Codex Alimentarius
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Per informazioni sulla guerra contro le vitamine del Codex Alimentarius:
ITALY
Dott.ssa B. Lo Turco
Segretaria, Comitato Nazionale Italiano per il Codex Alimentarius
Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali
D.G. delle Politiche Communitarie e Internazionali
Via XX Settembre, 20
00187 Roma, ITALY
Tel: +39 06 488 0273 or +39 06 46655016
Fax: +39 06 488 0273
E-mail: blturco@tiscalinet.it

 From June 19 - 23 an international conference  took place in Berlin, Germany, under the cover name Codex Alimentarius. Represented at this conference were the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and bureaucrats from several countries serving these interests. The goal of this Codex conference was a world-wide ban of the dissemination of health information in relation to vitamins and other natural, non-patentable, therapies.

 With many diseases having been identified as the result of vitamin deficiencies, a multi-billion dollar market of pharmaceutical drugs is rendered unnecessary. The Codex-plans of the Pharmaceutical-Cartel were meant to artificailly protect this collapsing market by criminalizing the dissemination of health information about vitamins!

 Thanks to the protest of our World Health Alliance, thousands of patients and other concerned people who came to Berlin, these plans did not pass. On the following pages you can find pictures taken at this historic event as well as other documentation.

 On this weekend in June 2000 the people of the world once again defended their rights for free access to vitamin therapies and their right to chose. See for yourself how powerful people can be, if they have the courage to publicly state the truth.

 The health interests of the people are more important than the share prices of the pharmaceutical  industry!

If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. Predictably, this scenario has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association and the Health Protection Branch of Canada (HPB).

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. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an echinacea tincture which is being sold there as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores or pharmacies.

The Codex proposals have the backing of Canadian Codex Commission representatives. Further evidence of Canadian involvement is the position of the Canadian Health Protection Branch (HPB) on what is, or is not, a food or a drug. For example, garlic, ginger, licorice and peppermint are considered to be foods when sold as spices. If a grocery store manager makes claims for their therapeutic effects, they then become drugs via an HPB mechanism which remains to be defined.

Stop Codex human rights violations by banding together to demand health freedom and an end to Codex.

Few Americans have heard of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) Codex Alimentatious (Nutrition Code) Commission of 'Codex,' partly because it usually meets in Rome.

Very little has appeared about Codex in U.S. newsletters and magazines read by people interested in vitamins, alternative medicine, and health freedom, but it may pose the greatest threat to health freedom in the world today.

The commission meets every two years and any delegates can propose a change in its standards. Attorney Suzanne Harris has reviewed a partial list of international organizations 'allowed' to send delegates and found that more than 90 percent represent giant multinational pharmaceutical organizations.

The only consumer organization she saw listed is the 'International Organizations of Consumers Unions,' which means that right now the general public here in the U.S. has zero representation on this critically important committee.

Codex will meet in Bonn this year to make radical changes in the rules governing dietary supplements for member nations. Consumers now face an ominous new threat in the proposals made by the German delegation, called 'Proposed Draft Guidelines for Dietary Supplements.' The German plan called for the following:

1.No vitamins, minerals , or herbs, etc., can be sold for prophylactic (preventive) or therapeutic use.

2.None sold as a food can exceed potency (dosage) levels set by the commission.

3.Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding - eliminating the escape clause within the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT Agreement) that allows a nation to set its own standards.

4.All new dietary supplements would automatically be banned unless they go through he Codex approval process. If these Draconian measures are adopted, any party to GATT (e.g., the U.S.) which does not accepts the new standards can be heavily sanctioned (fined) by the World Trade Organization. The WTO will have the right to levy enormous fines on any nation that 'gets out of line' and has the potential to cripple entire sectors of that nation's economy!

The sole U.S. delegate to Codex has been Elizabeth A. Yeltey, PhD., R.D., of the FDA. Responding to political pressure in the U.S., so far she has voted for health freedom, but with little result - at the last meeting, the vote went 16-2 in favor of the German proposal.

Clearly, we cannot expect much help from Congress, which surrendered much of its power to deal with the issue when it passed GATT. Under the agreement, member nations must 'harmonize' their rules governing the manufacture of health and medical products with new international standards so as to be in line with them. Congress cannot rescind its vote on GATT - on the contrary, the single U.S. delegate to this international commission can easily be outvoted by delegates from the other member countries.