You may lose access to vitamins and supplements in 2009

[ronfrazer]

You should know about Codex if you want to keep your access to vitamins and other supplements at your local health food store. It could become the law of the land in 2009 if we don't educate our representatives and senators.

CODEX

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.

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.

DSHEA

DSHEA is now under attack due to the pressure to implement CODEX.

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), was passed by unanimous Congressional consent following massive grass-roots support organized by health food stores. Millions of American activists told Congress, in no uncertain terms:

“Protect nutritional supplements as foods or we will remove you from office”.

Congress listened and carried out the will of the people.

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This explanation was taken from the Natural Solutions Foundation website, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org. You might want to join the fight against this ridiculous loss of freedom.

[ronfrazer]

It occurred to me after I posted this that I hadn't actually said how we would lose our access to vitamins and supplements. There isn't a specific bill in congress; what's happening is that the FDA, EPA, HSS, and the US Codex Office are all proceeding to implement policies that will harmonize US policy with Codex.

There is a petition to be signed at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=184
which will go to the government agencies demanding that they comply with existing US law and not harmonize their policies with Codex, i.e. not remove our access to vitamins and supplements.

[30A Skunkape]

It occurred to me after I posted this that I hadn't actually said how we would lose our access to vitamins and supplements. There isn't a specific bill in congress; what's happening is that the FDA, EPA, HSS, and the US Codex Office are all proceeding to implement policies that will harmonize US policy with Codex.

There is a petition to be signed at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=184
which will go to the government agencies demanding that they comply with existing US law and not harmonize their policies with Codex, i.e. not remove our access to vitamins and supplements.

I would be interested to hear your opinion on this news story http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_he_me/med_measles_outbreaks
since you have posted a link to a website that identifies vaccination as 'a health freedom threat'.

[ckhagen]

I've become a broken record when it comes to preaching the dangers of CODEX. No one seems to listen. No one will until it's way too late. It really is true that you don't appreciate what you have until it's gone.

[ronfrazer]

I don't subscribe to the belief that all vaccinations are bad, but I believe that parents should have the choice. In an ideal world vaccinations would be proven safe before used on entire populations. I personally don't have confidence in the safety of vaccinations. I think the drug companies are a little too profit-hungry and a little too quick to put something on the market.

[30A Skunkape]

I don't subscribe to the belief that all vaccinations are bad, but I believe that parents should have the choice. In an ideal world vaccinations would be proven safe before used on entire populations. I personally don't have confidence in the safety of vaccinations. I think the drug companies are a little too profit-hungry and a little too quick to put something on the market.
The irony here is that vaccinations are safe, more efficacious and probably less profitable than the supplements and vitamins whose marketing and sales you seek to keep as unregulated as possible.