Fwd: Codex Exec. Cmte.Endorses Restrictive Guidelines

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--- " Ana Micka, President-Citizens for Health "

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> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 18:41:25 -0400 (EDT)

> " Ana Micka, President-Citizens for Health "

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> ddunn5

> Codex Exec. Cmte.Endorses Restrictive

> Guidelines

>

> Codex Commission Executive Committee Endorses

> Restrictive Vitamin-Mineral Guidelines

>

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

> Health who is attending the Codex Committee meeting

> in Rome as a member of the official U.S. Delegation.

>

> 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. Canada

> argued 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.

>

> >>read more

>

http://www.healthactioncenter.com/ctt.asp?u=3733639 & l=98825

>

> James S. Turner, partner in Swankin and Turner, a 32

> year old Washington DC law firm is a Private Sector

> Advisor to the US Codex Delegation on behalf of

> Citizens for Health and Citizens for Health

> supporter NOW Foods.

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