The control over our own healthcare is essential to the success of angioplasty for us. We are paying attention to our diet, exercise, vitamins and supplements to help round out our recovery from MS. This is another threat to our overall ability to take charge of our bodies, and healh care options. Codex Alimentarius is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods,food production and food safety. Big Pharma and Big Medica are the ones to gain by vitamins and supplements being treated as toxins. Pharmacueticals do not fall under Codex.
As it stands now, vitamins and supplements do not come under the umbrella of the pharmaceutical companies. They are considered the same as food since they are supplements to our food and naturally occurring substances in our bodies.
How could a country that prides itself in its freedom of speech, freedom of choice, and freedom of information be facing such severe restrictions in health freedom and dietary supplements? Haven't the people made their will known? Didn't our government pass the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994 to insure our right to health supplements? Yes, they were then considered to be food.
Indeed, our government did. But the FDA and FTC have found ways to get around that. The laws put in place to protect us are being ignored. And what's worse is that those laws are about to be superseded, if the powers that be have their way
Codex began when the U.N. authorized the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to develop a universal food code. Their purpose was to 'harmonize' regulations for dietary supplements worldwide and set international safety standards for the purposes of increased trade. Pharmaceutical interests stepped in and began exerting their influence. Instead of focusing on food safety, Codex is using its power to promote worldwide restrictions on vitamins and food supplements, severely limiting their availability and dosages.
The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people to choose natural healing and alternative medicine and nutrition. Ratified by the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in 2009, the threat to health freedom has never been greater.
The actual goal is to outlaw health products and information on vitamins and dietary supplements, except those under their direct control.
In fact, under the terms of the Uruguay Round of GATT, which created the World Trade Organization, the United States agreed to harmonize its domestic laws to the international standards. This includes standards for dietary supplements being developed by the United Nation's Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use.
Not only that, but Codex Alimentarius is now enforceable through the World Trade Organization (WTO). If a country disagrees with or refuses to follow Codex standards, the WTO applies pressure by withdrawing trade privileges and imposing crippling trade sanctions. Congress has already bowed to this pressure several times and so have the governments of many countries.
“The desire to control of vitamins, minerals, herbs and other nutritional factors has ironically come about as a result of the inability of orthodox medicine to destroy the practice of the public practicing health without drugs. Now government and the chemical industry will seek to control and profit from that which was available directly to the public in times gone by.”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634
www.healthfreedomusa.org
http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/codex-alimentarius.html
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Codex/index.asp