Codex - Warning

June 11, 2005

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[sSRI-Research] Codex - Warning

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The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) will be meeing here in Rome

for a week-long conclave from 4 to 9 July, and one of the agenda

points is the final approval of new world-wide vitamin guidelines

that are expected to restrict availability of nutrient-containing

supplements to consumers the world over. The text of the guidelines

was finalized last November in Germany, by the Codex Committee on

Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses. I will be reporting

from the CAC meeting, attending as part of a delegation of the

National Health Federation, one of the very few voices that argue the

side of consumer freedom of choice inside the meetings, albeit

without a vote. These types of international regulation are

elaborated without public input and even without the consent of

national parliaments of the participating countries. Each country

entrusts its vote, which will eventually determine national laws as

well, to one person, the head of the national Codex delegation. And

Codex delegations are typically headed by relatively low level

administrative employees of national health ministries. So we are

having what amounts to international laws being developed over the

heads of and without input from national legislative authorities, let

alone the public that will face the consequences. Democratic

procedure has been officially abolished in the name of globalizing

the economy and " removing barriers to trade " . Investigative

journalist Peter Byrne introduces his article The Fate of Vitamins

with the following words:

A low-profile organization created by the United Nations is about to

ban global trade of many essential nutrients - and there may be

nothing you can do to stop it...

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