Codex Update

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Codex Chairman Seeks to Thwart Pro Health Initiative

 

" Codex' restrictive " Vitamin and Mineral Guideline " treats nutrients

as toxins to be regulated on the basis of " risk analysis " without

regard for benefit. Incredibly, a US dominated* WHO Workshop on the

Application of Risk Assessment to Nutrients expanded the concept from

Vitamins and Minerals to all nutrients and offered further guidance

which defines an adverse event related to any nutrient as " any change

in a bio marker " . This means that any nutrient which produces any

change, no matter how beneficial, will be a prohibited substance for

international trade. At the same time, nations are being advised to

adopt the alleged " science based " Codex Guidelines as their own

domestic legislation in a process called " harmonization " . Based on

poor science, many of these Guidelines guarantee poor nutritional

status and preventable ill health for billions of people, starting

with the most nutritionally vulnerable. "

 

" Clinically ineffective level of nutrients which are treated as if

they are toxins, highly profitable but dangerously high levels of

pesticides and antibiotics, mandatory contamination of the global

food supply by procedures such as irradiation and treatment of food

animals (including dairy cattle) with growth/sex hormones,

Genetically Modified foods, significant weakening of Organic Food

standards and other decisions taken by Codex over the years are of

grave concern to consumers and health advocates... "

 

" diseases identified by the WHO as the chronic degenerative diseases

of under nutrition: cancers, cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes

and obesity which, in fact, are responsible for 59% of the world's

disease burden now and are expected to increase that percentage

sharply as Codex provisions are implemented world-wide. "

 

This in a nutshell sums up the CODEX deliberations.