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Codex Threatens Health of Billions
Thursday, July 30, 2009 by: Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor
http://www.naturalnews.com/026731_CODEX_food_health.html(NaturalNews) Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your
choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in
the dark about the coming nutricide. Codex Alimentarius is scheduled for
full global implementation on December 31, 2009, and not a word has been
spoken in main stream media about this threat to humanity. Yet, according to
the projections based on figures from the World Health Organization (WHO)
and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a minimum of 3 billion
people will die from the Codex mandated vitamin and mineral guideline alone.Former Nazi is father of contemporary Codex
Codex is the enemy of everyone except those who will profit from it. Codex
has an association with those who committed crimes during the Nazi regime.
At the end of World War II, the Nuremberg tribunal judged Nazis who had
committed horrendous crimes against humanity and sentenced them to prison
terms. One of those found guilty was the president of the megalithic
corporation I.G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. His company was the largest
chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, and had extraordinary
political and economic power and influence with the Hitlerian Nazi state.
Farben produced the gas used in the Nazi gas chambers, and the steel for the
railroads built to transport people to their deaths.While serving his prison term, Schmitz looked for an alternative to brute
force for controlling people and realized that people could be controlled
through their food supply. When he got out of prison, he went to his friends
at the United Nations (UN) and laid out a plan to take over the control of
food worldwide. A trade commission called Codex Alimentarius (Latin for food
code) was re-created under the guise of it being a consumer protection
commission. But Codex was never in the business of protecting people. It has
always been about money and profits at the expense of people.In 1962, the timetable was set for Codex to be fully implemented on a global
level by December 31, 2009. Under Codex, committees were established to
create guidelines on such topics as fish and fisheries, fats and oils,
fruits and vegetables, ground nuts, nutrition, food for specialized uses,
and vitamins and minerals. There were 27 committees in all, creating a huge
bureaucracy. Under Codex there are over 4,000 guidelines and regulations on
everything that can be put into your mouth with the exception of
pharmaceuticals which are not regulated by Codex.Codex is a weapon being used to reduce the level of nutrition worldwide
Codex is an industry dominated regulation setting organization, and as such
has no legal standing. Participation in Codex is said to be voluntary. But
Codex has risen to the level of de facto legal standing because Codex is
administered by the WHO and FAO. They fund it and run it at the request of
the UN. Since the WHO and FAO are supposed to be about health, there is
conflict of interest. The committees of Codex work up guidelines, rules and
regulations, and present them to a Codex commission for ratification. Once
they are ratified and approved by consensus, they become mandatory standards
for any country that is a member of the WHO.Codex was accepted when the WTO was formed in 1994 as a means of harmonizing
food standards globally for easy trade between countries. As a result,
countries must harmonize with Codex if they want to have any standing in a
trade dispute. When disputes arise and countries are pulled in to WTO, the
one that is Codex compliant automatically wins, regardless of the merits of
its case.Codex has become a weapon to make every nation scurry to become compliant to
its mandated decline in nutritional standards. Compliance in the U.S. will
mark the end of its consumer protection laws. Codex will not serve
consumers. Codex will serve the interests of the medical, pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, chemical, and big agricultural industries.Under Codex, nutrients are classified as poisons
The Dietary Substances Health and Education Act (DSHEA), was signed into law
in 1994 for the purpose of ensuring that safe and appropriately labeled
products would remain available to those who wanted to use them. In the
findings associated with this law, Congress stated that there may be a
positive relationship between sound dietary practice and good health, and a
connection between dietary supplement use, reduced health-care expenses, and
disease prevention. Under DSHEA, nutrients and herbs are classified as food.
There is no upper limit set, and access is freely given. Americans are
allowed to have any nutrients they want, because under English common law,
anything that is not expressly forbidden is permitted.Codex, on the other hand, is based on Napoleonic law and is much more
restrictive. In 1994, the same year DSHEA was signed, Codex had nutrients
declared to be toxic and poisonous. And as poisons, they claimed people must
be protected from them through the use of toxicology and risk assessment,
under which scientists test small doses on animals until they are able to
discern an impact. They then take the first sign of the most minimal impact
and divide this amount by 100 to establish a safety margin required from
these poisons. This means that the largest dose of any nutrient allowed
under Codex is 1/100th of the amount shown to produce the first discernable
impact.Nutrients allowed under Codex are limited to those on the positive list,
expected to contain only 18 nutrients, one of them being fluoride. Although
fluoride has no biological benefit whatsoever, it does make people
complacent.The Codex proponents now have several bills before Congress designed to
overturn and get rid of DSHEA. Once this is accomplished, the U.S. will have
been harmonized with the vitamin and mineral guidelines of codex. High
potency, therapeutically effective, significant nutrients will then be
illegal in the way that heroin is illegal. They will not even be available
by prescription.Codex supports toxic food additives, pesticides and GM foods
Codex poses a significant threat to the food supply, according to Dr. Robert
Verkerk, founder and director of the Alliance for Natural Health. About 300
dangerous food additives that are mainly synthetic will be allowed under
Codex, including aspartame, BHA, BHT, potassium bromate, tartrazine, and
more. Dr. Verkerk is particularly concerned that no consideration has been
given to potential risks associated with long-term exposure to mixtures of
additives.Codex sets limits for the dangerous industrial chemicals that can be used in
food, but they are incredibly high, and the list of chemicals that can be
used is long. In 2001, 176 countries including the U.S. got together and
decided that 12 highly toxic organic chemicals, known as persistent organic
pollutants (POPS), were so bad that they had to be banned. There are many
more than 12 toxic chemicals used on food, but these 12 were unanimously
declared to be the worst. Of these, 9 are pesticides.Under Codex, 7 of the 9 forbidden POPS will again be allowed in the
production of food. All together, Codex allows over 3,275 different
pesticides, including those that are suspected carcinogens or endocrine
disrupters. There is no consideration of the long-term effects of exposure
to mixtures of pesticide residues in food.Organic food governance will be dumbed down to suit the interests of large
food producers. Various synthetic chemical additives and processing aids
will be allowed, and food labeled as organic may be irradiated. Labeling
will permit the use of hidden, non-organic ingredients.Monsanto, a member of Codex, will benefit greatly as production of
genetically modified (GM) foods are stepped up and more GM plants are given
the green light. Terminator seeds will be approved for international trade.
GM food animals will also be on the way.Under Codex, every dairy animal can be treated with growth hormone, and all
animals in the food chain will be treated with sub-clinical levels of
antibiotics. Codex will lead to the required irradiation of all foods with
the exception of those grown locally and sold raw.Codex is food regulations that are in fact the legalization of mandated
toxicity and under-nutrition. Of the 3 billion people initially expected to
die as the result of the Codex vitamin and mineral guidelines, 2 billion of
them will die from the preventable diseases that result from
under-nutrition, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many
others. Those who will live will be the wealthy elites who are able to
somehow provide themselves with sources of clean food and other nutrients.Codex is legalized genocide
Dr. Gregory Damato, Ph.D., writing for Natural News, has characterized Codex
as “population control for money”. He sees Codex as run by the U.S. and
controlled by the big pharmaceutical corporations and the likes of Monsanto
with the purpose of reducing the population of the world to a level
considered sustainable by those promulgating the New World Order. This would
mean a reduction of approximately 93 percent of the current world
population.Once Codex standards are adopted there will be no turning back. When Codex
compliance is instigated in any area, as long as the country remains a
member of the WTO, those standards cannot be repealed, or altered in any
way.The time for modifying Codex guidelines is rapidly disappearing
Some hope remains. Over the years, the WTO has accepted Codex standards as
presumptive evidence of the rules of trade between countries. However,
several times in history, the WTO has refused to make Codex the single and
only standard to be used in trade disputes. Under Codex`s own statutes,
their guidelines are claimed to be “advisory”, and nations are able to set
up their own guidelines as long as they are more restrictive than those of
Codex.Since compliance with Codex standards is simply presumptive evidence, and
not finally determinative, a nation can opt out of the guidelines in an
effort to protect its traditional foods and remedies. The Codex two step
process is a legal strategy developed to help nations wanting to do this.
Under step one, the country develops its own food and health guidelines that
may be at variance with Codex guidelines. For example, it may be much
stricter on the issues of toxins in the food supply or on the issue of
genetically modified foods. It may require, for example, that companies
using GM ingredients be required to indicate them on food labels. In
countries that refuse to use GM foods, this can be indicated on their label
too, so that people can make informed choices. The second step is to adopt a
national law that implements those guidelines on a sound scientific basis.Normally, in a trade dispute before the WTO, the country that has adopted
Codex guidelines will be the winner of that dispute based on those
guidelines being presumptive evidence. However, when countries have gone
through the two step process to create their own guidelines, there is no
such presumption, and the WTO will look at the science behind the
guidelines.In the U.S. the door is open to Codex
In 1995, the FDA issued a policy statement saying that international
standards such as Codex would supersede U.S. laws governing all food. Under
the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which is illegal under current
U.S. law, but is legal under international law, the U.S. is required to
conform to Codex as it stands on December 31, 2009, unless it creates its
own guidelines and gets them approved under the two step process. Given
current government sentiment, this seems unlikely. Besides, as guidelines
are one-by-one chiseled into standards, time is running out.For more information:
The article cited above has too much stridency and paranoia to be taken seriously. Come on. Why bring up Nazis and link it to food and claim 3 Billion people will die as a result? The article becomes cartoonish in the picture it paints. If it wanted to be taken seriously, it would have discussed things in a more balanced, even-tempered manner.
Even Wikipedia has a better and more level-headed discussion on the matter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_AlimentariusThe controversy over the Codex Alimentarius relates to a perception that it is a mandatory standard for food – including vitamin and mineral supplement – safety. Supporters of the Codex Alimentarius say that it is a voluntary reference standard for food and that there is no obligation on countries to adopt Codex standards as a member of either Codex or any other international trade organization. From the point of view of its opponents, however, one of the main causes of concern is that the Codex Alimentarius is recognized by the World Trade Organization as an international reference standard for the resolution of disputes concerning food safety and consumer protection.[2][4]. Proponents argue that the use of Codex Alimentarius during international disputes does not exclude the use of other references or scientific studies as evidence of food safety and consumer protection. Nevertheless, although countries are not excluded from using other references or scientific studies as evidence of food safety and consumer protection, opponents claim that developing countries in particular are unlikely to have alternative references.[citation needed]
Much of the controversy relates to the way in which the Codex Alimentarius treats vitamin and mineral food supplements. Some countries categorize vitamin and mineral supplements as a food. Others, however, categorize them as drugs. Meanwhile, some countries, such as Canada, have created separate non-drug categories for these products. Opponents of the Codex Alimentarius Commission claim that it is unduly influenced by pharmaceutical companies, and that its guidelines for vitamin and mineral food supplements are unnecessarily restrictive.
It is reported that in 1996 the German delegation put forward a proposal that no herb, vitamin or mineral should be sold for preventive or therapeutic reasons, and that supplements should be reclassified as drugs.[5] The proposal was agreed, but protests halted its implementation.[5] The 28th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission was subsequently held July 4 – July 9, 2005.[6] Among the many issues discussed were the “Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements”[7], which were adopted during the meeting as new global safety guidelines.[8] This text has been the subject of considerable controversy, in part because many member countries may choose to regulate dietary supplements as therapeutic goods or pharmaceuticals or by some other category. The text does not seek to ban supplements, but subjects them to labeling and packaging requirements, sets criteria for the setting of maximum and minimum dosage levels, and requires that safety and efficacy are considered when determining ingredient sources. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) have stated that the guidelines are “to stop consumers overdosing on vitamin and mineral food supplements.” The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has said that the guidelines call “for labelling that contains information on maximum consumption levels of vitamin and mineral food supplements.” The WHO has also said that the Guidelines “ensure that consumers receive beneficial health effects from vitamins and minerals.” [9]
Similarities have been noted between the EU’s Food Supplements Directive and the Codex Alimentarius Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements.[10]
Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul has said that the Central American Free Trade Agreement “increases the possibility that Codex regulations will be imposed on the American public.” [11]I seriously doubt that it will ban supplements. There is too much established prior law and history about this (at least in the U.S.)
As a guideline, that is all it is. A guideline.
People will still be able to take what they want.
For example: Prescription strength Folic Acid is 1000 mcg per tablet. Supplement strength Folic Acid is 800 mcg per tablet. There will be no one to stop a person from taking two supplement strength Folic Acids to obtain a 1600 mcg dose.
No one can stop your from taking more pills even if the dose is smaller than prescription strength.
This is true even of Prescription strength versus over-the-counter medications.
Prescription strength Ibuprofen is 800 mg per tablet. Over-the-counter Ibuprofen is 400 mg per tablet. What over-the-counter prescription strength Ibuprofen? Take two pills.
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