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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
----- Original Message -----
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.
09:13 PM 11/28/01 -0800:
Hello John,
I sent the link (http://www.vitamins-for-all.org ) to a friend
of mine and here is his reply to me (so what's the deal?)
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.
> “Example of alarmist stuff: ‘The drug companies want to take
> control of it all, thus either eliminating products altogether
or
> making them very expensive and only available through a
> prescription, and pharmaceutically made with synthetics (this
has
> already happened in Germany)."
>
> Actual statement: "5.9 All labels shall bear a statement
> that the supplement should be taken on an advice of a
> nutritionist, a dietician or a medical doctor.]"
>
> This doesn't mandate anything more than what a label shall say,
> and that it SHOULD be taken on advice of (etc.). It says
nothing
> about restricting access to prescription only, and doesn't even
imply it.
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.
> “And the actual document isn't complex -- it is 2.5 sparse
pages.”
> “Alarmist statement: "pharmaceutically made with synthetics"
> Codex document: "The selection of admissible ingredient sources
> of nutrient or compounds should be based on criteria such as
> safety and bioavailability of the [FAO/WHO or Pharmacopoeias and
> national legislation]." [note that there's unfinished
stuff like
> this in the doc because it IS a working document]”
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.
> “Actuality: You already can buy many vitamins and supplements
in
> natural or synthetic forms. There is nothing whatever in
the
> document mandating the source or supply of materials from which
> the supplements would be made, other than suggesting they be
safe
> (of course one could then redefine "safe," but that isn't
> apparent here). There may well be laws that are very
restrictive
> in Germany -- big surprise. Doesn't look like this
organization
> caused that.... Have this person point to the Codex
working document or agenda >that they feel is going to cause the
problems they're mentioning.”
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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