Codex Alimentarius Food Standard to be Adopted Worldwide on December 31, 2009

Codex Alimentarius Food Standard to be Adopted Worldwide on December 31, 2009

December 22, 2009

HealthFreedomUSA.org - ...What the Obamacare plan, in all of its versions, means is that THEY have the freedom to make YOUR health decisions. And they are not on your side...

The threats are not just from the Federal bureaucracy, of course. A committee of Codex Alimentarius (the so-called World Food Code, a UN agency) this past November moved to institute its long-sought upper limit “Nutrient Reference Values” (NRVs) for daily intake. For everyone.

Everywhere. No matter what their biological or health status. The NRVs are designed to be so low that they are actually insufficient to avoid deficiency diseases (ex: Vit. C, restricted to 45 mgs, while at least 60 mgs are needed daily just to prevent clinical scurvy, Vit. D restricted to 5 IU while at least 1000 is necessary to support immune functioning).

This, of course, is an excellent business model for the Illness Industry which, with the deep commitment of the US at Codex, is in the process of degrading the global food supply and, with it, the global immune system, resulting in decreasing longevity and increasing disease, preventable deaths and, of course, increasing profits.
 
This is a prime example of what happens when government, in this case, Global Government, interferes with natural processes and regulates health. The result is always restriction and, ultimately, illness of both your body and the body politic.
 
The FDA is, of course, firmly committed to bringing these international restrictions, for which it works hard at Codex, home to the US where our freedoms will be sharply abridged to their limitations and restrictions.

How can we exercise health freedom if the marketplace is not permitted to provide the goods and services, including the nutrients and clean foods, we choose to patronize?

Yet another example: there is an – at best – misguided “health freedom” group out there campaigning for state-level laws licensing CAM practices. I say “at best” because we strongly suspect this group is funded indirectly by Big Pharma, while they pretend to be in favor of “health freedom.”
 
How, you ask, do ‘freedom’ and ‘license’ get confused in their minds, given that this group is headed by a lawyer? Well it would certainly appear that at the very least they don’t understanding freedom the way Health Freedom USA supporters do. We know the difference between natural liberty and grants of privilege. Those “at the table” and those hanging around it to scarf up the crumbs they can collect as they fall, certainly do not.

But with our knowledge comes new responsibility. YOU are responsible for your own health. YOU are responsible for your own freedom. No one “gives” you either. The governmental level of control is certainly trying to take both away from you. Only your rational, self-protective actions in the real world will achieve either of these goods… and when combined, perhaps Thomas Jefferson said it best:

“Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society”...

Codex Alimentarius: The Control and Denial of Science
Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses
31st Session (November 2009) of the Codex Committee
Codex Alimentarius Commission Official Website

S.510 Food Safety Modernization Act – Partial But Important Victory Offers Some Protection Against Codex

November 20, 2009

National Health Federation Press Release - The Senate HELP Committee unanimously approved an amended version of S.510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization legislation. On the Codex issue, a partial but important victory was achieved.

NHF member's concerns, and the concerns of others in the health-freedom community, were heard, as the statutory language on Codex harmonization was changed to direct the Food and Drug Administration to report to Congress on "whether and how to harmonize requirements under the Codex Alimentarius" on the issue of foreign conventional food processing standards.
 
This is an important but partial victory. There are a few organizations along with the NHF that have been seriously committed to actually lobbying and petitioning the Senate concerning the FDA's involvement with Codex, and we are all grateful to those Senators active in eliminating the harmonization wording.
 
An additional, related issue, though, concerns the FDA’s failure to comply with existing Federal law and issue a regulation to exempt dietary supplements from any international harmonization standards (i.e., Codex). 

The NHF is still opposed to H.R.2749 and S.510. We supported eliminating any reference to the use of Codex harmonization standards for foods in the bill because of, among other things, the FDA's historical abuse when applying food standards to supplements. The modified statutory language takes a step in this direction, but does not fully close the door.

This is important because if it is enacted into final law, then the FDA will still be required to report to Congress on how it intends to implement a national food-safety plan and will have to explain its use of Codex harmonization standards for conventional foods only (but not as to supplement products). If the FDA decides to apply international harmonization standards to U.S. supplements, it will have to explain what U.S. law gives them the authority to do so.
 
Both Senators Orrin Hatch and Tom Harkin (the Committee Chairman) in opening statements, spent several minutes stating that Codex did not apply to DSHEA. Specifically, Senator Harkin said, "Codex has no jurisdiction over the regulation of the manufacture and sale of supplements in the United States."

As equally important as the statutory language is the yet-to-be-filed Bill Report language, which will amplify these statements on this provision of the bill. Bill Reports state Congressional intent on the meaning of the statutory language in enacted laws.

The next steps in the process are for the Senate to pass the "Chairman's Mark," the new S.510, followed by a joint House-Senate Conference Committee to resolve differences with the Waxman/Dingell bill, H.R.2749.
 
In a related issue, the NHF is jointly lobbying Congress with the National Health Freedom Coalition, Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation, and a few other groups with Washington lobbyists, all of whom are continuing to work with Senate staff to insert our FDA Codex regulatory-fix language into the Senate Bill report for S.510. Our language supports the statutory language in the Senate bill on the FDA and reference to Codex standards not applying to DSHEA already in the bill. The fix language would force the FDA to report to Congressional Committees on why, for over 10 years, the FDA has refused to issue a regulation, as was instructed in the FDA Modernization Act of 1997, to exempt dietary supplements from international harmonization standards.
 
The modified bill language – with clear statements of Congressional intent on the non-application of Codex standards to supplements – is an important step forward. The Bill Report should provide further protection against the FDA's continued Codex dietary supplement interpretive freelancing, especially with inclusion of the FDA/Codex regulatory-fix language. 

A copy of the Chairman's Mark, the new S.510, can be downloaded from the NHF webpage.
The Federation appreciates the continued active participation of members to influence this decision. The ongoing Congressional assault upon Americans’ freedoms, as well as the Congressional drive to expand control of the FDA and more government control over health matters, continue.
For further information on Codex, please visit the NHF website (Codex).