CODEX Assault to Limit Health Supplements Gaining-Dangerously
by Robin Falkov, L. A. P., D.N.B.H.E.
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/codexassault14may04.shtml
May 14, 2004
Even as you read this, our health freedom rights are severely
endangered. Access to necessary nutritional supplements and herbs are about
to be drastically limited. In most cases, manyof these items could be totally
curtailed if a special interest agenda, from an international organization
that has been carefully planning this for over 40 years, is allowed to succeedin
its agenda unopposed:
The United Nations Codex Alimentarius Commission!
Formed in 1962, "CODEX" was initially set up as
a joint program of the WHO (World Health Org) and the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO). Its original mandate was to establish a "harmonized
trade standard" to govern international sales of all food products
all over the world, especially in Third World countries. In fact, "standards
harmonization" quietly became a bureaucratic euphemism for establishing
"one universal standard" for supplements world-wide -- enabling
key mega-pharmaceutical companies to more efficiently ( translate "more
profitably") ultimately control world-wide production and distribution
of all critically needed health products.
It would be easy to write this off as just another "loony
conspiracy theory," instead of what it really is -- a long term plan
motivated by that common denominator, greed.
The center of world-wide pharmaceutical production for over
half a century has been Germany. Germany, the European Union (EU) member
country, which hosts the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special
Dietary Use, is at the forefront of this accelerating plan (see below) to
railroad our dietary supplement laws into final "international harmonization."
Now, is it just "coincidental" that the one Nation that dominates
the EU is ... Germany?
The only reliable vehicle to get the word out on this developing
agenda has been the Internet. John Hammell, of International Advocates for
Health Freedom, has been fighting diligently for over 10 years to protect
our rights and provide comprehensive world wide coverage of this corporate
agenda at : www.iahf.com, where you can sign
on to the IAHF email distrubtion list for updates. A wealth of information
is there, chronicling and documenting all aspects of this major, yet almost
unknown battle for these vital supplements over many years.
This is what you can do to help:
The Alliance for Natural Health, www.alliance-natural-health.org
based in England, has brought the only effective lawsuit to challenge these
European Union Directives targeting a list of specific nutritional supplements
and herbs for "control and removal from the marketplace." If these
Directives which have become law, are not overturned, buying more than highly
limited amounts of a carefully restricted selection of key supplements will
be illegal -- not just in Europe, but (because of international agreements
-- see below) in the United States!
Like Prohibition, if this is passed you will go to jail -- for even attempting
to buy more than small, prescribed amounts of supplements in the flourishing
black market that is sure to develop here in the wake of the EU's current
efforts -- if they become law.
The ANH website has a Worldpay button where donations can
be made to enable the lawsuit to proceed. This is our lastchance to stop
the steamroller that is heading for the United States. We must make sure
the EU Directive is overturned!
We must fight now. Codex could very well be finalized
by November, 2004 in Bonn, Germany.
Please mail international money orders to:
Alliance for Natural Health
Mount Manor House
16 The Mount
Guildford
Surrey GU2 4HS
UK
Let's not have nutritional supplements such as boron, vanadium,
mixed tocopherols, DHEA, essential fatty acids, sulphur , MSM and many others,
no longer available. We do NOT want natural formulations replaced with synthetics
that are NOT the equivalent. We do NOT want simple and safe vitamins such
as Vitamin C, limited to "a milligram amount ,"available only
in amounts below 200 mgs! For here is where the agenda becomes clear: the
reduced milligram amounts for this and other supplements translates to MORE
money for the mega-pharmaceutical corporations -- because of greater volume
sales to consumers, who will seek to maintain their critical levels of supplementation
at almost any cost. Simple supply and demand.
We desperately need to maintain our UNRESTRICTED access to
a wide variety of herbal supplements that have been safely used for centuries
by cultures all around the world! The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products
Directive and the Pharmaceuticals Directive will go into effect if the FSD
is not overturned. This in turn threatens to turn any substance with any
physiologic effect in the body into a "drug." It would turn WATER
into a "drug," and then attempt to regulate its use!
Germany, Italy and France already have an active black market
for the many of the restricted nutritional supplements, no longer available
in Europe. Many people there are trying to order supplements by mail. Unfortunately,
even these methods which are illegal in those countries, will become more
difficult to use as current loopholes are eliminated by the proposed new
Directives, and restrictions tightened further.
Your giant pharmaceutical companies of which Bayer, Pfizer
and Roche are just a few examples, are major contributors to many political
campaigns worldwide, which enable them to maintain their positions of power
and control of these world markets. The recent book, "The Selling of
the President," documents the history of the George W. Bush 2000 campaign
which ultimately received major "pharma funding" from companies
like these.
Pharmaceutical companies actively try to isolate what they
consider to be the active ingredient of herbs. Once these can be isolated
and synthesized, patents can be obtained, leading to more control of supply,
more revenue, and much higher prices for consumers. Unfortunately, the health
benefits are no longer equal.
The whole concept of "standardization and isolation"
from an individual herb, is harmful or even ineffective. It is the synergistic
effect of all the aspects of an herb, occurring together in nature, that
brings about the most efficacious and safe results. Results that work! Otherwise,
you're creating drugs.
While Codex claims to also protect consumers with these standards,
they are actually (and obviously) safeguarding the economic profit interests
for the large multinational corporations. All, ultimately, at the expense
of the consumer. The UN Codex process is being dominated by these large
Multinationals.
Voting for members has been structured to provide "one
vote per country," regardless of size or the amount of manufacturing
taking place within that country. So, you have a situation where even the
smallest nations that do not manufacture dietary supplements will have as
much say as countries (such as the United States) hundreds of times larger.
The European Union consists of 25 member countries, as of
May 1, 2004. The EU member countries currently providing freer access to
supplements are England, Ireland, Sweden and Holland. Hopefully, from the
preceeding details, you can now see how easily the current rights and access
these countries wish to preserve for their own citizens soon will be forced
into "harmonization" with the greater number of members in the
EU via this "one vote, one country" rule, regardless of the wishes
of those citizens.
The Uruguay round of Global Agreements on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT) created the World Trade Organization as a control mechanism to force
countries to adopt an international standard. Before the WTO, this was by
voluntary agreement; once the WTO was formed, the international standards
became mandatory for these countries and had to be adopted as their own.
For example, the only legal option for refusing to adopt a
Codex WTO vitamin standard over a country's own laws, is on the basis of
"safety "(an "SPS agreement"). But all disputes of jurisdiction
and alleged violations are adjudicated in a new international Court, outside
the US, created by the WTO itself. This presents a major problem for US
citizens, as this international WTO Court does NOT follow our Constitutional
"rules of evidence!" The WTO Court (known officially as the "Dispute
Settlement Body") is therefore obviously rigged to uphold the interests
of certain multinational corporations, regardless of contrary existing evidence,
corporations which will increasingly profit from their ever tighter restrictions
and control of supplements, including in this Court.
The Court is made up of members from some very diverse countries.
This is good, because it would tend to reduce "bloc voting." But,
the WTO Court -- unlike court rulings here -- makes its rulings in secret!
This is bad ... very bad indeed.
To give you a vivid example: we -- that is you and me -- are
not permitted in this Court, presided over by the Dispute Settlement Body
of the WTO. The proceedings cannot be watched. Private citizens have NO
"standing" to appear before this court as witness or plaintiffs,
no matter how technically qualified they are. The only way for a private
citizen to appear, would be if both conflicting parties were in agreement
to allow it. This has never happened. For the most part, the only people
with standing to appear before this Court are representatives of WTO member
nations.
If the EU Food Service Directive (FSD) is not overturned with
this pending ANH legal action, which is currently moving up the path to
the European Court of Justice via the Alliance for Natural Health lawsuit,
it is more than possible that there will be enough countries to overrule
the United States at Codex, where many parts of the FSD will be used when
international vitamin laws are finally codified. The EU FSD has banned 300
ingredients used in the manufacture of 5,000 products, forcing them to be
watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. The FSD puts the vitamin industry
into a regulatory straightjacket which kills innovation in the industry.
Once a Codex vitamin law is finalized, it will supercede all US supplement
laws -- via the other international agreements that former US Presidents
have signed.
Did that come across? Let me repeat this: once a Codex Vitamin
law is finalized, it will supercede all US supplement laws. It is horrific
to even consider this.
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Congress turned their backs on us once before, on March 20, 2001, when they
whitewashed the Codex Oversight Hearing Committee that had been strongly
recommended by International Advocates for Health as an opportunity to protect
our rights. Because of this congressional inaction, the White House's Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) set up the USA to lose in a future WTO dispute,
via which all our vitamin laws can be limited to a grossly restrictive international
Codex standard.
The only chance we have of stopping this agenda, is by donating
support to the ANH lawsuit!!! The *PRIORITY* is support of the ANH lawsuit,
with your donations, to overturn the FSD in the European Court. This lawsuit
can be won. Numerous errors were made in the FSD becuase it was drafted
by bureaucrats with poor knowledge of the European Union law. It is legally
vulnerable and we can win!
Previous efforts made by writing to your Congressman were
disregarded. Remember, large pharmaceutical companies make large donations
to support political campaigns. What chance is there for your representatives
to go against this system? Let's put them to the test! Try again and try
harder! Make the phone calls, send your letters and faxes. Please copy me
by email and letter (no faxes, please) so we can track the results of your
requests, made to your representatives. I will be on the hill this summer
and will personally find out what impact your efforts have achieved. This
information will be reported during my next appearance on Coast and at this
website, as well as linked from
www.enterprisemission.com.
In the 90's, Mel Gibson made a public service commercial in
support of vitamin access. It was quite effective as it portrayed a S.W.A.T.
team bursting into his kitchen, complete with M16s and German Shepherds,
as he innocently reached for vitamins from his kitchen shelf. Let's try
to get him aware and involved again! You may write to him care of:
International Creative Management
8942 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, Ca. 90211
310-550-4100 fax
Please, I am imploring you, pleading with you ... to do whatever
it will take!
You now know.
Don’t sit around, and find yourself saying in a year
or so, "I could have stopped this, if only ... I could have ... I should
have ... and I didn't!"
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