Codex Attack on Vitamins 2

2 - LOOKING DEEPER INTO CODEX

Normal diet said to be all you needThe Preamble of the Codex Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements states that a normal diet provides all the nutrients you need. There is no mention that supplemental nutrition can enhance health and prevent disease; even though a World Health Organization publication documents those factsand WHO is the parent organization of Codex.

To be bannedShould the Codex Commission approve the Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements on its agenda, 300 of the 420 basic vitamin and mineral products, commonly used by European consumers, will be banned from manufacture and trade inside the European Community.

Five aspects of Codex AlimentariusConsider the following:

Dosages will be at RDA levels (which are always pathetically low) and will be considered a drug that requires a prescription. All such drugs must be produced only by drug companies.

No supplements to be sold or used for preventive or therapeutic use. If this plan is successful, people will not be able to purchase them to prevent or treat disease.

Codex regulations will be binding internationally. Any nation which has entered into trade agreements with the EU will be forced to adopt the Codex or receive heavy trade sanctions until it does.

All other types of supplements will be banned, unless Codex gives testing and approval. This will be certain to be expensive. Such tests will also be inadequate. A favorite trick of drug and governmental authorities is to test such small doses of the supplement, so that it does not prove of any noticeable value. More later on why testing cannot be done.

Codex regulations are not based on previous scientific or research findings. Those regulations were developed by eleven persons, appointed by the EU with drug cartel approval.

Limited access to supplementsCodex Alimentarius sets maximum allowable dosages of permitted substances and forbids all others. In Europe, described as "the Future Face of Codex," restrictive standards for nutrients are being set by the European Supplements Directive which specifies that only a total of 28 supplements will be allowed at ultra low, subclinical doses.

In the European Union, all other nutritional materials, apart from these 28 therapeutically useless supplements, will become illegal substances on August 1, 2005. While the European Food Supplements Directive is responsible for these standards, they are closely allied with the intent and spirit of Codex itself.

This will disappearHere is what we are told will disappear if the European form of Codex is enacted, as a treaty "harmonization" by the U.S. Senate:

High potency nutrients? Gone!

All nutrients not on the Codex list? Gone!

New nutrients or herbs? Gone!

Higher doses of permitted nutrients? Gone!

Traditional medicines with nutritional value? Gone!

For those who eat such things: Hormone-free milk, poultry, and meat? Gone!

Safe levels of pesticides, hormones, animal drugs, and other toxins? Gone!

Non irradiated food? Gone!

More on this later.

Eliminating supplements considered importantThe objective of Codex is to eliminate the ability of nutrients to prevent, treat, or cure any disease or condition. Because they are natural substances, nutrients are not patentable. Therefore there is little money to be made in their sale. In addition, they help people physically; and this interferes with the income which drug companies, physicians, and hospitals can earn.

Impossible to obtain new supplement approvalManufacturers and sellers of supplements will not be able to stay in business; because many would not be able to meet the requirements for nutrients not already approved. Even if they could try to obtain approval, such approval is due to expire December 31, 2010. This is fiscal insanity, to spend half a billion dollars on a temporary permit for a non-patentable substance.

While there are some impractical options for a few nutrients to become permissible as prescription drugs, the cost and stipulations are so difficult that it is unlikely any nutrients can pass this set of hurdles.

Sample dosage changesVirtually every nutrient at any effective dose will be banned in Europe under the European Food Supplements Directive. We can expect exactly the same results here in the U.S., unless we do what the Europeans did not do in time and take massive action.

Codex Would Make Vitamin C above 200 mg. per day as illegal as heroin! And as punishable a crime. Heroin is an illegal substance; and it is the model. Your doctor cannot write you a prescription for heroin. You cannot buy, sell, make, distribute, or use heroin. If Codex in America follows what is coming to Europe, Vitamin C, for example (at any dosage higher than 200 mg. per day), would be illegal. A gram of Vitamin C would be an illegal substance! You would not be permitted to take over 32 mg. daily.

Only 28 nutrients would be allowed. But the maximum upper limits have been set so low that they have little or no clinical impact in keeping us healthy and none at all in returning us to a state of health if we are ill. And those which are available would be exorbitantly priced. (In addition to those nutrients, a few low-dosage German herbal formulas will also be available.)

Soon to be eliminatedAround 5,000 safe supplement and herbal formulas and nutrients that have been on the market for decades will soon be banned

Canada has achieved the same status indirectly by "harmonizing" with the Trans-Tasman Agreement rather than with Codex itself. The net result, however, is the same harm which will come to the United States through Senate and/or Congressional "harmonization" with the Codex.

It can happen hereThere is a worldwide push for "harmonization" to eliminate clean food, nutritional supplements, therapeutic vitamins, and other natural health choices. It can and it will, unless Americans take appropriate action, tell others, and write officials in Washington.

Obviously, we do not need to be protected from safe and effective natural healing tools. In their place, Codex offers us pharmaceuticals (medicinal drugs), the third largest killer in America.

Codex Alimentarius is the triumph of the Drug Industry over mankind! Natural medicine remains the best prevention, treatment, and cure for chronic disease. Codex eliminates that option.

Major changeoverIn the United States at the present time, nutrients are currently classified as "foods," and so have no upper limits. This is because of the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA). At the present time, any substance not explicitly forbidden is permitted as a nutrient in the United States.

Under Codex, any substance and any dosage not explicitly permitted by Codex policy would banned as a nutrient. The difference is of major importance to health freedom.

But the situation gets still worse. The people behind Codex are determined that neither food nor nutrients will ever again be used to treat diseases and infirmities!

Yet, more than 80 percent of Americans now use supplements specifically to prevent, treat, and cure diseases and other conditions. Nutritional and environmental physicians, naturopaths, nutritionists, chiropractors, and other licensed health professionals employ hundreds of natural minerals, supplements, and herbs precisely because they are effective in preventing, treating, and curing many diseases and chronic/degenerative conditions. Consumers spend $20 billion per year in the United States for supplements alone.

Dr. Wong Ang Peng, who was present at the November 2003 Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), wrote:

What will happen when it takes effect?When that time comes, Rolf Grossklaus, M.D., who is both the EU delegate and chairman of the Codex Committee on Nutrients and Food for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), has declared that nutrients will quickly be eliminated. He has also said that the European Food Supplements Directive (EFSD) will be "the future face of Codex."

This is the result of applying so-called "risk assessment" science, designed for toxic substances, to determine nutrient levels. Yet, in reality, nutrients are nontoxic foods; thus they have no dangerous upper limits. They are not like dangerous industrial and natural chemicals and substances or medicinal drugs.

Under the new rules, health-food stores would no longer be able to market and distribute nutritional supplements at therapeutic doses. Most health-food stores and privately owned nutrient manufacturers would probably go out of business.

Once Codex is implemented (either through "harmonization" or mandatory compliance), we will be forced to follow something very close to the European model of Codex. Under this, it would be illegal to manufacture, buy, sell, recommend, or use any nutrients or herbs except the EFSDs 28 ultra-low dose nutrients (one of which is fluoride, a systemic poison!), whether or not you are a licensed health professional.

Natural supplements at therapeutic doses, herbs, enzymes, and other non-pharmaceutical treatments would be banned.

U.S. "harmonization" nextCodex regulations are already in full force in Germany, Britain, and a few other European nations. They have already been "harmonized" (i.e., approved) and/or are scheduled for implementation in the EU, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, as well as the entire Asian Pacific Region (by means of the Trans-Tasman Agreement, mentioned earlier).

The United States is next unless we act decisively! Remember, although Codex regulations are passed quietly and without effective public notice through infrequent meetings abroad that are invisible to most Americans, they would have grave and devastating impact on Americas health freedom.

What you can doPhone, write, and e-mail your congressmen and senators. If you favor Codex, tell them so. If you oppose it, tell them so! Do not wait! Start now!

When will Codex take effect in America?A week ago, I phoned one of the largest supplement manufacturers in America. And I was told that the ban may not go into effect in the U.S. this summer. But the threat is very real; the FDA is working to get it here. If the EU Advocate Generals recommendations are followed, it will, following the final approval in July at Rome, take effect throughout EU countries on August 1. The ban is already in place in Britain and Germany.

Here in the United States, the "harmonization" laws which would enact Codex policy have been defeated by Congress several times, each time by a smaller margin. Given the composition of the current Congress (which is extremely pro-business!), it is virtually certain that "harmonization" legislation would be passed when introduced unless we take swift and immediate steps to assure that this does not happen.

This is being called a "stealth attack" on your freedom to eat what you want and care for your health, without the interference of government.

From the best we can estimate, Congress (or the Senate alone) will quietly pass this "harmonization" this late summer, this fall, or just after the fall elections. Perhaps it may not come until next year. But do you dare wait?

Codex is not a democratic process; and we, the people, have neither voice nor vote in the matteronce our legislators have agreed to obey it.

Americans could stop itIf enough Americans rose up as one man and demanded action, anything could be done; any change could be made.

How will it happen?One possibility is the U.S. Congress (or Senate alone) will "harmonize" with Codex, thus locking our nation into its provisions.

Another possibility is that the WTO will use a lawsuit, or threat of economic boycott, to force our legislators to approve Codex. As mentioned earlier, several earlier WTO rulings have gone against U.S. law, forcing Congress to change our law under threat of cross-sector trade sanctions against broad sections of our economy. The most recent and publicized of these was the situation regarding our steel industry and tariffs. If they can force the U.S. to change policy over such a vital national interest as our steel industry, the dietary and herbal supplement industry will be easy to eliminate.

A third, and less likely possibility is that, when compliance with the Vitamin and Mineral Standard is ratified as expected at the next Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting, in Rome, July 4-9, 2005, the WTO will attempt to require immediate submission to it by nations throughout the world, including the U.S. But such a rapid demand is not likely.

Sequence of eventsHere are the events between November 2004 and August 2005:

(1) In November 2004, vitamin and mineral guidelines were finalized in Bonn, Germany.

(2) January 5, 2005, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), directed by Rolf Grossklaus, released a 341-page report on risk assessment of nutrients used in food supplements. The report made extremely low recommendations for maximum levels of vitamin and mineral supplements.

(3) On January 29, 2005, urgent messages were sent to Kofi Anan, head of the UN, to extend the deadline for its acceptance of Codex standards. But the pleas were disregarded.

(4) On April 5, 2005, a nonbinding opinion of the Judge Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) required the EFSD to use more science to create its standards (instead of merely a collection of assumptions).

The rest of Codex implementation, however, was not challenged in that ruling. This opinion had no legal weight and the court was expected to render its final ruling in June 2005. If the EFSD was upheld, the August 1 ban would go forward. If it was not, it would be revised and then go forward.

But even if the EFSD guidelines are overturned, member nations of the WTO (which includes the U.S.) would still be bound by the SPSA (Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement) to bring their standards into conformity with Codex guidelines and standards.

(5) In June 2005, that legal question against part of Codex was settled favorably to Codex.

(6) On June 9, 2005, the U.S. Codex Office, in Washington, held a public meeting to discuss agenda items coming before the July Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome.

(7) At the end of June 2005, the U.S. Delegation to Codex wrote a letter to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, saying that the United States will support compulsory Codex rules at the Rome meeting.

(8) In July 4-9, 2005, at Rome, the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), and the Codex Alimentarius Commission is set to ratify those guidelines.

(9) On August 1, 2005, the European Food Supplements Directive (EFSD)which is a "Directive" by the European Community (EC)not a directive by Codexwill restrict the sale into and within Europe of dietary supplements that contain any of hundreds of ingredients or forms of ingredients not on the EFSD "approved lists" (Annex I or II), except for ingredients that have received "derogation" (approval for continued sale) until 2009 in one of 25 European countries (member states of the EU) and which are being considered for addition to one of the approved lists by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Aside from a potential one-year "sell/buy through grace period," taken together with upcoming dosage limit guidelines to be set by the FAO/WHO Nutrient Risk Assessment Project, European retailers and consumers will most assuredly have their choice of innovative, high-potency dietary supplements greatly curtailed, officially, as of August 1, 2005.

Do the above two paragraphs seem complicated? It is only because of such a confusing web of committees and rules, secretly carried out to this point, that the international drug cartel of Germany, U.S., and Britain have been able to bring the world to the edge of this horrible cliff!

Australia, New Zealand, and CanadaAs mentioned earlier, the Trans-Tasman Agreement has been used by Australia and New Zealand to "harmonize" with Codex. Canada also achieved the same status indirectly by "harmonizing" with the Trans-Tasman Agreement rather than with Codex itself.

Global implementationWe are told that "global implementation" of Codex will occur on January 1, 2010. Although, on August 1, 2005, the Codex ban will go into effect in EU nations (and it is being adopted by several other nations: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.),the final, total imprisonment of every member nation of the UN in the nutritional prison house of Codex will not occur until January 2010.

3 - SPECIFICS OF THE BAN

4 - FOOD SUPPLEMENTS

Utterly shockingCodex would (1) limit the number of different vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and physiologically active substances which could be purchased anywhere. (2) It would limit dosage of the few which would be permitted. (3) They could only be sold on a physicians prescription. (4) You could only buy them in a drugstore. (5) They would have to be synthetic. (6) You would have to pay very high prices for every tablet. (7) When fully implemented, only approved drug companies could make them. (8) It would be a crime to use any nutrientseven the permitted onesin the home treatment of an infirmity or disease. They could not be used to "prevent, treat, or cure any condition or disease," is Codexs words for it.

Only 15-100 percent of what is in foodCodex defines minimum allowable dosages of permitted nutrients as 15 percent of the amount naturally occurring in foods while maximum allowable doses of any permitted nutrients may not exceed the dose of that nutrient as normally found in food!

A complicated formulaPermitted nutritional supplement values are determined by subtracting the amount assumed to be in the average expectable daily diet, from the maximum allowable dose and the result is the permitted upper limit of a nutrient. No dosage of this nutrient may be used which is any higher than the permitted upper limit, with or without a prescription. This system is based neither on science nor sense. The objective is to make the typical "junk food" diet of Western civilization the standard!

Illegal nutrientsThe following two categories would be classified as illegal: (1) Higher doses of permitted nutrients. (2) Any amount of nutrients not explicitly permitted. Both would be classified as illegal substances (like heroin) and, as such, would be legally unavailable under any circumstances.

Testing of nutrients not feasibleAlthough the system for testing additional nutrients or higher nutrient doses (than those specified by Codex) can theoretically be done, in reality, no company will dare to request testing for new nutrient formulas or higher dosages. Here are seven reasons why:

(1) The natural substances must be submitted and accepted for testingat a cost of approximately $250,000 per submission.

(2) If accepted, a substance may undergo Phase 1, 2, and 3 testingbut only as a drug.

(3) The testing will be done by Codex, using extremely low dosages which cannot be shown to have useful therapeutic effects.

(4) If, after testing, the substance is found to be efficacious and safe, it will only be marketed as a prescription drug.

(5) Permission to market a new nutrient as a drug expires on December 31, 2005, and cannot be renewed or extended.

(6) A substance successfully tested in this way may then be prescribed at only the tested dosage and only for the tested conditions.

(7) The cost of this procedure is staggering,and most applications for such testing have been turned down. Because natural molecules cannot be patented, potential manufacturers are unable to recoup the outrageous costs of testing through later sales.

Only 28 low-dosage nutrientsAs mentioned earlier, when it goes into effect on August 1, 2005, the European Union (EU), whose Directives (EFSD and the THMPD) are the model administrative agencies for Codex implementation, will only permit a total of 28 ultra-low dosage nutrients.

(The EFSD is the European Food Supplements Directive. The THMPD is the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, which will be discussed in the next section on herbs.)

Examples of banned nutrientsNutrients like Boron, Vanadium, and Natural (Mixed Tocopherols) Vitamin E will be banned under the EFSD ruling.

Positive/negative listThe CCNFSDU (Codex Committee on Nutrients and Food for Special Dietary Uses) has made it clear that other nutrients would be excluded under the "positive list/negative list" concept. Under this, "everything not permitted on the positive list is forbidden and everything forbidden on the negative list is forbidden by virtue of being absent from the positive list."

Eliminate nutritionCodexs Nutritional Supplements Committee Chairman Dr. Rolf Grossklaus has stated that "nutrition has no place in medicine." According to Codex, nutrients have no role in keeping us healthy and none at all in returning us to a state of health if we are ill.

"Risk Assessment"This strange way of making decisions is called "Risk Assessment Science" to nutritional medicine. By the way, the only company permitted to submit risk assessment data to Codexis owned by Dr. Grossklaus, the chairman of CCNFSDU!

"Risk Assessment" is said to be the way that decisions are made as to which nutrients and herbs should be included in the "Positive List." Grossklaus company privately and secretly decides which nutrients would be a risk to the health of people taking them. Obviously, this is all a total fraud.

Grossklaus is going to answer in the Judgment for attempting to damage the health of millions of people, so the pharmaceutical companies can finish the job by drugging them to death.

Low dosageThe allowable maximum upper limits for permitted nutrients have intentionally been set so low that they have little or no clinical impact on any human being, no matter how sensitive to the nutrient!

Only syntheticEven more sinister is the fact that only synthetic nutrients will be sold.

Although Codexs current Vitamin and Mineral Standard (not yet ratified) states that natural and synthetic forms may be used, under the EFSD, only synthetic forms (produced from chemicals) of permitted nutrients would be available and natural forms (extracted from foods) would become illegal substances.

Only manufactured by drug companiesUnder the EFSD, those synthetic nutrients (at ultra-low dosages) would have to be manufactured by pharmaceutical companies, in order to meet the Codex-determined molecular standards for use in humans or animals.

"Molecular standards"Codex says that only synthetic nutrients, at ultra-low dosages and manufactured by pharmaceutical companies, will meet its "molecular standards" for use by humans or animals.

High pricedWhatever ultra-low dosage nutrients are available will be exorbitantly priced, as current experience in Norway and Germany reveals, where profit margins of synthetic, permitted nutrients are being "harmonized" to match drug profit margins of profit.

Why such requirements?If you think carefully about it, the only reason for these rules is to increase sickness. That would be the only logical reason why only a few nutrients would be available. They would be low dosage and only in synthetic form. Literally thousands of scientific research experiments on people and lab animals have conclusively proven that nutrients maintain health and cure diseases, including many (many!) which drugs cannot cure.

85 percent illegalOn August 1, 2005, 85 percent of the natural substances currently available in health-food stores and pharmacies in Europe are set to become illegal as a direct result of Codex adoption of the EFSD standards. That which remains will be rendered almost useless by the dosage/cost/synthetic requirements.

UNESCO report affirms value of nutrientsAs Dr. Grossklaus has repeatedly stated, EFDS is the "future face" of Codex Alimentarius. While the problem here in the United States will be acute, it will be a problem of immense proportions in the underdeveloped world.

That fact is verified by an official UNESCO report. Here is a statement in this report:

Unfortunately, bribe money is shutting mouths in high placesat the very time when they should speak up and put a stop to this sneak attack.

5 - HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS

AND TREATMENTS

The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD) is part of the overall Codex set of permissions and bans. It includes a very short list of herbs which may be used and the conditions for which they may be used,which is another short and very trivial list.

But any condition which might require "medical [drug] care" may not be treated with herbs.

All other applications of herbs and any other herbs besides those permitted are strictly forbidden; since they and their indications are not on the "positive list."

There is the possibility that a few formulas of well-known Chinese or other traditional herbal medicines may ultimately be exempt. If so, it will only be done to please the Chinese government, so it will ratify Codex.

Clever ways to exclude nutrientsIt was reported in Britain that, according to THMPD, once Codex goes into effect in a nation, an herbal product could only continue to be sold if it had already been on the market for 30 years, including 15 years in Europe.

The report went on to state that about 300 nutrients and nutrient sources, already sold in Britain, are not on the permitted list; and, unless comprehensive safety dossiers are approved or the remedies are licensed in the same way as pharmaceutical drugs, they would be banned. Products affected by that ruling include both vitamins, minerals, and herbs. Examples would be Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, echinacea, black cohosh, St. Johns wort, multi-vitamin supplements, and minerals.

Secret meetingsAlthough herbs were part of the original Codex deliberations, they were suddenly (and some say illegally) removed and placed under a closed committee of the WHO.

According to the legal analysis of experts in this matter, it is anticipated that shortly before the global implementation of Codex Alimentarius on January 1, 2010, all herbs will be returned to Codex Alimentarius and declared to be "untested drugs." Thus, it is anticipated that all herbs will become illegal.

Native medicinal herbs bannedThe Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD) also includes native medicinal use throughout the world. THMPD specifies which conditions may be treated using herbs. Only minor, self-limited conditions (not requiring drugs) may be treated by herbal means. Treating any other conditions with herbal remedies would be a criminal act.

Some complex oriental herbal formulas may be permitted, but most would be lost. Ayurveda, Tibetan, tribal, and other traditional medicines which use herbs and natural substances would be forbidden worldwide, because scientific documentation on their value is difficult to secure.

Native peoples in many lands would be forbidden access to native herbs; yet they would not have access to pharmaceutical drugs. (Those living in remote areas would probably ignore the WTO ban.)

Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ayurvedic medicinal herbs are banned because Codex requires lengthy use in Europe as a pre-condition to registration. But a number of natural herbal medicines, already on the German market, were given approval by the 15/30-year formula, mentioned earlier. Keep in mind that the Codex plot was first hatched in Germany.

Codex vs. WHOIt is of interest that the European herbal medicines directive runs counter to an initiative of the World Health Organization which has recently issued guidelines for the safe use of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines which include herbals. WHO wishes to make these widely available in all countries as an alternative to pharmaceutical medicines. In contrast, Codex, a subsidiary of WHO, is seeking to ban herbs which the parent body recognizes as useful in keeping people well throughout the world.

6 - GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS

Codex fully legalizes GMOsCodex legalizes the unlabeled (unlabeled!) use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Monsanto Corporation, among others, will make billions from that proviso.

Codex Alimentarius makes the unlabeled use of GMOs legal in all foods, under all circumstances,even though there is significant opposition in many parts of the world to the widespread use of GMOs.

Codex is already in Iraq!Farmers in Iraq provide us with a glimpse of what a Codex future would look like in America. Under the new Iraqi constitution, farmers must purchase their seeds from Monsanto; and they are forbidden to gather any of the seeds and use them to plant new harvests the following year. The following year, they must buy fresh seed from Monsanto.

"Helping" natureMany GMOs have been genetically engineered, so that seeds will not germinate without the use of specific pesticides (such as Roundup, a Monsanto product).

There is increasing scientific data that birth defects, chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, severe allergies and a host of other conditions can be enhanced or caused by increased pesticide exposure. Yet many crops will not grow without the pesticides! In order to enrich themselves, there are men willing to destroy the world.

Genetic driftAnother problem is "genetic drift." The altered DNA in the GMO seed is gradually scattered by pollen and the wind, from one field to another as GMO crops interbreed with non-GMO crops. Each year, more and more farms will be contaminated by GMO crops. GMO genetic material is recognized as a major threat to the biological integrity of the entire planet. Codex regulations will accelerate the spread of GMOs throughout the world.

Not labeledGenetically modified organisms which are not GMO-labeled will become legal globally. This will be done in spite of significant science-based opposition to the use of GMOs.

It is true that there are "standards for testing of GMOs" in the Codex papers; but you can expect that they will never be applied if the seed manufacturers do not want them.

Into baby foodsIncredibly, the Codex Committee on Nutrients and Foods for Special Dietary Uses has ruled that GMOs can be used in baby foods and formulas!

Commenting on this, Dr. Wong Ang Peng, wrote of the 2004 Bonn CCNFSDU meeting, which he attended:

Into animal feedCodex will also permit GMOs to be freely used in animal feed without being labeled as GMOs.

7 - TOXIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESIDUES

Codex promotes toxic contaminationExtremely high maximum limits for pesticide and veterinary drug residues, toxic chemicals, hormones in food, and other environmental contaminants are permitted by Codex.

Codex may be turning the world into a businessmans paradise; but it is turning the world into a living horror for the rest of us.

These upper limits are many times higher than levels advocated, even by chemical and pesticide industry lobbying groups!

Strange diseases from pesticidesScientists recognize that their impact on human health is not yet known. But many research studies into the negative effects of the pesticides, required by GMO foods, have already been carried out.

For example, there is increasing scientific evidence that the incidence of cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons Disease, birth defects, chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, severe allergies, and several other serious conditions (which were previously rare) are becoming increasingly common and more deadly where there is increasing levels of the pesticide exposure that GMO crops require.

Toxic poisons maim and killToxic levels, currently existing, are already known to cause cancer, heart disease, autism, chronic degenerative conditions, and organ failures. Making permissible toxic levels higher would only accelerate this destructive worldwide trend.

Dangerous labelsFarmers and ranchers use the toxic chemicals in the amounts which they read on the labels. But following Codex label directions will poison our farms, ranches, streams, and rivers.

Consider aflatoxinThe second most potent non-ionizing carcinogen known is aflatoxinwhich will be permitted by Codex at frighteningly high levels in milkwhich is consumed in large quantities by children. This was one time that even WHO spoke up. It conceded in a press release that these levels were extremely high:

Cancer-causingCancer, once a rare occurrence, is anticipated to strike 50% of the earths inhabitants by 2010 under current permissible levels of pesticides and other toxins! But, when Codex institutes its much higher "Safe Upper Limits" for these poisonous substances, the impact on the collective immune system and fertility rates of the planet are beyond imagination. It will greatly accelerate health problems.