Codex Attack on Vitamins
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URGENT ! URGENT !
Codex Attack on Vitamins
AND MINERALS, HERBS, AND ORGANIC FOODS
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An international cartel is working with a special EU/WTO subsidiary,
called "Codex," and plans to do the following in our country:
(1) Limit the number of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients which
you can purchase. (2) Of the few which will be permitted, the dosages
will be so low as to render them useless. (3) You will only be able
to
buy them through a physician's prescription. (4) You will only
purchase them in a drugstore. (5) Only synthetic vitamins will be
available. (6) Only approved drug companies will make them. (7) You
will pay very high prices for each tablet. (8) It will become a crime
to use any nutrients-even the permitted ones-in the treatment of any
infirmity or disease. No one, including physicians, will be able to
use them to "prevent, treat, or cure any condition or disease." An
immense German, U.S., and British drug cartel is behind this.
In addition, Codex is also working with some other groups: (1) The
chemical industry plans to require that all animals be treated with
antibiotics and hormones. (2) The largest seed company in the world
intends that only genetically modified crops be planted by farmers.
(3) The nuclear industry plans that all food plants and livestock be
irradiated. (4) Truly "organic" foods will end.
Are you interested? Read on. A large amount of information is here.
Because this is so important, the following report is lengthy. If you
do not have time to read it in detail, just scan the highlights, and
pause to read what interests you. Hopefully, the facts will frighten
you enough that you will want to immediately contact Congress and
tell them whether you want Codex in America.
If you do not, you will be sorry later.
1 - BACKGROUND AND HISTORY
Introduction-Vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplements, along with
whole herbs, are invaluable aids in the maintenance of health and the
recovery from sickness. The drug industry has long recognized this
fact, and wants nutritional supplements and herbs either forbidden or
priced out of reach. When those valuable helps are no longer
available
in our chemically contaminated world, people become sicker and are
willing to pay for more drugs, hospital visits, and operations.
In Europe, the drug cartel has succeeded in enacting Codex
Alimentarius, which will accomplish that objective on the European
continent very soon. Adopted in a secret meeting in the EU (European
Union) in November 2004, it is scheduled to be finally voted on in
June 2005, with a full European ban taking effect on August 1.
Because the U.S. belongs to the World Trade Organization (WTO), any
changes approved in Europe are supposed to automatically become law
in
America, superseding our own laws. (Some believe we are no longer a
sovereign nation.)
Failure to comply with these changes can lead to lawsuits which
cannot
be won, because they are settled in international courts which are
based in Europe.
These are stunning facts which you unlikely to read in the regular
media, because they receive a major part of $4 billion a year in
advertising.
Codex Alimentarius-"Codex Alimentarius" refers to a set of strict
regulations covering all aspects of food. "Codex Alimentarius" is
Latin for "Food Rules" or Food Regulations. This collection of food
rules in Europe dates back to food standards enacted, between 1897
and
1911, by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They were used as a legal
reference by the courts as a standard, although the Codex
Alimentarius
itself had no legal standing.
Modern Codex regulations are prepared by the Codex Alimentarius
Commission, which (in this report, we will refer to this as "Codex")
works with the EU and UN in an attempt to regulate every aspect of
food production, packaging, preparation, preservation, and
presentation of food "from farm to fork." Codex also attempts to
regulate supplemental nutrients and herbs. It even effectively
eliminates "organic produce" standards! More on this later. Codex has
more than 16,000 pages of working documents.
Some of the changes Codex will impose-Here are several features of
Codex:
. The plan is to ban all nutrients, except a few which are
high-priced, low-dosage, synthetically made by drug companies, and
only available in drugstores by prescription.
. Codex regulations will be binding internationally. Any nation which
has entered into trade agreements with the EU will eventually be
forced to adopt the Codex or receive heavy trade sanctions until it
does.
. All new types of supplements will be banned, unless Codex provides
testing and approval. This will be certain to be expensive. Such
tests
will also be inadequate. A favorite trick of drug and governmental
authorities is to test such small doses of the supplement, so that it
does not prove of any noticeable value.
. Codex regulations are not based on previous scientific or research
findings. Those regulations were developed by eleven persons,
appointed by the EU with drug cartel approval.
. Many herbs will also be banned.
Plans to extend Codex to U.S. and worldwide-The United Nations' Codex
Alimentarius Commission, assisted by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), views the EU Food Supplements Directive as a
basic pattern which should be followed in developing a global trade
standard for dietary supplements!
FDA "harmonization" standards-The FDA is currently at work, preparing
"directives" for "harmonization" of its dietary supplement laws, so
they will fully agree with the excessively restrictive "international
standard" set by the EU Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Protests are being ignored-On January 29, urgent messages were sent
to
Kofi Anan, head of the UN, to extend the deadline for its acceptance
of Codex standards. But the pleas were disregarded.
Emergency meetings, by groups opposed to enactment of the Codex in
Europe, have been held by concerned groups for several months.
In August 2005, proposed EU legislation is set to ban many of the
leading-edge nutritional supplements people currently take for
granted. U.S. compliance is likely to follow shortly.
Gigantic cartels are gradually gaining control of every key industry.
It is all a sign that we are nearing the end.
What Codex will accomplish-This new regulation will accomplish
several
objectives: (1) It will pour millions of euros (European equivalent
of
dollars) into the large pockets of the drug companies. (2) Lacking
the
vitamins, the maladies of the people will increase and they will need
more drugs. (3) Physicians and hospitals will have more patients to
treat and profit from.
The international drug cartel-A number of years ago, agreements were
quietly entered into by the large drug companies in Germany, America,
and Britain. German drug companies would have their government lead
out in introducing standards heavily restricting the sale of
nutritional supplements, in all nations which enter into trade
agreements with the European Union. Germany was selected as the
nation
to initially push it; since Germans do not tend to use supplements.
Supplemental Guidelines-Work on these Supplement Guidelines was first
proposed by the German delegation to the Codex Nutrition Committee in
1990. For several years, work progressed slowly; but the agenda was
kept alive by the Germans.
At the same time, Germany also introduced the idea of a European Food
Supplements Directive (EFSD). That effort was shelved for some years,
after a first round of consultations showed that the field was much
too difficult and contentious to regulate by directive. A few years
later however-after Codex's work on supplements had progressed-work
restarted on the supplements directive. By that time, both the
governments of Britain and Germany were promoting it. (It is believed
that their government officials had been paid off.) As it happened,
the European Directive was accepted in 2003, two years before the
Codex Guidelines.
In shaping the Codex "consensus" on supplements, its German chairman
(Rolf Grossklaus) and the representative of the European Union (Basil
Mathioudakis) have been more or less openly accused of bending the
rules. Objections by some member nations were ignored or overruled.
Most of those nations were poor and not in a position to complain
very
much, lest they be barred from trade relations with Europe.
The result was a text for the Codex Supplements Guidelines that reads
remarkably similar to the European Food Directive. Unfortunately no
transcripts of those meetings exist. The report prepared by the Codex
Secretariat does not include details of proposals and comments.
Stenographic records of meetings were never released.
Effects of the 1994 U.S. dietary law-In the United States, after the
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) was
enacted by Congress, Americans were able to learn the health benefits
of vitamins, minerals, and herbs. Prior to that time, no advertising,
by supplement manufacturers or sellers, was permitted. As a result,
prior to 1994, it was much more difficult for Americans to learn how
nutrients could resist and overcome disease. In addition, under this
law, Americans were able to purchase them in larger dosages.
As more and more Americans learned how beneficial these nutrients
were, by 2002 more nutritional supplements were being sold in the
U.S.
than drug medications!
Why that law was enacted-That 1994 law (DSHEA) was passed because
large numbers of Americans demanded it. Over 2.5 million ordinary
citizens wanted to make sure dietary supplements (such as herbs,
vitamins, minerals and other food-based supplements) would remain on
the over-the-counter market. The movement, to create DSHEA, started
when a 1992 FDA task force published a report announcing the FDA's
desire to remove these products from the shelves; since they
represent
a "disincentive for patented drug research."
Immediately following this announcement, millions of Americans
learned
about how famed vitamin doctor, Jonathan Wright's patient-filled
medical office in the Northwest was raided that same month by nearly
two dozen gun-carrying FDA agents in the name of "regulating
supplements." Battering down an unlocked office door, and backed by
burly sheriff's department deputies, the agents lined up staff and
patients against the wall. They pulled IVs from patients' arms in the
middle of treatments, confiscated patients' records, and took the
hard
drive from the office computer. They did all this because Dr.
Jonathan
Wright was using nutritional supplements to heal very sick people who
could not get help from standard AMA medical care.
As the general public became aware of just how many doctors' offices,
manufacturing companies, distributors, and health-food stores had
been
assaulted by similar raids, the horror of all this forged a mighty
health freedom army that resulted in the unanimous passage of DSHEA.
Provisions of DSHEA-(1) DSHEA made a clear distinction between "food"
(which is considered generally safe and did not need to have
permission from the FDA to be allowed on the market) and "drugs"
(which are invariably toxic, potentially deadly, and in need of
lengthy evaluation before they were available to the public under
prescription from a doctor).
(2) DSHEA provided the FDA with plenty of legal authority to remove
herbs or dietary supplements from the market, providing the agency
has
plenty of real evidence of real harm to the public. The FDA also has
the authority to limit the amount of a supplement to low levels if
the
agency has plenty of real evidence to prove higher levels are
actually
dangerous. But, of course, the FDA has been unable to produce such
evidence.
Drug cartel determined to get rid of DSHEA-A primary objective of
Codex is get rid of that law! Its existence reduces drug sales, keeps
people well, and helps restore them to health without expensive
medical intervention.
The power behind the throne-Actions by the European Union and the
United Nations affect millions of lives. What makes it possible for
drug companies to have so much influence at the EU and UN? The answer
is rather simple: It is well-known that drug companies make excessive
profits by overcharging on medicinal drugs. They claim that the
profits are needed for research into new drugs. Yet that research
only
requires paying the salaries of a number of technicians working in
laboratories.
It is well-known that most of the profits are used for advertising
and
similar projects which will increase sales.
It is the opinion of the present writer that one of those projects is
large political contributions to the White House, Congress, as well
as
immense bribes to EU and UN officials.
Another project is paying immense amounts in advertising dollars to
the various news media in drug ads-and then threatening to stop the
lucrative advertising if they tell the public what Codex is about to
do. Now you can understand why the newspapers, newsmagazines, and
news
broadcasts do not say a word about the nutritional crisis about to
break over our heads.
In 2004, pharmaceutical companies spent over 4 billion dollars on
direct consumer advertising. This includes media advertising. In
addition, that same year, $785 million was spent on Congressional
lobbying.
A joint venture-Codex is a joint venture between the United Nation's
World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization
(WHO/FAO), the European Union (EU), and the World Trade Organization
(WTO).
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has already stated that, as soon
as
it is approved (which will occur this summer), it will enforce Codex
"guidelines" as the world standard for trade in dietary supplements.
This will mean that gradually, pill-by-pill, our access to the
dietary
supplements we depend on will disappear.
Both the UN and the WHO are mandated to protect the health and
welfare
of the world's population; but they obviously shirked on this
responsibility, when the Codex decisions were made.
U.S. Codex Office-The U.S. Codex Office is a department in the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), which works closely with Codex in
Europe. If you go to its website, you will be told this:
"The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO
to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes
of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The
main
purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and
ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting
coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international
governmental and non-governmental organizations."
Earlier Congressional bills-In addition to its cooperation with the
German and British drug industry in Codex, the drug industry in
America has been hard at work on introducing legislation to greatly
restrict vitamins, minerals, and herbs.
In 2003, bills were introduced in Congress which, if enacted, would
regulate certain supplements in the U.S. Though the bills died when
the 108th Congress ended in December, new versions are thought to be
ready for introduction in March or April of this year (2005).
One of those bills would have granted the Food and Drug
Administration
authority to regulate supplements in the same way that it regulates
over-the-counter drugs.
The bills would have weaken DSHEA, which gave consumers who use
supplements definite protections against government regulations.
(But, if you want to contact your congressman or senator about the
bills, you must give the number of the new 2005 bills. Apparently,
they have not been introduced yet. With Codex looming on the horizon,
perhaps the drug companies will not bother to introduce them.)
The power in Codex-Here is why Codex can overrule our U.S. dietary
laws:
The United States Federal Register, Oct. 11, 1995, FDA Policy on
Standards stated that "where a relevant international standard
exists,
or completion is imminent, it will generally be used in preference to
a domestic standard."
If this is still the FDA policy, as soon as the Codex Guidelines take
effect in Europe in August, the FDA will immediately try to enforce
Codex here in America.
The problem is that we entered, by treaty, into the World Trade
Organization (WTO). The U.S. Constitution states that U.S. treaties
take precedence over U.S. laws.
There is already activity on Capital Hill to prepare "harmonization"
rules, which will lock America into obedience to Codex dietary
regulations.
An interconnected, international web of control-Codex Alimentarius is
the result of a complex relationship between the United Nations, the
World Trade Organization (which has been authorized to enforce Codex
Alimentarius through trade sanctions), the World Health Organization
(which is actively creating Codex Alimentarius regulations), and our
American Food and Drug Administration. These are working closely with
industry representatives of the pesticide, chemical, pharmaceutical,
dairy, and biotechnology industries.
The origin of Codex-The United Nations established the Codex
Alimentarius Commission in 1963, to ensure clean, abundant food for
the planet and remove all barriers to international trade of that
food. At that time, the World Health Assembly approved the
establishment of the Joint FAO/WHO Program on Food Standards, to
promulgate standards for ratification by the Codex Alimentarius
Commission.
First discussed in 1988-The idea of controlling dietary supplements
was first openly discussed at the 1988 session of an EU-based Codex
committee, the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special
Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU). Through the following years, the EU
representative to that committee kept presenting the developing Food
Supplements Directive ideas as core elements of the Codex Guidlines.
The EU representative emphasized the fact that he was speaking on
behalf of 15 nations. This large EU block of "votes" in the CCNFSDU
and other Codex sessions helped him get what he wanted.
While this was unfolding, the U.S. initially protested the regulation
of dietary supplements, but gradually its opposition faded away. The
FDA-led U.S. delegation kept compromising-until finally it totally
yielded to the plan to essentially eliminate vitamins and herbs.
Throughout all those years, continuing up to the present time, the
chairman of that Codex Commission (currently Rolf Grossklaus, M.D.)
has always been a German.
Inside official Codex meetings-Health focused consumers, health
scientists, physicians, others practicing natural medicine, and other
health-focused voices have been absent either physically or
functionally from official Codex Alimentarius deliberations.
Unofficial observers may not speak during the sessions.
Members of delegations may not discuss standards and Codex-related
business with members of other delegations! A small number of trade
organizations have participated in Codex Alimentarius committees and
the Codex Alimentarius Commission; but their views have often
differed
sharply from those of health-focused professionals and consumers.
Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory structure takes
place outside of official sessions. And no health advocates have had
access to those secret meetings, agreements, and sessions.
How Codex committees operate-The Codex Alimentarius standards are
being promulgated by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was
established as a Trade Commission in 1963 by the United Nations (UN).
They concern every area having to do with the production, processing,
packaging and use of food, herbs, supplements, and food components.
There are about 20 Codex Alimentarius Committees. They prepare and
develop guidelines on every aspect of food and present those
guidelines to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for ratification, as
soon as those guidelines have reached "Step 8" of the guideline
development process.
Committees and the Commission operate through poorly defined
"consensus"; so actions of those bodies may not represent the will of
the delegates or even of the countries they represent. The decision
process is not a democratic one.
There have been instances in which delegates have been bodily removed
by security guards at the request of the chairman, if they persisted
in seeking discussion after the chairman has declared a matter
closed!
The various governments tolerate this, in the hope that the resulting
standards will increase profitable trade between the nations.
Trade organizations with strong publicly documented ties to the
pharmaceutical, chemical, and agricultural industries have a very
influential voice at these meetings.
There has been no effective representation from health advocates,
nutritional supplement manufacturers, natural health-care
professionals, or other non-pharmaceutically oriented group at the
Codex Alimentarius Commission meetings. The Commission meets every
two
years, always offshore (Rome, Bonn, Paris, etc.), and never in the
United States.
The U.S. representatives to the Commission have well-documented,
unwholesome connections to the very industries that stand to profit
and benefit from the wholesale implementation of the Codex standards.
Consumers have virtually no say at all; and consumers are the ones
who
are going to be affected by all the decisions that the Codex
Alimentarius Commission makes.
The governments of both India and South Africa have repeatedly
expressed their dissatisfaction with the foolish nutritional theories
of Codex and the restriction of nutrients and herbs. But they have
been regularly overrun, during meetings, by "consensus" tactics which
do not allow full discussion or debate on these crucial issues.
Standards on everything-Codex sets international standards for
everything from parmesan cheese to sweet cassava, canned sardines to
chicken meat, echinacea to rice. Each standard is ratified after
reaching "Step 8" in Committee.
The U.S. signed the GATT, SPS, and TBT-The United States is now
locked
in, because of certain treaties it earlier signed to join GATT
(General Agreement on Trade and Teriffs). More recently, the
Agreement
on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and
the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) were approved in
Europe. They are subsections of GATT. These are all international
treaty agreements.
As of July 1, 2005, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
is working its way through Congress; it has just been approved by a
House panel and the Senate Finance Committee (June 29). There are
nations in Central or South America which could use the SPS and TBT
provisions in CAFTA to pressure the U.S. to harmonize with the Codex
Guidelines.
When Codex became mandatory-Codex standards and guidelines were
voluntary; that is, each nation could obey or disobey them. But that
changed when the various nations signed new treaties at the Uruguay
Round of GATT; at which time the WTO [World Trade Organization] came
into existence. Because of what we signed at Uruguay, we are required
to obey the WTO.
The WTO has enforcement power through a new international court, the
Dispute Settlement Body, which does not follow our rules of evidence.
WTO placed corporations over nations-The WTO has put the mechanisms
in
place to override any national law that interferes with multinational
corporate profits. That is why Congressman Ron Paul tried to remove
us
from the WTO in 2000 via House Joint Resolution 90. But Congress
failed to enact it.
The NGOs-Many people, from all over the world, protested at the
non-governmental organization (NGO) meetings in Seattle, in 1999, and
Quebec City in 2001. They were already suffering from the dietary,
ecological, trade, fisheries, and other problems imposed through UN
trade agreements, which left them the poorer. The "NGOs" are the big
business cartels.
Codex is based neither on science nor democracy. Unelected government
officials, working in cooperation with industry and trade interests,
make decisions which become domestic and international standards,
when
enacted as law by the member states of the WTO.
When the WTO was created, the original purpose of Codex (to provide
clean food for the planet with no international barriers to the
movement of that food) was replaced by the interests of major
corporations-who had the money to pay off uncertain officials.
The U.S. has already had to yield to WTO-Several WTO rulings have
gone
against U.S. law, forcing Congress to change our law under threat of
cross-sector trade sanctions against broad sectors of our economy.
The
most recent and publicized of these was the situation regarding our
steel industry and tariffs. If they can force the U.S. to change
policy over such a vital national interest as our steel industry, the
dietary and herbal supplement industry will be easy to eliminate.
Every UN member nation involved-When the Codex rules for dietary
supplements become binding, the escape clause within GATT that
permits
a nation to set its own standards-will be overruled. This will apply
to all member countries of the UN. Any nation that does not accept
and
apply these new standards will be heavily fined by the World Trade
Organization, creating the potential for crippling entire sectors of
that nation's economy.
The primary targets were Europe, the United States, Canada,
Australia,
and New Zealand-which are the largest purchasers of drugs. (As of
this
writing, July 2005, all of the above-named nations have submitted to
Codex, except the U.S.)
The Codex ban on nutrients will ultimately include every UN member
nation. But, instead of calling it a "ban," the Codex Commission
calls
it a "positive list" of nutritional directives. ("Positive" means a
few very low-dosage vitamins and herbs are included, and everything
else is banned.)
The July 4-9, 2005, meeting-The new Codex Alimentarius, adopted in a
secret meeting in Europe in November 2004, is scheduled to be voted
on
at a meeting to be held July 4-9, 2005, in Rome. If approved, the ban
on nutrients will begin in Europe on August 1, 2005.
At that time, there will be final approval of new worldwide vitamin
guidelines that are expected to restrict availability of
nutrient-containing supplements to consumers the world over. The text
of the guidelines was finalized last November in Germany, by the
Codex
Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses.
These types of international regulations are elaborated without
public
input and even without the consent of national parliaments of the
participating countries.
Each country entrusts its vote to one person which will eventually
determine national laws as well, the head of the national Codex
delegation. And Codex delegations are typically headed by relatively
low-level administrative employees of national health ministries.
So we are having what amounts to international laws being developed
over the heads of and without input from national legislative
authorities, let alone the public that will face the consequences.
Democratic procedure has been officially abolished in the name of
globalizing the economy and "removing barriers to trade.
Theoretically, because the United States belongs to the World Trade
Organization (WTO), any changes approved in Europe automatically
become law in the United States, superseding our own laws; because,
as
mentioned earlier, treaties entered into by the U.S. take precedence
over applicable U.S. laws. As you can see, we are no longer a
sovereign nation. But there can be delays, as will be discussed
later.
"Harmonization"-or else. Before final ratification of the Vitamin and
Mineral Guidelines occurs in Rome on July 4-9, 2005, "harmonization"
by the U.S. is "voluntary"; but it can be enforced by WTO trade
sanctions. After ratification, compliance with Codex will be
mandatory; and enforcement by WTO trade sanctions is a powerful
threat
on its own to make sure that it is complied with properly. If that
were not bad enough, the SPSA requires domestic compliance with
ratified standards. That means that the U.S. will have to bring its
laws and standards down to those of Codex and keep them there!
Said to be impossible to fight the ban-If the U.S. fails to comply
with these changes, the WTO will initiate lawsuits against our
government. Our attorneys will not be able to win those cases in
court-because they are settled in an international court in Europe
which cares nothing about U.S. laws.
The only other alternative is for the U.S. to withdraw from the World
Trade Organization-and it fears to do that.
Coalition against Codex-A meeting of a group opposed to Codex (the
American Association for Health Freedom) met in Washington on April
22-23, 2005, in order to lay plans for keeping America from
submitting
to the ban. But whether this coalition of several dozen organizations
will accomplish anything is not known at this time.
Official AMA position-The American Medical Association (AMA) and
World
Medical Association (WMA) have gone on record as not favoring the
Codex ban. But whether or not that is a sincere position is not
clear.
There is no doubt that neither organization has done much, if
anything, to openly oppose Codex in the halls of Congress or in
Europe.
Why the July meeting is necessary-Paul Lasok, QC, an attorney that is
one of the world's leading experts on European Union law, presented
the case for preserving consumers' freedom of access to dietary
supplements. On January 25, 2005, in the European Court of Justice in
Luxembourg, Lasok argued on behalf of the UK-based Alliance for
Natural Health.
At issue was the so-called "positive list" of nutrient ingredients,
in
the Food Supplements Directive, which would be permitted to be
included in the manufacture of dietary supplements. That "list" had
excluded nearly all vitamins and herbs!
In June, the court issued a verdict favorable to Codex, permitting
the
"Positive List" to eliminate 75 percent of the forms of vitamins and
minerals currently used in the EU market.
The Codex Commission had to await the outcome of that lawsuit in the
Court of Justice, before it could grant final approval to the Food
Supplements Directive at the July 4-9 meeting in Rome.
U.S. leaning toward approval-On June 9, 2005, the U.S. Codex Office
held a public meeting to discuss agenda items coming before the July
Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome. Informal inquiries indicated
that the preliminary U.S. position on the Guidelines was to support
finalization.
Just issued-At the end of June, the U.S. Delegation to Codex issued a
formally written statement to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, that
the United States, during the July 4-9, 2005, meeting in Rome, will
support compulsory Codex rules created by this international
organization which directly overrule U.S. law regarding access to
vitamins. That does not mean automatic acceptance by the U.S. Senate
or Congress, but it is not far from it.
We have a controlled (or paid off) press-This Codex crisis is the
clearest proof the present writer has ever seen that it is true that
we have a "controlled press" in America! There is absolutely no
mention of the fact that America is hurtling toward the total loss of
vitamin and herbal supplementation in ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, BBC, or the
newspapers and newsmagazines! They are silenced by their desire to
not
offend the drug companies which provide them with millions of dollars
in drug ads.
Harm in harmonization-Through the process, called "harmonization,"
our
nation, our legislators in Washington will be required to bring
America into submission to Codex requirements-regulating
international
trade, distribution, and processing of food, herbs, and nutrients.
Those proposed standards will be extremely detrimental to the
environment, your health freedom, your health and your access to
clean
and unadulterated food.
Congress or Senate-It is not clear whether the entire Congress has to
approve this "harmonization" or if only the Senate will do that.
Because Codex is under the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the
GATT
agreement, Codex is actually part of our WTO and GATT agreements. The
U.S. Constitution requires that only the Senate enter into treaties
with foreign powers. But the WTO is a trade agreement, not a treaty.
At the present time, CAFTA, a trade agreement with Central America,
is
working its way through both houses of Congress.
Phase-in period-Once Codex is adopted by a nation via "harmonization"
(forced acceptance) or through the effects of the SPSA, there is a
"phase-in period" during which the administrative structure of
implementation is established according to a strict timetable.
Can this Codex attack be stopped?-There is no certainty about this.
An
English lawyer, named Anderson, considered to be a very capable
attorney in that nation, has agreed to fight the Codex in court
because he thinks he can win.
You should contact your Congressmen and Senators, and tell them how
you think they should vote. It is imperative that concerned natural
health consumers (and their patients, friends, relatives, suppliers,
people who shop in health-food stores and use clean food and
therapeutic doses of nutritional supplements, etc.) become fully
activated to stop Codex from being enacted in the United States.
Codex based on Napoleonic Code-It is important to note that Codex
Alimentarius operates under the Napoleonic legal code, under which
anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden!
In contrast to the Napoleonic legal code, the U.S. operates under the
Common Law code, under which anything not specifically forbidden is
permitted.
How standards are enforced-Once ratified, a standard can be enforced
in one of two ways:
(1) Domestic compliance is required by the Sanitary and Phytosanitary
Agreement (signed by the United States), in which Article 3 makes
domestic (internal) compliance mandatory with WTO accepted standards
(e.g. Codex Alimentarius).
Countries whose domestic law complies with Codex regulations are held
to be in automatic compliance with Codex Alimentarius for WTO Dispute
Resolution purposes.
(2) International trade sanctions may be applied to countries which,
by means of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Resolution
process, are found to be in violation of the Codex Alimentarius
Standards.
In the absence of any trade dispute, the WTO can charge a nation with
providing a hidden or overt barrier to trade (i.e. not meeting Codex
regulations) of foodstuffs; thus this would subject them to WTO trade
sanctions anyway.
Also an EU country can file a trade dispute with the WTO against the
U.S. The WTO Dispute Settlement Panel would compare the restrictive
Codex Guidelines against the lenient U.S. pattern.
All this may seem very technical; and it is. Yet its complicated
machinery is being used to bring millions of people under the control
of a few men.
Codex uses WTO Trade Sanctions to override national laws. As
mentioned
earlier, on October 11, 1997, the FDA issued a policy statement in
the
United States Federal Register, which stated that our nation would
accept international standards, whether completed or nearing
completion, in preference to domestic standards.
This laid the ground work for the replacement of our domestic laws
and
standards, by those of Codex; yet our domestic laws and standards are
far higher than those of Codex! Actually, the standards set by Codex
are dangerously low. This is because Codex standards are set by the
various corporations and industries, so they can make more money.
This replacement would take place despite the will of the American
people, as expressed through the laws passed by their elected
representatives to keep their food safe and their supplements
available.
Codex Alimentarius, although lacking the force of law, is a set of
regulations which can be enforced by trade sanctions of the WTO; and
the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement (SPSA) can compel compliance
with its rules in virtually every country of the world-through nation
membership in the WTO.
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