CODEX oked in Rome 7-4-05, Contact Sen B4 7-11-05

July 5, 2005

FROM: John Hammell - http://www.IAHF.com

The Codex vitamin guideline was finalized today (July 4th) in Rome

Italy. So its no longer a draft guideline, its now international law.

They put the cart before the horse and finalized a FRAMEWORK,

intending to use JUNK SCIENCE to fill in the blanks on allowable

potencies for vitamins and minerals next November at the CCNFSDU

meeting in Bonn Germany.

As IAHF predicted, there was nary a whimper of protest coming from US

Delegate Ed Scarbrough, the same guy who threw me off the US Codex

Delegation in 2000 when I requested he remove Dr.Yetley of the FDA

citing evidence that she'd violated US law at Codex meetings in '96

and in '98. When I requested he remove her as US Delegate, instead,

he did HER bidding and removed ME because it made Yetley

uncomfortable that I was trying to put her under a congressional

microscope.

The USA is being set up for harmonization to this Codex guideline via

the Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures Agreement (SPS) which is

contained within the WTO Trade Agreement. Article 3 of SPS in the WTO

trade agreements says: " To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary

measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members SHALL base their

food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or

recommendations. "

CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen the scope of the SPS

Agrement, forcing harmonization to Codex upon the USA.

CAFTA contains SPS language in Article 6 which would force the USA to

create an SPS Committee as we've entered into an agreement to engage

in a constant process of harmonizing our laws to international law.

CAFTA has passed the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Senate,

and when congress reconvenes on July 11th, it could be sent to the

floor of the House literally any time after they come back. The

Washington Post has indicated that the vote in the House could be

decided by a margin of one single vote.

John Hammell

International Advocates for Health Freedom

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