Thanks for the ping! This is my main field of interest and has been all my life. I'm very worried about having my supplements "approved" by the WHO Codex Alimentarium commie fascists.
Here is an excerpt of article about supplements in Canada that I just found online. Canada seems to be moving faster than we are toward lockstep dictatorial control of the nutrition industry. We may not be far behind. You can read more at http://sumeria.net/health/hpb-codex.html
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The three Nazi-connected German drug companies have stated their main purpose as being to "...create a set of international standards to guide the world's growing food industry and to protect the health of consumers." If you really believe that, I have some ocean front property for you at half price in Saskatoon. The drug company backed proposals call for the following:
1. No vitamin, mineral, herb, etc., can be sold for prophylactic (preventative) or therapeutic reasons.
2. Natural remedies can be sold as food but they must not exceed the potency (dosage) levels set by the commission. This means that consumer access to dietary supplements will be limited to the RDA dosage as a maximum limit for vitamins (vitamin C - 60 mg, vitamin E - 15 mg, etc.). Supplements without an RDA (e.g. coenzyme Q10) would be illegal to sell because they would all become drugs.
3. Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding, eliminating the escape clause within the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that allows a nation to set its own standards. This applies to all member countries of the U.N. Any nation that does not accept and apply these new standards will be heavily fined by the World Trade Organization (WTO), creating the potential for crippling entire sectors of the nation's economy.
4. All new supplements would be banned unless they went through the Codex approval process.
Five steps have already been taken in the Codex process over the past few years. Remember Canadian Bill C-7 which was passed eventually in Canada as C-8? The similarity of the process, the secrecy, and the wording between the Codex proposals and the Canadian laws is uncanny.
Voting in favour of adopting the German proposal has been overwhelming (16 for and 2 against in the most recent vote). (WITH ONLY UK AND USA VOTING AGAINST( The Codex process is now at "Step Five" - formalization and debate concerning the specific features.
In two years, Codex could jump from step 5 to step 8 to finalize these restrictions. The Codex 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 OTC drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs. 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.
According to Dr. Matthias Rath, researcher and author who discovered a correlation between vitamin C deficiency and heart disease, the three Nazi-linked drug companies pushing so hard for the German proposal - Hoechst, Bayer and BASF - are also manufacturers of heart drugs. Obviously, with the vitamin competition gone, nothing will stop their profits.
The Spies Among Us
"HPB is interested in receiving any information for purposes of following up on any firms that continue to sell or distribute DHEA in violation of the Food & Drug Act and Regulations".
-- D.W. Shelly, Chief, Drug & Environmental Health Inspection Division.
HPB Chief Shelly is asking you to report any of your colleagues obstinate enough to sell DHEA. This sort of unpaid spy work was a favorite tactic of totalitarian regimes like the Nazis before WW II and the Communists before the Berlin wall came down. How economical!!
About a month ago, I was asked by Alive magazine to write an article about Codex. At the time, Rhody Lake, editor of Alive was told by representatives of both the HPB and the CNHPA (Canadian Natural Health Products Association) that Codex was not a threat to public access to natural health care products.
The facts do not support this belief. While the CNHPA says that it works on behalf of the natural products industry, it appears to support the HPB's removal of products from health food store shelves.
For example, in an Oct. 9, 1996 press release, the CNHPA said, "In light of the recent crackdown by Health Canada on the sale of the hormone, melatonin, in health food stores, the Association recommends that stores cease the sale of DHEA immediately."
Is the CNHPA in collusion with the HPB? Their actions seem to indicate that. So do their words: "...the Supplement Manufacturers' Committee is in almost daily negotiations with Health Canada in the area of regulatory affairs and working, with some success, toward special recognition..." What success? The reality is that these "daily negotiations" have been a dismal failure, making public access to health products worse than at any time in the history of Canada. According to John C. Hammell, legal advocate for the U.S. based Life Extension Foundation, the Nazi-linked proposals have the backing of Canadian and French Codex commission representatives.
In June of 1996, the Codex Executive committee created an "expert panel" on herbs which was expected generate a "negative list" to prevent public access to certain herbs internationally. The formation of this "expert panel" was advocated by none other than the Canadian and Austrailian representatives.
During the October 1996 Bonn, Germany Codex discussions only the United States and the United Kingdom voted against such a list and against limiting other supplements to a maximum international RDA.
Why then are the HPB and the CNHPA denying that the Codex proposals will have any impact on the availability of nutritional supplements in Canada? Either spokespersons for these two groups are ignorant about the proposals or they are lying to the public in order to protect drug company interests. After all, several voting member companies of the CNHPA are owned by or are subsidiaries of major drug manufacturers or pharmaceutical chains.
Neither group can be trusted to give the public straight answers about the Codex scam when, in fact, they are a part of the group trying to outlaw melatonin, DHEA, Kava kava, amino acids, and several dozen herbs. Some members of the CNHPA are in a clear conflict of interest since they stand to gain financially when the supplement prices are boosted through the roof. It should be noted that the CNHPA was formerly called the Canadian Health Food Association. Did changing its name have anything to do with drug company wishes? Further evidence of Canadian involvement with Codex is the HPB position on what is or is not a food or a drug. For example, garlic, ginger, licorice, and peppermint are considered to be foods when sold as spices. If a grocery store manager makes claims for their therapeutic effects, they then become drugs via a hocus pocus mechanism which still remains to be defined. Perhaps one of the drug owned supplement firms that are members of the CNHPA can explain how this occurs.
If Codex and the HPB have their way, your favourite supplements will be replaced by expensive, patented, over-the-counter or prescription drugs. Just look what has already happened to amino acids like tryptophan. Once available for under $20 for a bottle of 100 tablets of 500 mg at your local health food store, the same tablet is now only available by prescription at a cost of over $120 by prescription.
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Please ping other interested freepers. We all need to get off our respective and collective tushes and hammer on the doors of our US senators and congresscritters. My local congressional rep is a far-left liberal. And you know what? He'll go to bat for our side on this issue. Question is, what will Republicans do? Bush can't seem to give enough to the drug companies. He'd better hear from his loyal conservative constituency on this topic all day every day from now on.
neverdem, i think your ping list might be interested in this topic. See posts 14 and 16 besides the initial article. Bad things are afoot in the nutrition world thanks to the WHO who wants to deprive the world of vitamins, supplements, etc.
Check it out. thanks.
That sounds like Hillary Care.
I have a question that came to me last night -- these "steroids" they are screaming about baseball players using... are they talking DHEA? Personally I consider DHEA a good thing if used correctly. I work for a MD and he became interested in DHEA and started at his own expense running DHEA tests in blood tests for his elderly patients -- what he found was the sicker the patients were the lower their DHEA levels are... I could tell you so many stories of health-restored from correct use of supplements instead of drugs... but, everything aside this control over our lives by the WTO and big business is getting REALLY old!!!!
Read on through the thread and click the link at my post #16. Whenever you have surfing time, google Codex Alimentarium from time to time for updates, which are hard to come by as this commie UN subagency operates on the sly.