What is Codex Alimentarius? What does this mean to you? Why is this important? Why have I not heard anything about this in "the media?"
Your time is valuable, so this is an effort to inform and alert you. CODEX is upon us.
Anti-Aging Medicine, Alternative-Complementary-Integrative Medicine, Preventive Medicine and all the other various names that indicate a more comprehensive and inclusive approach to Optimal Health are threatened by this innocuous appearing European-initiated legislation. What is threatened is a fundamentally new approach to health: a consumer-drive, functional restoration and preservation vs. the late-stage-intervention disease and pathology-based model. Supplements are integrally a part of this issue.
So this is about Freedom of Choice and about who is ultimately controlling your access and availability. Freedom for your physician or health practitioner to use and prescribe these without bureaucratic or governmental interference, obstruction or sanctions.
The Supplement Industry and "vitamins" have now become big business. Large pharmaceutical interests are well aware of this. This sets the stage. I implore you to read on. We have endeavored to make this as readable as possible. We thank you so kindly for your interest.
Here is the official site. As you can see, this has been a series of directives dating back for quite some time. Here is the appendix that defines "safe" and "acceptable" levels of vitamin constituents.
Recently, the vitamin company, Now®, has added information about CODEX to their site. Their fact sheet on the EU legislation is well-balanced and highly informative showing how the UK and EU botanical and VMS market is under very serious threat.
Other well respected sites, having good information, should be scanned then
read as your valuable time permits. They are all referenced here.
Vitamin interests have been manipulated by IADSA, NNFA, CRN, AHPA, and UNPA --
the vitamin trade associations -- which are being manipulated by pharmaceutical
interests. It has been stated that Codex is not a threat to our domestic
laws, only to our international sales. Even the vitamin manufacturers and
distributors may be ignoring the real threat. Here are some alarming
facts:
THIS IS CODEX. THESE RULES WILL BE ENFORCED IF NO ONE ACTS! Vitamin companies may go out of business, and the pharmaceutical companies will be in full control of all vitamins that may be of sub-therapeutic value. Remember, therapeutic levels and disease-prevention levels are not the same.
We have been set us up to lose in a WTO (World Trade Organization) trade dispute by establishing a false definition of vitamin safety on the table at codex in the form of the NAS paper.
The think tank, and advocacy organization Life Extension Foundation, writes:
The goal of [this group] is to monopolize the sale of dietary supplements world wide, so that high potency vitamins are only available by prescription, and access to any supplements not having an RDA would also be by prescription only.
Dr. Mathias Rath weighs in on this subject. Dr Rath' website is exceptionally articulate, well-balanced but as alarmed as all of the above. His call to action is succinct and forthright:
Heart attacks, strokes and many of today's most common health problems are not genuine diseases. They have been identified as the result of long-term vitamin deficiency and are subsequently preventable. Today every person has to make a decision: Will you take advantage of this medical breakthrough in vitamin research or will you continue being victimized by special interest groups maintaining the "pharmaceutical business with disease"?
Gary Null has also presented this issue in clear language. He states:
If the U.S. accepts Codex Alimentarius, it could impose international standards on the sale of dietary supplements here & force us into harmonization with France & Germany's restrictive vitamin rules which limit access to information on health choices & restrict the right to obtain high-potency vitamins without a prescription.
Multinational corporations could benefit financially and may be secretly promoting Codex standards worldwide.
The Codex proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on.
John Hammel has been researching this subject tirelessly. He writes:
"I hardly have ANY supporters. People have no idea just how thin the line is of people trying to defend their access. Its razor thin. The American supplement industry is standing on ice every bit as thin as the industry in Europe is.
They're going down unless a miracle happens. Its like watching a slow motion train wreck. DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act) is riddled with Trojan Horse language, and the FDA is just biding their time, knowing that they have all the weapons they need between this and between what's happening with international harmonization.
People are going to feel horribly betrayed unless they somehow wake up. Nothing is happening quickly, its very gradual, very incremental, and that makes it hard for people to see and understand. It also makes people susceptible to the predations of controlled opposition groups like CHC (Consumer For Health Choice) in England."
If CODEX rules are imposed, this will severely affect your access to and benefits from the practice of alternative-complementary-integrative medicine.
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