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Codex Alimentarius Was Founded In 1962 By The UN To Establish International Free Trade Foods
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Codex Alimentarius - HealthFreedomUSA.com Website
In-Depth Codex Alimentarius Information
Codex 101 - A Crash Course
About Codex Alimentarius:
Who is Behind Codex Alimentarius?
Codex Alimentarius is Unscientific
How Codex is Formulated and Imposed on Nations
Codex Alimentarius and the Napoleonic Code
World Health Organization Chastises Codex
Consequences:
Consequences for Human and Environmental Health
How Codex Alimentarius Promotes Dangerous GMOs
How Codex Alimentarius Promotes Pesticides
Codex Alimentarius Violates Liberty
Protecting Health Freedom from Codex Alimentarius:
What is Health Freedom?
Legal Action Via Citizen’s Petition
Facilitating Grass-Roots Activism
Blogging: News & Analysis
Other Documents:
An Open Letter on Codex
Exposing Codex Alimentarius Truth for Congress
Additional Material
Take Action

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Codex Crash Course

Codex Alimentarius was founded in 1962 by the UN to establish international free trade foods. It is jointly administered by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) through annual and regional meetings.

Codex sets advisory standards and guidelines which nations may adopt or modify. If they modify them without special protections, nations may be found guilty of setting up trade barriers by the World Trade Organization (WTO), and be assessed crippling financial penalties. If, on the other hand, countries deviate from Codex texts by creating a scientifically strong alternative guideline or standard, and pass enabling legislation (a process we refer to as "The Codex Two Step") they are free to deviate from Codex without being found guilty of creating barriers to trade. WTO has repeatedly refused to grant Codex a unique position as THE international food code, saying it is one of several such standards.

Codex decisions are, however, often perceived as inevitable by many developing nations which are not aware of the flexibility to protect the health of their people through the Two Step Process.

Codex' decisions are heavily influenced by the desires of multinational special interest groups who send representatives to sit on national committees and as NGO delegates. Because Codex is so heavily influenced by corporate interests, its decisions are, in our opinion, often helpful to corporate well-being but strikingly detrimental to human and einviromental health.

Codex pertains to every bite - and kind of - food traded internationally and allows high doses of pesticides, veterinary drugs, synthetic hormones, contaminants, artificial sweeteners, and other dangerous compounds and processes (like mandated irradiation of food) while it forbids health claims for food.

Natural Solutions Foundation has identified the Problem: Codex and its web of influences. We have generated the Reaction: hundreds of thousands of voting consumers contacting the FDA or Congress through our web site, demanding their rights. And we offer the Solution: the Natural Solutions Program, including our Codex 2 Step - how countries can opt out.

Government Watch

This is NSF's Government Watch page. First... the FDA. Don't turn your back! You can never tell what the FDA might do next... It is true, though, in response to your hundreds of thousands of complaints to the FDA early in '07 about their infamous anti-CAM (complementary and alternative "medicine") guidance, the bureaucrat who wrote the guidance told one interviewer, "I am not Darth Vadar..." -- we were so relieved! So we do really need to keep a watch on FDA, and Codex and the USDA, North American Union, etc., etc... Our esteemed Foundation President, Gen. Bert Stubblebine, asked me to keep up with this section of the website and I am happy to do so. We've decided to link this page to my blog as an easy way to update you, since the Vitamin Lawyer Health Freedom Blog keeps a watch on the actions of the various agencies that think they know more about your health needs than you... http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com

And of course, you can access Dr. Laibow's blog, which often covers her attendance at Codex and similar meetings, at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php/index.php?page_id=219 Thanks for stopping by and checking our blogs! Second... Forced Drugging and Compulsory Vaccination.We know you consider forced drugging, especially when it involves children and vaccinations, to be as important an issue for us as the Codex issue. We've established a Yahoo!Group Forum to mobilize support to finally stop all compulsory vaccination. It's a new group and what happens with it depends on all of you... please join if you want to be especially active on this issue. We will continue to inform the eAlert list of vaccination developments, but the Forum will coordinate netroots (that's Internet grassroots...) activities to protect our children... and all of us! Join here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/no-forced-vaccination/join

Yours for Health and Freedom, Ralph Fucetola JD NSF Trustee

Stop Compulsory Vaccination and Drugging!

* You and your organization can sign the Tiburon Declaration to Stop Forced Vaccination and Drugging.

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* Story: My Name is Camille Milke. I lost my daughter to suicide 30 days ago, she was the victim of suicide-causing anti-depressants. (More)

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In early 2008 you will be able to download a State by State Vaccination Exemption Handbook with forms, information on your State's vaccine exemption policy and requirments for exemptions in your State. If you prefer a hard copy, you will be able to order that, too. You can use it to protect yourself and your family from the increasing threat of compulsory drugs and vaccinations.

If you make a tax deductible donation of a minimum of $150 before December 31, 2007 we will send you a coupon for free access to the electronic version of this indispensible guide to your health freedom. After that date, the cost of the eBook will be $75 and the hard copy will be $250."

The Art of Health Freedom

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Please write to us and tell us about your health freedom threats and the creative ways you've responded. Have an instructive story? Have a photo? Maybe even a Youtube video?

We're going to start collecting your stories and when we have enough we'll post them on a section of our website. Of course, we'll keep it strictly confidential and anonymous if that's what you'd like.
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Stories

* "Dear Dr. Laibow, I heard last night at the Ron Paul Rally here in Missoula, MT that the Codex initiative was in the CAFTA agreement and has already been decided. Is this possible?" (More)

* "Dear Gen. Stubbelbine and Dr. Laibow, We admire the work you are doing for the people of the world. Big Pharma and Big Business does not give a hoot about the common person. My wife and I have known this for about 60 years. We have been into the natural since 1955. We have seen the growth of the movement from zero to about 2-5% of the population that it is now. Many of our friends are organic and use no medications at all. We raise ALL OF OUR FOOD and trust no one but locals that we know to help us and raise our own. ORGANIC has been watered down now to mean use only approved insecticide and herbicides. What a joke. Big business wins again. All of us here in Kansas(small farmers) are hanging in by the skin of our teeth. We all have to work at extra jobs and work long hours to even stay on the farm. Al Gore stated that there should be only approximately 1.4 billion living on the planet. Sounds ominous. Go get them folks. make a noise to educate the masses of uninformed and drugged populace. there is hope for some.. Good Luck, Dr.Bill Reed and Dr. Gerri Klegin. retired except for farming to stay alive.. age 100. We cannot travel or we would be right there with you working for the good of our country.- world. dpaul"

* Here's a correspondence between a health freedom advocate and her Congressman, Chris Cannon. Once she sent her comment to ask him to oppose the dangerous and unwise "Mothers' Act" which mandates screening and possible medication for pregnant women and nursing or other new mothers with drugs that can be dangerous to the baby AND to the mother, she got a letter back from the Congressman. But she did not stop there. She wrote a well reasoned and cogent letter back to him telling him about her concerns... (More)

* My Name is Camille Milke. I lost my daughter to suicide 30 days ago, she was the victim of suicide-causing anti-depressants... (More)

* I was in NYC walking down Madison Avenue when I passed a building where there were several armed police who looked they were part of a swat team standing with machine guns on the sidewalk... (More)

Grassroots Center

Part 1 of Codex Home Presentation Training Video by June Trezza

You can view Part 2 on YouTube.
Community Organizing Ebook

The Mission of the Natural Solutions Foundation is to discover, develop, demonstrate and disseminate natural solutions to the problems facing us and threatening our health and freedom. To do that, we need your help.

Thank you for considering the option of becoming a local community organizer for Natural Solutions! Without local organizers and grass roots, our work would not have meaning. Local organization provides the cornerstone of our ability to speak power to truth, and be heard while we do it. The more effective your local organizational efforts are, the more effective our battle for health freedom is. It really is up to us all-- and having you as our community organizer in your area is something we appreciate greatly. Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time for support, ideas, connections or information about what others are doing to support health freedom in their communities.

As a community organizer, you will receive a helpful Community Organizing eBook which covers the following topics:

Index
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The information in this eBook is highly informative and useful and is designed with the community organizer in mind.

What is the secret of Community Organizing? Persistence! Keep up with our Health Freedom eAlerts and the Health Freedom Blog on our web site… and, of course, learning how to use the new media means of communication. You are the "net-roots" of Health Freedom and we appreciate your efforts!

Please reply to this posting to let us know that you would like to become a community organizer and we will make sure you get a copy of the Organizer's Hand eBook.

Please send us your name, address, mailing address, emailing address, website address, phone number, fax number, cell phone number, and some information about your experience (if any) and plans and we will send you the eBook. As your group grows, we can arrange for SKYPE connection with your group so that current situations and plans can be discussed and questions can be answered, 'live'! When Dr. Rima does a SKYPE presentation, it is as though she is in the room! If you have any questions at any time, email me at Kath...@usa.net or call me at 973-300-4594!

Sincerely,
Kathy Greene
For Dr. Laibow
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Codex Alimentarius Summarized in 7 Points

HealthFreedomUSA.org, the website of the Natural Solutions Foundation, is beholden to no one: our only interest is health freedom. Rima E. Laibow, MD, successful natural medicine physician since the 1970s, has studied 16,000 pages of Codex documentation. Her conclusion is that people who say that Codex is “consumer protection”, “voluntary”, or “harmless” are, at best, seriously mistaken.

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.

3) Not Consumer Protection - That’s Propaganda

Contrary to the propaganda, Codex Alimentarius has nothing to do with consumer protection. Nothing! Codex is about the economic ambitions of multi-national corporations, in particular, the pharmaceutical industry.

Using their multi billion-dollar marketing budgets, these industries have launched a massive media propaganda campaign to paint Codex Alimentarius as a benevolent tool of “consumer protection”, as well as to negatively taint the image of natural health options and mislead people to fear them as “dangerous”, so they will take drugs (which really are dangerous). Natural health products and options have an amazing safety record and are remarkably effective, especially when compared to pharmaceutical drugs.

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®).

4) Codex: Serious Threat to Health and Health Freedom

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.

Here’s how it would work, in a nut-shell:

Due to the junk science use of Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess supposedly toxic nutrients, a false belief is being engineered saying that “nutritional supplements are dangerous to people’s health”.

Using this false belief generates calls to “protect” people from these “toxic” nutrients. After the calls come the bills to set ultra low permissible dosages (remember, nutrients are deemed “dangerous toxins” under this false belief). If enough of us and our Congressional delegates buy this nonsense, we and Congress would blindly comply with Codex Alimentarius’ VMG. And blind compliance is what the industries behind Codex Alimentarius intend.

Blind compliance goes hand-in-hand with lack of activism. This lack of activism allows our protective laws, classifying nutrients as foods with no upper limits (such as DSHEA), to be easily repealed and replaced with draconian laws to classify nutrients as toxins. And “harmonization” with the pro-illness, pro-pharmaceutical industry Vitamin and Mineral Guideline is there to fill the void.

Only intentionally ineffective, ultra low dose supplements would be legal, with or without a prescription, on the VMG list. If enough people do not take action, we can expect to watch nutritional supplement manufacturers and, thus health food stores, to go out of business, in a domino effect. The only player left standing would be Big Pharma.

Therapeutic grade vitamins, minerals, and amino acids would be eliminated from the marketplace (although a few low-dose supplements would be allowed by Codex, as a symbolic measure to avoid suspicion about their ulterior motive).

Natural health professionals would lose the tools of their trade (nutritional supplements) and health conscious people would be unable to choose natural health options for health promotion and disease treatment.

And that is, in a nutshell, how Codex Alimentarius is poised to make Natural and Nutritional Medicine (NNM) disappear from the legal health world and go underground. Who benefits? Big Pharma.

It would take a few years for the above scenarios to be feasible (Codex Alimentarius is meant to go into full global effect by 2010). The slower the process takes, the less alarmed people will be. That’s probably the logic of the architects of Codex Alimentarius.

5) Serves Economic Interests of Sickness Industries Through WTO and Napoleonic Code

More and more people are turning to natural health products globally. The “wellness” trend is a major trend in today’s society. The more natural health products people use, the fewer drugs they buy. The pharmaceutical industry, which is part of the “Sickness Industry”, fears the inevitable shift toward natural health care.

Instead of accepting the will of the people and rethinking the future of the pharmaceutical industry, the industry has decided upon an unethical course of action: the use of deception and deceit to eliminate natural health products completely.

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.

Codex Alimentarius is the resistance of the dinosaurs to inevitability: the burgeoning desire of humanity for a healthier, saner, and more sustainable way of life.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) intends to force Codex Alimentarius upon the nations of the world, including the U.S. This would be done under the threat of massive economic sanctions if WTO-countries do not comply with Codex Alimentarius.

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.

6) DSHEA Protects America From Codex Alimentarius

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.

DSHEA appropriately classifies nutritional supplements as foods which can have no upper limits set on their use. DSHEA recognizes that people use nutrients safely to deal with their individually differing needs for nutrients. The concept of biochemical individuality means that people have different needs for nutrients at different times. Are nutrients toxins? No, they are not toxins. They are substances essential to prevent, treat and cure any chronic condition, in differing doses at different times in different people.

DSHEA protects the US from Codex Alimentarius’ deadly Vitamin and Mineral Guideline. We must reach our Congressional members, educate them about the facts on Codex Alimentarius and direct them to vote against anything that would threaten DSHEA.

Congress holds the keys to our health freedom. And it is their job to listen to us. Let’s not allow cynicism to tell us otherwise. We did it for DSHEA in 1994. We can do it again this year.

7) Your Action is Needed Now!

DSHEA is under significant legislative attack right now. Your letter-writing is crucial: if the members of Congress know that voting against health freedom means losing their jobs come election time, they will listen. Our job is to make sure they get the message loud and clear. Take action via our 3 easy steps and send personalized emails to Congress right now.

After taking action on HealthFreedomUSA.org, consider getting together with others in your area and visit your Congressional members in their home offices. If we wait, we lose our health freedoms. Once we “HARMonize” with Codex, by the way, we no longer have the right, while we belong to the WTO, to repeal or change that “HARMonization”!

Conclusion

The objective of the pro-Codex Alimentarius multi nationals is to “boil the frog slowly” so that we do not wake up to it in time to avoid Codex.

Once we have “HARMonize” to Codex Alimentarius, as long as we are in the WTO, we cannot amend or change what we’ve been “HARMonize” to.

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.

If you would like more in-depth information about Codex Alimentarius before taking action, please click here.

DID YOU KNOW:

The Natural Solutions Foundation established and continues to maintain an extensive Health Freedom web site and the largest email list in the health freedom movement, with several hundred thousand "Mouse Warriors" ready to send messages to Congress, the FDA and other agencies, "at the drop of a mouse..." - we communicate with this list with regular, informative eblasts and personal responses from Dr. Rima's assistant Kathy.

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Open Letter on CODEX (May 23, 2005)

By Rima E. Laibow, M.D., Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation

Dear Reader,

Each of us is deluged daily with so much information that we are forced to choose quickly between what deserves our attention and what to throw in the circular file. This is a long letter with a great deal of detail in it. I implore you to read it because your health freedom and your health, depend on what this letter is about to tell you!

No doubt you have received as many rambling, lengthy, semi-incoherent emails about CODEX ALIMENTARIUS as I have. I have deleted more of them than I can count that were either too alarming or too complacent in nature and simply lacked credibility. Now, let me ask you if you know anyone who has actually read more than 16,000 pages of the working documents of the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission?

Well, I have.

As such, allow me to attempt to put an end to any confusion you may have about CODEX ALIMENTARIUS by sharing what I have learned and what I believe to be a reasonable and appropriate level of concern.

What’s the bottom line for a healthcare professional practicing alternative, nutritional, natural, or environmental healthcare? The World Trade Organization (WTO) (and the agreements we signed as part of our membership) stands poised to take away your right to chose health options guided by common sense, science and your personal preferences and choices!

Through the Orwellian process of “HARMonization” (forced alignment) with WTO standards regulating international trade, distribution, and processing of food, herbs, and nutrients, your personal health rights and options would be eliminated within the next few years. Your rights to use whatever type of medicine you choose, whether natural or pharmaceutical, would be eliminated! The proposed standards are extremely detrimental to the environment, your health freedom, your health and your access to clean and unadulterated food.

Okay. I saw that one eyebrow go up and heard that deep sigh. Let me tell you that alarmism is not, and never has been, in my nature. I am a medical doctor, have a wide variety of interests, am passionate about healthcare freedom, and pride myself in my rational thinking and logic skills. I floss my teeth regularly and eat a nutrient-dense whole foods diet and, yes, occasionally sample the more decadent side of the culinary arts. Neither my family nor I had a bomb shelter during the Cold War era and I did not withdraw from society or stock up on gasoline, food, or batteries in anticipation of Y2K. Read on.

CODEX is based neither on science nor democracy. Unelected bureaucrats, operating at the behest of industry and trade interests, not public health, make decisions which become domestic and international standards when enacted as law by the member states of the WTO. These standards represent the ultimate triumph of greed over good science, good sense, good health and good intent. Carolyn Dean, M.D., points out that in 1995, 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 industry interests [1]. The deadly results are clear in what you are about to read.

Your rights to chose natural health options such as therapeutically effective dietary supplements, unadulterated foods with minimal pesticide and toxic residues and other natural treatments are about to be converted into crimes in the United States by a draconian set of international regulations. These regulations, called CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, have already been translated into law (via the European Food Supplements Directive) in the European Union (EU). Through “HARMonization” with CODEX via the Trans-Tasman Agreement, Australia and New Zealand have been “HARMonized” with CODEX and Canada has achieved the same status indirectly by “HARMonizing” with the Trans-Tasman Agreement [2] [3] [4] [5] rather than with CODEX itself. The net result, however, is the same HARM through “HARMonization” with CODEX.

The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS standards, (from the Latin for “Food Rules”) are being promulgated by the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission [established as a Trade Commission in 1963 by the United Nations (UN)] concerning every area having to do with the production, processing, packaging and use of food, herbs, supplements and food components.

Think it can’t happen here?

Think again. There is a world-wide push for “HARMonization” to eliminate clean food, nutritional supplements, therapeutic vitamins and other natural health choices [6]. It can and it will, unless we, the people of the United States take appropriate action and activate each member in our personal and professional networks. Skillful disinformation would have you believe that CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (hereafter referred to as CODEX) is a hoax and that, at the same time, it is beneficial for you and your patients. The inherent illogic of this position is obvious to the discerning reader [7] [8] [9] [10].

We hardly need to be protected from safe and effective natural healing tools. Instead, pharmaceuticals, the third largest killer in America WHEN PROPERLY USED [11], would be our only options. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is the triumph of pharmaceutical greed: when our food has been poisoned and we and our children are dying in huge numbers of the diseases of toxicity and undernutrition, will pharmaceutical medicine help then?

Natural medicine remains the best prevention, treatment and cure for chronic disease. CODEX eliminates that option.

The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission was empowered to work with other UN-linked organizations in order to develop and promulgate uniform world-wide standards for food, nutrition and agriculture. The WTO, successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), is empowered to enforce global compliance with all CODEX standards via trade sanctions across the entire economic spectrum. Member nations (read “the United States”) agreed, upon signing the WTO treaty, to always allow the standards and regulations of the WTO to supersede (take precedence over) national standards, laws, and regulations.

Despite what you may hear to the contrary, because of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement (SPSA) [12] , once accepted, CODEX guidelines and regulations take on the force of law in each member nation of the WTO - and that includes the U.S. and cannot be repealed or changed by the WTO member nations. This means that once the U.S. is “HARMonized” [13] with CODEX, despite what you are being told, the Dietary Supplements Health Education Act (DSHEA), 1994, no longer governs the U.S. position on nutrients: CODEX does!

Presenting itself as a consumer protection strategy, CODEX policies masquerade as benign and beneficial while, in reality, they are neither. Given the medically and environmentally horrific stipulations and requirements of CODEX, the implementation of these “standards” would result in incalculable harm to the healing arts and to the patients who depend on them.

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 time-table. Bear in mind that in the United States, nutrients are currently classified as foods and so have no upper limits [under the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA)] and that any substance not explicitly forbidden is permitted as a nutrient in the United States. Under CODEX, any substance and any dosage not explicitly permitted by CODEX policy is banned as a nutrient. The difference is of major importance to Health Freedom. DHSEA is good for health freedom. CODEX is bad (very bad) for health freedom.

CODEX eliminates the possibility that supplements and nutrients may be used to prevent, treat or cure any disorder [14]. In fact, the EU observer of the CODEX Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CNFSDU) stated in the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting, 2003, that “food and the prevention of diseases do not go together.” He was supported by the Chairman of CNFSDU, who said that drugs are to mitigate and prevent diseases, and that the role of food supplements is to support the diet [15].

Yet, more than 80 percent of Americans use supplements specifically to prevent, treat and cure diseases and conditions. Nutritional and environmental physicians, naturopaths, nutritionists, chiropractors and other licensed health professionals employ hundreds of natural minerals, supplements, and herbs precisely because they are effective in preventing, treating and curing many diseases and chronic, degenerative conditions.

Consumers make choices in natural health to the tune of $20 Billion per year in the United States for supplements alone. Do we really want a democratically unaccountable trade organization to tell us that we cannot make those choices any longer?Dr. Wong Ang Peng, who was present at the November, 2003 CODEX Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), wrote:

“We, the people of the world have entrusted WHO, FAO, and CODEX ALIMENTARIUS to regulate on health measures, to protect our health. If only the people knew…. CODEX is not about health, it is about wealth. CODEX is not for public interest, it is for industrial interest. It was super sold out. It was super hypocrisy.” [16] [emphasis added].

Natural health options, starting with therapeutically effective vitamins, minerals and nutrients would become illegal in the U.S.:

1. If the United States is “HARMonized” with CODEX ALIMENTARIUS this spring/summer while compliance with CODEX is still “voluntary,” or

2. When compliance with CODEX becomes mandatory if the Vitamin and Mineral Standard is ratified as expected at the next CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting, Rome, July 4-9, 2005. Other nutrients would quickly follow into oblivion according to the stated intentions of the EU delegate and CNFSDU chairman at that same meeting [17].

If the European Food Supplements Directive (EFSD) is any guide (and it has been described by the Chairman of the Committee on Nutrients and Food for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), Rolf Grossklaus, M.D., as “the future face of CODEX”), nutrients, inappropriately classified as toxic chemicals, are permitted only at dosages

1. No higher than that found in food and
2. So low as to have no biological effect on even the most sensitive human being.

That is the consequence of using “risk assessment” science, designed for toxic substances, to determine nutrient levels. Nutrients are non-toxic, are foods and thus have no safe upper limits, unlike dangerous industrial and natural chemicals and substances [18].

Health food stores would no longer be able to market and distribute nutritional supplements at therapeutic doses. Most health food stores and privately owned nutrient manufacturers would, I believe, no longer be in business if CODEX takes effect.

I know. This is all difficult to believe upon first hearing. You may have heard that it is easy to get people to believe a lie, particularly an outrageous lie. In my experience, the opposite is also true: It is even more difficult to get people to believe an absolutely insane and outrageous truth. Keep on reading, because this is a truth you definitely need to understand.

Once CODEX is implemented (either through “HARMonization” or mandatory compliance), we would be forced to follow something very close to the European implementation model of CODEX under which it would be illegal to manufacture, buy, sell, recommend, or use any but the EFSD’s 28 ultra-low dose nutrients (including Fluoride, a systemic poison, by the way!) whether you are a licensed health professional or not [19]. Natural supplements at therapeutic doses, herbs, enzymes and other non-pharmaceutical treatments would be banned. The only legal health options left would be the pharmaceutical one (of course, surgery and radiation would still be available, too).

CODEX regulations have been “HARMonized” (i.e., approved) and/or are scheduled for implementation in the EU, Canada, New Zealand and Australia as well as the entire Asian Pacific Region (via the Trans-Tasman Agreement explained above). The United States is next unless we act decisively! Remember, although CODEX regulations are passed quietly and without effective public notice through infrequent meetings abroad that are invisible to most Americans, they would have grave and devastating impact on America’s health freedom.

Here in the United States, the “HARMonization” laws which would enact CODEX policy have been defeated by Congress several times, each time by a smaller margin [20]. Given the composition of the current Congress, it is virtually certain that “HARMonization” legislation would be passed when introduced unless we take swift and immediate steps to assure that does not happen. Through this web site, we have made it easy for you to take action in 6 steps!

This legislative “stealth attack” on health freedoms will probably play out in May or early June of 2005 unless we assure that Health Freedom becomes the “Mother of All Third Rails” for every politician in the country. Here’s how a third rail works: touch it and so much energy runs through your body that you are instantly dead. For a politician, that means instantly un-re-electable!

It is vitally important when thinking about CODEX to remember that CODEX is not a democratic process and we, the people, have neither voice nor vote in the matter. Run by unelected bureaucrats, primarily from the FDA here in the U.S., CODEX is the result of a complex relationship between the UN (which established the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission in 1963); the WTO (which is authorized to enforce CODEX through trade sanctions); the World Health Organization (WHO),which subscribes to the CODEX regulations [despite the fact that they directly and explicitly conflict with their own findings and policies such as the FAO/WHO official publication, "Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases"]; the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) working in concert with industry representatives of (and others unofficially representing the interests of) the pesticide, chemical, pharmaceutical, and dairy industries. All of this is carried into domestic law by the nearly unknown Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement (SPSA) [21].

Consumers, health scientists, physicians practicing natural medicine and other health-focused voices have been absent from official CODEX deliberations. Representatives of the newly “pharmaceuticalized” natural health industry (e.g., IADSA, NNFA, CRN) have attended but their position supports the adoption of CODEX standards because it would open new international markets for them and increase their profits by allowing them to sell clinically ineffective mini-dose nutrients at exorbitant prices. A few observers with interest in the natural health arena have been present at official deliberations but they have not been permitted to speak in the sessions. A very small number of International Non Governmental Organizations with health freedom interests have been permitted to attend and may speak but they may not vote.

Full ratification of the desperately wrongheaded CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Vitamin and Mineral Standards is expected in Rome during the July 4-9, 2005 meeting of the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Committee.

Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory structure takes place outside of those official sessions. And natural health advocates do not have access to those meetings, agreements and sessions. Yet CODEX would take away our health freedoms if we allow ourselves to be “HARMonized” or mandated to comply with it.

Everyone knows if they have a jar of pickles and they remove the pickle label and put a mayonnaise label on it, that they’re going to find pickles when they open the jar. The packaging of CODEX policy under the label of protection of fair trade, public health, and safety does not make it so. Underneath CODEX’s altruistic labeling is a poisoned apple of extremely adverse global policy that is, in fact, driven by economic concerns of large corporate interests.

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is far more than a mindless restriction on nutrients, however. Once implemented, CODEX ALIMENTARIUS would do the following:

1). VITAMINS, MINERAL, NUTRIENTS AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES

1. CODEX prohibits the use of nutrients to “prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease”.

2. CODEX defines minimum allowable dosages of permitted nutrients as 15 percent of the amount naturally occurring in foods, while maximum allowable doses of any permitted nutrients may not exceed the dose of that nutrient found in food! Permitted nutritional supplement values subtract the amount assumed to be in the average expectable daily diet [22] from the maximum allowable dose and the result is the permitted upper limit of a nutrient. No dosage of this nutrient may be used which is any higher than the permitted upper limit with or without a prescription. This system is based neither in science nor sense.

3. Higher doses of permitted nutrients and other nutrients not explicitly permitted would be classified as illegal substances (like heroin) and, as such, would be legally unavailable under any circumstances. The system for testing additional nutrients or higher nutrient doses exist but is a total sham:

1. Theoretical exceptions exist for natural substances which are submitted and accepted for testing by July 12, 2005 at a cost of approximately $250,000 per submission.

2. If accepted, a substance may undergo Phase 1, 2 and 3 testing as a drug.

3. If, after testing, the substance is found to be efficacious and safe, it may be marketed as a prescription drug.

4. Permission to market as a drug expires on December 31, 2004 and cannot be renewed or extended.

5. A substance successfully tested in this way may then be prescribed at the tested dosage only and for the tested conditions only.

6. The cost of this procedure is staggering, most applications for such testing have been turned down and, since natural molecules cannot be patented, potential manufacturers are unable to recoup the outrageous costs of testing through later sales.

# The European Union (EU), whose Directives (e.g., EFSD and the ETHMPD) are the model administrative agencies for CODEX implementation, permits a total of 28 ultra-low dose nutrients as of August 1, 2005. Nutrients like Boron, Vanadium, and Natural (Mixed Tocopherol) Vitamin E, for example, are banned under the EFSD. CODEX is expected to follow suit this July through ratification.All other nutrients (e.g., alpha lipoic acid, glutathione, picnoginol, 7-Keto DHEA, 1 gram doses of vitamin C, Co Q 10, fish oil, and curcumin, etc.), while not explicitly covered by the July guideline, are anticipated to become banned substances as the anti-therapeutic nutrients stance of CODEX is made final in the coming 5 years before full implementation of CODEX ALIMENTARIUS on January 1, 2010. The CCNFSDU has made it clear that other nutrients, would be excluded under the positive list/negative list concept under which:

1. everything not permitted on the positive list is forbidden and

2. everything forbidden on the negative list is forbidden by virtue of being absent from the positive list.

According to Paul Anthony Taylor, present at the Bonn 2004 CCNFSDU meeting,

“During the discussions on Scope, the Chairman inferred that the EU wanted to leave the door open for the Draft Guidelines on Vitamins and Minerals to be extended to other nutrients. The EC Observer replied by saying that they did not want this, but that if the Scope was defined too rigidly some products might be taken out of the Guidelines by the addition of other nutrients, thus claiming that they were not vitamin and mineral supplements. As a result of this, the Committee added the following sentence to the Guidelines: Food Supplements containing vitamins and/or minerals as well as other ingredients should also be in conformity with the specific rules on vitamins and minerals laid down in these Guidelines. [emphasis added]” [23]

These forbidden substances, essential and vital nutrients in therapeutic dosages, would be legally forbidden and, as such, may not be manufactured, distributed, recommended, sold, supplied or be in the possession of anyone, including licensed health professionals. Vitamin C, for example, at any dosage higher than 200 mg per day would be illegal. A gram of Vitamin C would be an illegal substance under CODEX! The dose of Co Q 10 which has been shown to resolve breast cancer in some patients (400 mg per day) [24] would be illegal because, if CODEX proceeds as its Nutritional Supplements Committee Chairman, Dr. Grossklaus has indicted it would, “nutrition has no place in medicine” and nutrients, therefore, also have no place in medicine according to Grossklaus. Think about it.

# The allowable maximum upper limits for permitted nutrients have intentionally been set so low that they have little or no clinical impact on any human being, no matter how sensitive to the nutrient! This is the “gift” of “Risk Assessment Science” to nutritional medicine. By the way, the only company permitted to submit risk assessment data to CODEX, the BfR, is owned by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, the chairman of CCNFSDU! So according to CODEX, nutrients have no role in keeping us healthy and none at all in returning us to a state of health if we are ill. Those ultra low dose nutrients which are available should CODEX be implemented will be exorbitantly priced, as current experience in Norway and Germany reveals, where profit margins of synthetic, permitted nutrients are being “HARMonized” to match drug profit margins.

1. On August 1, 2005, 75 percent of the natural substances currently available in health food stores and pharmacies in Europe are set to become illegal as a direct result of CODEX via the EFSD.

2. A non-binding opinion of the Judge Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rendered on April 5, 2005, required the EFSD to use more science to create its standards. The rest of CODEX implementation, however, was not challenged. This opinion has no legal weight and the ECJ is expected to render its final ruling in June, 2005. If the EFSD is upheld, the August 1 ban will go forward [25]. If it is not, it will be revised and then go forward.

3. Even if the EFSD guidelines are overturned, member nations of the WTO (that means the U.S.) are bound by the SPSA to bring their standards into conformity with CODEX guidelines and standards.

# Although CODEX’s current Vitamin and Mineral Standard (not yet ratified) states that natural and synthetic forms may be used, under the EFSD, only synthetic forms of permitted nutrients would be available. Under the EFSD, natural versions would become illegal substances. Only synthetic nutrients (at ultra-low dosages) manufactured by pharmaceutical companies would meet the CODEX-determined molecular standards for use in humans or animals. As he repeatedly states, Dr. Grossklaus maintains that the EFDS is the future face of CODEX ALIMENTARIUS.

# While the problem here in the United States is acute, it is a problem of crisis proportions in the underdeveloped world. According to the UNESCO Report, Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies: A Global Progress Report,

“Few outside specialist circles are aware of the scale and severity of vitamin and mineral deficiency, or of what it means for individuals and for nations. It means the impairment of hundreds of millions of growing minds and the lowering of national IQs. It means wholesale damage to immune systems, and the deaths of more than a million children a year. It means 250,000 serious birth defects annually and the deaths of approximately 50,000 young women a year during pregnancy and childbirth.

And it means the large-scale loss of national energies, intellects, productivity, and growth.

This problem was largely controlled decades ago in the industrialized [sic] nations. It could now be controlled world-wide by means that are tried and tested, available and affordable. That is why the World Bank says that “The control of vitamin and mineral deficiencies is one of the most extraordinary development-related scientific advances of recent years. Probably no other technology available today offers as large an opportunity to improve lives and accelerate development at such low cost and in such a short time”. [26]

2). HERBS AND HERBAL TREATMENTS

1. According to a British report on Celebrity opposition to the EU herbal ban,

“The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive [THMPD], due to come into law no earlier than 2003/4, states a product can only continue to be sold if it has already been on the market for 30 years, including 15 in Europe. Some 300 nutrients and nutrient sources already on sale in the UK are not on the permitted list and, unless comprehensive safety dossiers are approved or the remedies are licensed in the same way as pharmaceutical drugs, would be banned. Products affected include Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, Echinacea, Black Cohosh, St John’s Wort, Multi- Vitamins and Minerals.” [27]

2. Herbs, originally part of the CODEX deliberations, were summarily removed and placed under a closed committee of the WHO where they are anticipated to be classified as untested drugs and then classified as illegal substances. Once this recommendation is made to the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission, probably just before global implementation of CODEX on January 1, 2010, it is anticipated that it would be followed according to the legal analysis of experts in this matter.

3. The European THMPD, part of the European model implementation system for CODEX, has produced a very short list of herbs which may be used and the conditions for which they may be used (another short and very trivial list) while any condition which might require “medical”, (i.e., pharmaceutical) care may not be treated with herbs. [28] [29]

4. All other applications of herbs and any other herbs besides those permitted are strictly forbidden since they and their indications are not on the “positive list”.

5. There is the possibility that a few formulas of well known Chinese or other traditional herbal medicines may be exempt (but that remains to be seen).

3). TRADITIONAL HEALING ARTS

1. Ayurveda, Tibetan, tribal and other traditional medicines which use herbs and natural substances would be forbidden world-wide since efficacy and scientific documentation is hard to come by in these healing arts. Since most people do not have access to pharmaceutical medicine, this effectively removes the legal possibility of people accessing any form of tribal or traditional medicine without committing a crime against the country in which they live.

2. The ETHMPD actively discriminates against herbal medicine. According to Sepp Hasslberger,

“While the directive was necessary to “salvage” a large number of registered natural medicines that existed on the German market, and which had to be terminated by the end of this year because they could not fulfill the criteria for full medicines registration, it does discriminate against herbal medicines from other traditions, such as Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ayurvedic [sic] medicinal herbs, by requiring traditional use in Europe as a pre-condition to registration. Such non-EU traditional herbal medicines could in theory obtain a full medicine registration, but in practice there are unsurmountable [sic] barriers in the full medicine registration requirements, which are clearly slanted to favour [sic] the patentable chemical remedies of pharmaceutical manufacture. By excluding other herbal traditions, the European herbal medicines directive seems to be at odds with an initiative of the World Health Organisation [sic] which has recently issued guidelines for the safe use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicines including herbals, which the UN body wishes to be widely available in all countries as an alternative to pharmaceutical medicines.” [30]

3. South Africa and India have repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with “foods as drugs” and the restriction of nutrients and herbs but have been regularly overrun by “consensus” tactics which do not allow full discussion or debate on these crucial issues [31].

4). GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs)

1. CODEX makes the un-labeled use of GMOs legal globally, even though there is significant science-based opposition to the widespread use of GMOs because of their untested impact on human health. Although there are standards for testing of GMOs incorporated into CODEX.

2. The CODEX Committee on Nutrients and Foods for Special Dietary Uses allows GMOs in baby foods and formulas. Dr. Wong Ang Peng, wrote of the 2004 Bonn CCNFSDU meeting, which he attended,

“Sadly too, the proposal of EU to allow GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredients in infant formulas did not get much opposition, except from a public interest NGO. GMO ingredients, the domains of multinational corporations from the developed countries, would from now be openly allowed into baby food. Let it be on record that the delegates of this 25th Session of CODEX Committee proposed and approved these patented, DNA mutating junk ingredients.” [32]

3. GMO organisms are far from safe. Many GMOs have been genetically engineered so that seeds WOULD NOT GERMINATE without the use of specific pesticides [33] (such as Roundup� by Monsanto�). In fact, mounting scientific evidence makes it clear that the incidence of cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s Disease, birth defects, chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, severe allergies, and a host of other serious, previously rare, increasingly common and deadly conditions have a causative or contributory relationship with increasing levels of pesticide exposure that these crops require. GMOs themselves are far from scientifically established as safe for either the planet or its people by objective, non-industry scientists. In addition to the human health dangers of GMOs, genetic drift and contamination through the spread of GMO genetic material is recognized as a major threat to the biological integrity of the entire planet.

4. GMOs may be freely used in animal feed without being labeled.

5). TOXIC RESIDUES

1. CODEX sets permissible upper limits for pesticide and veterinary drug residues, toxic chemicals, hormones in food and other environmental contaminants many times higher than levels advocated by even chemical and pesticide industry lobbying groups [34] [35].

For example, aflatoxin, the second most potent non-ionizing carcinogen known, is permitted by CODEX at frighteningly high levels in milk, consumed in large quantities by children. The WHO conceded in a press release that these levels were very high, stating, “The CODEX Commission also set maximum levels of aflatoxin in milk and milk products. Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic substance that can be transmitted from animal feed (for examples, peanuts and corn) into milk. The new maximum limit for aflatoxin in milk is 0.5 micrograms per kilogram. Some countries argued for a stricter aflatoxin limit of 0.05 micrograms per kilogram. However the majority of countries agreed that the higher limit was more feasible, particularly in developing countries.” [36]

2. Current “acceptable” levels of toxins are already responsible for most of the incidence of cancers, heart disease, autism, chronic degenerative conditions, and organ failures associated with mortality and morbidity globally. Cancer, once a rare occurrence, is anticipated to strike 50% of the earth’s inhabitants by 2010 under current permissible levels of pesticides and other toxins! When CODEX institutes its much higher “Safe Upper Limits” for these substances, the impact on the collective immune system and fertility rates of the planet are beyond imagining. Increasing the permissible levels of toxins can only accelerate personal and global suffering and death [37].

6). ANTIBIOTICS, DRUGS, GROWTH STIMULANTS AND OTHER HORMONES IN FOOD ANIMALS

1. CODEX mandates that all conventionally farmed livestock be treated with antibiotics, veterinary drugs, hormones and growth stimulants

2. Vague, imprecise and unenforceable CODEX “guidelines” exist to “prevent irresponsible use of veterinary drugs ” [38]. These loose guide lines are in sharp contrast to the minutely controlled and detailed prohibition of nutritional standards, with a sharply defined positive list and a broad explicit and implicit negative list, which effectively prohibits all therapeutic dosages of all nutrients. Clearly, veterinary drugs are allowed without limit or penalty if they are overused, no matter how harmful they are to both livestock and humans while nutrients at any significant dose are forbidden, no matter how safe and essential.

3. Organic, free range and biodynamic farming, while technically permitted, is defined so loosely that antibiotics, toxins like Rotenone, fish and dairy products for livestock feed and veterinary drugs (including antimicrobials) may be used at the discretion of the certifying agent or farmer. Drought, hardship, severe conditions or “other” situations can all cause the definition of “organic” to be stretched beyond reason and safety. There are no penalties for violation of “organic” farming principles for either crops or animals.

4. Even the most positive gloss on the organic standards makes it clear that the CODEX standard is appalling loose:

“The CODEX meeting also agreed to new guidelines for organic livestock production. According to these guidelines, organic livestock farming should aim [emphasis added] to use natural breeding methods, minimize stress in animals, prevent disease, and progressively eliminate the use of certain chemical veterinary drugs, including antibiotics [emphasis added]. Animals should mainly be fed with high quality organic feed [emphasis added], not meat and bone meal, although fish and milk products are acceptable. The use of growth hormones is not permitted.” [39] [40]

5. The most casual examination of the standards and definitions of “organic food” (meaning as little as 70% organic contents without informative labeling to that effect), the chemical standards for animal feed and treatment, the short “conversion times” to move animals, fields and crops from conventional to “organic” and the permitted use of chemicals and toxins in the production of crops and animals makes it clear that this standard is nothing more than window dressing for a toxic food supply [41].

7). IRRADIATION OF FOOD

1. In the summer of 2003,

“CODEX weakened the international food irradiation rule to allow any food to be irradiated at any dose, regardless of how high. The new Standard contains no maximum radiation dose to which foods can be treated. The previous limit was 10 kilo Gray, a dose of radiation equivalent to 330 million chest X-rays. At such doses, the chemical composition of foods can be altered; vitamins, proteins and other nutrients can be destroyed; and flavor, odor and texture can be corrupted. The decision was made over the objections of more than 10 countries, including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Spain. Both the UN and the WHO are mandated to protect the health and welfare of the worlds [sic] population, but they obviously shirked on this responsibility when the decision was made.” [42]

Public Citizen goes on to say,

“in an October 2002 report by Public Citizen, Bad Taste: The Disturbing Truth About the World Health Organisations [sic] Endorsement of Food Irradiation, the WHO has relied on a very small number of faulty studies in declaring food irradiation safe; this unscientific and shoddy work is the foundation of acceptance of food irradiation across the world. The IAEA owes its loyalty to the nuclear industry and thus works with governments to apply nuclear technologies. It is impossible for the main advocate of nuclear technology to advise CODEX in a disinterested, scientific manner because of its vested interests in the speedy and complete adoption of food irradiation. CODEX has not relied on disciplined, dispassionate or scientific advice in setting standards for food irradiation. Instead, the decisions and regulations recommended by CODEX are used as a starting point for the facilitation of international trade. Both the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) follow Codexs [sic] lead and encourage the international harmonization of food standards from a trade perspective [43].”

2. The irradiation of food produces huge free radical populations in that food. The higher the ionizing dose, the higher the free radical population. Under CODEX, food components may be irradiated and then, as they are combined with other components, they may be irradiated again. And again, and again! Each time, the free radical population is increased. The only protection against their pervasive damage is high doses of anti-oxidants like vitamin C, Beta Carotene, Glutathione, etc. (which would be illegal under CODEX, see discussion above).

At this point it will likely come as no surprise to you that there has been no effective representation from health advocates, nutritional supplement manufacturers, natural healthcare professionals, or other non-pharmaceutically oriented group at the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting. The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meets every two years, always offshore (Rome, Bonn, Paris, etc.) and never in Smallville, U.S.A., a fact that helps perpetuate its opacity to the United States citizenry. The United States’ representatives to the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission have well-documented, unwholesome conflicts of interest with the very industries that stand to profit and benefit from the wholesale implementation of the CODEX standards.

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. Final ratification of the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline is expected at the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Committee meeting in Rome from July 4-9, 2005.

Before ratification, “HARMonization” is “voluntary” but can be enforced by WTO trade sanctions. After ratification, compliance with CODEX is 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 MANDATES domestic compliance with ratified standards. That means that the U.S. must bring its laws and standards down to those of CODEX and keep them there!

So the U.S. can kiss DSHEA goodbye if we fail to act now. Read on and I’ll tell you what we need to do to keep the U.S. CODEX-free!

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.

Now that we know more about the foundering boat in which we are adrift, let me hand you a paddle.

What You Can Do About CODEX!

Become active in the protection of America from CODEX through this web site! If you do nothing now and CODEX is ratified, you will have no environmental or nutritional medical choices. It is imperative that you alert your neighbors, colleagues, friends, patients, relatives, suppliers and everyone else you know to this danger so they can join you in taking effective action. Follow the link above for 6 Easy Steps to protecting America from CODEX.

This threat to our health and health freedom to choose the type of healthcare for our selves and our patients demands one of the most powerful tools available to us: grass-roots political action driven by the communication power of the Internet. CODEX is anything but democratic. We, the American people, however, can use the Democratic Process to our advantage by following the 6 Easy Steps to Protecting America from CODEX. These five steps are easily accessible on this web site, and allow you to do the following five things from the comfort of your computer chair:

1. Email your Congressional Delegation - We need hundreds of thousands of letters to reach Congress before the July 4, 2005 start of the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting. Our web site features a tool that allows you to find your local Congress men and women, and email them directly. We even have a letter already drafted that you can use - all you have to do is add your name and address.

2. Sign the Declaration of Health Independence - this is a legal protest to CODEX that I have drafted and which all Americans are invited to add their names to. You send us your name and zip code and then we will print this digital signature on hemp paper and present the Declaration to Congress, in person. We are aiming for over 50,000 signatures!

3. Join our Citizen’s Petition - U.S. law prevents our government from “HARMonizing” with any International Standard which violates U.S. law. We are reminding the U.S. government to honor its own laws with our Citizen’s Petition, and you are welcome to add your name to the petition.

4. Spread the word - as part of step 3, you will be presented with a tool to email this web site to your friends. Through word-of-mouth marketing, we hope millions of Americans will find out about this web site and each in turn take action on the 6 steps.

5. Subscribe to the CODEX Action Alert - This is the email mailing list of the HealthFreedomUSA campaign. You will receive the latest information on CODEX through your free subscription. It is important that you subscribe so that if we need emergency mobilization (such as extra faxes), then we can call on you to help out.

6. Support Natural Solutions Foundation’s Mission to Reach Millions - National Solutions Foundation is a non-profit Nevada Corporation (of which I am the Medical Director) to preserve, protect and defend health freedom in the United States. NFA is behind the HealthFreedomUSA campaign to raise awareness about CODEX. Our public awareness campaign will cost about $500,000. Without public awareness, CODEX would become our domestic law! Donations help us raise the money needed to raise the public awareness needed. In addition to our Internet marketing activities, the Natural Solutions Foundation has commissioned a major documentary to tell the story of CODEX to the American public. Our only source of funding is voluntary donations by people like yourself.

Here is the golden link to the “6 Easy Steps to Protecting America from CODEX“:

6 Easy Steps to Protecting America from CODEX

It is critical that you and your family, friend and colleagues all take action on these steps. If enough Americans carry out the 6 steps, Congress will not dare allow CODEX to hit the United States of America.

We would all like to put our heads in the sand and try to believe that CODEX would, could and should not happen here. But it can and, unless we take action now, CODEX would become the law of our land.

Whether your motivation is global or local, professional or personal, I urge you to take action now!

With this web site and the “6 Easy Steps to Protecting America from CODEX”, we have made it easy for you. Join HealthFreedomUSA and let’s each do our part to keep CODEX out of America.

Yours in Health and Freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, M.D.
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation Read Dr. Laibow’s Daily CODEX Update Blog

[1] “CODEX Overview and Report on Bonn, 2004″, Carolyn Dean, M.D. in Death By Modern Medicine http://www.healthy.net/scr/column.asp?Id=622

[2] http://www.jtaproject.com/Downloads/Regional%20Harmonisation/Final%20Tok...

[3] http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/12/05/australian_supplement_la...

[4] http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/12/05/australian_supplement_la...

[5] “The Australian Government has signed an international treaty (known as the JTA Treaty) in 2003 which forms the basis for a massive new international regulating “agency”. This is due to come into effect July 1, 2005�. This new regulating agency, called the Trans-Tasman Agency is structurally nothing more than an off shore corporation partnered by the TGA and multi national drug corporations. That means multi-national drug companies will ‘regulate’ all vitamins and supplements.”
The new ‘offshore’ agency will operate directly within the international jurisdiction of CODEX.” http://health.consumercide.com/CODEX-aust01.html

[6] http://www.jtaproject.com/regional.htm

[7] See, for example, the urban legend site, www.snopes.com article “Vitamin See” which promulgates factually inaccurate disinformation about the real nature and impact of CODEX

[8] FDA’s Response to Questions page, http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html

[9] http://www.nnfa.org/CODEX/qa.htm

[10] http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr110403.html

[11] Lazarou J, Pomeranz B, Corey P. Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients. JAMA. 1998; 279:1200-1205

[12] Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm

[13] “Harmonized” is the official, Orwellian term for regulatory and/or legislative forced compliance with the guidelines and standards of CODEX ALIMENTARIUS. Note: guidelines and standards have become indistinguishable and now carry the same weight.

[14] http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drobson64.htm

[15] Paul Anthony Taylor, personal report, as reported in CODEX COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES Twenty-fifth Session. Bruckenforum, Bonn, Germany, 3-7 November 2003. A report on the CODEX discussions regarding the Proposed Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements, http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/11/25/ codex_2003_grossklaus_and_mathioudakis_nutrition_not_relevant_to_health.htm

[16] President, Society of Natural Health, Director, The humanitarian Project - Health For All, Tel : 603-20941335, Address : No. 8-5, Jalan Batai, Damansara Heights, 50490 Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ 2003/11/25/codex_2003_grossklaus_and_mathioudakis _nutrition_not_relevant_to_health.htm

[17] Paul Anthony Taylor, op. cit.

[18] See USLs to Maximum levels: why risk assessment urgently needs review at http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?Action=archive&category...

[19] Since neither the “positive” nor “negative” lists have been promulgated by the CCNFSDU, the exact contents of that list are not known. Dr. Grossklaus’ positions and leadership, however, make it likely that if the lists are not identical to those of the EFSD, they will be nearly so.

[20] For example, a “Harmonization” amendment was lobbied out of the Kennedy Kessembaum Act, 1998, http://www.povertylaw.org/legalresearch/hotline/hdocs/52394.htm

[21] Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm

[22] This is a completely meaningless concept: do the inhabitants of, say, Tanzania and Greenland have comparable diets and comparable genetic requirements and vulnerabilities?

[23] A report on the CODEX discussions regarding the Proposed Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements, prepared by Paul Anthony Taylor. Monday 3rd November 2003, http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/11/25/ codex_2003_grossklaus_and_mathioudakis _nutrition_not_relevant_to_health.htm

[24] See, for example, http://www.altcancer.com/coq10_studies.htm

[25] For a positive interpretation of the impact of this opinion, see http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_173.pdf

[26] http://www.micronutrient.org/reports/reports/Full_e.pdf

[27] http://www.ukpsychics.com/herb_ban.html

[28] Permitted Indications Under the Directive on Traditional Medicinal Products, Annex 1 and 2, http://www.mca.gov.uk/

[29] Herbs are seen as a major problem for “HARMonization” in the EU. The European market for herbs and phytomedicines is characterized by the availability of a fairly large number of products. A report conducted in 1991 of the Member States (nations) indicated that about 1,400 herbal drugs were available in the EEC. When this study focused on herbs used in five of the 10 Member States, 145 herbal drugs were noted (Keller, 1996). According to Dr. Konstantin Keller of the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), “this shows that herbal drugs are indeed a major problem for harmonization in the EU.” (Keller, 1996), http://www.herbalgram.org/default.asp?c=ceherbsineurope

[30] http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/07/19/ european_directive_on_medicinal_herbs_discriminates_ against_china_india_other_cultures.htm

[31] CODEX Overview and Report on Bonn, 2004, Carolyn Dean, M.D. in Death By Modern Medicine, op. cit.

[32] Dr. Wong Ang Peng, op. cit.

[33] Environmental Medicine uses the term “pesticides” to refer to herbicides, pesticides and toxic agricultural and environmental chemicals of man-made origin. This usage is followed here.

[34] Pesticide Residues in Food, http://faostat.fao.org/faostat/pestdes/ jsp/pest_q-e.jsp?language=EN&version=ext&hasbulk=0

[35] Veterinary Drug Residues in Food, http://faostat.fao.org/faostat/vetdrugs /jsp/vetd_q-e.jsp?language=EN&version=ext&hasbulk=0

[36] WHO Press Release, http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2001/en/pr2001-33.html

[37] See, among many, the Breast Cancer Fund, Report Details New Links Between Environmental Toxicants and Breast Cancer, http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=204760 Oct. 7, 2004

[38] Recommend International Code of Practice for Control of the Use of Veterinary Drugs, http://www.euro.who.int/Document/Fos/CP_E.pdf

[39] WHO Press Release, op. cit.

[40] Organically Produced Food, CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Document CXG_032e.pdf

[41] Organically Produced Food, passim, op. cit.

[42] Public Citizen Denounces CODEX’s Pro Irradiation Stance, http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/073003_irradiation.cfm

[43] Public Citizen Denounces CODEX’s Pro Irradiation Stance, op. cit.

DID YOU KNOW:

The Natural Solutions Foundation lectured to lay and professional groups in the US and abroad and initiated the Health Freedom Rally series in cities like Dallas, Albuquerque and Tucson.

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Video - Codex & Nutricide - Codex Alimentarius - Not Good

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 will go into global implementation by December 31, 2009, unless We, the People, avert it.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: http://www.codexalimentarius.net

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Codex Alimentarius Propaganda

How Codex Disinformation Works

There are many who claim that Codex Alimentarius is about “consumer protection”, or that it is “voluntary”, or that it is a downright “urban legend” or “hoax”. None of these claims comes anywhere near the truth. Dr. Laibow has analysed 16,000 pages of Codex Alimentarius documentation, and her analysis is that none of these claims are true.

Codex, once fully implemented, represents tremendous financial wealth for a few multinational corporations, most notably companies in the pharmaceutical industry.

These corporations have immense propaganda machines, already in place, hawking dangerous and sometimes deadly drugs, creating the illusion that nutrients are dangerous, the illusion that drugs are the only means to health, the illusion that genetically modified food are good for people, and the illusion that pesticides are safe.

Because Codex Alimentarius represents wealth to these corporations, they are using their skill and influence in the media to create an elegantly crafted, and totally false image of Codex Alimentarius as “consumer protection” so that the truth about Codex Alimentarius wont be known.

They can’t control the Internet however.
Keeping Codex-Reality at Bay

Why would anyone want to disseminate misleading information about Codex Alimentarius? Because the truth is unacceptable to people: Codex Alimentarius would eradicate natural health options from the global marketplace, and thus does not serve the health interests of the people. People would not take warmly to this. Those creating the propaganda behind Codex Alimentarius know this.

There are approximately 60 million people in America who care strongly about natural health. This group of the population are part of a market called LOHAS (”Lifestyle Of Health And Sustainability”). They care about such things as natural health, sustainability, fair trade, social justice, and personal development. If millions of people in the LOHAS community, who care about natural health, found out the truth about Codex, then Codex would face tremendous resistance.

We believe that the pharmaceutical industry, which is one of the industries behind Codex Alimentarius, fears the awakening of the LOHAS to the real Codex agenda. That’s why they are working so hard to deceive, mislead, and pacify.
The Three Flavors of Codex Disinformation

“Disinformation” is information that is deliberately meant to mislead. Effective disinformation is never an outright lie. That would be too easy to see through.

Codex disinformation is plentiful and comes in three distinct flavors. They are listed below with real-life examples to help you to discern fact (that Codex is a threat) from fiction (that Codex is “consumer protection”, “voluntary”, or “urban legend”):
Disinformation Type 1: “Consumer Protection”

Example: The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is trying to make us believe that Codex is for our own protection from supposedly “dangerous” vitamins and minerals. This type of paternalistically-oriented disinformation strategy sounds palatable, were it not for the simple fact that Codex will not in the least bit protect us from anything. It would unscientifically obstruct our freedom of choice in supplements, herbs, and clean food for no other reason than to eliminate natural health so that the pharmaceutical industry can make more money. The CRN membership is made up of some of the largest pharmaceutical corporations around: Bayer�, Wyeth�, Monsanto�, and others.

Read more about Codex disinformation from the Council for Responsible Nutrition
Disinformation Type 2: “Voluntary”

Example: National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) is supposed to protect the natural supplement industry. But it’s old-time health freedom fighters have been (silently) replaced by people from the pharmaceutical industry. The NNFA is now working hard to make people believe that “Codex is not a problem” because it is “voluntary”. Could this disinformation have anything to do with the fact that the NNFA has members from the pharmaceutical industry? Certainly.

Read more about Codex disinformation from the National Nutritional Foods Association
Disinformation Type 3: “Urban Legend”

Example: Snopes.com is a web site that traces the roots of urban legends, to dispel those that are false. But they are in fact creating their own urban legend when it comes to Codex Alimentarius. The urban legend snopes.com is guilty of creating says that “Codex Alimentarius is a hoax”.

Read more about Codex disinformation from Snopes.com
Government Not Exposing Truth

The FDA is known to favor the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of natural health, and thus is by default aligned with the implementation of Codex Alimentarius.

The FDA is firmly committed to “harmonization” with Codex. But this is for economic reasons, not health. “Harmonization” is the process by which Codex overrides the sovereign food and health laws of a country. On an official FDA site, the agency states the following:

“Failure to reach a consistent, harmonized set of laws, regulations and standards within the free trade agreements and the World Trade Organization Agreements can result in considerable economic repercussions.”

Note that there is no mention of health in the FDA’s statement. And there is no mention of health by the FDA anywhere else in relation to harmonization. It is clear among many health experts and analysts that the concern of the FDA in relation to the World Trade Organization (Codex Alimentarius fits into the WTO umbrella), is the protection of the economic interests of the pharmaceutical companies, and not the health of the people.

It is a fact that the pharmaceutical industry carries a lot of influence on the decisions of the FDA.

Where do we go from here? Simple: let’s not believe everything we’re told about Codex Alimentarius.

Let’s bolster our individual power to discern truth and take a pause to consider if what we’ve been told so far by industry and government adds up. It does not add up (Codex would harm consumers, not “protect” them… that you and me). So let’s discard the lies and take action to protect health freedom from Codex Alimentarius.

DID YOU KNOW:

The Natural Solutions Foundation met regularly with foreign Heads of State, Ministers of Health, National Codex Committee members, journalists and health freedom/consumer advocates to alert them to their options in dealing with the threat Codex represents to their food security and safety and educate them about the power and protection inherent in implementing the protective Codex Two Step Process.

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Disinformation: “Codex is Consumer Protection”

You will hear that Codex Alimentarius is about consumer protection (for example on the official Codex web site). This is not true. Codex Alimentarius is not about consumer protection at all.

Council for Responsible Nutrition Supports Treating Nutrients as Toxins

The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is a trade organization that spreads the false notion of Codex Alimentarius as “consumer protection” in various press releases and announcements. CRN claims that the science of Risk Assessment, when applied to nutrients, will “protect” consumers. This is an unscientific stan