odex Special Release April 23, 2005

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Codex Special Release April 23, 2005

 

 

Special Release April 1, 2005 Sydney ~ Revised April 23, 2005 -

Published here May 31st, 2005

 

Part One

 

Preamble

 

What is CODEX? (34) In short it is an annual World Health

Organisation (WHO) sponsored gathering of delegates in Europe, many of

them trans-national pharmaceutical corporations who are primarily

focused on increasing their market share, by pushing their desired and

arbitrary regulatory " standards " into a global standard and forcing it

onto the smaller local supplement industry, all in the name of

" international regulatory excellence " . The Codex Committee is also

bound by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) treaties.

 

The WTO is a global commercial police that ensures countries are

required to purchase from trans-national corporations in favour of

their own locally produced goods, in the name of " lowering trade

barriers " . This WHO/WTO joint effort called CODEX is in the process

of wiping out local supplement companies and natural health care

practices, to bring in more drug based medicine, in what is

euphemistically known as " creating a level playing field " , while

primarily giving the public a misleading impression that someone in

the World Health Organisation (WTO) is looking after its health and

safety.

 

CODEX recommendations are then adopted by regulators such as the

Australian TGA or the US FDA by various direct or indirect means that

end up as Acts and amendments that are passed into law by Parliaments

or Congress, usually without public debate.

 

In 2002 I unveiled Codex to a Brisbane, Australia audience of 300

people. Only 3 knew anything about it - the same three I'd spoken with

before the lecture. I then wrote a chapter on CODEX in my book " Health

Betrayal " . Primary data about CODEX is not easy to find. (34) And

there remains deliberate misinformation emanating from government

sources with close ties to trans-national corporations. Meanwhile, the

Australian regulator, the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) is

deeply involved in the corporate agenda as this article will track.

 

The Australian Health Minister, Mr. Abbott, has recently called a

Sydney talkback radio program to " reassure " the presenter and

listening audience that CODEX is not an issue in Australia. At the

same time there has been no effort on the part of the government to

publicly reveal the extraordinary events that have delivered Australia

into corporate governance in health care. This includes the very real

possibility that many cheap and effective natural remedies may no

longer be available to the public after July 1 when drastic changes

that have never been openly debated, are set to be implemented by

Parliament.

 

It is my intention to reveal the fact that trans-national

pharmaceutical corporations have already assumed the role of

government at least where health care is concerned. I intend to

highlight what steps have already been taken by corporate interests to

move Australia and New Zealand toward CODEX and toward international

corporate governance in the Asia Pacific region. This being true, it

would alter the basic premise and agreement which Australian

governance was founded upon – Democracy. This agreement cannot be

altered except with the informed consent of the majority and only

after public debate and referendum. It is my educated guess that most

Australians want democracy for themselves and that they would want to

preserve it for future generations. It is my guess that Australians do

not want to be governed by trans-national corporations. It is my

intention to allow these issues to be debated, understood and

corrected by the electors, the only legitimate proprietors of

government at this time.

 

 

 

Short History – Key Data

 

When debating regulatory matters I believe it is essential to bear in

mind that the supplement industry and the drug industry are totally

different industries. The natural supplement industry and its related

discipline, natural health care is thousands of years old with a

proven tradition. For example, Nostradamus used compressed rose petal

pastilles, rich in vitamin C to treat his patients suffering from

bubonic plague. Many of his patients survived the dreaded disease, and

Nostradamus himself, who took the pastilles never succumbed to the

illness.

 

The modern supplement industry has been traditionally locally owned

by private or family companies and evolved around its own proven

quality and safety standards. Traditionally using cheap and naturally

sourced raw ingredients, the supplement industry has an enviable

product safety record. In addition an entire branch of natural and

nutritional medicine has developed over the centuries with a long

tradition of safety and a large body of scientific evidence in support

of its efficacy. A little known fact is that literally thousands of

peer-reviewed studies exist to support the success of natural and

nutritional approaches to medicine. (36,37,38,39,40) There exist many

conditions that can only be significantly remedied by nutritional

medicine.

 

The pharmaceutical industry as we know it, on the other hand, only

started in earnest about 60 years ago. Many drugs have been so

recently synthesised that their side effects will not be known for

some years to come. Pharmaceutical corporations rely on patented

artificial chemical drugs to generate most of their profits.

Aggressive drug company marketing and image management has created the

impression that drugs are essential to health, when in fact deaths

from adverse drug reactions make up the fourth highest cause of death

in the US. Still stinging from the market share lost through

consumers opting for natural supplements, the trans-national

pharmaceutical corporations have influenced the regulators to regulate

supplements as drugs when in fact vitamins and minerals are not drugs

but essential to all humans on a daily basis.

 

The difference between drugs and nutrients is that they are

fundamentally opposites. There are many conditions caused when

sufficient nutrients are not supplied to the body each day, but there

is no such thing as a drug deficiency.

 

 

 

Author's Note

 

I'm a health writer. I track the sickness industry. I watch while

powerful vested interests infiltrate governments of sovereign nations.

Lately I'd been busy with some other issues and nearly missed a hat

trick that was being performed by Australian politicians that would

remove freedom of choice from the community. I discovered it just in

time when an article came across my desk entitled " The Codex threat to

Australia – fact or fiction? " written by a chap who sourced his

information from a few government websites. He opined that the Codex

issue was merely hype and nonsense and nothing much for Aussies or

anybody else in the world to worry about. His article was published by

the Australian Traditional Medicine Society, an organisation that is

supposed to represent complementary health practitioners and provide

them with clear information about exactly WHO's in charge of making

decisions about supplements. Frankly, I expected such a hose-down

article as this to more likely appear in a pharmaceutical company

trade magazine or as a press release from the TGA. But I assumed the

drug giants have their own spin doctors, legions of them. And they are

quite content to have useful gophers disseminate their whitewash to

the rest of us. Later I discovered the article's author regularly sat

on a TGA committee called the Interim Advertising Council, which has,

along with several pharmaceutical front organisations such as the

Medicines Australia and the Self-Medication Industry set up an

official advertising agency that so blatantly serves drug company

corporate interests that even the AMA objects to it on the grounds

that " the process is occurring against a backdrop of enormous

pressure…from pharmaceutical companies and others to open up to direct

consumer advertising " . (24, 20)

 

I must however give thanks to the article in question, and to its

author, Raymond Khoury, for it led me to cast my attention back to

Codex and focus on a currently unfolding disaster in the Pacific

region that is only avoidable if the Electors get a grip on the reins

very soon.

 

If you believe, as I do, that in time the stench of sleaze, bribery,

greed and dishonesty will reach the nose of the ethical majority to be

dealt with accordingly, then you might agree that the sickness

industry is about to collapse in on itself by the sheer weight of its

own corruption. This is a time when the drug industry and our

" regulators " are committing some stupid and desperate acts against

human rights. And our politicians don't look good passing

Parliamentary bills, acts and amendments in the dead of night that

arose through improper influences. Remember their names, for it is

they who are accountable for their ethics. And it is we who are

accountable for the kind of society we have allowed corporations to

create in our name.

 

 

 

Getting Health Care into Perspective – Understanding CODEX

 

It's official. US research shows that inappropriate and dangerous

medical treatments and adverse drug reactions are now the number one

cause of death (4). To some it was no surprise. It seemed an

inevitable outcome from the 1980's when health care was taken over by

" health care " corporations and the pharmaceutical industry. Then the

bottom line in health care became profit instead of sending the

patient home well and drug free, if possible. (13)

 

There are still no Parliamentary enquiries into the deaths of 18,000

Australians each year, killed by inappropriate doctoring and

prescribed pharmaceutical drugs that are licensed by the TGA (the

Australian regulator). The cause of these avoidable deaths has been

known by the government for over ten years when Dr. Runciman made it

known in a report he prepared to the government in 1995. And yet

nothing has been done about it. This makes these unnecessary deaths a

deliberate act on the part of the perpetrators, the medical and

pharmaceutical corporations and the Australian government. This act is

the equivalent of deliberately exterminating all living beings from an

entire large sized Australian country town each year. (1,2,3). This

killing for profit has knowingly continued for the past 10 years.

 

In addition to the death toll, 50,000 Australians are maimed and

disabled, not by their diseases, but by the " health care system " which

includes; bad doctoring and serious or permanent damage from drugs

that were licensed by the TGA. Yet there are no outraged politicians

giving undertakings on the Senate steps to find the culprits, to stop

the criminality of it. This appears astonishing, since 187 Australians

are unnecessarily killed and maimed each day – that's seven

Australians killed or maimed per hour by conventional health care -

more Australians than were ever killed in all the wars. By the time

you have read this another Australian will die or be disabled by

inappropriate medical treatment or an adverse reaction from a drug

that was licensed and approved by the TGA. No memorials are erected

to these victims. (1,2,3)

 

 

 

Where is Mainstream Media?

 

A few years ago the media conducted a feeding frenzy about an

unfortunate person who died allegedly of an allergic reaction to royal

jelly, a highly nutritious food that worker bees feed to the hive

queen bee. (Unfortunately many more fatal allergic reactions occur

annually than ever before, to both synthetic and to natural

substances, due to the fact that general immunological health is

declining through environmental degradation.) The person had

ingested both the jelly and a meat sausage before the allergic

reaction occurred, one that could equally have been caused by the

preservative in the sausage. However, the TGA launched a lengthy

investigation into the royal jelly, and required Royal Jelly to carry

a health warning on the label. The sausage, of course was not

investigated, nor allocated a health hazard label, one that the fatty,

preserved product could arguably deserve, since the nitrite

preservatives in sausages are responsible for many serious or fatal

allergic reactions.

 

To salvage any remaining integrity the media would need to start

presenting honest reports about the serious damage done to victims of

the pharmaceutical and conventional health care corporations. Instead

it runs the occasional unfounded vitamin scare about the purported

dangers of vitamin C or Echinacea.

 

 

 

WHO is the TGA?

 

The TGA (therapeutic goods administration) is the Australian

" regulator " of drugs, chemicals, genetically modified products,

medical devices and now nutritional supplements and herbs which it

calls " complementary medicines " . The TGA is a statutory body, created

by an act of Parliament over 20 years ago on behalf of the Australian

community. Its motto is " to ensure the safety of all Australians " .

 

Since its inception as " watchdog " , the TGA has licensed and allowed

genetically modified foods into the country which opinion polls showed

the overwhelming majority of Australians did not want.

 

Despite hundreds of letters from concerned citizens and chemically

injured persons, the TGA has continued to allow chemicals onto the

market which are shown to have toxic effects on humans even when used

as directed.

 

In addition the TGA has licensed pharmaceutical drugs such as Zyban,

Vioxx and mercury laden vaccines among others, despite available data

about the potentially serious and fatal effects these drugs have on

humans. The TGA still allows the drugs that cause a large proportion

of the 18,000 deaths and 50,000 serious injuries through adverse drug

reactions while on the other hand it has compiled a large data base on

its regulation of natural substances including vitamins, minerals, and

even honey and olive oil, listing them as medicines.

 

The TGA has taken over the regulation of nutrients which have

traditionally been produced by a separate and unique industry and are

not part of the pharmaceutical industry because nutrients are not

drugs, they are essential to all humans. Most health conscious persons

now take supplements because it is known that food produced by modern

agriculture is depleted in essential nutrients. TGA now regulates

nutrients as drugs requiring evidence and clinical trials. There is no

point to conducting " clinical trials " to determine whether persons

need calcium or any other essential nutrient since it has been a long

established fact that humans need all essential nutrients daily. The

sole advantage in regarding nutrients as drugs is that the drug

industry then stands to have exclusive control of all supplement

manufacturing, sales and distribution.

 

The TGA maintains close ties to the World Health Organisation (WHO)

and to the Codex Commission. Domestically, it convenes various

committees upon which sit well known representatives of pharmaceutical

interests and pharmaceutical front organisations. (19,20,21) TGA

regularly consults with and places on its committees representatives

of pharmaceutical and food companies such as Proctor and Gamble,

Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Eli Lily, Glaxo, Pfizer, Wyeth

and many other multination drug corporations. Without Australians'

knowledge or consent, the TGA routinely places corporations in

positions of power when making decisions about Australian's health.

(23) It could be argued that any decision arising from this improper

relationship could well be a legal nullity.

 

 

 

TGA Targets Pan

 

Globally there was one privately owned large supplier of ingredients

for the manufacture of nutritional supplements that was big enough to

be in direct competition with trans-national pharmaceutical

corporations. The supply chain of nutritionals and drugs has been

fiercely coveted by the multi-national pharmaceutical corporations

such as Roche, Merck and Wyeth, to name just a few. But Sydney based

Pan Pharmaceuticals was a privately owned company, and a relatively

big player that supplied most of Australia and a portion of the world

market with ingredients for the formulation of nutritional supplements

and a large variety of natural supplement products.

 

In April 2003 the TGA raided Pan Pharmaceuticals, giving the grounds

that the company's travel sickness product had included a faulty

batch. The company had already voluntarily recalled it and was

addressing the problem as was customary in the industry. However, TGA

handled Pan far differently from the way it had dealt with any

multi-national drug company. The regulator immediately forced Pan

to shut down and within a few days recalled over 1600 natural

supplement products with which nothing was found amiss on the routine

testing that had occurred just previously. (5) The regulator created

chaos among consumers and retailers alike as the TGA recall escalated

into the largest recall of natural products in history, all the more

extraordinary since there had been no complaints about the company's

supplements prior to the recall.

 

Moreover, the vitamin and mineral supplements, which had caused no

known ill effects, were classed by the TGA as necessitating a class 1

recall, meaning the regulator claimed the natural products would

" cause death or permanent injury " . The TGA however, provided no

evidence that any vitamin or mineral, and in particular Pan's had ever

caused death or disability. This TGA mischief created wide spread

anxiety about nutritional supplements in the public mind. A feat that

would have cost the Pharmaceutical industry public relations machine

millions of dollars, was thus done overnight by the TGA " regulator " .

The ruse terrified scores of little old ladies who thought their

calcium tablet would kill them and demanded a refund from their health

food store, but it failed to impress those who already knew about the

war on alternative and complementary health. And it particularly

aroused suspicion in those who relied on logical data to come to

their conclusions.

 

What this deception did, however, was to reveal the TGA double

standard in favour of drugs from drug giants and against natural

products that were produced by Australian companies who were big

enough to cut into multinational drug company market shares.

Meanwhile, any evidence contained in the recalled vitamins and

minerals, disappeared without a bubble when the regulator destroyed a

vast mountain of natural supplements at a secret location.

 

TGA bias was particularly evident by the manner in which the regulator

conducted future recalls. Interestingly, the regulator conducted a

class 2 recall on VIOXX; a drug manufactured by drug giant Merck - a

drug which did cause 55,000 confirmed deaths and over 180,000

confirmed injuries to Americans alone. A Class 2 recall meant the TGA

believed the " defects could cause illness…but are not class one " That

meant that the regulator claimed the drug could not kill or disable

anyone, which was an obvious and self evident falsehood that put the

community at risk. (6).

 

If Pan was shut down after nobody complained about its supplement

line or suffered a single problem, then it would be reasonable for

trans-national Merk to be shut down for selling a drug that killed

tens of thousands of Americans alone. This has not been the case and

the TGA has not even conducted an investigation into how many

Australians or New Zealanders might have been killed by the Drug Vioxx

to which it issued a licence.

 

Within days of the raid the hapless Pan company and its founder were

embroiled in official red tape and TGA forced Pan to close its doors

permanently. Shortly after the TGA raid, someone called in KPMG, the

liquidator, so fast, that the owner, Jim Selim was removed from his

own company with the velocity of a speeding bullet and the

manufacturing plant and company was sold lock stock and barrel, in

only six months for a pittance, (a likely world record for a

liquidator). The Pan company that Mr. Selim had built up over 20

years, worth over 500 million dollars was sold for only 20 million

within a few months of the TGA raid. (10) Interestingly, KPMG is a

multinational power broker based in Switzerland that deals in

accounting, mergers, liquidation and interestingly, also in chemicals

and pharmaceuticals. KPMG's specialty however, is offering financial

advice and other consultant " services " to the pharmaceutical industry.

( 8 ).

 

Over the ensuing 2 years the TGA has kept Mr. Selim busy in a

gruelling round of court battles while the liquidator, KPMG continued

to pick the carcass clean. Recently, KPMG filed a statement of claim

against Mr. Selim for the amount of 300 million over the collapse of

Pan brought about by the TGA. (10)

 

Since the Pan debacle, the beleaguered but apparently spirited former

owner of Pan intended to start another business in Viet Nam as a

manufacturer of health products there but TGA and now ASIC (the

Australian company watchdog) is attempting to stop his manufacturing

licence in Viet Nam, alleging irregularities in the paperwork.

Interestingly, most of the big pharmaceutical companies such as

Novartis, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline have now set up offices in

Vietnam. (9, 10).

 

 

 

TGA on Post Pan Rampage

 

After the TGA disposed of Pan, it systematically ran through other

small Australian vitamin and supplement manufacturers like a dose of

Epsom salts in a frenzy of " inspections " and " regulatory activities " .

 

Small Australian-owned supplement manufacturers allege TGA used a

variety of intimidatory methods against them including the halting of

manufacturing operations and near impossible requirements that mainly

cost over $500,000 to implement. NZ Health Trust reports " recent

reports out of Australia…include comments such as compliance costs

having increased by 800% for one firm, another has had to spend an

extra $2 million in compliance costs, another still faces a $1.86

million bill to upgrade their computer systems as now required. "

 

TGA officials allegedly demanded proprietors sign confidentiality

agreements and other agreements demanding that the proprietor will not

hold TGA liable for the loss of their business after such " regulating

activities " . (11) Australian supplement companies remain silent after

TGA's " inspections " . Many are bound by agreements and none wanted

their names revealed for fear of a fresh round of " TGA regulatory

activities " . Although a few are now considering legal action

regardless, an enquiry into TGA corruption should get these witnesses

testifying with considerable help from a subpoena.

 

The TGA had routinely inspected the Australian supplement industry in

the 2 years before it sent Pan to the wall, and did not suspend a

single manufacturer's license. But after Pan, dozens of manufacturers

were driven out of business and over 12 Australian supplement

companies " voluntarily " turned in their manufacturing licenses and

went to the wall after TGA scoured through their business again. (All

the manufacturers had already passed previous years' rigorous TGA

inspections.) (18, 11) Those who could afford it just paid the money

and did what was required of them to stay in business for the time

being. Other manufacturers sold out for fire sale prices. Following

this obvious witch hunt, many natural product lines remain out of

stock in Australia and many nutritional supplements have been

permanently discontinued as have the smaller Australian companies who

made them.

 

 

 

TGA and Drug Corporations Set up Committee

 

In May 2003, only a month after TGA gutted Pan, the regulator issued a

public statement alleging that " concerns " had been raised about the

quality of complementary medicines (supplements) and indeed even the

competency of complementary practitioners (naturopaths). All this

after: 1. the defective travel sickness pill was a drug and not a

supplement and had been removed. 2. the company had been closed, and

dismantled, 3. none of the 1600 Pan dietary supplements were found to

have caused any problems, and 4. no naturopath or alternative

practitioner had killed or harmed anyone with supplements (In the time

it takes to read this far another 4 Australians have been killed or

seriously injured by dangerous medical procedures or pharmaceutical

drugs licensed by the TGA.)

 

Ignoring all the evidence to the contrary, the TGA stated on its

website; " In May 2003, to reassure the public and maintain confidence

in Australia's reputation as a supplier of high quality and safe

medicines, the Australian Government established the Expert Committee

on Complementary Medicines in the Health System (the `Expert

Committee') "

 

The TGA " expert " committee designated to investigate supplements on

behalf of the Australian public, includes pharmaceutically orientated

individuals and several pharmaceutical front organsiations such as the

Self Medication Industry (ASMI) which represents Bayer, Pfizer, Merck,

Glaxo, Schering and Wyeth among other trans-national pharmaceutical

corporations. (12) Brazenly, the expert committee also includes the

Vice President of manufacturing operations in the Asia Pacific Region

of Wyeth, a multinational that markets drugs, vaccines and also

nutrient supplements including raw ingredients to supplements. (12)

Incredibly, Wyeth, was in direct competition to the products and raw

ingredients that Pan supplied in the Asia Pacific region, just before

TGA raided Pan. Wyeth has a huge Asia Pacific base of operation and

is aggressively expanding its corporate territory. (16)

Interestingly, Wyeth's profits plunged a few months before the TGA

shut down Pan and the drug giant was only saved a substantial loss

that quarter by its small but profitable range of vitamin products.

(17,14, 15).

 

The " expert " committee, stacked with corporate representatives has

been working on creating more TGA legislation governing the control

and regulations of supplements. In a stunning display of corporate

governance over Australians, it has recently released fifty more

expert recommendations that have resulted in 107 pages of proposed

amendments to the TGA Act which would increase the powers of the TGA

to " regulate " even more stringently. This would give TGA police

powers and the power to impose criminal charges and penalties on

Australian supplement manufacturers. All this when there has never

been a problem with supplements.

 

Since late 2004, the TGA Amendment Bill of 2005 has been floated

around the Australian Parliament. This Bill proposes stiff criminal

charges including a half a million dollar fine against anyone who does

not report even a purported mild adverse reaction to a natural remedy

or a supplement. Since deaths from supplements are virtually unheard

of, it is not difficult to imagine the official abuses, and

persecutions against natural practitioners and products inherent in

such legislation, when the pharmaceutical industry death tolls remain

unchecked. The only beneficiaries of the proposed Bill appear to be

the Pharmaceutical corporations, probably a broad indication of the

identity of its originators. This Bill is intended to bring about

the death of the Australian owned supplement industry and the takeover

of the industry by Pharmaceutical corporations. It is intended to make

it a criminal offence for anyone to order any supplements from

overseas. This Bill will further connect Australia to the

international regulatory structures such as CODEX.

 

The TGA Amendment Bill of 2005 has been thus far difficult to source

because it has been the apparent intention of government to obscure

this document from public view as it is noted in prominent type on

front page the draft copy; " DRAFT-IN-CONFIDENCE This draft is

supplied in confidence and should be given appropriate protection. "

Protected from whom? The Australian voters? There has been no

public debate about giving police powers to the TGA and its

pharmaceutical corporation allies.

 

Fortunately all interested Australians can and should now access this

proposed bill on the website listed below at reference nos. 41, 42.

 

Considering the improper methods used to originate and pass TGA

legislation the Australian Public should contact their Members of

Parliament and demand they say NO to passing the Therapeutic Goods

Amendment Bill of 2005.

 

 

 

Part Two

 

The Agenda

 

Without Australians' knowledge or consent the TGA gave multinational

drug companies the power to expand into and monopolise Australian

markets and shake out the Australian competition. This was done under

the guise of protecting the Australian public health when there is

nothing more than a trade war going on. As in wars of any kind,

people die in trade wars too, and another Australian has died as you

read this because the TGA and its drug corporation allies are busy

suppressing and outlawing supplements. This enables drug companies to

destroy and take over the supplement market while continuing to profit

from many particularly dangerous drugs that are known to kill and

disable humans.

 

Remarkably, despite the shakeout, many small fry companies did survive

and while the pesky little Aussie battlers were still taking a breath,

the TGA and its allies swung into action on an urgent agenda. The

years 2003 to 2004 were distinguished by unprecedented changes to the

structure of the regulator and the rising dominance of the

pharmaceutically based health care industry. It was the beginning of

both merging offshore into a massively powerful corporate structure –

one that would whistle to the tune of CODEX.

 

For that to occur, the trans-national pharmaceutical companies needed

the following: 1. the world trade organization (WTO) for gaining entry

into domestic markets and leveling the competition. 2. World health

organization (WHO) Codex committee that sets " standards " for all

supplements to be classed as drugs, which eventually will only be

allowed to be made synthetically by drug companies in line with

" international standards " and not by local manufacturers using

inexpensive natural raw ingredients. 3. A corporately structured

regulator out of the Elector's reach who would " regulate " wholly in

the interests of the drug companies. 4. An international treaty

(Joint trans-Tasman treaty) that would set the foundation for the new

international regulator over Australia and New Zealand (the Trans

Tasman joint Agency) that would be run as a corporation in partnership

with trans-nationals and the TGA and be in the international

jurisdiction of CODEX. 5. An advertising agency that would serve the

new Trans-Tasman Joint Agency with an advertising code that would

" legalize " advertising multinational's pharmaceutical drugs directly

to consumers, while at the same time preventing supplements from being

advertised.

 

Part three will explore how this agenda was carried out.

 

 

 

Part Three

 

The Treaty Not Many Knew About

 

In the months after the Pan debacle, persons unknown to the Australian

electorate drafted an international treaty between Australia and New

Zealand called " Agreement Between the Government of Australia and the

Government of New Zealand for the Establishment of a Joint Scheme for

the Regulation of Therapeutic products " , (known as the JTA treaty for

short).

 

This treaty was signed on December 10, 2003 by the health Ministers of

both countries without any public debate and without the consent or

consultation with Australian or New Zealand Electors. The JTA treaty

is intended to form the " legal " foundation for a massive new

regulatory agency.

 

The JTA treaty is intended to come into full effect on July 1, 2005 if

Australians do not stop this enactment process by telling their

Parliamentary representatives and the Australian Health Minister that

they are not to pass any enactment legislation pertaining to this

treaty. It appears highly questionable that any legislation that is

passed by stealth has a legitimate force of law in a democracy, and

that legislation passed in this manner is a legal nullity and subject

to automatic repeal.

 

 

 

The " Agency " Not Many Knew About

 

The JTA treaty is intended to be the purported " legal " foundation upon

which a monstrously powerful " world class " regulatory " agency " has

been created. Known as the " Agency " or " the Trans-Tasman Joint

agency " it would do away with the TGA as a statutory entity, which was

at least theoretically accountable to Australian Electors and it would

absorb Medsafe the New Zealand regulator within its tangled corporate

structure. With those two entities nullified the newly born mammoth

" Agency " , scheduled to come into effect on July 1, 2005 is in fact

structurally an off shore corporate business set to be run by a

chairman of the board, a managing director, two persons with

" regulating experience " and a person with " broad experience in

commercial matters " . This Agency creates a corporate partnership

between the regulator and the trans-national corporations, which

removes it a further step from the Australian and New Zealand elector

and into the direct jurisdiction of the World Health Authority global

regulator CODEX. (18)

 

These drastic changes have been conducted in such a secret manner that

even Dr. Robyn Napier the AMA representative said of it; " the process

has largely occurred without the knowledge of the public. "

 

 

 

HARM-onizing Kiwi Cousins

 

Trans-Tasman harmonizing means to force the Australian " regulatory

standards " onto New Zealand's supplement industry which up until

recently enjoyed relative prosperity and freedom. " Harmonization " ,

creates the same WTO global standards in each country that are vital

to the interests of trans-national pharmaceutical corporations.

 

For several years now it seemed as though Australia had been the

designated vitamin police in the South Pacific region. However,

immediately after Pan was disposed of, extra plane loads of gray

be-suited men from the TGA were flown across the Tasman at tax payer's

expense to do to the KIWI (43) industry what TGA was doing to the

Australian supplement industry – making way for the big drug

corporations. Like a squad of mafia hit men, the TGA visited upon

New Zealand's supplement industry its new " international standards in

regulatory excellence " and sent their vitamin businesses to the wall

as they " regulated " their way through Kiwi companies. New Zealanders

did not appreciate Australian HARMonizing efforts, as their many

websites and activists indicate. Australians, however, were not

alerted by the mainstream media. They remained largely unaware of the

issue while the TGA cooked up yet another scheme, the trans-Tasman

advertising agency.

 

 

 

The Trans-Tasman Advertising Scheme Not Many Knew About

 

In mid 2003 the Pan carcass was barely cold but the TGA remained a

hotbed of activity. With so much big business coming together under

the JTA treaty and its " Trans-Tasman joint Agency " , TGA embarked on a

new round of committees that ensured the panopoly of corporations

would have a collective voice in the media to advertise their goods.

New " standards " had to be urgently drafted up by the TGA and its

pharmaceutical corporation partners that would come to be known as the

" Therapeutic Products Advertising Code " .

 

To many Australian electors it might still seem unusual for its

official regulator to collaborate with media moguls and drug

executives and create an advertising agency, but that is what happened

in mid 2003, when one of the first of a series of many consultation

meetings took place with the " stakeholders " . The trans-Tasman

advertising scheme had among its attending delegates representatives

from Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, ReckitBenckiser, Procter

and Gamble, and Roche. (19, 20). Later in the year a similar meeting

was convened at the Sydney Masonic hall and attended by many delegates

including from Eli Lilly, News Ltd, Boots, various advertising

agencies, Faulding, Astra Zeneca, Baxter, Glaxo, Boehringer

Inngelheim, Fairfax, Merk, Novartis, Schering Plough, Pfizer, Roche

and of course who else but Wyeth. [Further explanatory note in

reference number (21) ]

 

Dr. Robyn Napier of the AMA, normally an ultra conservative

organization, stated in her submission to a Parliamentary committee on

April 30, 2004; " the process is occurring against a backdrop of

enormous pressure on a number of fronts, including: (pressure) from

pharmaceutical companies...to open up direct consumer advertising. To

down schedule medicines to categories where direct consumer

advertising is possible. " (24) (The AMA was unhappy about this but

did not cite patient safety concerns such as the new advertising code

allowing a confused grandparent or a vulnerable teenager to purchase

prescription drugs directly from the chemist.)

 

It seemed the trans-national pharmaceutical corporations were finally

able to write their own advertising " code of ethics " allowing them to

advertise their prescription drugs over the media. This necessitated

that prescription drugs would be down regulated to become over the

counter drugs. At the same time the code was also drafted in such a

way as to tighten up regulations on supplement advertising making it

virtually impossible to even mention a positive health effect from a

vitamin in public.

 

 

 

The Front Organisations

 

According to an inside industry source, the media advertising of the

therapeutic products advertising code is managed by pharmaceutical

front organizations such as ASMI, the Australian chapter of the Self

Medication Industry which directly represents the interests of over a

dozen trans-national pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Merck,

Roche, Glaxo and Wyeth ( as well as a number of smaller companies).

 

Some time ago I noticed that a world wide dietary supplement trade

organization called the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) seemed

to pop up regularly on Codex committees in Europe and it also wafted

around the Aussie TGA. The CRN has chapters in most developed

countries and takes a lead role in advising governments on issues such

as nutritional supplements. It represents over 100 companies in the

" dietary supplement industry " .

 

On January 1, 1999 the CRN and another trade organization merged to

form the Complementary Health Council of Australia CHC a " peak body "

that claims to " represent the complementary health care industry in

Australia " . Its executive director was Val Johansen at the time who

had headed the TGA surveillance unit (28). Now a consultant to

industry, she retired from CHC as from mid 2004. Ms Johansen has been

ever present in most TGA complementary medicine's committees and is a

member of the Interim Advertising committee which has determined the

Trans-Tasman advertising schemes' advertising " code " . In an article

published in the ACNEM Journal in 1999, she claims that the new

reforms the regulator has brought in means " growth in the supplement

industry " and consumers having access to a wider range of safe

complementary health products, as well as balanced and factual

information. "

 

The CNR's membership includes multinational corporations such as:

Eastman chemical company, BASF, Bayer corporation, Monsanto and the

ever present Wyeth pharmaceutical company whose interests are

represented by the organisation. (26.27) It is not known whether

these corporations are currently members of the CHC.

 

 

 

The CODEX They Tell You Isn't Real

 

The public constantly sends me information asking me to comment on it.

Recently a flurry of official information updates have landed on my

desk from the Complementary Healthcare Council (CHC). The updates

have been so widely disseminated to groups and individuals that I

thought there must be someone on round the clock duty. Interestingly

I have seen almost identical information originating from trade and

front organizations in other countries.

 

In essence, the official CHC " tech update " alleges: CODEX is only

about food and not about supplements. The public is being ill

informed about CODEX and confused by persons on the internet with

" alarmist views " who " do not fully understand how Codex works " . It

says the only Codex representative Australia has is from the fisheries

department and he doesn't make decisions about supplements, (only

fish). And no one in Australia is sitting on any Codex committee

doing anything to do with vitamins and supplements. Only about food.

Nothing about supplements… (29 ) In an extra warning in bold

letters the CHC urges all members to be cautious of CODEX information

from the internet and other forums, claiming it may be " inaccurate " ,

" alarmist " and " ill informed " .

 

I read the two page " article " and immediately suffered a bad case of

deja`vue. It sounded so much like Raymond Khoury's article I could

have sworn it was written by one and the same person and merely

recycled - possibly not surprising since both Ms. Johanson and Mr.

Khoury sit on the same TGA committees.

 

 

 

AUSSIES Deep in CODEX

 

For many years now a few lucky Australians have been sent on a yearly

trip to participate in the WHO CODEX committee in Europe. They are

sent by their government, which officially denies Codex exists in the

context of supplements. In November 2003 an Australian delegation

landed in Bonn, Germany. The three day CODEX meeting was to be hosted

by the Federal Republic of Germany.

 

Inside the stark German Government building the 25th session was being

convened of the " CODEX COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL

DIETARY USES " by the authoritarian President and Chairman Herr Rolf

Grossklaus. (There was no one from the Aussie fisheries department

present in the Australian delegation.) The session was well attended

by 225 delegates and advisors representing 48 member countries,

including Australia and representatives from 29 organisations and

trans-national corporations.

 

Herr Toepner from the German Federal Ministry opened the meeting with

a short speech reminding the delegates of the purpose of the Codex

committee; " to protect the health of consumers, to ensure `fair trade

practices' and the committee's important responsibilities under the

WTO " . (WTO is the global trade police ensuring trade barriers fall

and local competition is leveled so that global corporations can take

over national markets, in the name of " world class regulatory

standards " and " fair trade practices " .)

 

Herr Toepner apparently stressed the same message given to the

delegates at TGA/FSANZ head quarters, for they made an heroic effort

to further the agenda of supplement restriction at the CODEX meeting.

The CODEX committee Chairman was well pleased with their work. The

funereal looking Herr Grossklaus gratefully accepted the Australian

proposal to apply a " risk " analysis to nutritional supplements. The

committee once again expressed its appreciation to the; " Delegation of

Australia for its work in this important area and agreed that a

`risk-based approach' should be followed for the establishment of

upper limits for nutrients, " as stated the 2003 CODEX minutes report.

That meant the Committee was currently working on placing a

restriction on world wide supplement consumers. The Australian

delegation agreed with the Chairman that the next 2004 Codex " session

should be kept informed of the progress achieved by WHO in order to

facilitate its further work on vitamins and minerals. " (Author's

translation of meaning of this is in footnote 33)

 

Moreover, the CODEX observer from the Council for Responsible

Nutrition agreed wholeheartedly - Probably much to the approval of its

members Bayer, BASF, Monsanto and of course, Wyeth. (The Australian

chapter of the CRN merged with Ms Johansen's CHC in 1999)

 

Among the CODEX participants that year, there were at least eleven

multinational food and pharmaceutical companies including of course,

Nestle and Roche. However, three delegations alone were from Wyeth.

 

The 2003 CODEX must have been considered such a success that the

Australian delegate, Ms. Janine Lewis, Principal nutritionist,

returned with another delegate the following year, Ms. Jane Allen,

Senior nutritionist. Both are employees of the Food standards

Australia and New Zealand FSANZ, a TGA related department which has

joint committees with the TGA. The two departments share personnel,

resources and curiously similar agendas. Interestingly, Val Johanson,

formerly of CHC states in her bio that she; " held positions in the

Australian Public Service as head of food standards at Federal level

and she also established the Therapeutic Goods Administration's

surveillance unit, which she headed for almost four years. Positions

currently held include; member of the Complementary Medicines

Evaluation Committee, Chair of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code

Council, Head of the International Herbal Regulatory Task Force of the

International Alliance of Dietary Supplement Associations " .

 

There is much confusion deliberately generated by the regulator and

its corporate partners to obscure the real agendas. Is Australia's

participation in CODEX about food or supplements? (therapeutic goods).

The answer is both. This is what a law link had to say about the

legal interface between foods and supplements after the changes to the

Therapeutic Goods Act that was rammed through after Pan. " Food can

now be a therapeutic good. The TGA is now able to designate food items

as therapeutic goods. Previously, prescribed foods were not classified

as therapeutic goods. Now, where a food product prescribed under the

Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Code is designated by TGA as

having therapeutic properties, the TGA may declare the product to be a

therapeutic good, and therefore as subject to regulation under the

Act. " (30) That includes vitamins and supplements which the TGA Act

regards as medicines and drugs under the title of therapeutic goods.

 

The TGA has this to say about food being classed as medicine;

" products which may fit within the definition of either a food or a

medicine [supplements] are referred to a joint TGA/FOOD STANDARDS

Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) committee which recommends whether the

goods should be regulated as a therapeutic good or as food. This means

TGA/FSANZ sends delegates to CODEX to get their orders about

supplement regulations from overseas.

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

There is no more point to denying it. Australia is participating in

CODEX. But that is not all that has occurred. Starting with Pan in

2003 the TGA and its trans-national pharmaceutical corporation allies

waged a hostile take over of the Australian supplement industry. Later

that year the Australian government signed a treaty that enabled the

TGA and the pharmaceutical corporations to form what amounts to an

offshore corporation. This would keep the voters at arms' length and

put the monstrous new " Agency " into the direct international

jurisdiction of the WHO/WTO and CODEX. As a final blow Australian

voters were not even privy to a new TGA amendment bill 2005 that

caters to the needs of the drug corporations. All this because a trade

war is raging. Bad news about drug deaths is getting out. Drug

companies need to take over supplement market to offset their

financial losses. The cost of this desperate corporate last stand is

Democracy and Health Freedom. Why consent to that? When you can do

something about it.

 

Australians and New Zealanders who value their lives, health and

freedom can join into Eve Hillary's Health Freedom – CODEX campaign

and choose an option from the two pages of easy health freedom

suggested initiatives. OR they can create their own initiatives.

Everybody can do something to restore Health and Freedom for all. See

you in the winner's circle.

 

 

 

References and Endnotes

 

(1) " Health horror revealed " by Samantha Maiden published in the

Hobart Mercury 31 July 2001 Wilson RM, Runciman WB, Gibberd RW, et

al. The Quality in Australian Health Care Study. Med J Aust 1995; 163:

458-471.

(2) O'Hara D, Carson NJ. Reporting of adverse events in hospitals in

Victoria 1994-1995. Med J Aust 1997; 166: 460-463.

(3) National Expert Advisory Group on Safety and Quality in Australian

Health Care. Interim report – Commitment to quality enhancement. July

1998.

 

(4) This figure is based on analysis of data from the Nutritional

Institute of America (NIA)…assessing 2001 data showed that iatrogenic

(caused by doctors and drugs) disease caused 783,936 deaths in

contrast with 699,697 deaths from heart disease and 553,251 from

cancer. The NIA report– " Death by Medicine, " authored by Gary Null,

Ph.D., Martin Feldman, MD, Debora Rasio, MS and Dorothy Smith, Ph.D. –

followed a US Agency for Healthcare Research study published in the

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

 

(5) Pan-WHO was Behind the Biggest Vitamin Recall in History?

 

A three Part Feature Article on who was behind the world's largest

recall. Filed May 12, 2003 By Eve Hillary www.evehillary.org

 

(6) http://www.tga.gov.au/recalls/2004/vioxx.htm

 

(7) http://www.4-men.org/mens-health/vioxx-recall.html

 

Dr. Graham also told the Senate Finance Committee that Vioxx may have

caused 55,000 deaths alone, more than the 28,000 projected by the FDA.

Graham also indicated Vioxx may have caused as many as 160,000 heart

attacks, strokes and deaths, combined.

 

(8) Internet website KPMG Graduate Recruitment

KPMG. AUDIT. TAX. ADVISORY. bright minds ... company specialising in

sales of foods and pharmaceutical products that has branches through

the country. ...

www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/GraduateRecruitment/

WhatWeExpect/TestYourself/business_challenge.cfm - 34k

 

(9) OTC Healthcare in Vietnam ... Most of the leading international

pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline

have set up representative offices in Vietnam ...

www.euromonitor.com/OTC_Healthcare_in_Vietnam - 32k -

 

(10) " Pan Boss on Notice " by Jennifer Sexton March 18, 2005 The

Australian Newspaper

 

(11) This author interviewed several manufacturers, none of whom have

given permission to use their names for fear of further problems with

the TGA

 

(12) http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/cmreport.htm

 

(13) " Corporate Casualties " an article by Eve Hillary www.evehillary.org

 

(14) http://www.biopharmalink.com/companies/1224.htm Wyeth

 

(15) http://www.devicelink.com/expo/nu04/exhibitinfo.html

 

(16) http://investintaiwan.nat.gov.tw/en/opp/cases/wyeth.html

 

(17)

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/news-ng.asp?id=24522-vitamins-buoy-wyet\

h

 

(18) From Senate documents:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Tw0OYiAk9XcJ:www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/\

clac_ctte/estimates/bud_0304/vol6doha_feb04.pdf++Mr.ross-johnston+vice+president\

++manufacturing+operations+asia+pacific,+wyeth & hl=en

 

(19) As stated in the JTA treaty page 8.

http://www.jtaproject.com/Downloads/Key%20Documents/TreatyText.pdf

 

(20) http://www.tga.health.gov.au/tta/advtt.htm

 

(21) The stakeholders meeting was understandably frequented by

industry, however, meanwhile the main Advertising Council Committee at

the TGA headquarters was infiltrated by the drug industry front

organization representing the interests of the multinational industry

including ASMI, SMI, the Researched Medicines Industry, Medicines

Australia and. These organizations represent the interests of dozens

of multinational drug companies. See link

http://www.jtaproject.com/Downloads/Hot%20Topics/IACMeetNov03.pdf

 

(22) http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/Codex/Codex/Codex-15.html

 

(23) List of attendees at the Interim Advertising Council Consultation

Meeting Hosted by TGA on July 1, 2003.

 

(24) AMA public submission document to the Joint Standing Committee on

Treaties inquiry into the Agreement between Australia and New Zealand

for the establishment of a Joint Scheme for the regulation of

therapeutic products. 30th April, 2004, by Dr. Robyn Napier,

Representative of the AMA on Trans Tasman interim advertising council.

 

(25) www.codexalimentarius.net/ download/report/251/al03_26e.pdf

 

(26) http://proliberty.com/observer/20040111.htm re CRN

 

(27) http://www.crnusa.org/who_omc.html#other

 

(28) http://norsearch.scu.edu.au/conferences/nat_safe/conf_speakers.html

 

(29) Tech Update from CHC entitled CODEX, the Facts without fiction,

signed off by Alan Crosthwaite, Technical director CHC.

 

(30)

http://www.findlaw.com.au/articles/default.asp?task=read & id=9120 & site=GN

 

(31) www.nzht.co.nz New Zealand health Trust

 

(32) http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/index.htm Sep Hasslberger

 

(33) (Author's Translation: under that proposed further work on

vitamins, a person couldn't make a carrot juice or squeeze an orange

juice without being likely to exceed CODEX guidelines for vitamins.

This is done so anything exceeding the Committee's low recommended

daily intake can be classed as a drug and sold for a huge profit

margin in a synthetic form rather than to allow cheap naturally

derived supplements made by local manufacturers to be freely

available. In Germany where CODEX guidelines are already in place drug

companies now exclusively provide miniscule doses of vitamin

preparations that must be dispensed by a chemist and are sold for

exorbitant prices. Naturopaths and wholistic doctors have been

prescribing therapeutic doses and even mega doses of vitamins for over

a hundred years with excellent effect. If CODEX recommendations are

adopted, the speciallty of wholistic health and wholistic medicine may

be lost or disregarded for the sake of drug company profits.)

 

(34) Codex refers to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a branch of

the World Health Organisation which oversees A CODEX COMMITTEE ON

NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES. This committee meets

annually. Hundreds of delegates attend ranging from representatives

from 48 member countries to representatives of giant food and

pharmaceutical corporations. Dr. Wong Peng, Director of The

Humanitarian Project - Health For All, in Malasia was present at the

2003 Codex committee held in Bonn Germany. In a summary of that

meeting Dr. Peng writes: " Driven by the interest of their

multinational corporations, particularly from the pharmaceutical and

food manufacturing industries, the EU put forward suggestions that

will eventually protect the interest of these industries. " This Codex

committee purports to decide whether or not consumers in the world can

have vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients and how much

they can have, and if so, who will provide them.

 

(35) When I refer to nutritional supplements and essential

nutrients I refer primarily to all the essential nutrients including

minerals, vitamins, amino acids, and omega oils that are essential to

sustaining a physical human body on a daily basis, without which there

would be no health, healing or life. These are not drugs. They are

the nutrients everyone must ingest daily to sustain physical health

and maintain life in a physical body. These essentials have been found

abundantly in food in the past.

 

However, " modern " agriculture under the influence of multinational

chemical companies has been responsible for the depletion of soils

from which poor quality foods are grown that are depleted of essential

nutrients. To retain their health many people have resorted to taking

nutritional supplementation of essential nutrients. In many countries

these supplements are now regulated as drugs due to the Codex

influence upon the regulators. Essential nutrients are not drugs.

They are as essential to life as is oxygen or water. Any excess

nutrients are excreted just like oxygen or water.

 

Author's note;

 

The proposed Codex restriction on nutrients is dangerous and arguably

genocidal. It is the same as if a corporation were to deplete the

earth's atmosphere of oxygen and then monopolise and regulate people's

supply and intake of " supplemental " oxygen, calling oxygen a " drug "

that can only be purchased at an exorbitant price from the corporation

that caused the problem in the first place. There is no difference.

 

(36) Hundreds of studies are listed in the following tests by Dr. M.

Wehrbach including: " Textbook of Nutritional Medicine " by Melvyn. R.

Wehrbach MD, assistant clinical Professor School of Medicine, UCLA,

Los Angeles, CA. Third Line Press 1999

 

(37) " Foundations of Nutritional Medicine " by Melvyn. R. Wehrbach

MD, assistant clinical Professor School of Medicine, UCLA, Los

Angeles, CA. Third Line Press 1999

 

(38) " Nutritional Influences on Illness " Melvyn. R. Wehrbach MD,

assistant clinical Professor School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles,

CA. Third Line Press 1999

 

(39) ) " Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness " Melvyn. R.

Wehrbach MD, assistant clinical Professor School of Medicine, UCLA,

Los Angeles, CA. Third Line Press 1999

 

(40) " Healing Through Nutrition, a natural approach to Treating 50

common illnesses with diet and Nutrients " Melvyn. R. Wehrbach MD,

assistant clinical Professor School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles,

CA.

 

(41) http://www.nzhealthtrust.co.nz/documents.html

 

(42)

http://www.nzhealthtrust.co.nz/pdf/Therapeutic_Goods_Amendment_Bill_2005.pdf

 

(43) Kiwi is the name of a flightless bird found in New Zealand, also

a slang word meaning New Zealand or New Zealander.

 

 

 

Additional Resources and Information

 

1. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/mistakes/medicat.htm

 

2. www.evehillary.org

 

3. From Senate

documenthttp://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Tw0OYiAk9XcJ:www.aph.gov.au/Senate/co\

mmittee/clac_ctte/estimates/bud_0304/vol6doha_feb04.pdf++Mr.ross-johnston+vice+p\

resident++manufacturing+operations+asia+pacific,+wyeth & hl=en

particularly interesting Senate record.

 

(4) http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/Codex/Codex.html multiple

sources and articles on Codex

 

(5) http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/Codex/Codex/Codex-15.html

Codex minutes

 

(6) WHO/CODEX document www.codexalimentarius.net/

download/report/251/al03_26e.pdf

 

(6)

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:WG0DccjH9MEJ:www.codexalimentarius.net/downlo\

ad/report/627/al28_26e.pdf+codex+alimentarius+commission+pharmceutical+interests\

& hl=en

Codex Committee Bonn Report

 

(7) http://www.iahf.com/20031228a.html Harmonisation.

 

(8) NZ health charter commentary

http://www.healthcharter.org.nz/images/JTA_Treaty_Sub_2_BLUE.doc.

 

(9) ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/meeting/008/j1464e.pdf Codex meeting

minutes proposing guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements –

Australian participation.

 

(10)

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:k6W8ZTyojK4J:www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/medregs\

..htm+tga+food+standards & hl=en

Joint TGA/Food standards

 

(11) http://www.laleva.cc/supplements/berlin02_hass.html good account

of Berlin Codex meeting.

 

(12) http://www.nzhealthtrust.co.nz/documents.html Important

documents on proposed new TGA Amendment Bill 2005

 

(13) www.nzht.co.nz New Zealand health Trust CODEX information

 

(14) http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/index.htm Sep Hasslberger

Codex information site.

 

(15) Click on for copy of JTA Treaty:

http://www.jtaproject.com/Downloads/Key%20Documents/TreatyText.pdf

 

(16) Click on for government website about Trans Tasman agency;

http://www.jtaproject.com/Default.asp

 

 

 

THANKS

 

I am indebted to many of my fellow activists such as Dave Sloan from

the NZ Health Trust and Sepp Hasslberger of Health Supreme, for

providing volumes of accurate and helpful data that when analysed

has regularly strengthened and clarified my conclusions on the matter.

 

Thank you to the thousands of people who have supported my Health

Freedom Campaign and to those who have been inspired to start their

own. I look forward to living on a planet free from the tyranny of

corporate government. I look forward to seeing healthy children, free

from the ravages of the sickness industry and living in the kind of

Democracy I was once fortunate to have experienced.

 

I will be conducting the Health Freedom – Codex campaign and giving

Health Freedom Seminars around Australia to exchange the latest

information. Please refer to my website www.evehillary.org for the

schedule of talks and new breaking news as the CODEX issue unfolds.

 

 

 

Eve Hillary's Speaking Schedule CODEX- Health Freedom Seminars

 

General Information Contact Eve on 0404074 031

 

 

 

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