Codex Allows Seven Deadly Pesticides Banned by Stockholm Convention

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Codex Allows Seven Deadly Pesticides Banned by Stockholm Convention

and US Law - Although Codex says it is focused on " Consumer

Protection " the Codex Alimentarius Commission now allows seven of the

12 deadliest compounds on earth to be used on food. These seven deadly

pesticides are banned by US law and the Stockholm Convention, which

the US and every member of Codex signed.

 

 

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Codex Allows Seven Deadly Pesticides Banned by Stockholm Convention

and US Law

 

 

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Although Codex says it is focused on " Consumer Protection " the Codex

Alimentarius Commission now allows seven of the 12 deadliest compounds

on earth to be used on food. These seven deadly pesticides are banned

by US law and the Stockholm Convention, which the US and every member

of Codex signed.

 

The Stockholm Convention, signed by 176 countries including the United

States (May 2005) commits the signatories to eliminate world's 12 most

dangerous Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs . The (CAC)Codex

Alimentarius Commission, (made up of 171 countries, including the US,

uses consensus to set the world's rules for international trade in

food) allows seven of the twelve agreed upon killer POPs to be used in

the production of foods as varied as milk, soy oils, cotton seed,

citrus fruits, eggs, poultry, cereal grains, pineapples, leafy and

root vegetables, legumes and others.

 

POPs remain intact in the environment for long periods, become widely

distributed geographically, accumulate in the fatty tissue of living

organisms and are highly toxic to humans and wildlife. They increase

brain, bladder, biliary, lung, breast and other cancers, cause damage

to the kidney, liver, adrenals and thyroid, can cause decreased

fertility, immune suppression, diabetes, porphyria, cardiovascular

disease, fatal skin lesions especially in children and nursing infants

( " pink sore " ), headache, dizziness, nausea, general malaise, and

vomiting, followed by muscle twitching, myoclonic jerks and convulsions.

 

All of the killer POPs pose shared health threats but each has its own

special hazards. Endrin, for example, is 2-4 times more toxic than the

better known DDT, and tends to accumulate in children.

Chlordane, banned in the US in 1988, paralysis cancer-fighting cells

and doubles rates of lung and brain cancer in exposed persons. As a

group, the seven deadly pesticides are known to increase the effects

of the other toxic substances. Codex allows them in food.

 

Scientists estimate that the misuse of POPs leads to thousands of

excess deaths, millions of disabilities and billions of lost dollars

annually.

 

The seven restricted POPs banned by both the Stockholm Convention and

US law but permitted by Codex are

Aldrin, Chlordane, Dieldrin, Endrin, Heptachlor, Hexachlorobenzene and

Mirex.

Toxiphene and DDT are the only two POPs pesticides on the Stockholm

POPs list which Codex does not allow.

 

The Natural Solutions Foundaton is deeply concerned about the apparent

lack of science-based decision making since excellent alternatives

exist to the use of these deadly toxins. Consumers, environmentally

concerned groups and individuals have raised serious concerns about

the trustworthiness of Codex Alimentarius as a consumer protection

agency which are strenghtened by Codex's position on POP's.

 

For further information contact The Natural Solutions Foundation.

 

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