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Perhaps you have heard of Codex Alimentarius and were wondering if it would affect you. The following is
provided to aid in that information gathering:
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Codex Alimentarius is
a global food-standards body that is deceptively promoted as "consumer protection". Codex serves the financial
interests of massive multi-national corporations, who are pushing to implement Codex in the United States. Many food supplements, containing vitamins and minerals that have not been approved as safe and bioavailable by the
European Food Safety Authority, will be BANNED. European Directive will impose restrictions on maximum dosages on vitamins
and minerals. The laws that will impact Americans are originating from Brussels and will supposedly become enacted by
our own U.S. Government. Thus far, Codex remains a looming threat to Americans' constitutional rights. List
of approved supplements, Annex I and Annex II:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32002L0046:EN:HTML Some
of the Codex Alimentarius agenda include: - Making
vitamins and minerals above a "maximum" dose per day an illegal substance.
- Destroying
the Wellness Industry in order to wipe out competition to the pharmaceutical industry.
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excellent reference for Codex and European Directive information can be found at http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/
Paul Anthony Taylor is Dr. Rath Foundation's External Relations Director. According to Paul Anthony Taylor,
"Codex is now the primary political battlefield where the war is being waged over who will regulate and control the global
food supply from farm to fork."
Codex also sets global standards for vitamin and mineral food supplements;
health claims; organic foods; genetically modified (GM) foods; food labeling; advertising; food additives, and residues of
pesticides and veterinary drugs in foods. In all areas, the evidence is now inescapable that Codex is increasingly putting
economic interests -- and particularly those of the pharmaceutical, chemical and GM industries -- before human health.
Interview with Mr. Taylor and more information regarding Codex:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/formula_as_interview_20090703.html
Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting, November 2007: Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, Chairman of the Codex Committee,
claims that consumers do not realize the benefits of genetically modified foods and they will, in time, change their minds
about them.
Nutritional risk analysis - According to Mr. Taylor, who attended the Codex Alimentarius Commission
meeting, November 2007, some key points were:
- There is blatant dismissal of consumers' concerns regarding genetically modified foods.
- Rather than protecting the health of consumers (which is a stated
"purpose" of Codex), the committee is proposing to set one single reference value for each vitamin and mineral,
and apply these to the entire world population from the age of 3 years and upwards.
Applying one reference value is rather nonsensical -- as is the Recommended Daily Intake
-- since each person has different vitamin and mineral needs, according to gender, food intake, pregnancy status, environment,
etc.Link to Mr. Taylor's article: http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex2007-badneuenahr.html
Ever wonder why the FDA . . .
- withdraws
beneficial supplements such as bioidentical hormones (previously in use for 35 years), vitamins, minerals and other natural
products after one adverse event--or makes them extremely difficult to obtain-- but allows prescription products to remain
on the market after many adverse events or even deaths?
- allows prescription antidepressants to remain on the market, even in the face of known suicidal thoughts in children
and adolescents, only placing a black-box warning on the product, in some cases?
On June 15, 1993, the FDA Dietary Supplement Task Force published a report on the work it
had been doing in the area of developing FDA policy around nutritional supplements. On page two, the report admits,
' "The Task Force considered various issues in it deliberations, including . . . what steps are necessary to ensure that
the existence of dietary supplements on the market DOES NOT ACT AS A DISINCENTIVE FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT (editor's emphasis)."
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http://www.gaia-health.com
At the above link, learn about the artificial ripening process
of produce, using ethylene gas. Codex allows this to be done with foods, and subsequently allows the "organic"
label to be applied. Therefore, the meaning of organic food (completely natural from planting to harvest, without synthetic
processes or ingredients) is completely corrupted.
The FDA has officially stated
its intent to participate in "international harmonization" to make all countries follow the same rules. To
aid them in their goal, they are opening international "food safety" branches--ten, so far.
The
FDA is attempting to redefine food as drugs. The first example is now before us: Crestor has been approved by
the FDA as a "preventative". You don't even have to be diagnosed with "high" cholesterol to take
it. In the March 3, 2005, WebMD Health News: The FDA is providing up-to-date
information about the risk of serious muscle damage (rhabdomyolysis) in patients taking Crestor and similar drugs (statins).
This is a well known, "rare" side effect of all statins.
Kidney failure
has also been reported in patients treated with Crestor, as well as other statins. However, the FDA states it's difficult
to establish the exact association between kidney failure and statins, since people who "need" statins to lower
cholesterol include those with other diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc., and are at higher
risk for developing kidney failure. The FDA then concludes that it "cannot confirm" that recommended doses
of statins can cause or worsen kidney failure. The "benefit" apparently always outweighs the "risk".
HR2749, also known as the "Food Safety and Enhancement Act of 2009", gives the
FDA draconian powers over small farms, food producers, and supplement (vitamins/minerals) producers. A farmer mentioning
the benefits of good nutrition (a basic fact), supported by scientific peer review from well-known universities, and health
benefits from any food crop (e.g., cherries, asparagus), will face a ten-year jail sentence. The same penalties will
apply to supplement producers. The bill also empowers the FDA to conduct random, warrantless searches of any food facility
records. Penalties for violations, even administrative errors--in addition to ten years in prison--are fines of $100,000
for an individual or $7.5 million for a corporation, even if it is just a small family farm. This
is a clear indication that congress and the FDA are leading America on the path to Codex Alimentarius: You will no longer
have choices when it comes to consuming organic foods, what vitamins and minerals you wish (and need) to take, and freedom
of speech will be dead. |
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7/30/2004: FDA issued a permanent injunction against
Lane Labs, blocking it from selling their nutritional supplements to people with various forms of cancer. Their most
popular supplement is called MGN-3, made from a rice bran extract and well known to boost NK cell function in the human immune
system. The FDA claimed the products were unapproved drugs because they are marketed with claims that they help treat
cancer. Another chapter of the FDA's war on on nutritional supplements, especially those that work.
6/24/2008:
Medicure Pharma, Inc., asks the FDA to ban the sale of vitamin B6 (renamed "MC-1" by Medicure), so they can market
it as a drug at 500,000% over the cost of the actual ingredients.
The same thing happened with red yeast
rice. Drug companies ripped off the lovastatin molecules from red yeast rice, then patented them and subsequently requested
outlawing of red yeast rice, claiming the natural supplement was adulterated with drugs. (Source: NaturalNews.com)
The above are only small samples of natural supplements banned by the FDA and their suppression
regarding the benefits of natural supplements.
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Obama's choice for science czar (Director of Office of Science
and Technology Policy) is John Holdren (a Harvard professor). Holdren is co-author of
Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, published in 1977. Examples outlined in the book include
possibility of forced abortion or giving children up for adoption and the imposition of a "Planetary Regime" to
enforce policies of population control. One enforcement mechanism was a global transnational police force. On
page 942-3, he proposes the "Planetary Regime - sort of an international superagency for population, resources,
and environment" to control and distribute all natural resources and determine the "optimum population for the world."
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