Seeing Through Spin of Citizens for Health & The Natural Solutions Foundation

[Guest guest]

Seeing Through Spin of " Citizens for Health " and " The Natural Solutions

Foundation " on the CODEX Vitamin Issue

 

 

 

CONTROLLED OPPOSITION GROUPS

_http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3312735.htm_

(http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3312735.htm)

" Citizens for Health " and " Natural Solutions Foundation " are controlled

opposition groups on the Codex issue. We believe the true purpose of these

groups

is to assist the pharma dominated vitamin trade associations by recommending

grass roots actions which appear plausible on the surface to the poorly

informed, but which upon close inspection fail to hold up to careful scrutiny.

We believe these groups are attempting to intentionally divert grass roots

attention from the strategy of IAHF and allied organizations. In a nutshell,

their mission is to:

A) Con people into believing that we can change Codex AT Codex (despite the

fact that we have zero political influence over the unelected bureaucrats

from the FDA and its international equivalents that serve as delegates at these

highly rigged meetings.) and

B) Con people into believing that countries which adopt " Model Legislation "

patterned after the US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act would be

" protected " in the event of a WTO Trade Dispute Ruling against them. (James

Turner, esq, who originated this plan has failed to explain any viable legal

mechanism to support his contention that this could work. * See IAHF's detailed

analysis of CFH and NSF's " LEGAL SUMMARY " below.

C) Con people into believing that they're " fighting back " by signing a

petition to US Codex Manager Ed Scarbrough (an unelected bureaucrat at the USDA

who has never attempted to rein in FDA officials who've served as US Delegates

at CODEX (even when their actions have gone directly against US law.)

Even when Scarbrough and the US Codex Delegates have obviously IGNORED this

petition at recent Codex meetings, Citizens for Health and the Natural

Solutions Foundation would still have us believe that signing it and sending it

in

to Scarbrough are a viable means of " fighting back. "

D) Con people into believing that there is " no connection " between

sovereignty destroying trade agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA and Codex in

an

obvious effort to keep people from exercising the political leverage that we DO

have with CONGRESS (but which we DON'T have with unelected Codex bureaucrats

from the world's FDA's.) Citizens for Health and now also the " Natural

Solutions Foundation " have a long history of doing spin against true grass

roots

anti Codex campaigns.

These groups are making ZERO EFFORT to alert the public to the dire need to

oppose clear efforts to destroy America and to force us into a planned North

American Union.

Its clear that their TRUE MOTIVE is to support the agenda of the large

pharmaceutical companies that are controlling the vitamin trade associations

from

the top-down which WANT CODEX, which WANT one size fits all regulations for

the planet. In this section we explore this and also explore the gross

conflicts of interest inherent in these organizations which have very close

ties

with such pharma dominated vitamin trade associations as CRN, and NNFA.

IAHF ANALYSIS OF CFH & NSF's DECEPTIVE " LEGAL SUMMARY " - IAHF's COMMENTS ARE

IN SQUARE BRACKETS PRECEEDED BY ASTERISKS

LEGAL SUMMARY WTO/CODEX/VITAMIN & MINERAL GUIDELINES

(located at _http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/downloads/index.shtml_

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/downloads/index.shtml) under “Legal Summary)

 

Question #1: Is a nation obligated by international or any other law to

adopt the Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements finalized by the

Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome on July 4th 2005?

 

Answer #1: NO.

 

***[iAHF Note: Very misleading conclusion. The US has entered into an

open-ended process. Codex ratified a FRAMEWORK for the regulation of vitamins

and

minerals on July 4th 2005. They did not begin the process of filling in the

blanks on allowable potencies until the November CCNFSDU meeting in Bonn,

Germany, and haven’t finished doing this yet.

 

These highly controversial “safe upper limits†are being set by the parent

body to Codex- the World Health Organization. Moreover, Article 3 of the SPS

Agreement clearly obligates harmonization to Codex:

 

Article 3 States: “To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as

wide a basis as possible, members shall base their food safety measures on

international standards, guidelines, or recommendations.†The WTO has adopted

the Codex Guidelines as their worldwide standards.

_http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm_

(http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm) This can evolve to

ever-increasing entanglements due to legal and

economic pressure. The U.S. government may or many not wish to harmonize, but

it

can now be FORCED to. This contradicts the Natural Solutions Foundation,

Citizens for Health, the FDA, USTR and all of the Pharma Dominated Vitamin

Trade Associations]

 

Question # 2: Is a nation permitted by international and other law to adopt

laws regulating dietary supplements, including vitamin and mineral

supplements, such as the Model International Dietary Supplement Act based on

the

Natural Solutions Foundation endorsed Guidelines for the Use of Food Supplement

Trade in the Effort to End World Hunger and Promote the WHO/FAO Global Strategy

on Diet, Physical Exercise and Health?

 

Answer #2: Yes.

 

**** [ IAHF Note: Additional misleading information which presumes that

their “Answer #1 is accurate. As we’ve seen above, it is not. Here is

additional

evidence: At _http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html_

(http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html) FDA says " WTO and its dispute

settlement panels do

not have the power to change US law. If a WTO decision in response to a

dispute settlement panel is averse to the US, only Congress and the

Administration

can decide whether to implement the panel recommendation, and if so, how to

implement it. "

 

This is only technically true. The reality is that the WTO has ruled

against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, including EVERY case impacting our

environmental and public health laws (Testimony of Lori Wallach, JD, Director

of the

Global Trade Watch division of Public Citizen before the House Ways & Means

Committee May 17,05 http://www.citizen.org/documents/Wallach%205.17.2005.pdf

 

The US so far has complied in EVERY CASE including tax law.

_http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm

 

_ (http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm) Recently a WTO

tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling,

_http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166_

(http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166) opening

the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with anti

gambling restrictions. Given that as of April 3, 2006 the US has not met the

WTO's deadline for compliance in this matter, the US is now subject to trade

sanctions: _http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346

 

_ (http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346) Our undeniable

reality is in 42 out of 48 cases the WTO has ruled against the USA in dispute

panels, (including EVERY case involving environmental or public health laws).

Given the total non transparency of these panels and the fact that they don't

follow US rules of evidence, given that the WTO has never given a private

citizen standing to appear before a Dispute panel to provide testimony, given

that

the WTO has even made unfair, unethical rulings against STATE laws, on what

BELIEVABLE, FACTUAL BASIS do the Natural Solutions Foundation & Citizens for

Health continue to maintain that a nation adopting the " International Dietary

Supplement Act " model legislation would be exempt from the imposition of WTO

trade sanctions?

 

 

Question #3: Does a nation face international trade sanctions by the World

Trade Organization because it has adopted the International Dietary Supplement

Act endorsed by the Natural Solutions Foundation?

 

Answer #3: No.

 

Overview: The Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements finalized

by the Codex Alimentarius Commission July 4, 2005 are a non binding

recommendation to the governments of the world. No nation is obligated to adopt

them

or to adopt laws that implement them. They are a loose framework to be

considered, along with any and all other available dietary supplement

information,

by any country intending to adopt laws and or regulations governing vitamin

and mineral food supplements.

 

Any vitamin and mineral food supplement product that complies with the Codex

Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements meets the requirements

for importation into any country that adopts the Model International Dietary

Supplement Act, attached to this summary, as its domestic law. The Model Act

is drawn to include Codex compliant supplement products. All countries that

freely adopt the Model Act can freely trade among themselves.

 

If one country attempts to stop the shipment of a vitamin and/or mineral

product across its borders based on the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and

Mineral

Food Supplements it creates the conditions for the exporting country to

bring a trade complaint against it under World Trade Organization rules. Those

rules require the trade dispute to be settled on sound scientific

justification. Sound nutritional science supports the revised guidelines and

the Model

International Supplement Act.

 

**** [iAHF Note: Despite being challenged repeatedly by Scott Tips, JD,

Legal Counsel to the National Health Federation, James Turner, the source of

Laibow’s information here, has not been able to substantiate this assertion

and

has failed to explain the supposed legal mechanism by which a country would

supposedly be WTO compliant if they adopted anything BUT Codex

“guidelinesâ€.

 

As discussed in IAHF comments above, the WTO’s Dispute Settlement process is

anything BUT scientific. It does not adhere to US rules of evidence and is

inherently biased. There is nothing to prevent conflicts of interest from

occurring in the selection of attorneys sitting on the panel, indeed, they have

occurred many times. Moreover, the WTO’s dispute settlement panel meets in

secret, there is no transparency in their deliberations. The reality is that

the WTO has ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, including EVERY case

impacting our environmental and public health laws (Testimony of Lori Wallach,

JD, Director of the Global Trade Watch division of Public Citizen before

the House Ways & Means Committee May 17,05

http://www.citizen.org/documents/Wallach%205.17.2005.pdf

 

The US so far has complied in EVERY CASE including tax law.

_http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm

 

_ (http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm) Recently a WTO

tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling,

_http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166_

(http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166) opening

the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with anti

gambling restrictions. Given that as of April 3, 2006 the US has not met the

WTO's deadline for compliance in this matter, the US is now subject to trade

sanctions: _http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346 ]

 

_ (http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346)

Narrative:

 

1. The Natural Solutions Foundation endorsed Revised Guideline are WTO

compliant.

 

**** [ IAHF Note: As proven above, this is FALSE.]

2. Under international trading rules Countries are free to adopt domestic

laws that allow a more robust trade in vitamins, minerals and other dietary

supplements than laws based on Codex Guidelines would permit (For example the

US

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.)

 

**** [iAHF Note: As proven above, this is FALSE.]

3.A domestic market can allow products that the Codex guideline would allow

other countries to prohibit and still be WTO compliant.

 

*****[iAHF Note: As proven above, this is FALSE.]

4. If every country adopted the Model Law then none of them would need to be

domestically compliant with the Codex guideline but all could trade freely

under WTO rules.

 

*****[iAHF Note: As proven above, this is false. James Turner has never

responded to questions about this from Scott Tips,JD of NHF. He has never

proven

any supposed legal mechanism to substantiate this assertion which is

demonstrated above to be based on demonstrably false statements.

5. To the extent that countries adopt national legislation that tracks the

Codex guideline, such as the Model International Law, rather than the Codex

guideline an increasing number of DSHEA- like supporing trading partners

emerges in a system of trading countries that, at a minimum among themselves,

is

totally WTO compliant. Since their laws are based on sound nutritional science

they are compliant with WTO rules.

 

*****[iAHF Note: Nothing provided by NSF or CFH proves this assertion,

however an abundance of evidence exists to prove that the WTO Dispute

Settlement

panels are unscientific, aren’t government by US rules of evidence, are

biased, and theres nothing to prevent conflicts of interest in the selection of

attorneys to sit on these panels. Indeed- the facts show that the WTO has ruled

against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, including EVERY case impacting our env

ironmental and public health laws (Testimony of Lori Wallach, JD, Director

of the Global Trade Watch division of Public Citizen before the House Ways &

Means Committee May 17,05

http://www.citizen.org/documents/Wallach%205.17.2005.pdf

 

The US so far has complied in EVERY CASE including tax law.

_http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm

 

_ (http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm) Recently a WTO

tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling,

_http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166_

(http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166) opening

the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with anti

gambling restrictions. Given that as of April 3, 2006 the US has not met the

WTO's deadline for compliance in this matter, the US is now subject to trade

sanctions: _http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346 ]

 

_ (http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346) 6. Nutritional

Science rather than toxic chemical science is a sound scientific basis upon

which

to rest domestic and international trade regulations of dietary supplements.

 

***** [iAHF Note: We agree that nutritional science rather than toxic

chemical science is a sound scientific basis upon which to rest domestic and

international trade regulations of dietary supplements, however this has no

bearing

on how the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body operates. Above we provide a huge

body of evidence to indicate that it is a biased, star chamber proceeding

whose decisions are based far more on the economic expediency of those who

control it rather than on sound science.]

7. The Revised Guidelines and Model International Law rest on the premise

that is is proper for individual health and well being, national economic and

health policy and robust international trade for individual consumers to have

access to them the widest possible choice of dietary supplements.

 

***** [iAHF Note: IAHF agrees with NSF’s premise, however IAHF notes that

this wishful thinking is not consistent with the political reality of any

nation that is a member of the WTO given the harsh reality of how its Dispute

Settlement Panels operate.]

8. The Revised Guideline and Model International Law support more

effectively than the Codex guideline does the significant role that dietary

supplements

can play in helping end world hunger and promote world health.

 

******[iAHF Note: That is true, but so what? The World Health Organization

has never been interested in ending world hunger or in promoting world health-

when they claim this as a goal its obviously nothing but SPIN. An abundance

of evidence exists to indicate that theirs is a genocide agenda- a systematic

effort to curb global population growth. All we have do to see the truth of

this is to see how FDA’s Christine Lewis Taylor selected the applicants for a

workshop on “Nutrient Risk Assessment†when tasked by the WHO with

spearheading the process by which they’re generating acceptable “Safe Upper

Levelsâ€

for vitamins and minerals. Taylor excluded all applicants from amongst the

ranks of orthomolecular physicians and scientists who believe in the use of

nutrients for PREVENTIVE purposes. WHO is making no effort to take into account

the BENEFITS of vitamins and minerals- they’re looking ONLY at supposed “

risks.â€

 

Natural Solutions Foundation's Conclusion

 

Toxic science that undermines nutritional health of individual users of

dietary supplements is not scientifically supported as the standard upon which

dietary supplement regulation can be based. Therefor a toxic science based

dieta

ry supplement regulatory system does not provide the required legal basis

under WTO rules for blocking international trade in dietary supplements.

IAHF COMMENTS ON NSF ( & CFH's) " CONCLUSION " :

The purpose of NSF's & CFH's spin is to deceive vitamin consumers into

thinking it is possible to stop Codex AT CODEX, but we've clearly shown here

that

it is NOT possible to.

IAHF believes the purpose of this spin is to divert people from taking steps

to defend US Sovereignty in order to stop CODEX from being imposed on us via

regional harmonization- the most LIKELY way it would be thrust upon us.

Since when has the WTO been concerned with scientific honesty? The Natural

Solutions Foundation and Citizens for Health cannot supply us with any

evidence that the WTO's highly biased Dispute Settlement Panels have EVER based

their decisionmaking on sound science.

Lori Wallach, JD, Director of the Global Trade Watch Division of Public

Citizen, however, has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee that

the WTO has ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, including EVERY case

impacting our environmental and public health laws (Testimony of Lori

Wallach, JD, Director of the Global Trade Watch division of Public Citizen

before

the House Ways & Means Committee May 17,05

http://www.citizen.org/documents/Wallach%205.17.2005.pdf

 

The US so far has complied in EVERY CASE including tax law.

_http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm

 

_ (http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2002/tst012102.htm) Recently a WTO

tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling,

_http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166_

(http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2166) opening

the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with anti

gambling restrictions. Given that as of April 3, 2006 the US has not met the

WTO's deadline for compliance in this matter, the US is now subject to trade

sanctions: _http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346

 

_ (http://www.citizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=1346) Our undeniable

reality is in 42 out of 48 cases the WTO has ruled against the USA in dispute

panels, (including EVERY case involving environmental or public health laws).

Given the total non transparency of these panels and the fact that they don't

follow US rules of evidence, given that the WTO has never given a private

citizen standing to appear before a Dispute panel to provide testimony, given

that

the WTO has even made unfair, unethical rulings against STATE laws, on what

BELIEVABLE, FACTUAL BASIS do the Natural Solutions Foundation & Citizens for

Health continue to maintain that a nation adopting the " International Dietary

Supplement Act " model legislation would be exempt from the imposition of WTO

trade sanctions?

NSF & CFH's spin is intended to create cognitive dissonance so that vitamin

consumers will believe it is possible to stop Codex AT CODEX. This spin is

intended to ASSIST the pharma dominated vitamin trade associations by NOT

encouraging consumers to pressure Congress into holding an OVERSIGHT HEARING on

the FDA's Illegal Trilateral Cooperation Charter with Canada and Mexico. This

FDA move is part of an effort to force the USA into a planned North American

Union.

The biggest vitamin companies which dominate the vitamin trade associations

all WANT harmonization to Canadian law because it would create an extra set

red tape via so called " Drug Identification Numbers " and " Site Licensing

Requirements " which do NOTHING to protect consumers, but which only the largest

companies can afford.

In this high stakes game, it is in the best interests of the Pharma

Dominated Vitamin Trade Associations that the grass roots not take actions in

opposed

to Codex which threaten their desire to have one set of harmonized dietary

supplement regulations for the planet.

For this reason CFH and NSF were created to attempt to DIVERT the grass

roots AWAY from the message of IAHF and allied organizations.

 

 

IAHF has not been alone in exposing NSF as a controlled opposition group-

for additional clarification please see these articles from The Dr. Rath Health

Foundation, The National Health Federation, and the Alliance for Natural

Health:

 

A Modern Major General Exposed?

_http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-moderngeneral.

html_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-moderngeneral.ht\

ml)

 

Codex Meeting in Ottawa- Business as Usual or Stunning Victory for Health

Freedom?

_http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-ottawa.htm_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-ottawa.htm)

 

Miracle in Rome?

_http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-miracle.htm_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-miracle.htm)

 

Codex and Health Freedom- Be Wary of the Instant Experts

_http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex-beware.htm)

 

Veterans Day Disgrace-

_http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_15_nov_2007.html_

(http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_15_nov_2007.html)

 

Vitamin Consumers Interests Again At Stake at Codex

_http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=301_

(http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=301)