Supplement Wars Update: South Africa Complains

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11 Jun 2004 20:48:03 -0000

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South Africa Lodges Official Complaint With Codex Commission

Exposing Massive Corruption at Codex

 

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IAHF List: Please read the complaint & comments below from the South

African Codex Delegation to the Codex Committee on Food Labeling and

to the Committee on Nutrition and Foods For Special Dietary Uses.

 

The Complaint demands that Codex not finalize the draft guideline for

Nutrition and Health Claims which is currently at the final stage

(step 8) in the process of acceptence.

 

In a nutshell- South Africa is demanding that health claims be

allowed to be made in the finalized standard under joint development

by the Codex committees on Food Labeling and the Committee on

Nutrition for foods and for dietary supplements because there is

overwhelming scientific evidence attesting to the fact that dietary

supplements CAN be used successfully in the treatment and prevention

of numerous diseases AND that this fact does NOT " make them into

drugs. "

 

South Africa's complaint to Codex underscores what I've been telling

the public about CODEX since 1996 when I was the first to call it to

global attention- that a VAST GLOBAL SCREWING is in the works to

destroy consumer access to dietary supplements and to truthful health

information about them unless we all work together to OPPOSE IT on

EVERY LEVEL.

 

South Africa has lodged this complaint in the aftermath of being

kicked in the TEETH at the Codex meeting on Food Labeling in Montreal

a few weeks ago. If you missed my report on that, you'll find it on

the IAHF website at http://www.iahf.com/20040517.html

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

1) Forward this alert to more people and urge them to sign onto the

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2) If you need help " connecting the dots " on the Codex issue, see

this RED ALERT

http://www.corsello.com/politics/politics_red_alerts.htm

 

3) Make a donation to the ANH lawsuit to overturn the EU Food

Supplement Directive at http://www.alliance-natural-health.org The

ANH lawsuit is KEY to monkeywrenching CODEX.

ANH CAN WIN with enough grass roots support.

 

4) Copy South Africa's Comments to Codex (Below) and email them to:

A) Your Countries Codex Delegates for the Codex Committees on Food

Labeling and the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary

Uses.

 

Americans should email comments to Robert.Lake and to

mary.cutshall [iAHF will be providing a form letter in

a future email alert if you would rather send one I generate]

 

For other countries Get the email addresses for your countries

delegate from the list at

ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/alinorm04/al04_22e.pdf

 

 

Comments from South Africa to the Codex Commission

(2004)

CL 2004/22-FL

Draft Guideline for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims at step

8 for adoption by the Commission

South Africa is concerned that a Draft Guideline is presented for

adoption at Step 8 that contains a section that is no longer

sustainable because of overwhelming scientific evidence that

contradicts the message of this section. Since Codex adopted the

principle that Standards and Guidelines should be based on scientific

evidence, the above-mentioned Guideline should not be adopted at Step

8 with this section still in operation.

 

In the following documents, the WHO, acknowledges the role of " diet

and nutrition in the prevention of chronic diseases " ', and

the " promotion of optimal nutrition amonq consumers throuqh adequate

labellinq and the use of health claims, to assist them in makinq the

riqht choices " z:

 

1. " WHO Technical Report on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of

Chronic Diseases " (2003)

 

2. WHO's Director-General's report of the Joint FAO/WHO evaluations

of the work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Fifty sixth World

Health Assembly Provisional agenda 14.19, reference A 56/34, dated 3

April 2004), paragraph 23. In paragraph 17 the Director-General noted

that the Codex Commission recommends that the scope of the Commission

should also fully cover health-related aspects of food standards.

 

In our opinion two Codex Committee's failed to implement this policy

recommendation of science-based decisions, namely CCNFSDU 2003 and

CCFL 2004 by not acknowledging -

1. In the case of CCNFSDU 2003: The use of the wording " prevention of

chronic diseases " in the preamble to the document Proposed Draft

Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral supplements " , based on an outdated

clause in the Codex general Guidelines on Claims (CAC/GL 1-1979 (Rev.

1-1991) which prohibits claims as to the suitability of a food for

use in the prevention, alleviation, treatment or cure of a disease;

and

2. In the case of CCFL 2004: The revision of the Codex general

Guidelines on Claims (CAC/GL 1-1979 (Rev. 1-1991) to update the

abovementioned clause to reflect the latest scientific evidence that

nutrients can heal nutritional deficiency diseases and certain

metabolic disorders, can prevent chronic diseases and can be used as

an alternative option in the treatment of some diseases.

 

WHO finds it acceptable to use the word " diseases " when referring to

diet and nutritional policies which are within the scope of Codex

Alimentarius. In other

 

words, the fact that foods and nutrients can prevent diseases and

some cases cure diseases (e.g., classical deficiency diseases and

certain metabolic disorders) do not make these foods and nutrients

medicines from a scientific point of view. Dictations from national

legislation should not be permitted to influence and allow incorrect

statements in a global Guideline.

 

South Africa recommends that the Draft Guideline for Use of Nutrition

and Health Claims not be adopted at step 8 by the Commission and that

section 3.4 of the Codex general Guidelines on Claims (CAC/GL 1-1979

(Rev. 1-1991) which prohibits claims as to the suitability of a food

for use in the prevention, alleviation, treatment or cure of a

disease be

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To understand the importance of nutrition these " governing " bodies need only

to look up nutrition & gene expression at the pubmed website.There are

thousands of citations. Most often it is nutritional deficiencies that initiate

gene

expression. We even have a name for this branch of genetics...nutrigenomics.

Regards, Susan

 

 

 

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Docvite wrote:

>To understand the importance of nutrition these > " governing " bodies need only

to look up nutrition & gene >expression at the pubmed website.There are

thousands of >citations. Most often it is nutritional deficiencies >that

initiate gene expression. We even have a name for >this branch of

genetics...nutrigenomics.

>Regards, Susan

 

 

Thanks Susan, great information.

 

 

 

 

 

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