What is CODEX? (34), in short it is an annual World Health Organisation (WHO) sponsored gathering of delegates in Europe, many of them CFR Transnationals pharmaceutical corporations who are primarily focused on increasing their market share, by pushing their desired and arbitrary regulatory "standards" into a global standard and forcing it into the smaller local supplement industry, all in the name of "international regulatory excellence". The Codex Committee is also bound by the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) treaties.
The WTO is a global commercial police that ensures countries are required to purchase from transnational corporations in favour of their own locally produced goods, in the name of "lowering trade barriers".
This WHO/WTO joint effort called CODEX is in the process of wiping out local supplement companies and natural health care practices, to bring in more drug based medicines, in what is euphemistically known as "creating a level playing field", while primarily giving the public a misleading impression that someone in the World Health Organisation (WTO) is looking after its health and safety. CODEX recommendations are then adopted by regulators such as the Australian TGA or the US FDA by various direct or indirect means that end up as Acts and amendments that are passed into law by Parliaments or Congress, usually without public debate.
This is another example of globalisation and unconstitutional UN treaties.
Codex Alimentarius P1Vitamins, herbs abut to be declared illegal
By medical author Jonathan V. Wright, MD
The Nation magazine Vol4, edition 11
The official newspaper of One Nation
The Food and Drug Administration's wildest dream (and our worst nightmare) in the area of natural therapies is about to come true.
There is a conspiracy among multinational drug companies and their paid puppets in government, to make natural therapies unobtainable by regulating them out of the market.
Compliance will be possible, but the cost will be so prohibitive that only the multinational drug companies will be able to afford it.
What it means for you, the consumer, is that the global pharmaceutical industry is about to make it impossible for you to buy anything other than their products.
Two years ago, I told you about the passage of the European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements.
This directive, which is part of a larger form of legislation called Codex Alimentarius, severely restricts access to natural health products in Europe.
At the same time, it probably seemed a long way off.
After all, the law was not to go into effect for several years following the initial passage.
Unfortunately, that several years is up and the EU directive is on track to take full effect in August next year.
By 2007, the scene described above will certainly be a reality for many, many people.
Obviously, this is devastating news for Europe, but thanks to some pre-existing international agreements made by the United States and Australia, the EU directive will be just as devastating for the natural health community in the United States and Australia.
The main difference is that while the directive has been big news in Europe for some time, it has been virtually ignored by the United States and Australian media, which means that the severe restrictions it calls for will sneak up on most people and rob us all of our freedom to choose natural alternatives before we even know what is happening.
That is why I and many of my colleagues in the health publishing world have done our best to keep you informed of the directive's developments (and their consequences for the United States and Australia) over the years.
Put simply, we are down to the wire and, if we do not act immediately, we will be facing the same fate as Europeans.
There are steps you can take to get the word out and hopefully, to diffuse this ticking time bomb.
First, let us take a few minutes and recount some of the specifics included in the directive so that you know exactly what it is we are fight against.
About 5,000 natural health products are about to disappear from the shelves.
The EU Directive classifies vitamins and minerals in Europe as "medical drugs" rather than dietary supplements, which means that they are subject to government regulation in terms of dosage and availability.
It gets worse.
There are many nutrients known to be vital to optimal health that are not on the government's RDA nutrient list. These include chromium picolinate, lysine and selenium.
Under the directive, these types of supplements will be banned from over-the-counter sale. It will be illegal to buy them without a prescription.
The supplements that will be available till be restricted to multi-vitamins that will contain no more than 100 per cent of the established RDA amounts, which are usually useless trivial quantities and they will be far more expensive than what we have now.
This directive will make it illegal for people to keep themselves healthy by supplementing their diet with essential nutrients.
Plus, the directive allows supplements to be made from a list of only 15 minerals and 13 vitamins. That leaves out at least 40 minerals important to the human metabolism and forbids the use of the most bio-available forms of vitamin complexes.
In essence, it means that all nutritional supplements will be virtually the same and next to useless.
The specific combinations might vary, but the types and amounts of nutrients will be identical, no matter what product they are formulated into.
So, for instance, a middle-aged woman in Liverpool, England, who has a dangerously elevated homocysteine level will no longer have the option of reducing her risk of heart disease with a vitamin B dosage of her own choosing. If she is currently taking 5mg of folic acid daily, under the new directive, she will be restricted by law to a prescription of 1mg per day.
If she is taking a 100mg dose of B6, she will be restricted to 10mg and her pantothenic acid (B5) intake of 500mg will drop to 200mg.
These maximum dosage levels have been chosen to "protect" her (so we are told) when in fact, the protection she needs the most will be unavailable.
In addition to these essential B vitamins, low maximum dosage levels have also been set for vitamin C, niacin and vitamin E, but at least they made it on to the list of allowed nutrients.
Approximately 350 supplement ingredients are missing from the list.
If they are not added to the list by June 2005 they will be deemed illegal throughout the European Union.
Supplement manufacturers may submit "technical dossiers" to support applications for the inclusion of individual elements or formulations on the so-called "positive list", but the EU has made this process so expensive and time consuming that many manufactures will not be able to afford the costs involved.
Part 1of5 Codex Alimentarius is an attempt to overturn existing US laws in favor of pharma-friendly international trade rules. Codex is a threat to human health, human rights, democracy and national sovereignty.
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I'm going to start growing my own vegis, kicks in December this year.
