Update: Results of Codex Alimentarius Meetings 2012, In Frankfurt, GermanyCodex Alimentarius is One Big Football Game Codex Alimentarius is a UN-sponsored concept and organization, which under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) creates food standards and guidelines used in international trade. In 1994, the World Trade Organization (WTO) replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) with actual trade-sanction power to enforce Codex and other standards and guidelines. Not surprisingly, Codex took on an entirely new importance. In this innocuous meeting room at the Ramada Inn, play by play, line by line, either the ball is moving forward, backward, or its being passed or kicked into oblivion without regard to any real goal in a last-ditch effort to get rid of it before being tackled. In this case, for the majority of the represented World, tackled was a voluntary fumble, When is it break time? Lets just agree with the provided wording and get a cup of coffee. You have to realize the World doesnt often enjoy what the United States takes completely for granted, in this case, safe, high-quality supplements in abundance. At Codex Alimentarius (Latin for Food Code), the plays are read, line by line, and debated on by a World that doesnt necessarily even accept certain principles in their daily life like taking supplements. As a Nutritional Therapist, this was my meeting. I had to be there. Thankfully a few staunch supporters made sure that happened. In the case of this particular Codex meeting held in Bad Soden, the ball was in jeopardy of being punted into oblivion when we hit the discussion of Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs). Was there anyone out of the nearly 300 delegates who really cared at all about the issues that will impact you when you go to the health-food store this coming year? This was my second Codex meeting and I could see clearly that the paragraphs dedicated to the discussion of our NRVs were in danger of being accepted as written and set into stone around the World, all in favor of just getting to the coffee break, and I mean that literally. You have to understand, United States citizens enjoy unprecedented access to supplements with values that actually have the power to prevent disease or heal ill health the rest of the world either does not use supplements, believing they are toxic like drugs or the nutrient reference values (RDAs) are so low that multiple bottles would have to be purchased at great expense to create the impact that one good U.S. bottle creates, or they simply dont have them because no one could afford them when their healthcare system provides free drugs as an alternative. I saw the low reference values firsthand in Germany. We went into a health-food store and I could hardly find the vitamin/mineral section. I had to ask. When I did find the one small shelf, the highest values for Vitamin D3 were 400 IUs. I take 25,000 IUs dailytalk about breaking the bank. No wonder the World, represented in the form of country delegates, was anxious to get to the free coffee, sweet rolls, etc. at the break. Their countries cannot afford what seems to them to be nonsense, so they mentally have moved on and disregarded any pro-vitamin/mineral argument. This is not their World. In fact, if the National Health Federation were not present at this crucial meeting on setting Nutrient Reference Values, I can guarantee you that your World would never be the same again. Once lowered, do you really think NRVs would ever stand the chance of somehow going through Codexs 8-step process to rise again? From a Nutritional Therapists standpoint, several of the nutrients that were placed on Codexs sacrificial altar were methylation factors. B6, B12, Folic AcidIf we dont methylate well, we can develop opportunistic diseases. Cancerheart attack that occurs when Homocysteine elevatesSome, like calcium, which Codex wished to elevate out of proportion to stabilizing magnesium, and when taken out of balance, creates disease as well by mineralizing in soft tissue like blood vessels instead of the bone and teeth. So, at this point Im thinking, Is Codex out to kill us? So many of the final decisions made by Codex equal ill health for the World. It means both Big Pharma and the so-called health care system profits, while we grow ill and die. It is no secret that depopulation is one aspect of the Worlds agenda. Dr. Henry Kissinger himself wrote: Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World. Apparently America is the new third World. If you ever needed an advocate for your health and your health freedom, it is now. Now is the time to have your wishes and your Voice represented at Codex. Is it any wonder that Codex is not letting any more health-freedom organizations into the elite representation? The National Health Federation (NHF) is the ONLY health-freedom organization that has the power to speak out and, believe me, we do and we have frequently. We have also submitted comments to the Electronic Working Groups that often meet in cyberspace before the meetings, and we also have the power to propose correction of the final report. Do you know how many delegates stick around for the tedious, line-by-line reading of the final report? Many are long gone, mistakenly trusting that the work they performed for the World will actually be represented accurately in the final report. NHF stays to the bitter end. Hours of rehashing what we have spent the week working toward, defending our documented statements, defending the truth that too-often gets somehow skewed, omitted, or somehow rendered opaque. NHF came to this meeting to promote and defend healthier Nutrient Reference Values. The attack by Australia and others on these particular NRVs, from my professional standpoint, is designed to take out a large number of the population at least in the U.S. where we have access to supplements with values that are currently at least approaching sufficiency and where we have the incomes generally to support their purchase. What was so incredibly ironic about this meeting was the emphasis on malnutrition in the World. It actually sparked a growing interest in me about the integrity of infant formulas. They are including transfats and contaminants in infant formula! When we learn that in France, for example, breast feeding is neither popular nor widely practiced, it pays to defend the integrity of infant formulas! But the trajectory of the morning 3 hours before NRVs were even approached was on growing up milk, which Elizabeth Streken (an INGO representative of the International Baby Formula Action Network) said was a market ploy to get mothers to feel guilty if they didnt keep bottle feeding babies way past time At any rate, the discrepancy and complete disconnect in regards to the NRVs was that supposedly Codex was there to prevent malnutrition in the World, yet here they were, the very last ones in favor of optimal nutrition for infants. Instead, Codex was lowering our already malnutrition-promoting, low NRVs, which are set to prevent the very last-ditch disease processes before death instead of promoting optimum nutrition and vibrant, disease-resistant health. So, these two themes predominated: (1) Get through the tedious drivel and get me to the coffee and donut cart; and (2) The incongruous Yes, we are all for stopping malnutrition lets lower the values in the supplements, shall we? And then let us not forget the overarching theme by Mme. Chair not so terribly Noble, Pia What I Decide, Will Be. The National Health Federation has been in existence long before any other health-freedom organization was even a gleam in the fathers eye. We are the granddaddy of them all. Weve employed a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. for more than 50 years. We alone hold the distinction of being the only health-freedom organization able to speak at Codex. So, do you see now how important this ability is? Not only can we speak; but, as mentioned above, we can submit written comments and arguments and we did, three times on the NRV issue alone prior to the meeting in Germany (twice as part of the electronic working group hosted by the ultimate opposition: Australia, and once directly to the Committee). Do I feel fortunate to be on the team of the most powerful health-freedom organization at Codex? I feel incredibly humbled. For one who had little political interest or influence in the past, I am now thrust into the heart of the action where policy is set for the World. It is not only quite humbling but it carries an enormous responsibility to carry the wishes and desires of those whom NHF speaks for and represents to the seat of power. And we do so faithfully time and again. The lives that are impacted are not only our own but those of our children and grandchildren. Our familys health is at stake. In the final analysis, if we lose our health, we have lost. It is all we have besides the faith that sustains us and keeps us seeking the path of Light in the growing darkness of the World. The Codex meeting on nutrition was anything but. It was about some elite marketers seeking to manipulate the World guilting them into keeping children on formulas when they needed to embrace a solid diet real growing up food. It was about government regulators lowering key nutrients and raising others that would ensure that our health would deteriorate. It masqueraded in the guise of compassion and the oft-said mantra consumer protection, yet all the while was undermining our health by chipping away at the very foundations in the name of control and ill health. Kat Carroll, NTP is the Associate Editor of Health Freedom News, National Health Federation This article first appeared at The Sleuth Journal SUPPORT H.R.3380 THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT HEALTH PROTECTION ACT NOW! linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 