My family uses herbal and nutritional suplements as well as pharmacuticals(sp?). We like to have a choice. Will this be taken away? Are these regulations likely to be passed?
CODEX ALIMENTARUS is coming
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CODEX ALIMENTARUS is coming. Currently, compliance with the complicated and destructive regulations of CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is voluntary but can be enforced by trade sanctions imposed on the World Trade Organization. In July, 2005, these regulations will become mandatory for all WTO members and that includes the United States. And once it gets here, it will be illegal to buy, sell, recommend or use any but 28 ultra-low dose nutrients, natural supplements, herbs, enzymes or other natural treatments whether you are a licensed health professional or not. The only legal health option left will be the pharmaceutical one. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS regulations have been approved in the EU, Canada and Australia. The United States is next unless we act decisively. These regulations are passed quietly and without effective public notice but have grave and devastating impact on health freedom. Here in the United States, the "harmonization" laws which will enact CODEX ALIMENTARIUS have been defeated by Congress several times, each time by a smaller margin. Given the composition of the current Congress, it is virtually certain that it will be passed unless we make sure that does not happen.
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is the result of a complex relationship between the United Nations (which established the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission in 1962), the World Trade Organization (which was authorized to enforce CODEX ALIMENTARIUS through trade sanctions), the World Health Organization (which subscribes to the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS 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, our FDA and our USDA working in concert with industry representatives of (and other unofficially representing the interests of) the pesticide, chemical, pharmaceutical and dairy industries. Consumers, health scientists, physicians and other practicing natural medicine and other health-focused voices have been totally absent from official CODEX ALIMENTARIUS deliberations. A few observers have been present at official deliberations but they have not been permitted to speak in the sessions. Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory structure takes place outside of those official sessions. And none of the health advocates have had access to those meetings, agreements and sessions. Yet they will take away our health freedoms if we allow ourselves to be "harmonized"------<more>
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Official Site--Codex Alimentarius Commission
Lots (too much to read now) of info
CODEX ALIMENTARUS is coming
[ QUOTE ]
CODEX ALIMENTARUS is coming. Currently, compliance with the complicated and destructive regulations of CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is voluntary but can be enforced by trade sanctions imposed on the World Trade Organization. In July, 2005, these regulations will become mandatory for all WTO members and that includes the United States. And once it gets here, it will be illegal to buy, sell, recommend or use any but 28 ultra-low dose nutrients, natural supplements, herbs, enzymes or other natural treatments whether you are a licensed health professional or not. The only legal health option left will be the pharmaceutical one. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS regulations have been approved in the EU, Canada and Australia. The United States is next unless we act decisively. These regulations are passed quietly and without effective public notice but have grave and devastating impact on health freedom. Here in the United States, the "harmonization" laws which will enact CODEX ALIMENTARIUS have been defeated by Congress several times, each time by a smaller margin. Given the composition of the current Congress, it is virtually certain that it will be passed unless we make sure that does not happen.
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is the result of a complex relationship between the United Nations (which established the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission in 1962), the World Trade Organization (which was authorized to enforce CODEX ALIMENTARIUS through trade sanctions), the World Health Organization (which subscribes to the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS 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, our FDA and our USDA working in concert with industry representatives of (and other unofficially representing the interests of) the pesticide, chemical, pharmaceutical and dairy industries. Consumers, health scientists, physicians and other practicing natural medicine and other health-focused voices have been totally absent from official CODEX ALIMENTARIUS deliberations. A few observers have been present at official deliberations but they have not been permitted to speak in the sessions. Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory structure takes place outside of those official sessions. And none of the health advocates have had access to those meetings, agreements and sessions. Yet they will take away our health freedoms if we allow ourselves to be "harmonized"------<more>
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Official Site--Codex Alimentarius Commission
Lots (too much to read now) of info
