Subject: CODEX
(Must read--from an MD who read the 15,000 pages of the draconian CODEX
mandates to be implemented)
CODEX ALIMENTARUS THREAT
(Mandates include 15,000+ pages
controlling and limiting world wide production of all supplements, holistic
care and your rights to choose nutrients
that will be implemented by the pharmaceutical industry that runs CODEX)
If countries don't comply, world export/import trade may be cut off to that
country.
Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, DO with the help of Dr.
Rima Laibow, MD outline the CODEX "harminization"
agenda below. Please take the time
to review this information. We
need everyone to be educated about this issue. Then take the action that you deem appropriate
to prevent this invasion of our freedoms. Sample letters for your
congressional leaders are available below for your convenience.
. . plus access via zip codes to their offices.
http://www.nmaseminars.com/ (The
following article can be viewed online by going to this link. Then scroll down
to CODEX link. Online article is a PDF - requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) It is copied here for your convenience:
ATTENTION:
RE: CODEX: Letter from Rima Laibow, MD
Dear friends and colleagues,
Each of us is deluged daily with so much information that we
are forced to choose quickly between what deserves our attention and what to
throw in the circular file. I implore
you to read the following. Your
professional and personal lives, as you know them, depend on it.
No doubt you have received as many rambling, lengthy
emails about Codex Alimentarius as I have. I have deleted more of them than I can count
that were either too alarming or too complacent in nature and lacking in
credibility. Now, let me ask you if you know anyone who
has actually read all 15,000+ pages of the working documents of the Codex Alimentarius Commission? Well, I have. As such, allow me to attempt to put an end to
any confusion you may have about Codex Alimentarius
by sharing what I have learned and what I believe to be a reasonable and
appropriate level of concern.
Whatbs the bottom line for a healthcare professional practicing
alternative, nutritional, natural, or environmental healthcare? The World Trade Organization (WTO) is poised to take away
your right to practice the healing arts guided by natural laws, scientific
principles, and your clinical expertise and judgment.
Through the Orwellian process of harmonization (forced alignment)
with WTO standards that regulate trade, distribution, and processing of food,
herbs, and nutrients, your professional rights and options will be eliminated
within the next few years. The proposed
standards are extremely detrimental to the environment, your medical practice,
and the food supply.
Okay. I saw that one eyebrow go up and heard that deep
sigh. Let me tell you that alarmism is
not and never has been in my nature. I
am a medical doctor, have a wide variety of interests, am passionate about
healthcare freedom, and pride myself in my rational thinking and logic
skills. I floss my teeth regularly and
eat a nutrient-dense wholefoods diet and, yes,
occasionally sample the more decadent side of the culinary arts. Neither my family nor I had a bomb shelter
during the Cold War era and I did not withdraw from society or stock up on
gasoline, food, or batteries in anticipation of Y2K. Read on.
The
ability of physicians to legally practice environmental or natural medicine,
their access to the substances they rely on to do so, and the rights of
patients to chose these treatments are about to be criminalized in the United
States by a draconian set of international regulations which have already become law in
Australia, Canada and theEuropean Union (EU). These standards, collectively known as CODEX
ALIMENTARIUS, (from the Latin for "Food Rules") have been promulgated
by the Codex Alimentarius Commission [established for
this purpose in 1963 by the United Nations (UN)] in every area having to do
with the production, processing, packaging and use of food, herbs and food
components.
Think that can't happen here? Think again.
It can and it will, unless we take appropriate action and activate each
member of our personal and professional networks. Skillful disinformation would have you
believe that CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (hereafter referred to as CODEX) is a hoax and
that, at the same time, it is beneficial for you and your patients. (The inherent illogic of this position is obvious
to the discerning reader).1
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was empowered to
work with other UN-linked organizations in order to develop and promulgate
uniform world-wide standards for food, nutrition and agriculture. The WTO, successor to the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), is empowered to enforce global compliance with all
CODEX standards via trade sanctions across the entire economic spectrum. Member nations (including the
Once
accepted CODEX takes on the force of law and cannot be repealed or changed by
the WTO member nations.
Presenting itself as a consumer protection strategy, CODEX
policies masquerade as both benign and beneficial while, in reality, they are
neither. Given the medically and
environmentally horrific stipulations and requirements of (See, for example,
the urban legend site, www.snopes.com article “Vitamin See” which promulgates
factually inaccurate disinformation about the real nature and impact of CODEX
and the FDA’s Response to Questions page, http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html.)CODEX),
the
implementation of these”standards” will result in
incalculable harm to the healing arts and to the patients who depend on them.
Once CODEX is adopted by a nation, there is a ‘phase-in
period’ during which the administrative structure is established according to a
strict time-table. Bear in mind that in
the
The
CODEX preamble specifies that supplements and nutrients ‘may not be used to
prevent, treat or cure any disorder.’ Yet, more than 80
percent of Americans use supplements for exactly these purposes. Nutritional and environmental physicians,
naturopaths, nutritionists, chiropractors and other licensed health
professionals employ hundreds of natural minerals, supplements, and herbs
precisely because they are effective in preventing, treating and curing many
diseases.
These
natural health options will become illegal 1) if the United States is ‘harmonized’ with the WTO
this spring while compliance with CODEX is still ‘voluntary’ or 2) when total compliance becomes
mandatory, as it will be after the next CODEX Commission meeting in Rome.2
Health food stores will no longer be able to market
and distribute nutritional supplements. Most
health food stores and privately owned nutrient manufacturers will, I believe,
no longer be in business after CODEX takes effect.
I know. This is all difficult to believe upon first hearing
it. You may have heard that is easy to
get people to believe a lie, particularly an outrageous lie. In my experience, the opposite is also true: It is difficult to get people to believe the outrageous
truth. Keep on reading, because this is
a truth you definitely need to understand.
Once CODEX is implemented (either through ‘harmonization’ or
mandatory compliance), we will be forced to follow the European CODEX model in
which it will be illegal to manufacture, buy, sell, recommend, or use any but
28 ultra-low dose nutrients whether you are a licensed health professional or
not. ‘Only
synthetic versions of that’ short list will
be allowed and natural supplements, herbs, enzymes and other non-pharmaceutical
treatments will be banned. The only legal health option left will be the
pharmaceutical one.
CODEX regulations have been ‘harmonized’ (i.e.,
approved) in the EU,
Here in the
This legislative stealth attack on health freedoms will
probably play out in May or early June of 2005 unless we take effective steps
to help assure that health freedom becomes the ‘Mother of all third rail's’ for
every politician in the country.
CODEX is the result of a complex relationship between the UN
(which established the Codex Alimentarius Commission
in 1962); the WTO (which is authorized to enforce CODEX through trade
sanctions); the World Health Organization (WHO),which subscribes to the CODEX
regulations [despite the fact that they directly and explicitly conflict with
their own findings and policies such as the FAO/WHO official publication,
"Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases"]; the Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United States Food and Drug
Administration (FDA); and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
working in concert with industry representatives of (and others unofficially
representing the interests of) the pesticide, chemical, pharmaceutical, and
dairy industries.
Consumers,
health scientists, physicians and other practicing natural medicine and other
health-focused voices have been totally absent from official CODEX
deliberations. A few observers have been present at official
deliberations but they have not been permitted to speak in the sessions. 2 Full ratification is expected in
Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory
structure takes place outside of those official sessions. And none of the health advocates have had
access to those meetings, agreements and sessions. Yet CODEX will take away our health freedoms if we allow
ourselves to be ‘harmonized’ or mandated to comply with CODEX.
Everyone knows if they have a jar of pickles and they remove
the pickle label and put a mayonnaise label on it, that they're going to find
pickles when they open the jar. The
packaging of CODEX policy under the label of protection of fair trade, public
health, and safety does not make it so. Underneath
CODEXbs altruistic labeling is a poisoned apple of extremely adverse
global policy that is, in fact, driven by economic concerns of large corporate
interests.
Once implemented, CODEX ALIMENTARIUS does the following:
1. VITAMINS, MINERAL,
NUTRIENTS AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES
a. The CODEX preamble forbids the use of nutrients to ‘prevent,
treat or cure any condition or disease’.
b. CODEX defines minimum allowable dosages of
permitted nutrients as 15 percent of the amounts naturally occurring in foods,
while maximum allowable doses of any permitted nutrients may not exceed
the dose of that nutrient found in food. Supplement values subtract the amount assumed
to be in the daily diet from the maximum allowable dose and the result is the
permitted upper limit of a nutrient. This system is
based neither in science nor clinical requirements.
c. Higher doses of permitted nutrients and nutrients not
explicitly permitted will be classified as illegal substances (in
the same class as heroin)
i. Theoretical exceptions exist for
natural substances which are submitted and accepted for testing. A substance successfully tested in this way
may then be prescribed at the tested dosage only. The permission to use a nutrient in this way, by
prescription only, however, expires in 2009.
ii. The cost of this procedure is staggering, most
applications for such testing have been turned down and, since natural
molecules cannot be patented, potential manufacturers are unable to recoup the
costs of testing through later sales.
iii. The period for submission of applications for this
process ends on
d. The European Union (EU), whose European Supplements
Directive is the model administrative agency for CODEX implementation, permits
a total of 28 ultra-low dose nutrients. All other
nutrients (e.g., alpha lipoic acid, 1 gram doses of
vitamin C, Co Q 10, fish oil, and curcumin) are
banned substances and may not be manufactured, distributed, recommended, sold,
supplied or be in the possession of anyone, including licensed health
professionals. Vitamin C, for
example, at any dosage higher than 200 mg per day will be illegal. A gram of Vitamin C will be an illegal
substance! The dose of Co Q 10 which has
been shown to resolve breast cancer in some patients (400 mg per day) will be
illegal because Co Q 10 will be totally forbidden at any dose (following the
European Supplements Directive model).
e. The allowable maximum upper limits for permitted
nutrients have been set so low that they have little or no clinical impact in
keeping us healthy and none at all in returning us to a state of health if we
are ill. Those which are available will
be exorbitantly priced, as current experience in
i. On
f. Only synthetic
forms of permitted nutrients will be available. All natural versions will be illegal substances.
Only synthetic nutrients (at ultra-low dosages) manufactured by pharmaceutical
companies will meet the molecular standards for use in humans or animals.
2. HERBS AND HERBAL
TREATMENTS
a. Herbs, originally part of the CODEX deliberations, were
summarily removed and placed under a closed committee of the WHO where they are
held to be untested drugs and therefore illegal.
b. The European Supplements Directive, the model agency for
CODEX administration, has produced a very short list of herbs which may be used
and the conditions for which they may be used (another short and very trivial
list).
c. All other applications of herbs and any other herbs
besides those listed are strictly forbidden.
d. There is the possibility that a few formulas of well
known Chinese herbal medicines may be exempt (but that remains to be seen)
3. TRADITIONAL HEALING ARTS
a. CODEX stipulates which conditions may be treated using
herbs and allows only minor, self-limited conditions. Treating any other conditions with herbal
remedies will constitute a crime.
b. Some complex oriental herbal formulas may be permitted
but most will be lost.
c. Ayurvedic, Tibetan, tribal and other traditional
medicines which use herbs and natural substances will be forbidden world-wide.
Since most people do not have access to pharmaceutical
medicine, this effectively removes the legal possibility of people legally
accessing any form of tribal or traditional medicine.
d. Herbal, shamanic, energy based (e.g., Reiki and
acupuncture) medicine are forbidden forms of treatment
4. GENETICALLY
MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs)
a. CODEX makes the un-labeled use of GMOs
legal in all foods under all circumstances, even though there is
significant opposition to the widespread use of GMOs
at this time. Farmers in
b. Many GMOs have been genetically
engineered so that seeds WILL NOT GERMINATE without the use of specific
pesticides (such as Roundupb" by Monsanto). In fact, mounting scientific evidence makes it
clear that the incidence of birth defects, chemical sensitivity, chronic
fatigue syndrome, asthma, severe allergies, and a host of other conditions have
a causative or contributory relationship with increasing levels of pesticide
exposure that these crops will require.
GMOs themselves are far from
scientifically established as safe for either the planet or its people by
objective, non-industry scientists. Genetic
drift through the spread of GMO genetic material is recognized as a major
threat to the biological integrity of the entire planet.
5. TOXIC RESIDUES
a. CODEX sets permissible upper limits for pesticide residues,
toxic chemicals, hormones in food and other environmental contaminants that
are many times higher than levels advocated by chemical and pesticide
industry lobbying groups.
b. The current acceptable levels of toxins are already responsible
for most of the incidence of cancers, heart disease, autism, chronic
degenerative conditions, and organ failures that associated with mortality and
morbidity globally. Increasing the
permissible levels of toxins can only accelerate personal and global suffering.
6. ANTIBIOTICS, GROWTH STIMULANTS AND
OTHER HORMONES IN FOOD ANIMALS
a. CODEX mandates that all animal feed must be treated
with antibiotics, hormones and growth stimulants world wide.
b. Organic, free range and biodynamic farming will become
illegal.
7. IRRADIATION OF FOOD:
a. CODEX mandates irradiation of food under
circumstances now hotly contested by food safety advocates. Allegedly designed to ‘protect us from food
borne illness’, the irradiation of food is by no means agreed to be a safe
procedure (by non-industry scientists) since there is considerable scientific
evidence that protein structures are modified in unhealthy ways by introducing
ionizing radiation into food before it is consumed.
b. The irradiation of food produces huge free radical populations. The only protection against their pervasive
damage is high doses of anti-oxidants (which will be
illegal under CODEX).
At this point it will likely come as no surprise to
you that there has been no effective representation from health advocates,
nutritional supplement manufacturers, natural healthcare professionals, or
other non-pharmaceutically oriented group at the Codex Alimentarius
Commission meeting. The Codex Alimentarius Commission
meets every two years, always offshore (Rome, Bonn, Paris, etc.) and never in Smallville, USA, a fact that helps perpetuate its opacity
to the United States citizenry. The
CODEX sets international standards for everything from parmesan cheese to sweet
cassava, canned sardines to chicken meat, Echinacea to rice. The standards which comprise CODEX are virtually complete:
final ratification of the entire package is expected at the Codex Alimentarius Committee meeting in
Before ratification, ‘harmonization’ is ‘voluntary’ but can
be enforced by WTO trade sanctions. After
ratification, compliance with CODEX is mandatory and enforcement by the WTO is
a powerful threat to make sure that it is complied with properly.
It is imperative that concerned health professionals
and their patients, friends, relatives, suppliers, etc., become fully activated
to stop CODEX from being enacted in the
Now that we know more about the boat in which we are
adrift, let me hand you a paddle. This
threat to our profession and to our ability to choose the type of healthcare
for our selves demands one of the most powerful tools available to us: grass roots
political action. We can use
the Democratic Process to our advantage by
1. Becoming activated.
If you do nothing now, when CODEX
is ratified you will have nothing left of your environmental or nutritional
medicine practice. It is imperative that
you alert your colleagues, friends, patients, relatives, suppliers and everyone
else you know to this danger so they can join you in taking effective action.
2. FAX, do not use regular mail or
email, your Congressional Delegation re: your strong outrage at the limitation
of our health freedoms through CODEX and a group of domestic efforts to
reclassify nutrients as drugs and eliminate them as foods. 3 Visit www.healthfreedomUSA.org
to find your Congressional Delegation’s FAX number and 3 sample letters to Congress. Send each targeted Congressman all three
letters signed by you. We need to have a minimum of 1 million faxes to Congress in
the next 4 weeks.
3. Provide sample letters and a list of local Congressional
District members’ FAX numbers for patients in your office. This information is available on the Natural
Solutions Foundation website, www.healthfreedomUSA.org.
Offer to FAX letters for those patients who do not have fax machines available
to them.
4. Become a supporter of the Natural Solutions Foundation, a
not for profit organization (of which I am the Medical Director) to preserve,
protect and defend health freedom in the
a. In addition to our other activities, the Natural
Solutions Foundation has commissioned a major documentary to tell the story of
CODEX to the American public. Become a supporterof this effort. See www.healthfreedomUSA.org for
details.
We would all like to put our heads in the sand and
try to believe that CODEX would, could and should not happen here. But it can and, unless we take action now,
CODEX will become the law of our land.
3 For a discussion of the domestic
legislative assault on health freedoms, go to www.healthfreedomUSA.org
Whether
your motivation is global or local, professional or personal, I ask that you
take action now. FAX letters supporting
health freedom, a safe food supply and a clean world: FAX letters to Congress and alert
your entire network to do that same.
Yours in Health and Freedom,
Rima E. Laibow,
MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation