Help! - Opportunity to Fight Codex with Science

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We have an unexpected opportunity to turn CODEX around, not only to stop it, but

to change it into a vehicle that actually supports good health and natural

products.

 

If you are not qualified to help, as explained below, please forward this on to

any scientists and health professionals that you know.

 

Thanks,

 

Donna

 

Seizing the Critical Terrain

 

July 8th, 2005

 

http://codexblog.healthfreedomusa.org/

 

This is a short and essential blog.

 

I need your help if you are a physician or health scientist (or know any

physicians or health scientists).

 

Yesterday, the terrain in CODEX land changed dramatically when the World Health

Organization (WHO) made it clear that CODEX's impact on health, as opposed to

regulation, was significantly lacking and that CODEX would now be required to

relate to nutrition, not just control food. The WHO Global Strategy on health

focuses on diet, nutrition and physical exercise and CODEX is expected to help

implement that strategy. This is our opportunity: we can shape and impact both

US and global policy based on the WHO directive if we are organized, focused,

effecive and clever.

 

General Stubblebine and I are staying at the same hotel as the US Delegation to

CODEX and had the opportunity to chat informally and congenially with Dr. Ed

Scarbrough, the US CODEX Manager, about this change of terrain over our

excellent Italian coffee (although it is probably not organic, it is delicious!)

this morning. Now the responsiblity falls upon us to make proper use of it. Dr.

Scarbrough offered to help us find the proper people inside the US to work with

to support our belief that US Policy should support DSHEA as the international

standard because it offers choice, not restriction, and is consistent with US

law.

 

Dr. Scarbrough made it very clear that he cannot be an advocate of our position

but he would help us find our way through the CODEX system. I'll take that!

Having another point of contact with whom we have cordial relations is always

useful and Dr. Scarbrough is willing to help us get our information to the right

places.

 

One of his interesting comments was on the fragmented and dysfunctional nature

of the Health Freedom Movement and we agreed that adult, reasoned discourse and

data would go a lot further than shaking fists in the air and making irrational

accusations. Sounds good to me!

 

We now have the opportunity to apply the useful and wise military notion of

shifting and capturing the critical terrain. Part of the critical terrain is the

database from which decision-makers are operating and how CODEX seeks to be

science based. So here is what we need: a volunteer corps of people skilled in

science and scientific methodology to compile the sharpest, strongest and most

compelling research on the science of nutrition to present to the US Delegation

to CODEX, the FDA, the CODEX Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special

Dietary Uses next November in Bonn, Congress and elsewhere in the universe of

policy decision making.

 

Science-based is the paradigm: we have the science on the side of health

freedom, supporting nutrients as effective means of health promotion (whereas

Risk Assessment - a branch of the science of toxicology - as used by CODEX to

assess nutrients is unscientific because nutrients are not toxins). Now we need

to really prove that science is on the side of the case for laws such as DSHEA.

If you have the skills and the passion, come onboard, and welcome! The creation

of the science base (supporting the use of nutrients and other natural health

products) for our policy makers is crucial. Write to me at

rima.laibow and tell me what your expertise is and we'll

put the task force together. Let's make the best use of the critical terrain for

the sake of health and health freedom!

 

Yours in Health and Freedom,

 

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation

 

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