WE WON!
Today, we changed Codex from inside and protected every bottle-fed infant on the planet. Today is a day for celebrating!
The bottle-fed infants of the world (and their loving, caring parents) owe the Government of South Africa a huge vote of thanks. Instead of being poisoned with baby formula containing added fluoride, instead of having their bones and teeth weakened, their joints stiffened, their thyroids and immune systems depressed, their lives shortened by leukemia, osteosarcoma and other cancers, instead of all these miseries, the babies of the world can drink their infant formula assured of baby formula to which fluoride cannot be added!
How did that happen? Once again the South African delegation to Codex was fearless about speaking truth to power and tireless in striving against the autocratic, hostile and insulting Chairman of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) which is meeting right now, even as I write this in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Dr. Rolf Grossklaus uses derision, insults, twisting the Codex procedural manual, his apparent disfavor with South Africa with great vigor. Yet South Africa persisted, despite being interrupted and treated very badly when it tried to make the case that a review of the US National Research Council’s position on Fluoride and other authoritative documents made it very clear indeed that fluoride is a poison and that it is absolutely contraindicated in infants and the serious disagreement of the US were nothing next to the bull-dog like determination of South Africa that this poison was NOT going to become part of the food system of the world.
In the end, South Africa prevailed. And, we are proud and happy to say, the documents that they used were the ones prepared by the Natural Solutions Foundation. Over 1100 media outlets have picked up our fluoride information, by the way, and more are publishing it every day. You can read it here for yourself and see how this deadly poison does its damage: http://emediawire.com/releases/2006/10/emw444513.htm.
You can also see in this document why babies should be protected from it with special care.
Science based? You bet.
Even if nothing else positive happened at this Codex meeting, we would have reason to feel both proud and satisfied with the outcome of this meeting from our point of view.
However, there is a good chance to more good is yet to follow.
By the way, yesterday I mentioned that there was a real issue with the approval of additives which have not been evaluated for safety in people under 12 weeks old. Well, it came up this afternoon when we heard the debate circle around: If we present a list of items which have no safety profile, the list cannot be approved. If the list is not sent in, we will not be doing our job.
More than 10 1/2 years of wrangling over additives and it is not clear that the list CAN be approved. Mmmmm. This will be interesting. We will wait to see what happens on this one and keep you posted. Stay tuned!
