Codex Alimentarius

The Codex Alimentarius (Latin = “food law” or “food code”) is controversial project organized to promote international standardization of food safety and for the stated purpose of consumer protection. Officially, it is maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body established jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Codex Alimentarius is recognized by the World Trade Organization as an international reference point for the resolution of disputes concerning food safety and consumer protection.

Critics contend the project's official mission is not in alignment with the reality of the agenda behind the project. There are a number of organizations who assert the Codex Alimentarius is a legal cover for special-interest groups to further their economic agendas. Such 'health freedom' groups, largely aligned with alternative medicine practitioners, which have suggested implementation of Codex Alimentarius recommendations would result in great harm to consumers, due to its plans to place unscientifically based restrictions on nutritional intake and collateral removal of natural health products (NHPs) from the free market. When and if implemented, additional restrictions on other natural health treatments would result.

1. No dietary supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use;

2. No dietary supplement sold as a food can exceed potency dosage levels set by the commission. Dietary supplements of higher potency will be sold as drugs and sold by the pharmaceutical or phytopharmaceutical companies. Supplements without an RDA (e.g. Coenzyme Q10) would be illegal to sell because they would  become drugs

3. Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding

4. All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through extensive Codex testing and approval.

These proposals (which would "harmonize" food and drug laws of all member countries to international standards) are already on the agenda at Codex waiting to be passed. This will automatically restrict access and elevate prices. Expensive prescription only or expensive over the counter drugs will replace the present inexpensive general free availability of herbs, botanicals, vitamins and minerals.

In the interest of public health, Europeans refused to have beef and beef products from cattle given artificial growth hormones imported into the European Union. The United States and Canada then filed actions against the European Union at the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization. The initial opinion was private, and it basically gave everybody a minor heart attack because it said, "If you don't follow Codex regulations on health and safety issues, what you do is illegal under these new international agreements". In their final decision, the World Trade Organization has backed off a bit from this original position and said they would leave it to the committees of the WTO to harmonize, but they maintained that in the case of beef hormones, what the European Union did was illegal and they have to conform to the international rules.

They want to limit internationally and nationally, access to vitamins and minerals and all kinds of dietary supplements. They want to limit potencies and combinations. In the case of potencies, they want to limit them to useless levels, reserving the right to sell and produce the higher potency products to the drug companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies, principally of Germany and France (which are also connected to the big drug companies).

They want to pass off genetically engineered foods around the world in every market without labelling.

They want to speed up the process of approval of food stuffs so as not to impede international commerce, and their solution is to let the corporations police themselves.

They want to gut the powers of all the regulatory agencies such as Health Protection Branch in Canada and the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and leave the shells in place, but take the power away and transfer those powers to the international level.

The Codex aims to make an end run around Congress
and other national legislative bodies. Currently, despite growing opposition
from health groups world-wide, the Codex Commission is marching steadily towards
adoption of its own strict guidelines for these substances. The Codex will (1)
prohibit prohibit dissemination of health-related information concerning
vitamins, amino acids, minerals and other natural products for prevention and
treatment of illnesses, and (2) (b) prohibit distribution of any vitamins and
other natural products that exceed the guidelines of the Codex Commission.
Countries failing to comply will be punished by WTO with economic sanctions.

The Codex proposals already exist as law in Norway and
Germany, where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by
the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is
vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. In those countries,
some supplements are already being sold at hugely inflated prices.

Everybody, United States, Canada, the Europeans, Japan, most of Asia, S. America have signed agreements pledging total harmonization of their laws including food and drug laws to international standards in the future. And that is being achieved through different vehicles including interim agreements such as the one that was agreed to last year between the U.S. and the European Union. So you need to think in terms not only what is of immediate benefit to you in Canada, but what will have long term benefits.

Companies look for a regulatory framework that will maximize their profits. They don't really care about what happens to you or me. Profit margins are believed to be highest when you take things like vitamins and minerals in high potencies, and herbs and botanicals, and turn them into over the counter drugs because in that class you can limit competition by setting the obstacles high enough that the small companies can't compete, and you can charge a great deal more money for your product. At the same time you can also make therapeutic claims for your product. If your bottle of garlic says "ancient anti-inflammatory and anti-infectious cure", it will sell better. So the bigger companies, especially the ones with the German and French connections, all see this as a golden opportunity to make more money by turning these products into over the counter drugs, whether you call it a third category (a separate third category, "neither food nor drug") or a drug. From the consumer point of view this approach is disastrous because it means low potency product at high price. All of the pharmaceutical companies have already begun a massive buyout of the German phytopharmaceutical companies, so a herbal company in Germany is likely to be owned by Monsantos etc.

We ultimately discovered that there is an international movement in progress aiming to destroy health freedom in every country on the planet. This movement does not begin at any particular parliament or congress. It appears to start on the drafting tables or conference tables of the transnational corporate board rooms. It is not exactly for the purpose of destroying health freedom as such; it is rather for the purpose of stealing what is yours and making it theirs, and very possibly, having long term control of everybody's access to most of the health products that you and I buy today and take for granted. This is being done to us through a variety of mechanisms in the very sincere hope that we won't catch on until it's too late. The first mechanism is a new matrix of international organizations that are taking shape generally outside of the United Nations and are removing sovereignty from all of the individual nations which are members of these organizations.

what a nut!

and then, whats next?
CODEX ASTARTES?


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