CODEX- THE SICKNESS INDU$TRY’S LAST STAND ...

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CODEX – THE SICKNESS INDU$TRY’S LAST STAND ...

'This World Health Organisation/World Trade Organisation joint effort called

CODEX is in the process of wiping out local supplement companies and natural

health care practices, to bring in more drug based medicine, in what is

euphemistically known as “creating a level playing field”, while primarily

giving the public a misleading impression that someone in the World Health

Organisation (WTO) is looking after its health and safety.'

 

 

 

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CODEX – THE SICKNESS INDU$TRY’s LAST STAND...

 

A Guest Article By Australian Health Activist Eve Hillary

 

 

 

About Eve Hillary: Eve Hillary is a Health Freedom Advocate based in Sydney.

She a medical analyst, public speaker and writer on issues pertaining to the

health care industry and environmental health. She is the author of Children

of a Toxic Harvest: An Environmental Autobiography, and numerous articles

relating to health issues. Her most recent book is Health Betrayal; Staying away

from the Sickness Industry. Eve has spent 25 years in health care where she has

observed the medical industry at first hand from the inside.

evehillary or eve

 

 

 

Special Release April 1, 2005 Sydney ~ Revised April 23, 2005 - Published here

May 31st, 2005

 

Part One

 

 

 

Preamble

 

What is CODEX? (34) In short it is an annual World Health Organisation (WHO)

sponsored gathering of delegates in Europe, many of them trans-national

pharmaceutical corporations who are primarily focused on increasing their market

share, by pushing their desired and arbitrary regulatory “standards” into a

global standard and forcing it onto the smaller local supplement industry, all

in the name of “international regulatory excellence”. The Codex Committee is

also bound by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) treaties.

 

 

 

The WTO is a global commercial police that ensures countries are required to

purchase from trans-national corporations in favour of their own locally

produced goods, in the name of “lowering trade barriers”. This WHO/WTO joint

effort called CODEX is in the process of wiping out local supplement companies

and natural health care practices, to bring in more drug based medicine, in what

is euphemistically known as “creating a level playing field”, while primarily

giving the public a misleading impression that someone in the World Health

Organisation (WTO) is looking after its health and safety.

 

 

 

CODEX recommendations are then adopted by regulators such as the Australian TGA

or the US FDA by various direct or indirect means that end up as Acts and

amendments that are passed into law by Parliaments or Congress, usually without

public debate.

 

 

 

In 2002 I unveiled Codex to a Brisbane, Australia audience of 300 people. Only 3

knew anything about it - the same three I’d spoken with before the lecture. I

then wrote a chapter on CODEX in my book “Health Betrayal”. Primary data about

CODEX is not easy to find. (34) And there remains deliberate misinformation

emanating from government sources with close ties to trans-national

corporations. Meanwhile, the Australian regulator, the TGA (Therapeutic Goods

Administration) is deeply involved in the corporate agenda as this article will

track.

 

 

 

The Australian Health Minister, Mr. Abbott, has recently called a Sydney

talkback radio program to “reassure” the presenter and listening audience that

CODEX is not an issue in Australia. At the same time there has been no effort on

the part of the government to publicly reveal the extraordinary events that have

delivered Australia into corporate governance in health care. This includes the

very real possibility that many cheap and effective natural remedies may no

longer be available to the public after July 1 when drastic changes that have

never been openly debated, are set to be implemented by Parliament.

 

 

 

It is my intention to reveal the fact that trans-national pharmaceutical

corporations have already assumed the role of government at least where health

care is concerned. I intend to highlight what steps have already been taken by

corporate interests to move Australia and New Zealand toward CODEX and toward

international corporate governance in the Asia Pacific region. This being true,

it would alter the basic premise and agreement which Australian governance was

founded upon – Democracy. This agreement cannot be altered except with the

informed consent of the majority and only after public debate and referendum.

It is my educated guess that most Australians want democracy for themselves and

that they would want to preserve it for future generations. It is my guess that

Australians do not want to be governed by trans-national corporations. It is my

intention to allow these issues to be debated, understood and corrected by the

electors, the only legitimate proprietors of

government at this time.

 

 

 

Short History – Key Data

 

When debating regulatory matters I believe it is essential to bear in mind that

the supplement industry and the drug industry are totally different industries.

The natural supplement industry and its related discipline, natural health care

is thousands of years old with a proven tradition. For example, Nostradamus used

compressed rose petal pastilles, rich in vitamin C to treat his patients

suffering from bubonic plague. Many of his patients survived the dreaded

disease, and Nostradamus himself, who took the pastilles never succumbed to the

illness.

 

 

 

The modern supplement industry has been traditionally locally owned by private

or family companies and evolved around its own proven quality and safety

standards. Traditionally using cheap and naturally sourced raw ingredients, the

supplement industry has an enviable product safety record. In addition an

entire branch of natural and nutritional medicine has developed over the

centuries with a long tradition of safety and a large body of scientific

evidence in support of its efficacy. A little known fact is that literally

thousands of peer-reviewed studies exist to support the success of natural and

nutritional approaches to medicine. (36,37,38,39,40) There exist many conditions

that can only be significantly remedied by nutritional medicine.

 

 

 

The pharmaceutical industry as we know it, on the other hand, only started in

earnest about 60 years ago. Many drugs have been so recently synthesised that

their side effects will not be known for some years to come. Pharmaceutical

corporations rely on patented artificial chemical drugs to generate most of

their profits. Aggressive drug company marketing and image management has

created the impression that drugs are essential to health, when in fact deaths

from adverse drug reactions make up the fourth highest cause of death in the US.

Still stinging from the market share lost through consumers opting for natural

supplements, the trans-national pharmaceutical corporations have influenced the

regulators to regulate supplements as drugs when in fact vitamins and minerals

are not drugs but essential to all humans on a daily basis.

 

 

 

The difference between drugs and nutrients is that they are fundamentally

opposites. There are many conditions caused when sufficient nutrients are not

supplied to the body each day, but there is no such thing as a drug deficiency.

 

 

 

Author’s Note

 

I’m a health writer. I track the sickness industry. I watch while powerful

vested interests infiltrate governments of sovereign nations. Lately I’d been

busy with some other issues and nearly missed a hat trick that was being

performed by Australian politicians that would remove freedom of choice from the

community. I discovered it just in time when an article came across my desk

entitled “The Codex threat to Australia – fact or fiction?” written by a chap

who sourced his information from a few government websites. He opined that the

Codex issue was merely hype and nonsense and nothing much for Aussies or anybody

else in the world to worry about. His article was published by the Australian

Traditional Medicine Society, an organisation that is supposed to represent

complementary health practitioners and provide them with clear information about

exactly WHO’s in charge of making decisions about supplements. Frankly, I

expected such a hose-down article as this to more likely appear

in a pharmaceutical company trade magazine or as a press release from the TGA.

But I assumed the drug giants have their own spin doctors, legions of them. And

they are quite content to have useful gophers disseminate their whitewash to the

rest of us. Later I discovered the article’s author regularly sat on a TGA

committee called the Interim Advertising Council, which has, along with several

pharmaceutical front organisations such as the Medicines Australia and the

Self-Medication Industry set up an official advertising agency that so

blatantly serves drug company corporate interests that even the AMA objects to

it on the grounds that “the process is occurring against a backdrop of enormous

pressure…from pharmaceutical companies and others to open up to direct consumer

advertising”. (24, 20)

 

 

 

I must however give thanks to the article in question, and to its author,

Raymond Khoury, for it led me to cast my attention back to Codex and focus on a

currently unfolding disaster in the Pacific region that is only avoidable if the

Electors get a grip on the reins very soon.

 

 

 

If you believe, as I do, that in time the stench of sleaze, bribery, greed and

dishonesty will reach the nose of the ethical majority to be dealt with

accordingly, then you might agree that the sickness industry is about to

collapse in on itself by the sheer weight of its own corruption. This is a time

when the drug industry and our “regulators” are committing some stupid and

desperate acts against human rights. And our politicians don’t look good

passing Parliamentary bills, acts and amendments in the dead of night that arose

through improper influences. Remember their names, for it is they who are

accountable for their ethics. And it is we who are accountable for the kind of

society we have allowed corporations to create in our name.

 

 

 

Getting Health Care into Perspective – Understanding CODEX

 

It’s official. US research shows that inappropriate and dangerous medical

treatments and adverse drug reactions are now the number one cause of death (4).

To some it was no surprise. It seemed an inevitable outcome from the 1980’s

when health care was taken over by “health care” corporations and the

pharmaceutical industry. Then the bottom line in health care became profit

instead of sending the patient home well and drug free, if possible. (13)

 

 

 

There are still no Parliamentary enquiries into the deaths of 18,000 Australians

each year, killed by inappropriate doctoring and prescribed pharmaceutical drugs

that are licensed by the TGA (the Australian regulator). The cause of these

avoidable deaths has been known by the government for over ten years when Dr.

Runciman made it known in a report he prepared to the government in 1995. And

yet nothing has been done about it. This makes these unnecessary deaths a

deliberate act on the part of the perpetrators, the medical and pharmaceutical

corporations and the Australian government. This act is the equivalent of

deliberately exterminating all living beings from an entire large sized

Australian country town each year. (1,2,3). This killing for profit has

knowingly continued for the past 10 years.

 

 

 

In addition to the death toll, 50,000 Australians are maimed and disabled, not

by their diseases, but by the “health care system” which includes; bad doctoring

and serious or permanent damage from drugs that were licensed by the TGA. Yet

there are no outraged politicians giving undertakings on the Senate steps to

find the culprits, to stop the criminality of it. This appears astonishing,

since 187 Australians are unnecessarily killed and maimed each day – that’s

seven Australians killed or maimed per hour by conventional health care - more

Australians than were ever killed in all the wars. By the time you have read

this another Australian will die or be disabled by inappropriate medical

treatment or an adverse reaction from a drug that was licensed and approved by

the TGA. No memorials are erected to these victims. (1,2,3)

 

 

 

Where is Mainstream Media?

 

A few years ago the media conducted a feeding frenzy about an unfortunate person

who died allegedly of an allergic reaction to royal jelly, a highly nutritious

food that worker bees feed to the hive queen bee. (Unfortunately many more fatal

allergic reactions occur annually than ever before, to both synthetic and to

natural substances, due to the fact that general immunological health is

declining through environmental degradation.) The person had ingested both the

jelly and a meat sausage before the allergic reaction occurred, one that could

equally have been caused by the preservative in the sausage. However, the TGA

launched a lengthy investigation into the royal jelly, and required Royal Jelly

to carry a health warning on the label. The sausage, of course was not

investigated, nor allocated a health hazard label, one that the fatty, preserved

product could arguably deserve, since the nitrite preservatives in sausages are

responsible for many serious or fatal allergic

reactions.

 

 

 

To salvage any remaining integrity the media would need to start presenting

honest reports about the serious damage done to victims of the pharmaceutical

and conventional health care corporations. Instead it runs the occasional

unfounded vitamin scare about the purported dangers of vitamin C or Echinacea.

 

 

 

WHO is the TGA?

 

More- http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/codex-sickness.htm

 

 

 

 

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