Codex Alimentarius (Latin for “food code”) is a trade organization, not a consumer health organization.
International delegates established committees which have met annually to set guidelines on all foods, agriculture, and nutritional supplements since 1963. Virtually anything that can be put in the human mouth has come under the scope of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC).
Even though the U. S. Senate never ratified our membership in the WTO, we have, through default, become a participant. Codex Alimentarius standards can now be imposed upon the 136 current WTO member nations through the use of severe trade sanctions for countries that fail to comply with CAC regulations.
If Codex gets its way the following events will ultimately occur:
- Consumers will have available to them only 28 or so dietary supplements that are far too small in dosage to have any discernible impact on any human being. High potency nutrients will not be available either with or without a physician’s prescription, since these life-sustaining molecules will be forbidden under any circumstances.
- All animals grown for human consumption will be mandated for treatment with antibiotics, growth enhancers, and hormones.
- All food available to the public will be irradiated, with the exception of locally grown food.
- Herbs will not be available unless they undergo multi-million dollar scientific trials similar to those used for drugs.
- All native seeds will be confiscated and the use of genetically modified (GMO) seeds will be mandated.
- The “acceptable” limits of toxins in the food supply will be increased, including the allowance of seven specific toxins that were previously banned by Stockholm Convention, a global treaty signed by 120 nations to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants.
Influential trade organizations, particularly in the natural food and supplements industry, have remained silent under the belief that the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act (DSHEA), enacted in 1994, which keeps nutrients from being classified as drugs and allows no upper limit on dosage of nutrients, will keep Codex regulations away from our kitchen tables and personal freedoms. If intact, DSHEA would protect Americans from Codex’s standards for nutritional supplements, but it would not protect us from any of Codex’s other severe standards. Several hills have been introduced into the United States Congress to weaken or undermine the protection of DSHEA and more will very likely be introduced. Should that happen, the United States would immediately fall under the standards of Codex. “Harmonization” (meaning mandatory global compliance) with Codex guidelines in WTO participating countries, including the USA, is slated for December 31, 2009 (I have been told that they are behind schedule so we may have more time), after which sanctions may be applied to non-harmonized countries.
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