Health Nutritional Supplements

Question by yahoo: What do you think about the Government placing a literal ban on Vitamins and Minerals?
What do you think of this, if this goes in effect on December 31st 2009, we can say bye bye to nutrition or eating healthy…

Here’s the article:

Public Meeting to Address Agenda Items for the 32nd Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission
Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Alexandra Tarrant

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2009 – The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is sponsoring a public meeting to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 32nd Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), to be held in Rome, Italy, June 29-July 4, 2009.

The public meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 8, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Room 107-A, Jamie Whitten Federal Building, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, D.C. Attendees must present photo identification at the door.

Documents and agenda items related to the 32nd Session of CAC will be available at http://www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp.

Written comments may be submitted by interested parties by e-mail to the U.S. Codex Office, USDA. Comments may be sent to Barbara.McNiff@fsis.usda.gov. For further information concerning the 32nd Session of the CAC, contact Barbara McNiff by e-mail at Barbara.McNiff@fsis.usda.gov, by phone at (202) 690-4719, or by fax at (202) 720-3157.

For further information about the public meeting or to request a sign language interpreter or any other special accommodation, contact Jasmine Matthews, U.S. Codex Office, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA, by e-mail at Jasmine.Matthews@fsis.usda.gov or uscodex@fsis.usda.gov or by phone at (202) 690-1124 or fax at (202) 720-3157.

Codex Alimentarius (World Food Code)
Summarized in 7 Points

HealthFreedomUSA.org, the website of the Natural Solutions Foundation, is beholden to no one: our only interest is health freedom. Rima E. Laibow, MD, successful natural medicine physician since the 1970s, has studied 16,000 pages of Codex documentation. Her conclusion is that people who say that Codex is consumer protection, voluntary, or harmless are, at best, seriously mistaken. Codex Alimentarius will go into global implementation by December 31, 2009, unless We, the People, avert it.

1) Started in 1962 by UN, Imposed by WTO Sanctions

Codex Alimentarius was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN to control the international trade of food. Its initial intentions may have been altruistic but it has been taken over by corporate interests, most notably the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotechnology and chemical industries. Monsanto and Bayer are big proponents. Being a member country of Codex means that this organization decides what we eat. Codex Alimentarius is backed up by the crippling trade sanctions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Any non Codex-compliant nation would face huge economic punishment since they would automatically lose in any food-trade dispute with a Codex compliant country.
2) Nutrients Classified as Toxins Based on Junk Science

Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition.

One of them, the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the top-guy for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that nutrition is not relevant to health.

As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared nutrients to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements! It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus happens to own the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on this issue. This company makes money when its toxicology services are used for the assessment of nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call that a conflict of interest.

Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients.

While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane. Nutrients are not toxins – they are essential for life.

No matter what Codex Alimentarius officials say to convince you that Risk Assessment is a science-based approach to nutrients, it is not.

And it is worth repeating that Dr. Grossklaus, the head of Codex Alimentarius, owns the Risk Assessment c

Best answer:

Answer by Beachgirl
wtf? that is insane.

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