Every cloud has a silver lining. We in the health freedom movement might just have been blessed with one.

China, Australia and Venezuela want to make itty, bitty changes to the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) before it is ratified next July. Not that they mind it being ratified, you understand. They still want the VMG to be ratified. But, according to the Food Navigator, each of the three countries wants to introduce minor changes (a single word in one case) and this may be our silver lining!

Here’s how it could work: the CODEX Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) which includes special foods like baby formula containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and trans fats, is intending to do the same harm to our dietary supplements. Restricting them to ultra low doses of very few nutrients and making all others illegal globally is perfectly fine with those three countries. However, they need to make some bureaucratic changes to make the death and chronic degenerative illness they are regulating into existence a bit more precise.

Here’s where we start to see that silver lining, folks: having reached step 8 of the process, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) is ripe and ready for ratification (those are the CODEX University 3 R’s: ripe, ready, ratify) at the upcoming CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission (CAC) meeting.

But wait!

If the guideline is changed at all, so much as by a jot or a title, it may not be approved at the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting. It may have to go back to the CCNFSDU committee to be re-approved!

YES!

That’s our opportunity. If it is sent back to committee because of the demands of China, Australia and Venezuela, it cannot come back around for ratification for at least another year, probably two.

And what can we do with that year or more? Just think. We have already mounted a significant legal challenge in the form of our emergency Citizen’s Petition which was presented to the US CODEX Office on June 1, 2005. Three Congressmen sent a bipartisan joint Congressional Letter to the US CODEX Office in support of that Citizen’s Petition. You have joined in, too, haven’t you? No? Click here and do it right now. It’s more important than ever and I’ll explain why.

You see, the US CODEX Office has announced its illegal policy to support the VMG in Rome next month. It has been warned by the Natural Solutions Foundation that this is an illegal policy (because it would go against established U.S. law such as DSHEA) but it has adopted it anyhow. The US CODEX Office is knowingly breaking the law and encouraging its delegates to do the same by supporting the VMG in Rome!

What does Congress have to say about the fact that we are sending a delegation of people to an international meeting with instructions from the United States Government to break US law?

Well, that’s where you come in.

Every single US Senator and Representative has been notified by the Natural Solutions Foundation that the US CODEX Office is pursuing an illegal policy, that they have been notified of the illegality of the policy and that they are breaking the law by doing so. And we have urged Congressional overview on the matter. Now here’s your part: go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/congress-stop-codex/ and follow instructions to send a letter to your local Congress representative. And then send the action page to everyone in your email address book using the “Email to Friend” button on the page itself.

What an opportunity: there are 3 countries who support the Vitamin and Mineral Standard who are delaying the ratification process. Let’s get our Congress to help them! Let’s give the US CODEX Office a “climb down” position: “OK, we’ll stop pushing for ratification this July. We know that it is illegal. We’ll help get the measure back to committee so we can sneak it over on you next time!” That’s fine with me, Ladies and Gentlemen of the CODEX Delegation. Just watch what we can do in the time before the next ratification attempt.

But right now, you need to tell Congress that it is NOT OK for the US CODEX Office to pursue an illegal policy and that you (and we) will be watching how they safeguard our health freedom.

Don’t delay: go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/congress-stop-codex/ and follow instructions to send a letter to your local Congress representative. And then send the action page to everyone in your email address book using the “Email to Friend” button on the page itself.

Oh, and by the way, we will be in Rome to observe the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting and we need your financial support to do that: it is expensive but very important that we are there to see, and report accurately what happens.

Yours in Health and Freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

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