If you think that the significant gift handed to us by the World Health Organization means that we can relax and forget about the problem of health and health freedom, that’s not so. In fact, by the time that the CODEX Secretariat had produced the draft document of this week’s work for CAC approval today, the resistance to that gift was apparent. We have a great deal of work to do to win this one but we CAN win it. It will take time, effort, strategic sophistication and money but the victory we are striving for which will assure health freedom globally is achievable, thanks to the World Health Organization.

Read the summary of how we got to the report and then I will share with you the first counter strike of the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission (CAC) so you will be able to work with me to counter the counter measure (and all the counter moves which surely follow).

Don’t forget, the forces that are very happy to support and profit from illness are neither stupid nor weak: we really need to press forward on this WHO initiative.

Here is the story so far:

The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission (CAC) finished its 28th Commission meeting with the development of an extraordinary opportunity for us, the advocates of health and health choice. Our liklihood of success was magnified many fold by the intervention of the WHO in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) when they stated their dissatisfaction with the failure of the CODEX process and CAC to make any significant contribution to human health over the 42 years of its existence. Although it has made contributions to the regulation of food, CODEX’s contribution to human health is a very different matter.

And that difference was strongly noted on Thursday by WHO Under Secretary for Food Safety, Karen Leitner, when she made the observation to the entire CAC body that CODEX had not done very much to promote health. The CAC Chairman, Dr. Stuart Alexander Slorach of Sweden, had just finished ignoring recommendation number 18 of the joint FAO and WHO Consultant Report (which noted that CODEX “should determine whether it had a relationship to nutrition and, if so, what that relationship is”). Although Dr. Slorach had allowed some discussion of other recommendations of the Consultant’s Report, he barred Recommendation No. 18 from consideration by the CAC.

Dr. Leitner then spoke sternly, sharply and scathingly of the fact that little contribution to human health had been made by CODEX yet they continued to ask for more money from both FAO and WHO for their continued work!

The Chairman curtly thanked her and rapidly moved along to the important business of adjourning the meeting for the day. It is my perception, based on my observations of the content and nature of the interactions, including body language, facial expression and verbal and non-verbal cues (including my brief discussion with Dr. Leitner immediately after her statement of dissatisfaction) that this was NOT a wise move on the part of the Chairman since funding for CODEX comes from WHO and FAO and they had just been publicly and rudely “blown off ” by CAC.

The next day, Thursday, at the very end of the deliberations of CAC for the year (except for the approval of the draft report today, Saturday), WHO laid their displeasure on the heads of the CAC and stated that
things would be different in the future.

CODEX will implement the WHO Global Strategy for world health through diet, physical exercise and nutrition and CODEX will develop a “relationship with nutrition” as demanded by WHO. How will CODEX do that? By redefining the “Terms of Reference” (i.e., the mandate) of the two committees which can deal with nutrition, the previously anti-nutritional claims and information CODEX Committee on Food Labelling and the highly “anti-prevention, anti treatment-or-cure-of-any-disease-or-condition and let-us-treat-nutrients-as-toxins” of the CODEX Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses, chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus.

Here is the counter move by CAC: in the draft report presented for approval by the CAC this morning, Saturday, June 10, NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of Dr. Leitner’s comments appeared in the draft. Furthermore, not one single nation picked up on it although every other word in the document was scrutinized with a microscopically fine tooth comb.

Not a word. Now I ask you, do you think that the WHO and FAO are going to be particularly pleased with this development? I think they wont be.

Here is what I propose: I asked yesterday for volunteers to help compile an outstanding bibliography to present to the US government employees who deal with CODEX policy and the WHO secretariat itself to illustrate exactly what the relationship of CODEX to nutrition needs to be to advance human health and precisely what recommendations and regulations CODEX, as a food standard setting body, should undertake.

I propose that we also establish a watchdog task force to keep track of legal maneuvering, which will surely take place in the US to weaken and distort our access to nutrients as food through congressional action in amendments and bills which might be sneaked in while we are not watching carefully. Every single person in every single circle of influence of each reader of this blog needs to contact the Congressional Delegation to inform them that we WILL be watching and supporting anything they do to protect our health freedoms and that we WILL take effective political action to oppose them in their primaries and general elections if they do not support those freedoms. Send a quick Congressional letter via our web site (Congressional letter) or write your own. Call and ask to speak to the Health Aide and direct them to this special web page for Congress representatives so that they can learn about CODEX. I assure you that most Congressional Offices have never heard of CODEX before HealthFreedomUSA.org came along. Many have heard of it now so there is awareness of CODEX – now we need to make sure that they don’t forget how serious the issue is. So keep those letters going.

While we have been in Rome at the CAC, we have had a chance to make excellent connections both with US groups and international officials who were totally unaware of the implications of Risk Assessment (the wrong science used by CODEX) of nutrients for the people of their countries and we will follow up on these connections.

Do we have an opportunity to protect our health freedom and that of the world? YES! Can we lose it through inaction or apathy? Yes again.

Let’s protect our health freedom and deliver that precious gift to the rest of the world as well!

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

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