One of the dangers in Codex Is the "Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses" (CCNFSDU).
Codex Alimentarius was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN to control the international trade of food. So what stands in the way of Codex overcoming our vitamins. It's the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA, 1994), an American law classifying our supplements and herbs as foods (which can have no upper limit set on their use), passed by unanimous Congressional consent following massive grass-roots support organized by health food. How important are vitamins and supplements to you. Trent is the "top-guy" for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that "nutrition is not relevant to health". Did you know there have been several attempts in the past to regulate the supplement industry, Lets look at how this whole idea started. Oliviero Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. 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. The World Trade Organization (WTO) backs sanctions of non compliant nations which would face huge economic punishment in the Codex court. |