CODEX COMMISSION ALERT! Ron Paul and Henry Lamb

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(USA) CODEX COMMISSION ALERT! Ron Paul and Henry Lamb

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HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS

BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 11, 2005

 

Henry Lamb- A Great Freedom Fighter Documents how your Dietary

Supplements are Under Attack

 

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to read " Your dietary supplements:

Under attack again " by Henry Lamb, which I am inserting into the

record. Mr. Lamb explains the threat to American consumers of dietary

supplements and American sovereignty by the Codex Alimentarius

commission, commonly referred to simply as Codex. The United Nations

created Codex to establish international standards for foods and

medicines. Just last week, representatives of the United States

government agreed to a final version of Codex's standards on dietary

supplements which, if implemented in the United States, could

drastically reduce Americans' ability to obtain the supplements of

their choice. Members of the American bureaucracy may be hoping to

achieve via international fiat what they cannot achieve through the

domestic law-making process--the power to restrict consumers' access

to dietary supplements. American bureaucrats may gain this power if

the World Trade Organization, which considers Codex " guidelines " the

standard by which all other regulations are judged, decides that our

failure to " harmonize " our regulations of dietary supplements to meet

Codex's recommendations violates international trading standards!

This could occur despite the fact that American consumers do not want

to be subjected to the restrictive regulations common in other parts

of the world, such as the European Union.

 

This article is typical of Henry Lamb's work. For almost twenty years,

beginning at an age when most Americans are contemplating retirement,

Mr. Lamb has worked to expose and stop threats to American liberty,

sovereignty, and prosperity. Mr. Lamb became involved in the battle

for liberty when, as the CEO of a Tennessee construction company, he

founded a state association of contractors to work against excessive

regulations. In 1988, Henry Lamb founded the Environmental

Conservation Organization to defend true environmentalism, which is

rooted in the truth that there is no better steward of the environment

than a private property owner, from those who used the environment as

a cover for their radical statist agendas. Since 1992, Mr. Lamb and

ECO have focused on the threat to economic liberty and self-government

posed by the radical global environmental agenda.

 

Henry Lamb works to further the cause of liberty by giving speeches

around the country, editing an on-line magazine, making numerous

television and radio appearances, and writing a weekly column to

inform his fellow Americans of the latest scheme to undermine their

freedoms. Mr. Lamb is the model of a citizen-activist, and all who

wish to become involved in the battle for freedom can learn from his

example. In conclusion, I once again urge my colleagues to read Mr.

Lamb's article to learn about the need to protect American consumers

from Codex, and I thank Mr. Lamb for his tireless devotion to the

cause of freedom.

 

YOUR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: UNDER ATTACK AGAIN (from WorldNetDaily, June

11, 2005)

 

(By Henry Lamb)

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission sounds like one of those shadowy,

sinister organizations conjured up by one-world-government nuts to

scare people.

 

Truth: It is!

 

The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health

Organization created this commission in the early 1960s to set

standards for food safety and to ``harmonize'' the laws of member

nations. The commission was endorsed by U.N. Resolution 39/248, which

says:

 

``When formulating national policies and plans with regard to food,

governments should take into account the need of all consumers for

food security and should support and, as far as possible, adopt

standards from the ..... Codex Alimentarius. .....''

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission consists of delegates from 163

member nations representing 97 percent of the world's population. It

meets every two years, either in Rome or Geneva. Between meetings, the

commission is governed by an executive committee that directs the

activities of its many committees.

 

Of immediate concern is the ongoing effort to bring dietary

supplements in America under the control of standards set by this

commission. Dietary supplements generate a $17 billion industry in the

United States, which affects more than 150 million consumers,

according to Congressional findings (H.R. 2485). Proposed procedures

and standards could virtually destroy this market and deprive millions

of Americans of the supplements they want to use.

 

The European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements, which becomes law

in August, severely restricts the types and quantities of supplements

that may be legally sold. Most forms of vitamins C and E, for example,

are not available, or are available only in extremely small doses. If

current plans proceed on course, American consumers are in for a shock.

 

How can this little-known international commission control what

consumers buy in the United States?

 

An even less-known agency, deep within the bowels of the U.S.

Department of Agriculture is responsible for U.S. participation in the

Codex Commission and designates delegates to each of the commission's

committees. Barbara O. Schneeman is the delegate to the Codex

Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses.

 

The effort to regulate dietary supplements has been under way for more

than a decade. In 1994, Congress adopted the Dietary Supplement Health

and Education Act, which kept supplements beyond the reach of the drug

police. In the past, Codex recommendations have been non-binding. Now,

however, the Codex Alimentarius Commission is teaming up with the

World Trade Organization to bring international enforcement to the

dietary-supplement battle.

 

Ironically, it was primarily the U.S. that brought the WTO into

existence in 1994, as the successor to GATT, the General Agreement on

Tarriffs and Trade. The WTO agreement specifically requires that the

member nations--including the U.S.--conform its laws to meet the

requirements of WTO decisions. Failure to conform results in stiff

financial penalties. The Codex Commission and the European Union want

the WTO to enforce Codex standards, which fly directly in the face of

the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.

 

Pascal Lamy of France was just selected as director general of the

WTO. Lamy served as a member of the French Socialist Party's steering

committee and was chief of staff and representative of the European

Commission for President Jacques Delors. Since 1995, he has served as

a member of the Central Office of the Mouvement Européen (France) and

as a member of the European Commission, responsible for trade.

 

The Codex Commission will be meeting in Rome July 4-9 to adopt the

final rules on dietary supplement use. Dr. Carolyn Dean, president of

Friends of Freedom International, will attend this meeting and return

to the U.S. just in time to present her report to the Sixth Annual

Freedom 21 Conference in Reno, July 14-16.

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission's reach is much broader than dietary

supplements. Its committees are also working on standards for

pesticide residue, labeling of all kinds of foods, food additives and

nutrients, veterinary medicine and drugs, as well as standards and

methods for analysis. The function of this organization is to

establish standards for all food worldwide and to enforce those

standards through the power of the World Trade Organization.

 

Few people know that there is such a thing as the Codex Alimentarius

Commission. It was created to promote food safety in international

trade. It is on the brink of becoming an Orwellian bureaucracy--far

worse than the worst fantasies of the one-world conspiracy theories.

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission is neither fantasy nor theory; it is

real.

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