Codex Alimentarius

Dare you ignore it?

Never heard of it.... I'm not suprised...they seem to want to keep this very quiet!!

Codex Alimentarius = Food Code.

Codex began simply enough when the U.N. authorized the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization to develop a universal food code. Their purpose was to 'harmonize' regulations for dietary supplements worldwide and set international safety standards for the purposes of increased trade.

Pharmaceutical interests stepped in and began exerting their influence. Instead of focusing on food safety, Codex is using its power to promote worldwide restrictions on vitamins and food supplements, severely limiting their availability and dosages.

Some Codex standards which are proposed to take effect in the near future, and which will be completely irrevocable once initiated, include:5
• All nutrients (e.g., vitamins and minerals) are to beconsidered toxins/poisons and are to be removed from all food because Codex prohibits the use of nutrients to "prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease".
• All food (including organic) is to be irradiated, thus removing all "toxic"
nutrients from food (unless consumers can source their food locally). The
precursor to Codex harmonisation in this area began in the USA in August
2008 with the clandestine decision to mandate the mass irradiation of all
lettuce and spinach in the name of public health and safety. If the safety
of the public was the main concern of the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), then why were people not alerted to this new practice?
• Nutrients allowed will be limited to a Positive List developed by Codex; it
will include such "beneficial" nutrients as fluoride (3.8 mg daily), sourced
from industrial waste.

• All nutrients (e.g., vitamins A, B, C, D, zinc and magnesium) that have any positive health impact on the body will be deemed illegal in therapeutic doses under Codex and are to be reduced to amounts negligible to health, with maximum limits set at 15 per cent of the current Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA).6 You
will not be able to obtain these nutrients in therapeutic doses anywhere in the world, even with a prescription.
Potentially permissible safe levels of nutrients under the Codex are not yet set in stone. Some probable examples based on the European Union (EU) system may include:
Niacin: upper limit of 34 μg (micrograms) daily (effective daily doses range from 2,000 to 3,000 μg).
– Vitamin C: upper limits of 65 to 225 μg daily (effective daily doses
range from 6,000 to 10,000 μg).
– Vitamin D: upper limit of 5 μgdaily (effective daily doses range from
6,000 to 10,000 μg).
– Vitamin E: upper limit of 15 IU(international units) of alpha tocopherol
per day, even though alpha tocopherol
by itself has been implicated in cell damage and is toxic to the body
(effective daily doses of mixed tocopherols range from 10,000 to
12,000 IU).
• It will most likely be illegal to give any advice on nutrition
(including in written articles posted online and in journals as
well as oral advice to a friend, a family member or anyone). This
directive applies to any and all reports on vitamins and minerals
and all nutritionists' consultations. This type of information may be
considered a hidden barrier to trade and may result in economic trade sanctions for the involved country.

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WHAT CODEX WILL BRING
What can we expect under Codex? To give you an idea, here are some important points:

* Dietary supplements could not be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use.
* Potencies would be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the drug companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies would have the right to produce and sell the higher potency products (at inflated prices).
* Prescriptions would be required for anything above the extremely low doses allowed (such as 35 mg. on niacin).
* Common foods such as garlic and peppermint would be classified as drugs or a third category (neither food nor drugs) that only big pharmaceutical companies could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water.
* Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (escape clauses would be eliminated).
* All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through Codex testing and approval.
* Genetically altered food would be sold worldwide without labeling.
According to John Hammell, a legislative advocate and the founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF), here is what we have to look forward to:

"If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex Alimentarius is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. Predictably, this scenario has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association and the Health Protection Branch of Canada (HPB).

It is now a criminal offence in parts of Europe to sell herbs as foods. An agreement called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to selling other illegal drugs. Action is being taken to accelerate other European countries into 'harmonization' as well.

The Codex Alimentarius proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an Echinacea tincture, which is being sold there as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores or pharmacies."

READ UP ON IT YOURSELF..... THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.... JUST THINK OF THE HERBS YOU USE IN COOKING IT WILL BE ILLEGAL!!!!!!