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The UN/WTO Codex criminalizes vitamins, supplements and herbs (Take Action)
Common Ground ^ | 03.01.05 | Helke Ferrie

Posted on 03/01/2005 8:03:10 PM PST by Coleus

Codex Alimentarius, a United Nations trade committee, a decade ago began working on “harmonization” of the worldwide sale of supplements. It decided in November 2004 that vitamins, minerals and all other types of medicinally useful supplements, commonly also found in foods, should be traded only as pharmaceuticals. Paradoxically, the committee decided that health claims must not be made for any of them, and in large dosages they must only be available by prescription.

Codex requires that, as of August 1, 2005, all supplements have to be subject to pharmaceutical-type regulation, which requires establishment of toxicity levels and maximum/minimum dosages, before they can be sold. The principal Codex report which provides the “scientific” grounds for this impending wholesale removal of all supplements is in German and not generally available.

Legal action was taken by health freedom groups on European Union constitutional grounds and heard in the International Court in Luxembourg on January 25 this year. The result will be known in June. Because of the interlocking international treaties to which Canada is a signatory, Codex resolutions are binding for Canadians, and the World Trade Organization enforces compliance. Federal bill C-420, which gets second reading in Ottawa March 3, is designed to protect Canadians from Codex.

To find out more and what you can do to stop this process by supporting this bill go to
www.kospublishing.com and click on the Codex alert banner found on the home page.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: codex; health; healthcare; libertarians; nutrition; supplements; trade; un; wod; wodlist; wto
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To: A. Pole

What will they try next, require liscences to buy water purifiers?


21 posted on 03/02/2005 4:41:03 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: Annie03; Baby Bear; BJClinton; BlackbirdSST; Blue Jays; BroncosFan; Capitalism2003; dAnconia; ...


22 posted on 03/03/2005 12:24:16 AM PST by freepatriot32 (Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan, a pantomime horse in which both men are playing the rear end. M.Steyn)
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To: Coleus

Get the u.s. out of the u.n. then get the u.n. out of the u.s.

23 posted on 03/03/2005 12:25:58 AM PST by freepatriot32 (Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan, a pantomime horse in which both men are playing the rear end. M.Steyn)
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To: Incorrigible

"I'm actually in favor of private, independent rating agencies that can audit SOPs and methods and provide a rating for not just herbal companies but consumer goods as well. This way consumers can be more knowledgeable about the quality of what they are purchasing and ingesting. It certainly should not be the UN doing this job."

Sounds like we do agree. But the above statement is quite different from your earlier post:
"According to my pharmaceutical chemist wife, the herbal drug manufacturing process is long overdue for some oversight.
The quality control performed at most plants that produce OTC herbal drugs do not meet what she considers minimal requirements (she runs a very tight QC ship though)."

The earlier post sounds like you advocate regulation -- after all, what else is regulation but required "oversight"?

BTW, did you see that they pulled another pharmaceutical off the market this week because people were dying from it? If any industry needs some more oversight it would be the pharmaceutical companies.


24 posted on 03/03/2005 9:59:33 AM PST by webstersII
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To: A. Pole

Are you suggesting that somehow the U.N. enforcing rules that no but the U.N. agrees with is either a "Free Market" or "Privatization"?


25 posted on 03/03/2005 10:06:38 AM PST by Durus
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To: freepatriot32

Get the u.s. out of the u.n. then get the u.n. out of the u.s. >>

Amen!


26 posted on 03/12/2005 10:10:35 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: WorkingClassFilth; discostu; cyborg

FDA COMMISSIONER SENATE HEARING

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold hearings on Thursday, March 17 to examine the nomination of Lester m. Crawford, DVM, PhD to be FDA Commissioner.

Crawford, who has been FDA's acting commissioner since former Commissioner Mark McClellan moved to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in March 2004, was nominated to the post on February 15, 2005. Crawford also served as acting FDA commissioner from February to November 2002.

The hearing is to begin at 10 a.m (EST), held in Room SD-430 and will be broadcast at . http://www.capitolhearings.org/ and possibly C-SPAN.

US CODEX COALITION – YOUR HELP NEEDED

As you have probably heard by now, AAHF is leading a workshop to bring together the top organizations, activists, and others interested in Codex. This 2-day workshop will be held April 22-23 in Crystal City, VA with a press conference on April 25th at the National Press Club to announce the formation of the US Codex Coalition and the participants.

We have also sent members of Congress a survey about Codex to gain a better understanding of what they think of the potential threat.

There is a growing unease about Codex and the FDA is feeling it. They recently posted on the website their response to several questions they have been receiving: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html. We are inviting a FDA representative to attend the workshop. We'll keep you posted.


27 posted on 03/15/2005 1:10:57 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Lil'freeper

Weston Price ping


28 posted on 03/15/2005 1:13:31 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Coleus

Ping - this legislation is on it's way - CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting is set for July 4-9 in Rome - for more info try www.codex.nancyleebentley.com.


29 posted on 06/01/2005 6:08:13 AM PDT by standorfall
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To: standorfall

thanks for the heads up.


30 posted on 06/01/2005 6:49:53 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: Coleus

thanks.


31 posted on 04/05/2009 10:07:00 AM PDT by ken21 (the only thing we have to fear is fdr deja vu.)
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