex documentation extensively and wrote the material on the healthfreedomusa.org website.
We Become Silent : The last Days Of Health Freedom - This one is narrated by Dame Judi Dench and produced by Well TV.
I'm going to use the bottom half of this post to draw your attention to some recent issues concerning the FDA, which regulates almost one-quarter of the U.S. economy, that may get you to pay closer attention.
Read this 2005 article from The Nation about President Bush's appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs.
Susan B. Wood resigns. More here. Her interview on Diane Rehm
here.
Agency suffers with no confirmed head.
FDA and drug safety.
Meet Dr. Lester M. Crawford,
the veterinarian, who temporarily headed the FDA twice and was nominated by Bush to keep the job was criminally charged for holding stock in companies (Pepsico Inc., Sysco etc.) that were regulated by the agency and lying about it. He plead guilty and paid a 90,000 fine and was put on probation. More here. And here.
Daniel E. Troy, former FDA chief counsel and his conflict of interest. After he resigned he went back to work as a corporate food lawyer. Industry advocate, to regulator, back to advocate. To fully understand why this is bad for you, the citizen consumer, read the excellent summary on NY Rep. Maurice Hinchey's official website. In this administration Troy is only one of hundreds. All presidents appoint those who share their political bias, but appointing lobbyists to high positions in government agencies enters into an entirely new realm of disregard for the average American. In whose interests do they serve?
Tell Someone.
