This may be one of the most important blogs you ever read. The secret to global success in turning the health freedom battle into a resounding success is in this little essay. That’s the good news, of course. The bad news is that it is going to take work and you are the person who is going to have to do it.
The Founding Fathers gave us the tools of democracy. Well, when we use them we move forward and when we don’t other forces move forward into the democratic vacuum left by our inaction, cynicism, apathy, diversion or whatever. This is a very simple action program. Please use it, print it and forward it to your circle of influence, urging them to do the same.
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Deceptive Regulatory Code Set to Take Away US Vitamin and Mineral Freedom of Choice!
ACT NOW TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM!
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is a World Trade Organization-sponsored global food standard deceptively promoted as “consumer protection”. It is based on junk science (“Risk Assessment”), classifying nutrients as toxins and is a serious threat to your health freedom. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS serves the financial interests of massive multi-national corporations illegally pushing to implement CODEX ALIMENTARIUS in the United States of America via new laws that would remove the unique safeguards we have in the US.
Big Pharma knows that healthy people do not need drugs so they have enlisted CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, an international regulatory body backed by the trade sanctions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to eliminate the Wellness Industry, leaving a clear field for the Sickness Industry in its place. Your action to protect our laws and alert the American people to this threat is essential.
In 1994 Congress passed by unanimous consent the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) which classifies supplements and herbs as foods which can therefore have no upper limit imposed on them. In July, 2005, CODEX ratified the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) which will set ultra low limits on nutrients. The US Government position is that, because of international trade convenience, it will “harmonize” the US with the pro-illness standards of CODEX despite US laws, including DSHEA. How? By gutting DSHEA.
Several pieces of legislation now before Congress have been introduced to do exactly that. What can you do?
Take the following steps to safeguard your health and your health freedom:
Go to the Natural Solutions Legislative Action Page to tell Congress that your health freedom is precious to you! Your voice counts as equal to the opinion of 13,000 voters’ opinion when you express your views to Congress.
Congress is on recess until after Labor Day. That means that you can visit every member of your Congressional Delegation in their home offices. Make an appointment to see each Congressman or woman and be clear that you value your health freedom and expect him/her to protect those freedoms. The sad truth is that they probably have never heard of CODEX and you may well be the first person to tell them about it. Print out our One Page Flyer” and give it to your Congressman/woman. And, while you are at it, print off the Natural Solutions Legislative Action Page so you will have your facts on the legislation we support and oppose right at hand. It is essential that your message be brief, honed and clear. I will be providing you with “talking points” in a blog later this weekend for these meetings.
And, oh, by the way, take a group of friends and supporters. Take Health Food and Vitamin Store owners with you. Take everyone whom you can organize to convince your Congressperson that you are informed, serious and that you ALL vote!. And, oh, by the way, you’ve all got LOTS of voting friends at home!
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I assure you that every one of those visits will create a relationship which will serve us well in the course of this battle and that every visit will convince your employee, your Member of Congress, that you mean [electoral] business! I cannot stress how very crucial this is to our battle. Please take it seriously and make these appointments. You will be helping to change the course of this struggle in our direction!
After you have seen each of your Congressional Delegates, please drop me an email letting me know whom you saw, how many people went with you and what the reaction of the Member was. We will use this information in developing our relationships with each and every Member of Congress for this battle.
Have you become a regular listener to FREE U.S./FREE US! at 7-8 PM (Eastern) every Wednesday on internet radio (you can also listen to the archives). This lively, informative show is an up-the-minute source of health freedom news.
Tell your customers, friends, neighbors and relatives. Every American is threatened by CODEX and the change in our laws that will permit it to become the law of our land.
Consider making a regular monthly donation to the HealthFreedomUSA.org Campaign to make sure that you have the right to stay in business or purchase the nutrients you want (and clean, unadulterated food, too).
REMEMBER: Your health freedom and your health are under attack. If we do not act now, there will be no tomorrow for wellness products.
Also, read continuing educational and action articles from our friends at BioRenew and in Drs. Choice for Healthy Living magazine monthly at most health food stores. Get updates at www.freedomclubusa.com.
Now is the time. If we do not act to preserve our health and freedom, who will act for us?
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
CODEX Daily Update
Rome Italy
July 14, 2005
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Pro-Illness forces are pushing hard to consolidate their gains at CODEX last week when the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) was passed without any dissenting voices. Stepping back for a moment, where are we?
1. The Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) was ratified by CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission (CAC) on July 4 (!) in Rome. This means that “Risk Assessment”, a process by which toxins are evaluated and you are protected from them, is the ‘gold standard’ of nutritional evaluation for this body. It also means that developing nations are being urged to adopt this standard and the ones that will follow it as their domestic standards legislating starvation and chronic diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke and neurodegenerative diseases according to international sources like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The WHO and FAO are the parent organizations for CODEX and fund it from their own budgets. Stay tuned on the budget issue: it could turn out to be a great help to us.
2. The European Court of Justice, the European Union’s equivalent of our Supreme Court decided virtually every question in the challenge to the CODEX look-alike European Food Supplements Directive (EFSD) in favor of the EFSD except for a partial shift in the responsibility of the burden of proof onto the shoulders of the regulators in showing that a nutrient is dangerous and the allowance of natural sources for permitted nutrients (but still at ultra low doses). Otherwise, that round went to the pro-illness forces.
3. In preparation for the end of the dossier submission period on July 12, during which manufactures of nutrients could apply for an exemption (a “derogation”) from the EFSD ban (at least until the last day of December, 2009 when all derogations end) 500 dossiers were submitted. The UK supplied some of the costs to manufacturers since the costs were enormous and many small firms could not afford them. During the period when these dossiers are being processed, the product under consideration may not be banned. This will have the effect of softening the August 1 impact of EFSD-controlled dietary supplements. EFSD has been noted by the court, however, to be in the process of enacting similar restrictions for all other types of supplements even though they are only dealing with vitamins and minerals at this point.
3. US CODEX Policy supported the ratification of them dangerous pro-illness measure despite the fact that US law precludes us from harmonizing with international standards which violate US law. The VMG violates two US laws (DSHEA and Title 19, USC 3512) so we cannot harmonize with it legally. Stay tuned on that one since as long as DSHEA is intact this one can turn out to be very useful for us as well.
4. The WHO and FAO commissioned a report to evaluate CODEX. The consultants made 20 recommendations. No. 18 suggested that CODEX decide if it has a relationship with nutrition and, if so, what that relationship is. (in those words, no less!). The Chairman of the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission did not permit discussion of this recommendation despite WHO’s bringing it up. The next day, at the end of the concluding session of the CAC’s deliberations, WHO noted that CAC has not made a contribution to world health [!] and demanded that CAC become involved in the WHO Global Strategy for health which involves diet, nutrition and exercise. WHO stated that CAC would need to change the mandate of the two committees that deal with nutrition (CODEX Committee on Food Labeling and CODEX Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses) or create a new entity, a Task Force on Nutrition. Stay tuned on this issue since it could be of immense help to us!
5. Susan Davis (D-CA) introduced HR 3156 into the US House of Representatives which would give the FDA Secretary the authority to remove any nutrient (excluding Vitamins and Minerals, see CODEX VMG) from the market if there is the slightest risk to taking it even if there has been no harm caused by the nutrient. This bill would also set up an Adverse Event reporting requirement for nutrients but not for drugs, of course. The person who reports the suspected adverse event has the responsibility to investigate it within 15 days so the quality and consistency of any reporting would be highly irregular and questionable and, if suspected of being involved in any risk at all, the FDA can remove the substance from the market with no further process.
In addition, the manufacturers of supplements are required to carry out costly and burdensome post market studies to determine if there is any risk to their products. If there might be, Risk Assessment techniques from the science of toxicology, the substance gets removed from the market without regard to the benefit of the nutrient. So we gut DSHEA, the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act which classifies nutrients and herbs as foods and guarantees that we can select them for ourselves to use as we like. “Hello HR 3156, bye bye DSHEA”. Poof! Just like that.
Note that HR 3156 (which was co sponsored by Waxman of CA and Dingell of MI, by the way) takes care of the matter of our support of the CODEX VMG is illegal: it changes US law so that DSHEA no longer presents a problem. What a good idea if you make drugs. If, however, you value your health and freedom, you need to consider what failing to raise your electronic voice will mean to your future and your family’s.
Please visit our site so that you can send the new letter to Congress to every member of your delegation and take the rest of the 6 Easy Steps if you have not already done so. Then put a link to our site on your emails and your site and ask everyone you contact to take action.
Do you know why DSHEA was passed unanimously in 1994 by assent of Congress? For one reason and one reason only: enough people made it clear with millions of letters to enough Congressmen and women that this was a major issue for them that not one single Congressman or woman dared to stand against that tide of opinion. Not one, despite whatever payoffs from any corporate interest they might have been involved in. Not one member of Congress dared defy the will of the (voting) people.
We are right back there 11 years later. We did it before, we can do it again.
The Natural Solutions Foundation is in the process of organizing our voices through Congressional impact, through the Internet, through radio, through powerful collaborations domestically and internationally. But, in the end, it is our collective voices that will move Congress to protect your health freedom.
I mentioned that the WHO and FAO are very unhappy with the anti-nutrition stance of CODEX.
Part of our strategy is to support this unhappiness and bring the US DSHEA concept to the world bodies and nations for adoption as the international standard. Strong support of DSHEA here in the US will make this task easier. Embedding DSHEA in international policy will, in turn, help protect it here from the next assault on health freedom (and it will come again and again and again, we can almost be sure!) There is simply too much money to be made in drugs to imagine that the pharmaceutical industry will give up this time any more than they gave up when we won in 1994 and DSHEA was passed by unanimous Congressional assent.
So what is good for us (DSHEA) is good for the world and what is good for the world is also very good for us.
Now is the time. Oppose HR 3156 and all of the look alikes which will be coming out of the Congressional wood work. Oh, and you can expect an intensified negative slant in the press about the “dangers” of nutrients, herbs and supplements. Read the article on CODEX disinformation and just change the terms and you’ll have the picture.
Can we win? Absolutely! Can we afford to be smug and self-satisfied? Absolutely not!
Yours in Health and Freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
Daily CODEX Update
Rome, Italy
July 11, 2005
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Disseminating incorrect information is as old as human communication. Agencies and individuals do it for reasons they know and reasons they do not know. Sometimes we can distinguish between misinformation (incorrect but not meant to mislead) and disinformation (incorrect and intended to mislead). CODEX is rife with both and, as is often the case, sometimes it is hard to be sure which is which. But there is one CODEX area where the distinction, while interesting, is not even relevant: the information focusing on FTAA/CAFTA as the CODEX problem is wrong, just plain dead wrong.
Don’t get me wrong: I believe that CAFTA and FTAA are really, really bad for the US and the other countries being globalized. They are good for the multinational corporations and there will be a piñata of goodies showering on the people who help them gain control of global markets and global means of production if CAFTA and FTAA pass while the rest of us will suffer badly for a very long time. I would like FTAA and CAFTA to disappear and never present their ugly, greedy selves to us again since I believe they will harm both humans and the environment in dreadful ways. I am equally opposed to the national ID card passed by Congress recently (“Real ID”) because I believe it is bad for America and bad for liberty. But just as CODEX is not the Real ID card, so CODEX is neither CAFTA nor FTAA and stopping any or all of the three dead in their tracks, while a really good idea, will have no impact whatsoever on CODEX, none whatsoever. CAFTA/FTAA are nothing more than symptoms of globalization. Trying to stop CODEX by blocking them is like trying to remove a hornet’s nest by treating the hornet sting victim with medication to ease their pain. It reduces the pain for the moment, but leaves the problem free to develop unchecked.
FTAA and CAFTA are really bad ideas for US interests. But all the recent focus in them as related to the CODEX issue because they contain CODEX language is either an error in the understanding of the real nature of the CODEX problem or, worse yet, intentional disinformation to drain off energy and political force from opposition to CODEX ALIMENTARIUS. FTAA and CAFTA are totally irrelevant to the CODEX issue. I will repeat that for those of you who have been having your ears filled with the opposite position. If FTAA and CAFTA disappear tomorrow (which they should, to my thinking), we still have a major problem until CODEX is solved. CODEX is the problem and will be until CODEX’s devastatingly anti-health, pro-illness policies, positions and strategies are controlled and changed. I believe we can both control and change them and will write about that later in this blog, but this is a really important issue which must be addressed head on.
Some people in the CODEX arena are now focusing on FTAA and CAFTA and saying that it is a waste of time to focus in CODEX because FTAA and CAFTA contain CODEX language in their text. These forces are either using mis- or dis- information by misleading people to think that because these trade agreements contain CODEX language they somehow are a significant part of the Codex problem. Simple logic makes it clear that they are derivative problems, not the problem itself. They are symptoms of the problem, not its cause and not the problem itself.
They contain CODEX language because they are international agreements which must conform to the requirements and agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Since the US is a party to the WTO and so are all of the nations which would participate in FTAA and CAFTA, OF COURSE they contain language which is consistent with CODEX and all of the other agreements. The Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement is a part of the WTO agreements and so is the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement. Every international agreement we enter into will contain language which reflects them. But the trade agreements can only implement what the original agreements require or permit. Why would anyone putting together a WTO-based agreement not put language in which makes the agreement consistent with them and therefore legal in each country and permissible in the WTO?
Here is the real story: If FTAA and CAFTA comply with CODEX language and CODEX has been changed from its pro-illness, pro-corporate greed contents there is no CODEX-related problem. If they are defeated and CODEX is still pro-illness and pro-greed, then we still have the CODEX problem just as we did before all that energy was drained off from the CODEX battle by mis – or dis—information.
Why anyone would focus on FTAA and CAFTA as if they were the problem and not the symptom is beyond me if they are genuinely concerned with solving the problem unless they have been mislead. If they are focusing on it to divert political attention and effort, we are dealing with disinformation and that’s pretty ugly.
In any event, whatever the reason, focusing on FTAA and CAFTA instead of CODEX is absolutely as wrong-headed as the “reasoning” by which conventional medicine reaches its conclusions. In fact, it is allopathic reasoning: focusing on the symptom and confusing its suppression with the cure of the disease itself!
Allopathic medicine focuses on symptoms, not causes. Allopathic medicine, while useful in many situations (such as trauma), reasons that by using toxic and dangerous means to suppress the symptoms of a disease, it has dealt with the problem in a satisfying and meaningful way. Diverting energy to FTAA and CAFTA that should go toward defeating CODEX may be well intentioned (or not, of course) but is naive and inefficient. Dealing with them as if they are the same thing takes energy vitally needed at this crucial juncture and dissipates it on another fight. CODEX itself is the root of the problem. CODEX language in FTAA/CAFTA is a symptom, nothing more.
But then, I am a physician who treats the underlying causes of a condition, not its symptoms. People very often get well when we work together even where conventional medicine (and less profound “alternative” approaches) has failed them. Conventional medicine reasons, for example, “You are a perfectly healthy woman, Mrs. Jones, except that you have breast cancer. Let’s make it go away and everything will be fine.” while Advanced Medicine (which is what I practice) says, “Your basic condition is immune compromise. Your immune system has been overwhelmed and the result is breast cancer, Mrs. Jones. Our task is to support your immune system so it can deal with the problem and make sure that any underlying causes are corrected. When that happens, you will be fine.”
So, there are those making the argument that if we make FTAA and CAFTA go away, we will be just fine. But if we don’t attend to the basic CODEX cancer, we will not be fine, because once ratified, CODEX is part of our world unless we can eliminate it in other ways. And now, because of the events that took place in two surprise moves by the WHO and FOA at CODEX last week, we can protect health freedom from CODEX!
There is no doubt in my mind that until this last week, the pro-health war we set out to win against the pro-illness, industrial forces who control CODEX (I call them, the “Bigs”) was an enormous undertaking which would require a series of mistakes on the part of the Bigs and strokes of good luck or divine intervention on our side (depending on how you look at things) for us to win and secure our fundamental rights to eternal health freedom.
The “Bigs” (that is, Big Pharma, Big AgraBiz, Big Chema, Big Biotechna and Big Medica) were set to win big via CODEX. Here is where they were headed:
It’s a long and deadly list but it was perfectly OK with the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission (CAC) up until health freedom stood up and took control of the proceedings in the form of the very unhappy FAO and WHO representatives who spoke on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons last week and tilted the terrain in favor of health (people and planet), not corporate greed.
I have written in these Daily Blog Updates about what happened when the Under Secretary of Food Safety for the World Health Organization (WHO) noted with disgust that CODEX had made no contribution to health in its more than 40 years of existence (which was ignored in autocratic fashion by the Chairman of CAC).
I have also told you how the joint WHO/FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) Consultant’s Report and its 20 formal recommendations were briefly discussed on Wednesday afternoon and how the CAC Chairman refused to allow discussion of Recommendation No. 18 (which noted that CAC needed to determine whether it does or does not have a relationship with nutrition and what that relationship should be if it does have one). Think about that: the parents (WHO and FAO) tell the child, CAC, that it has a pretty poor report card and the CAC “disses” Mom and Dad and goes on about its business thinking there will be no consequences.
Wrong!
I have also kept you up to date about how WHO and FAO chose to respond by ordering the CAC to implement their health-oriented “Global Strategy” and demanded that CAC make a contribution to global health either by reformatting the 2 committees which have a logical connection to nutrition (including the one chaired by the anti-nutrition Dr. Rolf Grossklaus) or creating a new structure, a Task Force on Nutrition.
Could our side want much more of an opportunity handed to it on a silver organizational platter?
Here is our task, now that we have been given this gift: We need to become the go-to people who help the folks who make our international policy become heroes by providing them with the best possible scientific and clinical documentation of the importance of pro-health options (including the nutritional and environmental literature and clinical arts) so that they can support CODEX policies which make positive health impacts.
We are already working with other organizations to pool our resources and our abilities to do just that nationally and internationally. FTAA? CAFTA? Symptoms, not diseases, results, not causes.
Mis information or dis information (or something else), the Natural Solutions Foundation advises every person who values the market economy to oppose FTAA and CAFTA. But make sure to preserve your energy, focus, attention and involvement for dealing with a current and immediate threat called CODEX. With your input and action, CODEX now can be changed from a global disaster to a global opportunity to bring American values like the DSHEA style classification of nutrients and herbs as foods allowing people to make their own health choices and other pro-health positions to the world. Focus on FTAA and CAFTA and our failure is assured since they are hemispheric while CODEX is global. The WHO and FAO are not setting policy for FTAA or CAFTA but they are setting health-focused requirements for CODEX which will determine the provisions of CODEX in FTAA and CAFTA.
Go to the Six Easy Steps and let Congress know that you value our health freedoms and want CODEX to support health and US law. Take the other steps, too, and tell everyone you know how important to winning this battle it is for them to join in now! Put a link to our site on your emails and site and spread the word (you can use our marketing material)!
Listen to our internet Radio Show, FREE U.S./FREE US! live from Rome this Wednesday, July 13, 2005 on www.FICAA.com at 7-8 PM Eastern. And stay tuned for tomorrow’s blog update.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
P.S. Please support the Natural Solutions Foundation with your donations.
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
P.S. Support HealthFreedomUSA.org with your donations. Your donations help pay for all the work we are doing on behalf of your health freedom.
I am experiencing significant technical difficulties so I will give you the news fast and quickly: At the very end of today’s deliberations, the WHO, one of the parent bodies of CODEX, made it clear that CODEX had done little to advance health during its 42 years of existence and that was about to end. The WHO Global strategy for diet, exercise, nutrition and health WOULD be implemented by CODEX and, in order to do that, the two committees of CODEX which could deal with nutrition WOULD deal with nutrition. The focus and mandate of the CODEX Committee on Food Labeling (which prohibits claims of any health benefit) and the CODEX COMMITTEE on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (Dr. Grossklaus’ committee) are going to change their Terms of Reference (focus and mandate) to include nutrition and CODEX will make a yearly report to the World Health Assembly about its progress in implementing the WHO Strategy!
No choice, no way out for CODEX out of this one. Unless, of course, the Bigs (Big Pharma, Big Agra Biz, Big Chema, Big Biotechna and Big Medica) get to twist some arms and fill some pockets.
The battle is not over, by any means, and the war is not won BUT we have some heavies, who, by the way, hold the purse strings for CODEX, on the side of health freedom. Now we need to lobby, support Congressional pressure on the process, become strongly useful to the WHO and FAO in shaping their policies and help the US CODEX Office turn into a bunch of heroes who help CODEX change direction and adopt DSHEA as the international standard.
It can be done. Let’s do it together!
We are already working on strategies domestically and internationally to make sure we do not lose this golden (and totally surprising) gift to our side.
Have you ever heard of anything in the health and health freedom arena which is such sudden, surprising and unexpected good news? I haven’t. This is unprecedented! Let’s make sure we don’t let this wonderful opportunity slip away either through complacency or inaction.
How do we make sure this is made the most of?
Tell everyone you know and, if you have not already done so, follow the six easy steps to protecting America from CODEX and turn up the volume. It seems the WHO and FAO are playing our tune, the tune of health freedom! Let’s all dance!
Yours in Health and Freedom,
Dr. Laibow, in sveltering Rome
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