AB_Progressives URGENT ALERT! CODEX PASSES! ACT NOW, ACT FAST!

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Codex Commission Executive Committee Endorses Restrictive Vitamin-Mineral

Guidelines

 

http://www.citizens.org//priorities/codex/romeupdate.cfm

 

by James S. Turner, Esq., Board Chair, Citizens for Health

 

Rome, July 3, 2005. Dr. Ed Scarbrough, US Codex Office administrator and

administrative leader of the US Delegation to the 28th session of the Codex

Alimentarius Commission, today told the delegation at its pre-meeting session

that the Codex Commission Executive Committee had endorsed the vitamin and

mineral guidelines recommended to it for adoption by its Committee on Nutrition

and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU). The endorsed guidelines call for

upper intake limits based on toxic chemical risk assessment, prohibit health

claims for foods, and urge consumers to restrict their intake of nutrients to

the foods they eat. The endorsement of the guidelines by the Executive

Committee virtually ensures their adoption by the full Commission at its July 4

meeting.

 

Dr. Scarbrough commented on Chinese and other Asian country desires to have

greater flexibility, based on unique dietary habits, to add other categories

than vitamins and minerals to the guidelines, and Australia’s “perennial” desire

to restrict the guidelines to countries that treat vitamins and minerals only as

foods. These arguments, he reported, did not move the Codex Executive

Committee away from endorsing the guidelines. Nor did Canada’s lack of support

for the guidelines. Canadaargued that “given the differences in diets, food

supplies, attitudes, and consumption patterns around the world, such guidelines

were best left to national governments.” This argument failed to move the

Executive Committee to recommend delay or rejection of the guidelines. In the

opinion of the Canadian government, the guidelines will not apply to

Canadabecause it regulates vitamin and minerals supplements as “natural health

products, not as foods.”

 

Dr. Scarbrough also reported Executive Committee recommendations that, going

forward, the Codex nutrition committee (CCNFSDU) consider how it can contribute

to the World Health Organization Global Strategy for Diet Exercise and

Health, and that more study be undertaken on the role of nutrition in Codex and

the relationship of Codex to other international bodies. Dr. Scarbrough also

reported a serious Executive Committee discussion about a consultant’s report on

the future of Codex. Several countries, Mexicoand Brazilamong them, desire

clearer rules on the consensus process used by Codex to make decision. Some

observers believe that the current consensus rules favor Europe and the USand

marginalize the interests of developing countries. There is a movement to

switch away from consensus to voting. The opponents of this move say it would

create combative factions and politicize the Codex process.

 

The delegation meeting, attended by forty delegation members and observers, took

place at the trendy Hotel 47 (www.fortysevenhotel.com) at 47 Via Petroselli,

Rome, just one block away from Circus Maximus, the site of Rome’s contribution

to Live 8 Roma (http://www.live8live.com/theconcerts/index.shtml), singer Bob

Geldof’s effort to use global music performances to focus world attention on

hunger and poverty in Africa. Several of the dietary supplement consumer group

representatives attending the delegation meeting felt strongly that Codex could

contribute most effectively to ending world hunger and poverty by adopting less

restrictive vitamin and mineral guidelines. This issue will have to be debated

after the Commission meeting. The meeting agenda and consensus process allows

time only to adopt or delay the guidelines or send them back to committee with

no serious discussion. The Executive Committee endorsement makes adoption of the

vitamin and mineral guidelines all but

inevitable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men:

Plato

 

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world:

Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

 

 

 

 

 

 

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