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CODEX

Find out who is controlling the global food supply and why change is needed now!

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CODEX

CODEX—government and corporate control
of your lifeblood

Following are three video clips created by BBC5tv that were filmed immediately following Dr Robert Verkerk's presentation on Codex at the Alternative View 2008 conference in Totnes, UK, April 2008

Part 1 of Interview (what is Codex? etc)

Part 2 of interview (organic foods, natural vs synthetic, etc)

 Part 3 of interview (vaccination, food irradiation, Monsanto, etc)


 

To download ANH's one-page summary flyer of Codex, click here—print it, email it—help educate your friends and contacts about the long-term risk of the Codex slow cooker. It is, in part, its long drawn out timescales for the development and guidelines and standards that makes Codex Alimentarius guidelines and standards so problematic. 

To view Kevin Miller's 2005 documentary on Codex, We Become Silent, click here.


"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
— Thomas Jefferson (1762-1821), Third President of the USA, author of the Declaration of Independence.

 

Thomas Jefferson’s warning was given some 200 years ago. At the time, he might have felt that the principles of liberty and freedom that he espoused might have held his nation and others in good stead to resist institutional control of the very things on which we depend most for life and health. But food, water, air quality, radiation exposure and even television, radio and newspaper broadcasting, are all now subject to increasingly tight, restrictive governmental control. 

You might be forgiven for thinking this control is all about protecting us, the consumer, from the corporate sector which is well known for its inclination to make a fast buck, at virtually any cost to others. Reality tells us differently. In the areas of food and medicines in particular, the two areas specifically highlighted by Jefferson, it seems that most of this control is about creating benefis for corporations, while paying little more than lip service to consumer health.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was established in the early 1960s by two United Nations organs, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Through its 27 committees comprised of governmental representatives from its over 170 country members (which have voting rights), and dozens of industry-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) (which have influence but no voting privileges), they seek to develop guidelines and standards covering all aspects of commercial food from canned foods, to fresh fruit and vegetables, pesticide residues, food additives, dairy products, chocolate and food supplements. These guidelines and standards end up being translated into laws in many parts of the world and they represent ‘acceptable’ standards for foods involved in global trade. In addition, Codex guidelines and standards end up being used as the benchmark in the settlement of international disputes under the World Trade Organization. 

As well as hosting its committees, Codex operates a number of intergovernmental task forces dealing with things like biotechnology and GM foods. All of this is a far cry from Codex’s purported original objectives which centred around the need to protect consumers by ensuring foods were free from contaminants such as pesticide residues. Now it mandates ‘acceptable’ levels of everything from pesticides, to chemical additives, GMOs and heavy metal contaminants. The levels are agreed by so-called ‘international scientific consensus’ but the scientists involved tend to be on the payroll of the largest food and drug companies in the world. They are also reliant on safety data that come from studying these toxins in isolation and they make no consideration of our total chemical exposure from all sources.


29th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), Bad Neuenahr, Germany, November 2007

 

Ironically, when it comes to Codex assessments of the safety of nutrients, they do take into account the nutrients consumed in the diet and substract these from the lowest amounts they consider safe using multiple safety factors and selective, worse-case scientific data. The end result?  Codex-compliant food supplements containing diddly squat of life-saving micronutrients.

Dr Bruce Ames, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), is one of many scientists who have long argued, on the basis of ample scientific evidence, that micronutrient deficiencies, associated with modern western diets, are one of the most important factors in the epidemic of chronic diseases. These diseases include the ‘Big 5’: heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and osteoporosis, which now contribute to the greatest burden on our healthcare systems. Codex, and regulatory regimes based on it, undoubtedly present one of the greatest threats to any healthcare system which seeks to deal with the fundamental causes of disease by addressing micronutrient intakes.

Are you willing to let governments and corporations control what you put into your body? Or will you play your part in helping to reverse the trend towards the global control of our food supply and the dumbing down of natural medicines based on faulty, manipulated science. Thomas Jefferson’s words must be allowed to ring loudly in our heads as we effect these changes that are urgently needed to prevent any further distancing between humans and our natural heritage. We must protect no only our lifeblood?but that of future generations.  
 

Recent meetings of the Codex Committee on Nutrition

For releases following 29th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), Bad Neuenahr, Germany, November 2007. Opening release. Closing release.

For an ANH Codex exclusive on the lead up to the 28th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2006, click here.

For release following 27th Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), Bonn, Germany, November 2005, click here.

Codex Committee on Nutrition - official information

Inform yourself! Find out what the Codex Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) says about itself:

For the official CCNFSDU website, click here.

For images of previous sessions, click here.

If you want to find out what the official line on the Codex Committee on Nutrition & Foods for Special Dietary Uses is, you may be lucky enough to get yourself a copy of the official video about the CCNFSDU's activities produced by the German government and screened at the 2006 Committee meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We had a link to the video which was in turn being streamed through a link on the www.ccnfsdu.de website, but unfortunately, shortly after we linked to this, the link was taken down.  We are aware of a number of people who have successfully obtained a copy of the video direct from the CCNFSDU after emailing ccnfsdu@bmelv.bund.de. 

The video includes an interview with Dr Rolf Grossklaus, who heads up the Committee.

Pre-history

For more than 50 years, large corporations and governments have been trying to exert global control over essential commodities such as oil, food and health products.

Today’s oil, pharmaceutical, chemical and agro-chemical giants were spawned from an axis developed in the first third of the 20th Century between IG Farben and US oil interests, notably the Standard Oil Company, founded by John D. Rockefeller. 

IG Farben grew out of German Rothschild family interests and by 1930 was the largest chemical manufacturer in the world. It collaborated closely with the Nazis and the SS following Hitler’s rise to power, and was the company that drove the German war effort during WWII through the supply of synthetic fuel, rubber and other chemicals. It also developed and sold Zyklon-B, the nerve gas used at Auschwitz, also the site of the IG Farben chemical factory, which benefited from slave labour derived from the concentration camp. Zyklon-B, based on the pest-control fumigant hydrogen cyanide, was responsible for the murder of up to 6 million people between 1942 and 1945, with between 4 and 4.5 million people allegedly being gassed at the purpose-built Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.  In addition to this, IG Farben scientists used slave labourers to test chemicals, pharmaceuticals and vaccines without their consent.

Post WWII, some of leading officials and scientists within IG Farben were sentenced for war crimes during the IG Farben Case, in the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings (Case No 6). Amongst these, was Dr Fritz ter Meer, one of the most senior officials and scientists responsible for IG Farben and IG Auschwitz during the Nazi era. Dr ter Meer was sentenced in 1948 to 7 years for his part in the IG Farben-related war crimes against humanity, but, after having his sentence commuted and being released in 1952, he was subsequently appointed to the Board of Bayer (one of several post-WWII IG Farben spin-offs). In 1955, he was then appointed as Bayer’s chairman, a position he held to 1964.  

Following extensive research by the Dr Rath Foundation, Dr ter Meer has been implicated in the establishment of the Codex Alimentarius Commission following meetings in 1962. Even during his trial at Nuremberg in 1947, it was clear that ter Meer was a strong proponent of harmonisation to the benefit of the German nation, an agenda that is strongly apparent in the work of the German government in relation to food, food supplement, medical, agricultural and other issues to this day.

Dr ter Meer’s counsel, speaking on behalf of his client at the IG Farben Trial in 1947, said:

“…Today I want to point out only one idea, namely the concept of a total European economic area, which formerly gained weight in many leading economic circles of Europe. An idea which, even today, though in a somewhat different form, is proposed by many political and economic experts, including some in America. These viewpoints shaped my client's aims to maintain, operate, and improve, as far as possible, these foreign enterprises in the general interest of the national economy as well as for the welfare of the employees and laborers.”

 

Are you listening? What is Codex?

To listen to an audio link and find out about Codex, please listen to ANH’s Codex Special on ANH’s Natural Health Hour on I AM HEALTHY RADIO featuring:

  • Dr Robert Verkerk, Alliance for Natural Health
  • Paul Taylor, Dr Rath Foundation
  • Ian Crane, The Alternative View (UK)

Further reading [Articles  by Paul Anthony Taylor, Dr Rath Health Foundation and National Health Federation]

Further reading [by Scott Tips, National Health Federation]

Further reading on the Dr Rath Health Foundation website

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