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CODEX: Everything You Need To Know
To Avoid Losing Your Health Freedom
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Your FREEDOM To Choose Your Nutritional Supplements May Soon Be Lost! October 2006 Not much news has come out on CODEX since the middle of 2005. They have continued to have meetings, set guidelinesa and regulations, but real news has been hard to come by. This is not good for us as it appears things have gone 'underground'. There is a short 28 minute documentary by Kevin P Miller of WellTV.com called 'We Become Silent', that we strongly suggest that everyone view. This CODEX-Cafta documentary, released June 27th, 2005, exposes the dangers of free trade and codex. Narrated by Dame Judi Dench. Click here to see the documentary: We Become Silent Right-click this link [WeBecomeSilent.MP4] and download the file to your computer hard drive, and play it with your video player. The file is 76.5 meg (28 minutes).June 2006 Thanks to certain trade agreements the USA government has made "on your behalf," it is becomming more and more likely that the United States will be forced to declare high dosages of nutritional supplements as illegal and available only as prescription drugs. By the end of 2006 it may be impossible to buy a bottle of your favorite vitamins without a prescription from your doctor! According to Robert Jay Rowen, MD, author of the article "International War Against Health", when the U.S. became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), it agreed to act in accordance with the rules of the multilateral body. What that means is that the United States is legally obligated to make sure our laws do not conflict with WTO laws, says Rowen. Consequently, The United States will have to abide by the CODEX Alimentarius Commission (part of the World Health Organization), which has established these world guidelines: * Dietary supplements sold over the counter must be limited to low or RDA dosage. * Dietary supplements of high dosages-which are used as preventive or therapeutic purposes to fortify the immune system and stave off degenerative and chronic disease-must be obtained from a pharmacist with a prescription from your doctor. CODEX rules are already in effect in some European countries, where Vitamin C, for example, is limited to just 50 mg per dose, compared to our products of up to 1,000 mg or powders of several thousand mg per teaspoon. What can you do? Read through the articles below. Follow the links. Within them are suggestions on what you can do. PLEASE: Do everything suggested. Write your congressman, phone them, E-mail them, fax them, see them in person! Do that over and over and over and.....Believe us, this is about the only way the congress critters will listen. Bug them until it hurts!! And, do not
worry about any repurcussions. They will not go after you. If they go
after anyone, it will be sites likes ours who are actively fighting what
could become the end of our health freedom. ACTIVISM SECTION:
Start Here: The Fate Of Vitamins - Written in May 2005, this is quite possibly the best written, and most easily understandable, summary of what CODEX is and the latest news (as of May 2005). The news does not sound good folks! Stop CAFTA Now! - This pending legislation can also cause CODEX to be implemented. They are coming at us from all sides! International War Against Health: CODEX May Be Implemented In The USA Within 24 Months!! Summer of '05: Critical Time For Nutritional Supplements - This article does a great job of showing the links between what is happening in Europe and what is coming (soon) in the USA Congress. Potential Impacts of the EU Food Supplements Directive. Great article! Again, read this for a peak into the future of natural health freedom in the USA. Do These Three Events Signal The End Of Health Freedom Worldwide? CODEX: Bridging The Great Divide This article brings you up to date on what will be happening at the July 2005 CODEX meeting in Rome where everything will be finalized. United Nations Pushing For Complete Control Of The Internet (folks, they need this control to force CODEX on the world). CODEX Draft Report From November 2004 Meeting Survival As A Natural Health Practitioner In The Future - From South Africa. The pharmaceutical companies are attacking health freedom all around the world. What We Are Up Against In The USA - A sign of things to come? FDA Can Move Against Supplements With No Direct Proof - They can now ban pretty much anything they want, unless you get involved! They are already looking at kava kave, yohimbe, lobelia and other herbs!! AMA Targeting the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) with Senate Bill S-722. Why should you care? Read this article! We won this one folks!! One small victory in the ongoing war on our health freedom. Alliance for Natural Health Mounts Legal Challenge to EU Food Supplements Directive Which Bans Over 300 Vitamins and Minerals. Do not ignore this!! The USA is the next target of these people. Crunch Time For EU Directive On Clinical Trials Again, keep informed. This is coming soon to the USA!! Various Local, National And International Health Freedom Coalitions, Action Networks And Organizations: Alliance For Natural Health - Based in Surrey, United Kingdom. Working to protect the future of natural healthcare in Europe and beyond. American Association For Health Freedom - Based in Great Falls, Virginia. Our mission is to work diligently to achieve the medical freedom which will allow the practitioner to practice alternative medicine without the fear of recrimination for the use of complementary and alternative therapies. American Holistic Health Association - Based in Anaheim, California. Dedicated to promoting holistic principles: honoring the whole person (mind, body and spirit) and encouraging people to actively participate in their own health and healthcare. Citizens For Health - Based in Washington, DC. A national grassroots advocacy organization committed to protecting and expanding your natural health choices. Natural health options are proven to enhance wellness and reduce healthcare costs by millions. But in order for lawmakers to hear this perspective, natural health consumers must remain active, visible and become a permanent voice in national, state and local decisions impacting our health. Complimentary Alternative Medical Association - Based in Georgia. To be recognized as a provider of quality education and accurate information about complementary / alternative medicine - promoting natural, non-toxic healing, health and consumer empowerment. Complementary Wellness Group – Based in Centenial, Colorado. Objectives are to (a) educate the public on the full range of available complementary healthcare options, and to (b) accelerate wellness using complementary modalities, (c) promote wellness, complementary healthcare modalities and sponsoring businesses to the public, and (d) develop and publish information sources on complementary healing modalities and wellness. Based in Colorado. California Health Freedom Coalition - CHFC is an all volunteer organization composed of practitioners and consumers of complementary and alternative health services. Canadian Health Action Network - Based in Burnaby, British Columbia. Health Action Network Society is a membership based, independent, charitable organization gathering and disseminating the choices & voices of health promotion. Cancer Prevention Coalition - Based in Chicago, Illinois. Our goal is to reduce escalating cancer rates through a comprehensive strategy of outreach, public education, advocacy and public policy initiatives to establish prevention as the nation's foremost cancer policy. Carolina Health Freedom Coalition - Based in Durham, North Carolina. Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of our North Carolina community by empowering individuals to make more fully informed healthcare decisions for themselves and their loved ones. Center For Science In The Public Interest - Based in Washington DC. A consumer advocacy organization whose twin missions are to conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and to provide consumers with current, useful information about their health and well-being. Council For Responsible Nutrition - Based in Washington DC. CRN's mission is to improve the environment for member companies to responsibly market dietary supplements by enhancing confidence among media, healthcare professionals, decision makers and consumers. Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome - Documents high common mercury exposure levels from dental amalgam fillings; and common adverse health effects on people and dental staff; plus results of 60,000 clinical cases of significant improvements to chronic conditions after amalgam replacement and treatment- as followed and documented by doctors; plus environmental effects of amalgam that affect everyone. Florida Health Freedom Action - Based in South Miami, Florida. To reform laws which block consumer access to Complementary and Alternative Health Care Therapies ("C.A.T.H. care") and to enhance consumer information about C.A.T.H. care practitioners and the therapies they provide.These therapies include the use of herbs, vitamins, homeopathy, energy work and other natural healing therapies. Friends of Freedom - Based in Canada. To help people live healthier lives by ensuring individual Freedoms are protected. International Advocates for Health Freedom Website - Based in Floyd, Virginia. The International Advocates for Health Freedom is a catalytic entity designed to foster networking between health freedom activists world wide. Iowa Health Freedom Coalition - Based in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Health Freedom Coalition is a non-profit volunteer organization of holistic healthcare educators, practitioners, and consumers seeking to preserve the freedom to legally offer or receive all the healing arts in Iowa. Massachusett's Health Freedom Coalition - Based in Brookline, Massachusetts. "Our Mission" is to provide consumers with freedom to access any of the healing modalities they choose and to provide practitioners the freedom and right to practice legally. Minnesota Natural Health Coalition - Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Organized in 1996 to ensure citizens' access to the health care of their choice, the Minnesota Natural Health Coalition works on issues of concern to the natural health community. Missouri Citizens Coalition For Freedom In Health Care - Based in St. Louis, Missouri. Dedicated to upholding individual freedoms with regard to Health Care Decisions. National Health Freedom Coalition - Based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mission: To promote access to all health care information, services, treatments and products; to promote an understanding of the laws and factors impacting the right to access; and to promote the health of the people of this nation. National Nutritional Foods Association - Founded in 1936, NNFA promotes and protects the unique values and shared interests of retailers, and suppliers in the natural nutritional foods and products industry. New Jersey Natural Health Coalition - Based in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. An alliance of health care consumers united in the belief that every person has the inalienable right to choose the path of their own healing, and that nothing should limit or restrict such freedom in personal health care choices. New York Natural and Complementary Practices Project - Based in New York, New York. Acoalition of New York State consumers seeking to broaden the public's access to complementary and natural practices in New York. Oklahoma Health Freedom Action Network - Since our founding in 1993, our motto, "Whoever Controls Your Medical and Health Decisions Controls You", is the centerpiece of all the work we do. While our main interest is to expand access to for natural healing arts, we are committed to making sure that all medical and health policies and laws both in Oklahoma and nationwide, reflect the right for each of us to make our own decisions. Organic Consumers Association (OCA) - Based in Little Marais, Minnesota. Promotes food safety, organic farming and sustainable agricultural practices in the U.S. and internationally. Objectives are to (a) provide consumers with factual information they can use to make informed food choices such as information about genetic engineering, irradiation, toxic sludge fertilizer, mad cow disease, and rBGH (b) give interviews and supply background material for journalists, news organizations, and public interest activists worldwide. Their campaign strategies include public education, activist networking, boycotts and protests, grassroots lobbying, media and public relations, and litigation. They publish two electronic newsletters: Organic View and BioDemocracy News. Pride Senior Network - Based in New York City. Their mission is “to encourage and promote services which foster maximum health, well being, and quality of life for the aging lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender community through advocacy and education and research. SCOOP Independent News - Based in New Zealand. Freedom, expression, ideas, information, empowerment, transformation. The Coalition for Natural Health - A grassroots trade organization committed to advancing natural health and consumer access to traditional naturopathy. Objectives are to (a) educate the public as to the true meaning and benefits of naturopathy, (b) educate legislators as to the difference between true naturopathy, naturopathic medicine and regulation designed to protect the consumer versus monopolistic licensing laws, (c) repeal and prevent legislation prohibiting true natural health consultants from practicing, and (d) fight to keep natural health and true naturopathy in the public domain. Tennesseans For Health Care Freedom - Based in Delano, Tennessee. We pledge to work diligently on your behalf, to achieve a health care system in which practitioners can practice in good conscience, with the well–being of the patient foremost in their minds, and without fear of recrimination for the use of Complementary Alternative and Integrative therapies; ensure Tennessean’s right to medical freedom and access to the full range of health–promotion and treatment methods; create a health care environment that fosters advancements in health promotion, disease prevention and treatment, as well as cooperation among the many types of practitioners. Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition - Based in Waupaca, Wisconsin. To protect the right of every citizen in Wisconsin to exercise freedom of choice in selecting the best health care available provided by licensed and unlicensed healing arts professionals. |
WHAT CAN YOU DO? There are five very important things you can do to help keep your freedom to choose your nutritional supplements: 1. Read the articles on this page. An informed consumer is a rather scary thought to Congress! 2. Tell your friends and family about this. You can refer them to this page or you can print out the articles. 3. Tell your local health food stores about this. Tell them to visit this site. Give them documentation. Many health food store owners still do not know about this threat. 4. Below the articles are links to various organizations fighting for our rights. Visit ones close to you to get involved, or visit as many as you wish. 5. This
is the MOST important step: Contact your congressional representatives
about this. Do it over and over and over and over. You get the picture.
To help you with this, here are few web sites that have letters, petitions,
downloadable forms ready to go that you can E-mail or snail mail: WHAT IS CODEX? CODEX is short for Codex Alimentarius. This is latin for Food Code. It's the name of a United Nations commission that operates as part of the World Health Organization. The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) was officially created in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) to “develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice.” The main purposes of this commission are now said to be: “protecting health of the consumers,” “ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade,” and “promoting coordination of all food standards.” Codex & CCNFSDU. There are 20 main Codex committees (”subsidiary bodies”) hosted by different countries, including: the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants (Netherlands), the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (Canada), the Codex Committee on Cereals, Pulses and Legumes (U.S.) and, perhaps most importantly right now, the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses [CCNFSDU] (Germany). The Commission's mandate is to set international standards for trade in all kinds of food products. Its concerns include raw, and processed, food standards, pesticide and other contaminant levels, nutritional content, and labeling. Nutritional supplements are considered food products. If you want to know what the Commission has in store for the USA, you just need to look at Europe where some Codex rules are already in place. Vitamin C, for example, is limited to just 50 mg per dose in some countries, compared to our products of up to 1,000 mg or powders of several thousand mg per teaspoon. When the U.S. became a member of the WTO, it agreed to act in accordance with the rules of the multilateral body. What that means is that the United States is legally obligated to make sure our laws do not conflict with WTO laws. In other words, our government must agree to any "directives" the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body hands down. (If you don't believe us, our Congress has already changed American corporate tax law and other laws because of threats from the WTO.) The U.S. will have to adopt the new WTO rules, which includes CODEX, or face trade sanctions from member nations. By the known timelines, we could be forced to implement CODEX here in the USA within 18 months, unless our Congress acts! Folks, we CAN stop this IF we act now!! Read the articles to the left. Follow the links within each. Get involved! Do what is recommended in the articles. If we just sit back and let others do the work for us, within 2 years you may be going to the doctor to get your prescription for Vitamin C. The
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