Did you fall for the 12/31/09 Codex Scam?

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Did You Fall for the 12/31/09 Codex Scam?

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PRESS RELEASE

 

 

DECEMBER 31, 2009 –

 

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE EARTH ENDED?

 

 

 

January 4, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many of you kept hearing the message

for these many months now, “Codex is coming into

effect as of December 31, 2009.” Depending on

the source, the message either stated directly or

implied that your dietary supplements were in

danger after that date. And how many of you fell for that false siren cry?

Be honest. Raise your hand if you did,

and many will, because that false cry of alarm

was circulated on the internet for so long by

persons who should have known better, who still

hold themselves out as “experts” on Codex, and

who constantly tap you for donations so that

their “expertise” and “important messages” can be

spread far and wide. What expertise? What

important messages? It’s nonsense; and too many

people fell for and bought that nonsense hook,

line, and sinker. And are still believing it even now!

Listen!

Well, December 31, 2009 has come and

gone and there is no enactment of Codex

“regulations” on dietary supplements into law in

the United States. Yes, the European Union’s

Food Supplements Directive has come into full

effect; but that is a far different beast, not to

be confused as so many have with Codex Alimentarius.

Is Codex Alimentarius, as its standards

are currently being developed, a

danger? Absolutely. But were the Codex Vitamin

and Mineral Food Supplement Guidelines going to

be made into “law” as of December

31st? Absolutely not. And we at the National

Health Federation, the only health-freedom

organization accredited by Codex to attend and

speak out at its meetings, have told you for a

very long time now that December 31, 2009, was

not a Codex threat date. The truth is it never was.

Fool Me Once, Shame on You Fool Me Twice, Shame oon Me

Those people who misinformed you all

these months are the same ones who almost five

years ago also claimed that Codex would eliminate

vitamins and minerals from American health-food

store shelves by July 31, 2005. Well, that date

also came and went without that happening. Now

they have a larger audience and one that is

ignorant of these earlier false claims. How many

more false cries will have to come and go before

people wake up to the fact that they should stop

listening to anyone who claimed that December

31st was a Codex danger date? How much more time

must pass before that audience realizes that they

have been suckers, steered in a wrong direction and with a false message?

 

Now, these same Codex “experts” are

pretending that somehow the date was “pushed

back.” “Whew,” they say, now it will be

later. Last November, if not before, they must

have seen this December 31st date coming up hard

and fast on them and wondered how they could

possibly wiggle out of it. How to explain, then,

to their sucker audience when that date arrived

that December 31st was no longer a “danger”

(since it never had been in the

beginning)? That’s it, yes, “Push Back.” The

date was “pushed back.” How simple. How neat. And how absolutely false.

The Only Freedom Force at Codex

The only health-freedom organization

that has any standing whatsoever at the Codex

Alimentarius meetings is the National Health

Federation. We are the only such ones who can

speak out at Codex meetings, submit documents for

delegates’ review, and interact in real-time with

the other delegates as the meeting discussions are happening.

Even if you consider those who attend

Codex meetings as voiceless, passive observers,

the NHF has still attended more Codex meetings

than all other health-freedom organizations

combined. So, we not only have actual

participatory experience, but we have more

experience in general. Plus, we don’t feed you a

load of horse manure, unnecessarily alarming you,

just so we will look good. We tell you the truth.

Realize, the way Codex works is that

they do not really listen to anyone outside of

the Codex process. That’s why the only ones who

can make a difference at the Codex levels are

those on the inside, such as the NHF. That is

exactly how, at the last Codex Committee meeting

in Germany, NHF was able to stop a very

anti-health document setting absurdly-low

Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) from

advancing. Without NHF, this document would have

advanced forward towards completion.

Get off the Sucker Train

So, where were you when the Earth

“ended” last New Year’s Eve? On the sucker

train? And are you still on it? Do you still

actually believe that the Codex Food Supplements

standards became law on or the day after that

date? The Tooth Fairy is more real than that

nonsense, at least a child can get some money for

a tooth. With the other, you just get a red face.

If you want the real information on

what is happening at Codex, visit our NHF website

at

<http://www.thenhf.com/codex.html>www.thenhf.com/codex.html.

Better yet, make a donation to keep us fighting

for you in the trenches at the Codex

meetings. We need your help, here and now - you

help no one if you waste your time, money, and

energy by chasing ghosts and worrying about phantom regulatory deadlines.

<https://www.thenhf.com/simple_donations.htm>Donate

here and help us fight for your health

freedom. The real health-freedom heroes are all

of those NHF Members and other supporters who did

not fall for the 12/31/09 Codex joke and kept

supporting us through thick and thin in the real fight.

Will you be part of the solution? Or

will you be part of the diversion? Please start

right now to be part of the solution by sending

this e-mail on to everyone you know who would be

interested in knowing the truth. And help put an

end to the misinformation about 12/31/09.

 

 

 

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Just a few precisions and some questions.First, I couldn't agree more with Betty's post.Where the 12/31/09 latest Codex panic came from was this video:http://www.wearechange.org/2009/12/codex-alimentarius-goes-into-effect-dec.htmlPOSTED: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2009Codex Alimentarius, goes into effect Dec. 31st 2009[5 1/2 mn. video]w/ Rima Laibow saying [on July 29, 2008, though...] "it goes into global implementation on Dec. 31st 2009" ---------There's no doubt indeed that the NHF was *quite* instrumental in sparing us from the implementation of Codex so far. BRAVO to them! See again [i sent them out wildly at the time]http://snipurl.com/t4sz6 [One Click]VICTORY AT CODEX!!! Anti-Supplement NRV Document Held Back Because of NHFNovember 6, 2009>>The CCNFSDU was all prepared to rubber-stamp its approval on the “Proposed Draft Additional or Revised Nutrient Reference Values for Labelling Purposes in the Codex Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling,” which had been pushed by the delegation of the Republic of Korea and others.lThis document was so astoundingly anti-vitamin and mineral it infuriated the NHF representative, who had to restrain himself from using harsh and insulting words when it came NHF’s turn to speak. Appendix 2 of the document is only two pages, but contains already-low values for each of the Vitamins and Minerals listed in the Appendix (except for Fluoride, which of course has an excessively high value). To see the document, go HERE.For example, the “scientific” values assigned to Vitamin C were being reduced from an already-low 60 milligrams to an even-lower 45 milligrams! The NRV for magnesium was to be cut from 300 milligrams to 240 milligrams. Niacin’s value was to be chopped from 18 milligrams to 15. These were, and are, absurd numbers, based upon nutritional ignorance.Over a one-hour period, the NHF took the floor repeatedly to lambast the document and to insist that its adoption would be a public-relations nightmare and make Codex the laughingstock of the World. If anything, NHF said, these numbers must be drastically raised. The argument swirled around the room with the NHF holding firm against comments from many other country delegations, especially Australia (which calls harsher standards "an extra bit of comfort"), all of whom thought that these numbers were perfectly normal! Had NHF not challenged the document, there would have been no sustained opposition to its passage.Instead, NHF kept unrelentingly hammering at the points it had first raised and answered at every chance the counter-arguments of the document’s proponents. Finally, the Chairman, perhaps in exasperation, suggested that the Committee not advance the document to its next step because there was no consensus! This “compromise” was supported by NHF but opposed by others until, with it still hanging in the balance, the Indian delegation firmly stated its support for NHF’s position and against it advancing. India’s timing was impeccable. That was enough for the Chairman, who quickly concluded the debate and held the document back.<<----------http://snipurl.com/tcx6p [One Click]S.510 Food Safety - Partial But Important Victory [a Press Release from the NHF]>>The modified bill language – with clear statements of Congressional intent on the non-application of Codex standards to supplements – is an important step forward. The Bill Report should provide further protection against the FDA's continued Codex dietary supplement interpretive freelancing, especially with inclusion of the FDA/Codex regulatory-fix language.<<>>Specifically, Senator Harkin said, "Codex has no jurisdiction over the regulation of the manufacture and sale of supplements in the United States."<<----------This said, certainly not to belittle the NHF victory, it's only temporary and Codex has only been "held back" indeed. The EU is fierce in promoting Codex [and I hear, for instance, that they want homeopathic remedies classified as "drugs," thus regulated by Codex, which would be the end of homeopathy as we know it]. So, here's my question: what would be the impact of the NHF opposition on the application of Codex on Europe? And if Europe starts implementing it, won't our supplements from --and to-- Europe [and, for instance, homeopathic remedies, mostly imported from France] be regulated by the way of world trade organizations?Subsequent question: when is this Codex Committee due to reconvene?I'm glad for the NHF, I can't congratulate them enough, but there's a lot more fighting on the horizon and I'll be happy to hear what you have to say about it!Viviane =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.