U.N. Seeks to Limit Supplementation to RDA Levels in Proposed Codex Alimentarius

December 4, 2001 -- Codex Alimentarius is the United Nation’s proposed guideline for nutritional supplements, food handling, production, and trade which is now under consideration.  It sounds like a great idea.  Agreement on safety, trade, manufacture, and distribution would help the world in so many ways, right?  This is the notion it would purport to present, but a stormy sea of controversy and survival battles lies below this pleasant surface.

First, the Preface to the Codex Alimentarius:

Preface

The Codex Alimentarius, or the Food Code, has become the seminal global reference point for consumers, food producers and processors, national food control agencies, and the international food trade.  The code has had an enormous impact upon the thinking of food producers and processors, as well as on the awareness of the end users -- the consumers.  Its influence extends to every continent, and its contribution to the protection of public health and fair practices in the food trade is immeasurable.

The Codex Alimentarius system presents a unique opportunity for all countries to join the international community in formulating and harmonizing food standards and ensuring their global implementation.  It also allows them a role in the development of codes governing hygienic processing practices and recommendations relating to compliance with those standards.

The significance of the food code for consumer health protection was underscored in 1985 by the United Nations Resolution 39/248, whereby guidelines were adopted for use in the elaboration and reinforcement of consumer protection policies.  These guidelines advise that "Governments should take into account the need of all consumers for food security and should support and, as far as possible, adopt standards from the ... Codex Alimentarius" of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization.

The Codex Alimentarius has relevance to the international food trade.  With respect to the ever-increasing global market, in particular, the advantages of having universally uniform food standards for the protection of consumers are self-evident.  It is not surprising, therefore, that the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) both encourage the international harmonization of food standards.  A product of the Uruguay Round of multinational trade negotiations, the SPS Agreement cites Codex standards, guidelines, and recommendations as the preferred international measures for facilitating international trade in food.  As such, Codex standards have become the benchmarks against which national food measures and regulations are evaluated within the legal parameters of the Uruguay Round Agreements.

Our purpose here is to foster a wider understanding of the evolving food code and of the activities carried out by the Codex Alimentarius Commission -- the body responsible for compiling the standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and recommendations that constitute the Codex Alimentarius. 

(Editor's note:  The entire Codex Alimentarius document can be viewed online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9114e/W9114e01.htm#TopOfPage. 

Summary reports of recent Codex sessions can be viewed online at  http://www.codexalimentarius.net/reports.asp)

The dialog below references many sites and organizations who will present a more accurate understanding of this current controversy in U.N. law.  As you will learn, it pertains to your health care freedom and that of our worldwide society.

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From: Arnold Gore

Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 7:46 AM

Subject: Upcoming Codex Alimentarius hearings

Last week the InterAmerican Heart Foundation (IAHF) was victorious in stopping the Codex proposal at Step 3 of the eight-step process needed to finalize the proposed upper limit on available potency of supplements.  The international pharmaceutical cartel, which includes our big drug companies, will be back for another push.  We will have to be alert for some new action, as indicated in the message below from John Hammell, Legislative Advocate for the IAHF.

Arnold 

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From: John Hammell

To:

Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:23 PM

Subject: Health Freedom, Codex Issues : Out of the Woods Yet?

An IAHF member has just sent a frighteningly superficial analysis of the Codex vitamin issue as described by a friend.  Our biggest problem in our efforts to stop what is unfolding is to educate such people, whom I hope will take the time to carefully examine what I am saying here.

In fact, my optimistic pronouncement following Tuesday's events at the Codex meeting in Berlin was premature.  I had a very important hour-long phone call from someone in Berlin this evening.

You will see why in my next alert, which will come very soon -- I am deliberating with several allies in Europe and around the world on how best to advise all of you about the latest startling turn of events.  Stay tuned, and read the discussion below and forward it to more people, because we are by no means out of the woods yet.

Your friend does not grasp how globalization is occurring.  A good place to learn about this is the Global Trade Watch site:

http://www.citizen.org/trade/

I suggest he then read the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements regarding this issue, voluminous though they may be, because he's only seeing the surface of an unfolding very high-stakes "chess game" being played by the institutional equivalents of International Grand Masters.

In this "game," we are being set up to lose in a WTO trade dispute.  I have personally attended three U.N. Codex meetings in Germany as a member of the U.S. Delegation, and have witnessed what is going on firsthand.  On the IAHF website you will find a GIF file of a letter on Congressional letterhead signed by five members of Congress, including Dan Burton, Chair of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, which told the FDA in '98 not to take an action that was in violation of current U.S. law. They took action anyway over direct congressional objection at the Codex meeting in '98 in Berlin.  Burton backed down under intense pharmaceutical pressure that your friend, or anyone not present, would have no way of being aware of, and he did not back up his own written directive to the FDA.  Mr. Burton gutlessly allowed the FDA to walk all over him, the interests of the U.S. Congress, and the American public.

On March 20, an oversight hearing "led" by Dan Burton whitewashed what could have exposed what is going on.  It was whitewashed by pharmaceutical interests who are controlling the dietary supplement trade associations from the top down.  Look at the membership of Parry, Romani, DeConcini, and Symms, the NNFA's lobby firm at http://www.lobbycongress.com, if you doubt the truth of what I'm saying.  Rank-and-file NNFA members are outrageously blind;  they've stuck their heads in the sand on all of this;  and they are being actively misled by several key people who have sold out.  It seems they all want to become the next Rand Skolnick, who sold Solgar to American Home Products, a huge multinational pharmaceutical firm.

I was blocked from testifying.  So were several other experts, including Richard Malter, PhD, Suzanne Harris, JD, Brian Leibovitz, PhD and several allies from around the world who are also working closely on this issue.

On the IAHF website in the Media section are several audio files of radio interviews of myself and many other health freedom fighters from around the world interviewed by Gary Null, PhD on his nationally syndicated radio show "Natural Living With Gary Null."  I recommend this show and web site to any vitamin consumer in the world who would like to assist in our efforts to resist the pharmaceutical cartels.

There is no more power at the U.S. national level, because of our obligations under International Law as members of the World Trade Organization.  Most people, like your friend, have never read the Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures Agreement of GATT, and they can not therefore grasp what is going on in this country or the world.

I have traveled to Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia as the coordinator of the grassroots army of dietary supplement consumers who are attempting to expose and stop what is going on.  If your friend or any commentator wishes to engage in a point-by-point debate in cyberspace or in person, I am willing to debate him or her anytime, anywhere, any place.  If one does not review the documentation on the IAHF website, they will lack any base of knowledge to support their expressed assumptions.

I am working very closely with Congressmen Ron Paul, and Congressman Peter De Fazio -- a Republican and a Democrat, respectively.  I have bipartisan support in Congress for my position, which has been documented by the Congressional Research Service.

The person making this inference does not understand what is going on.  They should confer directly with Matthias Rath, MD and study what Rath is saying on his website.  A superficial analysis of the proposal as found on the Codex website will not provide the necessary understanding of this vital issue.

What the intent observer of this process will grasp is that the dietary supplement industry and orthomolecular medicine are going toe-to-toe right now with the world's second most powerful industry, dwarfed only by the arms industry.  The informed observer would note the economic implications of Rath and Pauling's paper that was initially accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, only to be pulled at the last minute due to the power of pharmaceutical advertisers, which was titled "The Solution to Human Cardiovascular Disease."  Rath and Pauling jointly discovered the solution to the world's number one killer disease, heart disease.

Rath and Pauling demonstrate that heart disease is a vitamin deficiency which can be very easily and inexpensively prevented and treated using a nutritional protocol.  Most people can not grasp the implications of this.  The largest segment of pharmaceutical sales is represented by their heart drugs.  The Cartel does not want us to have access to high-potency vitamins except by prescription, because they don't want their monopoly threatened this way.  Your friend and many uninvolved citizens do not appreciate the timing of the events we're seeing unfold vis a vis Codex.

Prior to the passage of DSHEA in '94, Matthias Rath was invited by the research division of Roche in Switzerland to come before them to present his and Pauling's scientific findings about heart disease.  He went to them wanting their assistance in alerting the world to his wonderful discovery.  What Roche did, however, was horrible. They instigated the Dykstra Report, which was an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, following passage of the NLEA (Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990).

The Dykstra Report threatened to destroy the American vitamin supplement industry.  DSHEA was the response to it.  DSHEA is now being threatened by Codex via harmonization.  The American supplement industry is being dangerously co-opted by pharmaceutical interests that dominate decision-making at the international level at Codex.  The only legal basis on which a country can refuse to harmonize its laws to international standards is on a basis of safety.

The FDA set us up for harmonization at the Codex meeting in Berlin in 1998 by putting a scientifically biased, pharmaceutically funded paper on the table that falsely defines vitamin safety.  Its title is "A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Safe Upper Levels for Nutrients," and you will find it on the IAHF website at http://www.iahf.com along with a solid scientific rebuttal that was generated by Richard Malter, PhD.  Malter's rebuttal was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, and Congress was not allowed to hear him testify at the whitewashed oversight hearing of March 20, 2001 due to manipulation of the hearing by pharmaceutical interests.

Codex Alimentarius is a working document, true enough, but this individual does not understand the forces at play under the surface.  For example, within the next 5-6 weeks, a massive push will be occurring to finalize the EU Vitamin Directive, and to come to the next Codex meeting with a very large push behind RDA levels.  This is being bolstered by Tanzania and Kenya, which have been co-opted by ethno-pirates in those countries that are actively milking their indigenous healers dry of knowledge of herbs on behalf of multinational pharmaceutical interests.  

Your correspondent also does not realize that the Cartel is desperate to derail Dr. Rath's half-dozen large, controlled clinical trials on vitamins that are all timed to conclude next summer.  The only way you can stop an agenda of incrementalism like this is to fight it every step of the way;  there is no other way to fight it.  I've been involved in leading the global grassroots opposition since we first began monitoring these proceedings in 1996.

Anytime, anyplace, anywhere -- on radio, on TV, or at a vitamin trade show -- I will be very glad to debate this individual, citing examples of American laws that have already been forced to be "harmonized" to international standards.  I will document exactly how these changes came about.  Your friend offers only superficial analysis, and does not grasp how the WTO's Dispute Settlement Process figures into the equation.  We're not talking about an American court here, with our rules of evidence.  This is a Micky-Mouse court rigged by multinational pharmaceutical interests to rubberstamp their greed-driven, monopolistic agenda.

If you examine the decisions made to date by the WTO's Dispute Settlement Panel, and I have and am prepared to document all of them, you will find that every decision they've made has gone against the public health, against the environment, against human rights, against labor rights, and against everything except their corporate bottom line.  Why do you think we have a global anti-WTO protest movement?  Why do you think we had the pitched battle in Seattle between demonstrators and police?  Why do you supposed this occurred again in Montreal, Geneva, Genoa, and many other cities around the world?

We are not living in America any more.  We're living in Amerika, under the 4th Reich.  The 911 CIA Psyop was not what the media would have us believe it was, but I'm sure your surface-scratching friend believes anything Dan Rather tells him.  The chess game that we are engaged in with the Pharma Cartel is not one that the average linear thinker is able to grasp.  It is too deep and complex for the sound-bite reporters.  The thought process involves an ability to think outside the box, and to analyze far more deeply than most people want to do.

In Codex Alimentarius, we are facing down a pharmaceutical control agenda, as well as a genocide agenda to cull our numbers.  If you think this is a "non-issue," peruse http://www.dieoff.org and ponder what is being said about the relationship between oil production and modern agriculture and food distribution.  VERY deep things are happening right now as the American police state goes into higher gear as the tip of the Illuminists spear for global control.  You are witnessing the end of America as a nation-state right now, and with these changes, NONE of our domestic laws or civil rights are secure.  All of our laws and institutions of government are subject to "harmonization" to international standards.  I do not like this fact at all, but it is reality.

/s/ John Hammell

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From: John Hammell [mailto:jham@iahf.com]

Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 11:57 AM

Subject:  Anti-Codex Petition Online

http://www.vitamins-for-all.org/

With one mouse click you can protest the nefarious UN/Pharma Cartel Codex plans to ban our access to high-potency vitamins and minerals.  On this site of Dr. Rath's, you can also quickly and easily get up to speed on the Codex vitamin issue.  You can find additional, more in depth information on the IAHF website at http://www.iahf.com

An oversight hearing on the Codex vitamin issue was whitewashed on March 20, 2001.  The USA is being set up at Codex by the FDA for our vitamin laws to be harmonized to a finalized Codex vitamin standard via a future WTO Trade Dispute.  FDA has set us up by falsely defining vitamin safety through a paper that they put on the table at Codex, which never underwent a public comments period and which was scientifically biased and paid for by pharmaceutical money.  This paper is on the IAHF website along with a solid rebuttal.  It is titled "A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Safe Upper Levels for Nutrients."  It is being billed as "the lesser of two evils" (compared with RDA levels), but it is still evil and it still sets us up.

The Codex vitamin proposal is at Step 4 of an eight-step process, where Step 8 is completion.  They're boiling the frog slowly in the hopes of not arousing a public backlash.  It is very important that we protest this constantly, and that we build our opposition larger until we reach the point where we flood them with so many faxes, calls, and emails that they withdraw their evil plans.

I (John Hammell) am writing a book about the Codex vitamin issue, and need your help as well to self-publish, and to expose the globalists' agenda.  Donations can be made electronically via PayPal at http://www.iahf.com and sent to IAHF, P.O. Box 625, Floyd, VA 24091 USA.  Anyone can sign up for the IAHF email distribution list.

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