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From:
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news&ID=118
>>>>[brief excerpts]
Do Three Interlocking Events In November Signal The End Of Health Freedom?
By Suzanne Harris, J.D.
November 1st, Dr Christine Taylor announced the launch of the new Joint FAO/WHO framework project. It will build a new overarching international model for the evaluation of the safe upper levels of nutrients and maybe even model one or two vitamins or minerals all the way through to final conclusion on safe upper levels.
November 2nd, the Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission reached agreement on the final language for the guideline on vitamins and minerals as food supplements paving the way for its adoption in July 2005 in Rome.
November 10th, the General Principles Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission agreed to recommend deletion of the notification and acceptance procedures in the Codex Procedural Manual as ?obsolete? and ?irrelevant.?
Dr. Taylor made the announcement. The official FAO/WHO project to create, for the first time, an overarching framework for the establishment of safe upper levels for nutrients has been launched:
Dr. Christine Taylor, of the FDA, now on special assignment to the World Health Organization, announced at Codex NFSDU the formal launch of the Joint FAO/WHO Development of a Scientific Collaboration to Create a Framework for Risk Assessment of Nutrients and Related Substances on day one of the meeting in Bonn. The project represents the first major collaboration at an international level to create an overarching framework through which the upper levels for vitamins and minerals and ?related substances? can be formally established.[1] ?We should have communality and overarching principles where possible? explained Dr. Wim Van Eck, senior nutrition adviser to WHO?s Food Safety Department, to the Law Loft at the CCGP meeting in Paris.
The launch of this project is terribly important to the fate of health freedom and nutritional therapies for several reasons. One reason is that under paragraph 5.1 of the.....
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Codex Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses Committee reached final agreement on the last key paragraph of the Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements on November 2nd paving the way for final adoption at the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting in Rome in July 2005:
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From:
http://www.healthchoice.org.uk/codex/default.aspx
>>>>
CODEX Alimentarius ? A threat to your vitamin supplements?
By Paul Anthony Taylor
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a group of legislators from 48 different countries got together to talk about nutrition and food? Probably not, as most of us have more important things to think about. Presumably though, they would sit down and discuss the importance of diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases, and then try to figure out ways to help us all to live longer, healthier lives. Right?
Wrong, unfortunately.
Welcome to the world of the ?Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses?, where the committee chairman talks about pharmaceutical drugs preventing diseases and the EU representative states that food and the prevention of diseases do not go together. If you are the type of person who prefers processed food and who wouldn?t be seen dead in a health food shop, then you can relax and stop reading now, because Codex is definitely not a threat to your life style. But if you?re the sort who prefers natural healthcare to pharmaceutical drugs, and who supplements his or her diet with high doses of multi-vitamins and minerals then you could soon have a great deal to worry about, because Codex is a direct threat to your way of life.
So what is Codex?
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is the international body charged with setting global food standards. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly sponsor it. Codex Alimentarius literally means "food code", and the Commission was set up in 1963 to protect the health of consumers, ensure fair practices in international food trade and to co-ordinate all international food standards work. (1). The legal basis for the enforcement of the guidelines and standards created by Codex dates back to the mid-1990s, when Codex Alimentarius signed agreements with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by which Codex creates trade standards that the WTO uses to resolve international trade disputes. (2), (3), (4).
That all sounds fine, you are probably thinking. Nevertheless, how could Codex possibly affect me when I want to buy vitamins, minerals and other nutrients?
That is a good question.
In fact, with the exception of co-ordinating international food standards work Codex does not do any of the things that it was set up to do. The health of consumers is not being protected by the work of Codex, and the international t rade in food is anything but fair. Nowhere is this more apparent than in what Codex is trying to do to the international availability of vitamins and minerals (which come under the definition of food at Codex), where it is attempting to pass a variation on the extraordinarily restrictive EU Food Supplements Directive (5) as the blueprint for the global regulation of food supplements.
The EU Food Supplements Directive, passed by the EU Parliament in March 2002, will be fully implemented on 1st August 2005. An extremely controversial piece of legislation, it will ban, on grounds of safety, almost 300 forms of vitamins and minerals from being sold within the EU - many of which have been sold for decades and are the same forms of nutrients that are found in food itself. So contentious, in fact, is the legislation that the UK High Court has recently referred two cases challenging the legality of the ban to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Nevertheless, the EU is the single most important influence upon the Codex discussions, and Mr. Basil Mathioudakis, who was responsible for drafting the text of the EU Food Supplements Directive, is the head of the European Commission delegation at meetings of the ?Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses?. Now that the ten new candidate countries have joined the EU (in May 2004) Mr Mathioudakis will be representing a total of 25 EU Member States at Codex, and whenever he exercises his right to vote the 25 Member States will not be entitled to exercise theirs. (6). As such it is very likely that the EU will be able to wield a block vote at the next Codex meeting consisting of almost one half of all of the countries attending. (7).
Worse still, of the 48 countries who attended the previous meeting of the ?Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses? in November 2003 (8), only one of them, South Africa, is actively opposing these restrictive proposals for the world-wide availability of vitamins and mineral supplements. Democratically of course, since the EU, with its newly expanded population of 450 million people (9), is allowed 25 votes at Codex, then large countries such as the United States, with its population of over 280 million people (10), should proportionately be given at least 15 votes. Under the Codex voting system however the United States is allowed just one vote, which means that the EU is now in an extremely powerful position.
As a result, the Codex vitamin and mineral restrictions could possibly be finalised this coming November in Bonn, Germany. If this happens, the effect upon the aforementioned legal challenges to the EU Food Supplements Directive could be grave to say the least. If the Codex restrictions were agreed before the legal challenge was completed, the UK lawyers would in essence be arguing for the European Court of Justice to overturn legislation that was fully in line with a newly agreed global standard. Moreover, even if the legal challenges to the EU Food Supplements Directive are successful the Codex proposals could still be implemented as the global standard, thus effectively overruling any short-term victory for health freedom in the EU. As such, a finalised Codex text would have the ability to override the dietary supplement laws of all countries, including the United States.
In the long-term, it would be reasonable to expect that other EU health-related legislation, such as restrictive regulations on nutrition and health claims, will become the blueprints for still further standards to be enacted by Codex on a globally harmonised basis. Ironically, far from being the protectors of our health, our governments and legislators now appear to be one of the biggest risks to it.
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From:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/features/codex_wto.html#eu_codex
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The Codex threat to the Food Supplements Directive legal challenges
The Food Supplements Directive (29) was passed by the EU Parliament on 13th March 2002, and entered into law in the EU Member States on 1st August 2003. Its text and intent are remarkably similar to that of the Codex Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements (30), as its effect, when it becomes fully implemented on 1st August 2005, will be to remove large numbers of the most effective forms of nutrients from the EU market; set restrictive upper limits on the dosages of all nutrients permitted in the EU; and prevent the sale of all supplements for curative, preventative or therapeutic purposes within the EU without a doctor?s prescription.
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From:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/...maceutical_business/cancun_september2003.html
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The WTO recognizes an organization called ?Codex Alimentarius? (literally translated as ?food code?) as the primary international agency in setting standards for food and food (or dietary) supplements. Codex, for short, was set up and is jointly run by the World Health Organization and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, ??to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice?? that apply to food or food supplements.
Recognition by the WTO gives these Codex ?standards, guidelines and related texts? the force and scope of worldwide laws that supercede national laws such as the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in the USA and even regional laws such as the European Union?s recent Food Supplements Directive.
>>>>
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news&ID=118
>>>>[brief excerpts]
Do Three Interlocking Events In November Signal The End Of Health Freedom?
By Suzanne Harris, J.D.
November 1st, Dr Christine Taylor announced the launch of the new Joint FAO/WHO framework project. It will build a new overarching international model for the evaluation of the safe upper levels of nutrients and maybe even model one or two vitamins or minerals all the way through to final conclusion on safe upper levels.
November 2nd, the Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission reached agreement on the final language for the guideline on vitamins and minerals as food supplements paving the way for its adoption in July 2005 in Rome.
November 10th, the General Principles Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission agreed to recommend deletion of the notification and acceptance procedures in the Codex Procedural Manual as ?obsolete? and ?irrelevant.?
Dr. Taylor made the announcement. The official FAO/WHO project to create, for the first time, an overarching framework for the establishment of safe upper levels for nutrients has been launched:
Dr. Christine Taylor, of the FDA, now on special assignment to the World Health Organization, announced at Codex NFSDU the formal launch of the Joint FAO/WHO Development of a Scientific Collaboration to Create a Framework for Risk Assessment of Nutrients and Related Substances on day one of the meeting in Bonn. The project represents the first major collaboration at an international level to create an overarching framework through which the upper levels for vitamins and minerals and ?related substances? can be formally established.[1] ?We should have communality and overarching principles where possible? explained Dr. Wim Van Eck, senior nutrition adviser to WHO?s Food Safety Department, to the Law Loft at the CCGP meeting in Paris.
The launch of this project is terribly important to the fate of health freedom and nutritional therapies for several reasons. One reason is that under paragraph 5.1 of the.....
.....
Codex Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses Committee reached final agreement on the last key paragraph of the Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements on November 2nd paving the way for final adoption at the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting in Rome in July 2005:
.....
>>>>>
From:
http://www.healthchoice.org.uk/codex/default.aspx
>>>>
CODEX Alimentarius ? A threat to your vitamin supplements?
By Paul Anthony Taylor
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a group of legislators from 48 different countries got together to talk about nutrition and food? Probably not, as most of us have more important things to think about. Presumably though, they would sit down and discuss the importance of diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases, and then try to figure out ways to help us all to live longer, healthier lives. Right?
Wrong, unfortunately.
Welcome to the world of the ?Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses?, where the committee chairman talks about pharmaceutical drugs preventing diseases and the EU representative states that food and the prevention of diseases do not go together. If you are the type of person who prefers processed food and who wouldn?t be seen dead in a health food shop, then you can relax and stop reading now, because Codex is definitely not a threat to your life style. But if you?re the sort who prefers natural healthcare to pharmaceutical drugs, and who supplements his or her diet with high doses of multi-vitamins and minerals then you could soon have a great deal to worry about, because Codex is a direct threat to your way of life.
So what is Codex?
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is the international body charged with setting global food standards. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly sponsor it. Codex Alimentarius literally means "food code", and the Commission was set up in 1963 to protect the health of consumers, ensure fair practices in international food trade and to co-ordinate all international food standards work. (1). The legal basis for the enforcement of the guidelines and standards created by Codex dates back to the mid-1990s, when Codex Alimentarius signed agreements with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by which Codex creates trade standards that the WTO uses to resolve international trade disputes. (2), (3), (4).
That all sounds fine, you are probably thinking. Nevertheless, how could Codex possibly affect me when I want to buy vitamins, minerals and other nutrients?
That is a good question.
In fact, with the exception of co-ordinating international food standards work Codex does not do any of the things that it was set up to do. The health of consumers is not being protected by the work of Codex, and the international t rade in food is anything but fair. Nowhere is this more apparent than in what Codex is trying to do to the international availability of vitamins and minerals (which come under the definition of food at Codex), where it is attempting to pass a variation on the extraordinarily restrictive EU Food Supplements Directive (5) as the blueprint for the global regulation of food supplements.
The EU Food Supplements Directive, passed by the EU Parliament in March 2002, will be fully implemented on 1st August 2005. An extremely controversial piece of legislation, it will ban, on grounds of safety, almost 300 forms of vitamins and minerals from being sold within the EU - many of which have been sold for decades and are the same forms of nutrients that are found in food itself. So contentious, in fact, is the legislation that the UK High Court has recently referred two cases challenging the legality of the ban to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
Nevertheless, the EU is the single most important influence upon the Codex discussions, and Mr. Basil Mathioudakis, who was responsible for drafting the text of the EU Food Supplements Directive, is the head of the European Commission delegation at meetings of the ?Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses?. Now that the ten new candidate countries have joined the EU (in May 2004) Mr Mathioudakis will be representing a total of 25 EU Member States at Codex, and whenever he exercises his right to vote the 25 Member States will not be entitled to exercise theirs. (6). As such it is very likely that the EU will be able to wield a block vote at the next Codex meeting consisting of almost one half of all of the countries attending. (7).
Worse still, of the 48 countries who attended the previous meeting of the ?Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses? in November 2003 (8), only one of them, South Africa, is actively opposing these restrictive proposals for the world-wide availability of vitamins and mineral supplements. Democratically of course, since the EU, with its newly expanded population of 450 million people (9), is allowed 25 votes at Codex, then large countries such as the United States, with its population of over 280 million people (10), should proportionately be given at least 15 votes. Under the Codex voting system however the United States is allowed just one vote, which means that the EU is now in an extremely powerful position.
As a result, the Codex vitamin and mineral restrictions could possibly be finalised this coming November in Bonn, Germany. If this happens, the effect upon the aforementioned legal challenges to the EU Food Supplements Directive could be grave to say the least. If the Codex restrictions were agreed before the legal challenge was completed, the UK lawyers would in essence be arguing for the European Court of Justice to overturn legislation that was fully in line with a newly agreed global standard. Moreover, even if the legal challenges to the EU Food Supplements Directive are successful the Codex proposals could still be implemented as the global standard, thus effectively overruling any short-term victory for health freedom in the EU. As such, a finalised Codex text would have the ability to override the dietary supplement laws of all countries, including the United States.
In the long-term, it would be reasonable to expect that other EU health-related legislation, such as restrictive regulations on nutrition and health claims, will become the blueprints for still further standards to be enacted by Codex on a globally harmonised basis. Ironically, far from being the protectors of our health, our governments and legislators now appear to be one of the biggest risks to it.
>>>>
From:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/features/codex_wto.html#eu_codex
>>>>
The Codex threat to the Food Supplements Directive legal challenges
The Food Supplements Directive (29) was passed by the EU Parliament on 13th March 2002, and entered into law in the EU Member States on 1st August 2003. Its text and intent are remarkably similar to that of the Codex Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements (30), as its effect, when it becomes fully implemented on 1st August 2005, will be to remove large numbers of the most effective forms of nutrients from the EU market; set restrictive upper limits on the dosages of all nutrients permitted in the EU; and prevent the sale of all supplements for curative, preventative or therapeutic purposes within the EU without a doctor?s prescription.
>>>>
From:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/...maceutical_business/cancun_september2003.html
>>>>
The WTO recognizes an organization called ?Codex Alimentarius? (literally translated as ?food code?) as the primary international agency in setting standards for food and food (or dietary) supplements. Codex, for short, was set up and is jointly run by the World Health Organization and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, ??to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice?? that apply to food or food supplements.
Recognition by the WTO gives these Codex ?standards, guidelines and related texts? the force and scope of worldwide laws that supercede national laws such as the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in the USA and even regional laws such as the European Union?s recent Food Supplements Directive.
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