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The Codex Alimentarius

SM | 27.01.2009 20:37 | Globalisation | Other Press | Terror War | World

The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "food code" or "food book") is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety.

The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "food code" or "food book") is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety. It's name derives from the Codex Alimentarius Austriacus. Its texts are developed and maintained by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body that was established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Commission's main aims are stated as being to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the international food trade. The Codex Alimentarius is recognized by the World Trade Organization as an international reference point for the resolution of disputes concerning food safety and consumer protection.

HOWEVER:

Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients.

While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.

RAISE AWARENESS EVERYBODY NEEDS TO KNOW THIS ! !



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Due to the junk science use of Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess supposedly toxic nutrients, a false belief is being engineered saying that “nutritional supplements are dangerous to people’s health”.

Using this false belief generates calls to “protect” people from these “toxic” nutrients. After the calls come the bills to set ultra low permissible dosages (remember, nutrients are deemed “dangerous toxins” under this false belief). If enough of us and our Congressional delegates buy this nonsense, we and Congress would blindly comply with Codex Alimentarius’ VMG. And blind compliance is what the industries behind Codex Alimentarius intend.

Blind compliance goes hand-in-hand with lack of activism. This lack of activism allows our protective laws, classifying nutrients as foods with no upper limits (such as DSHEA), to be easily repealed and replaced with draconian laws to classify nutrients as toxins. And “harmonization” with the pro-illness, pro-pharmaceutical industry Vitamin and Mineral Guideline is there to fill the void.

Only intentionally ineffective, ultra low dose supplements would be legal, with or without a prescription, on the VMG list. If enough people do not take action, we can expect to watch nutritional supplement manufacturers and, thus health food stores, to go out of business, in a domino effect. The only player left standing would be Big Pharma.

Therapeutic grade vitamins, minerals, and amino acids would be eliminated from the marketplace (although a few low-dose supplements would be allowed by Codex, as a symbolic measure to avoid suspicion about their ulterior motive).

Natural health professionals would lose the tools of their trade (nutritional supplements) and health conscious people would be unable to choose natural health options for health promotion and disease treatment.

And that is, in a nutshell, how Codex Alimentarius is poised to make Natural and Nutritional Medicine (NNM) disappear from the legal health world and go underground. Who benefits? Big Pharma.

** DR. RIMA LAIBOW ON THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634

** WEBSITE DR. LAIBOW =  http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

** THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO
 http://novakeo.com/?p=1419

** WE BECOME SILENT - THE LAST DAYS OF HEALTH FREEDOM
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=451097355502728465&ei=1hF9SdKoC4vSjgLFusizBQ&q=we+become+silent

** FUTURE OF FOOD - GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3764995188693165078&ei=-hB9SbKHGorojgLXmZy1Cg&q=genetically+modified+food

** GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD - PANACEA OR POISON
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5207412505897358694&ei=-hB9SbKHGorojgLXmZy1Cg&q=genetically+modified+food

** IAN CRANE ON THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99IcZ1TtD_E

** ROBERT VERKERK ON THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWRxT_6L_pA

** CODEX ALIMENTARIUS SUMMARIZED IN 7 POINTS
 http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=157

** TAKE ACTION NOW - WHAT CAN YOU DO?
 http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=183

** THE U.N. DECEPTION
 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2634703139474212867&hl=un

** THE FUTURE OF FOOD: WHAT EVERY PERSON SHOULD KNOW WITH DEBORAH GARCIA
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8098965482866581381&ei=TUB-SZfOGI2siAKtkIG8BQ&q=the+future+of+our+food

SM
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