OT-Certain Vitamins About To Be Banned,Foods Considered Drug

[mikemarrs]

Although few have heard of this strange sounding name, Codex Alimentarius (food code) becomes law on the 31st December this year. Described by some as the regulation of health foods, Codex Alimentarius aims to harmonise and control food standards at an international level.
While there are obvious benefits to maintaining good standards and practices in all aspects of food preparation and distribution the idea of garlic, and even water, being labeled as a pharmaceutical product, with all the regulations that would go with it, is seen by many health practitioners as a step to far in global governance and caused many people to view it as a scam designed to take away our freedom of choice of how we nourish ourselves.

The United States, Canada, the Europeans, Japan, most of Asia, and South America have already signed agreements pledging total harmonization of their laws including food and drug laws to these international standards in the future.

Codex Alimentarius is now enforceable through the World Trade Organization (WTO). If a country disagrees with or refuses to follow Codex standards, the WTO applies pressure by withdrawing trade privileges and imposing crippling trade sanctions.

So what is being proposed? What can we expect under Codex?

To give you an idea, here are some important points:

Dietary supplements could not be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use.

Potencies would be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the drug companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies would have the right to produce and sell the higher potency products (at inflated prices).

Prescriptions would be required for anything above the extremely low doses allowed (such as 35 mg. on niacin).

Common foods such as garlic and peppermint would be classified as drugs or a third category (neither food nor drugs) that only big pharmaceutical companies could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water.

Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (escape clauses would be eliminated).

All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through Codex testing and approval.

Genetically altered food would be sold worldwide without labeling.
According to John Hammell, a legislative advocate and the founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF), here is what we have to look forward to:

“If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex Alimentarius is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms.

The Codex Alimentarius proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an Echinacea tincture, which is being sold there as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores or pharmacies.”

It is now a criminal offence in parts of Europe to sell herbs as foods. An agreement called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to selling other illegal drugs. Action is being taken to accelerate other European countries into ‘harmonization’ as well.

Paul Hellyer in his book, “The Evil Empire,” states: “Codex Alimentarius is supported by international banks and multinational corporations including some in Canada, and is in reality a bill of rights for these banks and the corporations they control. It will hand over our sovereign rights concerning who may or may not invest in our countries to an unelected world organization run by big business. The treaty would make it impossible for Canadian legislators either federal or provincial to alter or improve environmental standards for fear of being sued by multinational corporations whether operating in Canada or not.

This will create a world without borders ruled by a virtual dictatorship of the world’s most powerful central banks and multinational companies. This world is an absolute certainty if we all sit on our hands and do nothing.”



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[Gin and Tonic Sky]

gawddang it, they're not gonna ban Flintstones vitamins are they. I like chewing up all the purple Dino

[Babyblue]

I will have to come back and read this tonight.What are they going to do next??????????????

[strangegrey]

Don't look now, the thought police are right around the corner...

[Suzanne]

gawddang it, they're not gonna ban Flintstones vitamins are they. I like chewing up all the purple Dino

My crack as a kid. I can taste them now.

[Arianddu]

Links to reputable site, please, because I'm calling bullshit on this one.

[DrFU]

Links to reputable site, please, because I'm calling bullshit on this one.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/vitamins.asp

[strangegrey]

I'm not so sure snopes.com qualifies as "reputable"

[Rhiannon]

Don't look now, the thought police are right around the corner...

The Thought Regulatory Czar?

[stevew2]

gawddang it, they're not gonna ban Flintstones vitamins are they. I like chewing up all the purple Dino

You ld like to chew on Deano?

[bluejeangirl76]

Links to reputable site, please, because I'm calling bullshit on this one.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/vitamins.asp

Snopes should be a MANDATORY link in everyone's favorites.

[yulog]

You can buy zantac, colace, pepcid, prilosec and many other drugs that at one time were "prescribed meds". If anything your going to see the opposite of what this letter is saying.Deregulating meds and remedys is the wave of the future and is already a big part of our present.

[mikemarrs]

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2009/ ... dman.shtml


http://www.who.int/foodsafety/codex/gen ... ndex3.html

[DrFU]

Links to reputable site, please, because I'm calling bullshit on this one.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/vitamins.asp

Snopes should be a MANDATORY link in everyone's favorites.

omg the Av, BJG ...

well done!

[stevew2]

You can buy zantac, colace, pepcid, prilosec and many other drugs that at one time were "prescribed meds". If anything your going to see the opposite of what this letter is saying.Deregulating meds and remedys is the wave of the future and is already a big part of our present.

You can go online and buy any damn thing you want

[Gin and Tonic Sky]

gawddang it, they're not gonna ban Flintstones vitamins are they. I like chewing up all the purple Dino

You ld like to chew on Deano?

Fuckin Hell ! something got lost in translation here. I defintely mean the big cartoon Dinosaur.....

[Ehwmatt]

gawddang it, they're not gonna ban Flintstones vitamins are they. I like chewing up all the purple Dino

You ld like to chew on Deano?

Fuckin Hell ! something got lost in translation here. I defintely mean the big cartoon Dinosaur.....

I think it only got lost in the translation to steveWish

[mikemarrs]

imagine getting caught with too much vitamin C.the cop pulls you over and then reaches down grabs the bottle of centrum and says sir do you know the laws for 300 milligrams of vitamin C? LOL,so then you go to the slammer and they guy tells you he is in for heroin.by the way what are you in for? possession of vitamin C

[Saint John]

You can buy zantac, colace, pepcid, prilosec and many other drugs that at one time were "prescribed meds". If anything your going to see the opposite of what this letter is saying.Deregulating meds and remedys is the wave of the future and is already a big part of our present.

This is great news for Blowsguys.

[Peartree12249]

imagine getting caught with too much vitamin C.the cop pulls you over and then reaches down grabs the bottle of centrum and says sir do you know the laws for 300 milligrams of vitamin C? LOL,so then you go to the slammer and they guy tells you he is in for heroin.by the way what are you in for? possession of vitamin C

Yeah and in Afghanistan they'll quit growing poppies and switch to rose hips and st john's wort.

[yak]

imagine getting caught with too much vitamin C.the cop pulls you over and then reaches down grabs the bottle of centrum and says sir do you know the laws for 300 milligrams of vitamin C? LOL,so then you go to the slammer and they guy tells you he is in for heroin.by the way what are you in for? possession of vitamin C

Thanks for the heads up. This has been going on for years. It's not funny stuff. They're serious. These people are demented. I guess it goes along with the majestic one's quest for his power grab. Take away the supplement side of life, you take away their health, and Bingo, they have a need for the gov't. power grab, complete with fines if you don't comply.

[mikemarrs]

your correct.to me it seems like a lot of dangerous lines are being crossed that don't need to be.the common sense of the whole damn world seems to have evaporated.some of the laws these assholes come up with now are insane.

[yak]

your correct.to me it seems like a lot of dangerous lines are being crossed that don't need to be.the common sense of the whole damn world seems to have evaporated.some of the laws these assholes come up with now are insane.

That's because every one of the assholes behind the light switch are insane. Literally.

[mikemarrs]

your correct.to me it seems like a lot of dangerous lines are being crossed that don't need to be.the common sense of the whole damn world seems to have evaporated.some of the laws these assholes come up with now are insane.

That's because every one of the assholes behind the light switch are insane. Literally.

thats why we are living in the last days.the assholes that are making these crazy ass laws are the same ones who will start the war to end all wars.

[yak]

your correct.to me it seems like a lot of dangerous lines are being crossed that don't need to be.the common sense of the whole damn world seems to have evaporated.some of the laws these assholes come up with now are insane.

That's because every one of the assholes behind the light switch are insane. Literally.

thats why we are living in the last days.the assholes that are making these crazy ass laws are the same ones who will start the war to end all wars.

And I take it you know which side wins.