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MIchael R Taylor-FDA Food Czar- Codex Alimentarius Link
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MIchael R Taylor-FDA Food Czar- Codex Alimentarius Link by YourEnchantedGardener .....
MICHAEL R TAYLOR spoke favorably about CODEX ALIMENTARIUS the other day. I am looking for other connections between these two keywords on Google. These are some of my results.
Date: 7/31/2009 6:23:13 PM ( 15 y ago)
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SOME OF THE LINKS
OF INTEREST
as BACKGROUND OF THE
FDA _CODEX ALLIANCE
that will increase with the passage
of s-510 THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT
Pending before the Senate this September
2010.
FDA Needs To Dismiss Former Monsanto Counsel
Samuel S. Epstein Cancer prevention expert,
prof. emeritus at U. of IL School of Public Health, Chicago
"On the basis of Taylor's explicit assurances, FDA claimed that such labeling could be "false or misleading," as there was "no significant difference between milk from treated and untreated cows.""
ADDED
SEPTEMBER 14, 09
10:22 PM
MY INTRO
I am a newbee at this.
I do know how to Google.
I had a wake up call about #HR 2749
a few weeks ago.
It became a consuming passion,
night and day, to understand this bill.
The bill passed the House July 30.
The vote is in my comment window right now.
I am also spirit led.
I am sometimes directed to information
and woken up at different times of the night,
So I go to my computer and start
researching what I hear in my head.
I came upon something the other day
that really fired me up.
I read the testimony of MICHAEL R. TAYLOR,
our new food czar. He was talking about
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS at the LEAFY GREEN
AGREEMENTS HEARING JULY 29, 2009.
Codex Alimentarius:
I had heard of that.
I started to Google this morning
on connections between the history that
I had heard about CODEX ALIMENTARIUS.
I was led down a rabbit hole
that lasted eight hours.
You can find that in this PLANT YOUR DREAM
BLOG.
The Story is told here:
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1465348
Then, this afternoon, I had another AHA!
I started to Google the KEYWORDS
MICHAEL TAYLOR- CODEX AIIMENTARIUS.
Another rabbit hole...
BINGO!
There is a long history between
MICHAEL TAYLOR and the
Codex Alimentarius Commission.
His statement made July 29
is merely the tip of a long history.
http://farmwars.info/?p=594
May the Rabbit Hole serve you,
Ms Alice. Our world is truly a Wonderland
and there are some very interesting players.
Blessings to you
on your journey!!!
Lots of Blogs to look at.
Just start skimming here:
http://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=92&t=48963.45
7:59 PM
July 31, 09
MICHAEL TAYLOR
BEFORE the DENNIS KUCINICH
Hearing JULY 29:
"In addition, FDA is leading an effort
through the Codex Alimentarius Commission,
the international food safety standards body,
with support of the Food and Agriculture
Organization/World Health Organization,
to develop commodity-
specific annexes to the Codex hygienic code
for fresh fruit and vegetable production,
starting with an annex for fresh leafy
vegetables and herbs."
--Mr MICHAEL TAYLOR
Our Food Czar for the FDA
Senior Adviser to the Commissioner on food issues
The above quote is from the written testimony
of MICHAEL TAYLOR July 29 at the
REP DENNIS KUCINICH
SUBCOMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC POLICY
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
AND GOVERNMENT REFORM
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Subcommittee Hearing was Titled:
"Ready to Eat or Not? It Examined
the Impact of Leafy Green Marketing Agreements.
You can read Michael Taylor's complete
testimony at the above link.
Here is another great story that
discusses the contribution of this
highly successful man who
achieves many of his goals.
MICHAEL TAYLOR TO TACKLE
FOOD SAFETY at FDA
Small Farmer Warns “HR2749 Will Put Me Out of Business”
By Kimberly Hartke | Published: July 24, 2009
7:50 PM
July 30, 09
I first heard these words HAACP
a few days ago for the first time
in this article:
HR2749 (The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009) which is currently making its way rapidly through the House of Representative will put us out of business.
HR2749 calls for:
a yearly registration with the FDA with a $500 fee
full HACCP plan for every type of produce sold or processed, for us that mean one plan for the dairy, one one for cheese making, one for transporting and retailing at the market, one for the fruits and vegetables, and another one for the nuts
FDA approved methods by which crops are raised and harvested. The most likely outcome will be along the lines of the leafy green ordinance, scorched earth and exclusion of any wildlife.
http://hartkeisonline.com/2009/07/24/small-farmer-warns-hr2749-will-put-me-ou...
ARTICLE PRAISING CHOICE
OF MICHAEL TAYLOR IN HIS NEW POST
AS FOOD CZAR
Here is a the second time
I ran across "HAACP"
"But before you decide that I must have drunk the Kool Aid on this one, hear me out. He really is a good choice for this job. Why? Because he managed to get USDA to institute HACCP (science-based food safety regulations) for meat and poultry against the full opposition of the meat industry — a truly heroic accomplishment. His position on food safety has been strong and consistent for years. He favors a single food agency, HACCP for all foods, and accountability and enforcement.
http://thepumphandle.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/michael-taylor-to-tackle-food-s...
OH MY GOD!
CONSUMERS UNION
IT SOUNDS LIKE
FROM THIS THAT CU
IS IN FAVOR OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS!
I HAD NO IDEA. AM I MISREADING THIS????
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-104575967.html
5:06 PM
July 31, 09
Article: Consumers unlon Hails UN Standards on Genetically Engineered Food; Standards Strengthen European unlon in Trade Dispute.
Article from:AScribe Law News Service Article date:July 1, 2003
Byline: Consumers Union
YONKERS, N.Y., July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumers unlon hailed the adoption earlier today of three sets of standards regarding safety of genetically modified (GM) food by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the UN food standards agency which is meeting in Rome this week.
"The US government should be commended for supporting the Codex standard. But it needs to start upgrading the US system to meet the higher global norms," said Michael Hansen, of Consumers Union, who is representing Consumers International (CI) on this issue at the Rome meeting. Consumers International includes more than 250 consumer organizations in 110 ...
4:51 PM
July 31, 09
BINGO!
MICHAEL R TAYLOR
IS AN AUTHORITY ON THE "RISK ASSESSMENT"
METHOD OF DEEMING SOMETHING HELPFUL
OR HARMFUL
Great article!
"Taylor has spent years churning out the necessary conceptual building blocks in cross-pollinating think tanks and foundations to create the intellectual framework for legislative proposals like these food “safety” bills.
The reports produced by the Trust of America’s Health rely heavily on “risk assessment, management and communication,” a form of message control hatched at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, a corporate-funded affair that provides “scientific” justification for a wide range of policies corporations want to see implemented. Using this method of risk analysis, the necessary justification can be produced for just about whatever outcome is wished by the underwriters.
It’s no real surprise that Taylor’s think-tank-funded policy on risk assessment, like his report “Food Safety Updated: Developing Tools for a More Science-and Risk-Based Approach,”(9) underwritten by the Milbank Memorial Fund and Resources for the Future, has been embraced and institutionalized by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
LET ME REPEAT THIS
It’s no real surprise that Taylor’s think-tank-funded policy on risk assessment, like his report “Food Safety Updated: Developing Tools for a More Science-and Risk-Based Approach,”(9) underwritten by the Milbank Memorial Fund and Resources for the Future, has been embraced and institutionalized by the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
THE REPORT
“Food Safety Updated: Developing Tools for a More Science-and Risk-Based Approach,”(9)
Food Safety Updated: Developing Tools for a More Science- and Risk-Based Approach
By Michael R. Taylor, Margaret O'K. Glavin, J. Glenn Morris, Jr., and Catherine E. Woteki Co-published with Resources for the Future
2003 41 pages
Click here for online version
http://farmwars.info/?p=594
The 2009 Food ‘Safety’ Bills Harmonize Agribusiness Practices in Service of Corporate Global Governance
By Nicole Johnson
“I think it’s time to de-professionalize the public debate on matters that vitally affect the lives of ordinary people. It’s time to snatch our futures back from the “experts.” Time to ask, in ordinary language, the public question and to demand, in ordinary language, the public answer.” – Arundhati Roy, Power Politics
It’s enough to make you so queasy you lose your lunch. HR 875, the “Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009,” is a head-spinning piece of legislation that would radically change the structure of the US government’s regulatory agencies, usurping states rights to federalize food inspection and determine what agricultural practices are permissible. Considerable concern has been voiced about what this bill would mean for small and medium sized farmers, organic farming, the future of conventional and organic seeds, the food localization movement, and even home gardens. HR 875 would give regulators the power to enter private property, which is conveniently redefined as “premises,” and impose enormous fines for noncompliance. Though not discussed in the corporate media, numerous articles about it appear on the internet, launching a debate about whether or not Monsanto is behind the bill.
4:57 PM
Codex – A Tool of Global Governance by Corporate Command
If some variation of this batch of bad bills is passed into legislation, US citizens will find their laws considerably closer to becoming harmonized with Codex Alimentarius, a set of international food codes crafted by unaccountable and unelected bureaucrats in conjunction with vested industry and trade interests. It’s important that the public learns more about Codex, because its “standards” will be enforced by the World Trade Organization to govern global trade practices of all its member nations. Furthermore, this body of food codes will take legal precedence over national laws, like the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA).
The US media are assiduously silent on the matter of Codex. Under the helpful cover of the media’s information blackout, Codex Alimentarius Commission meetings are regularly attended by officials from the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, State, Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of US Trade Representative, and the US Codex Office. Non-governmental agencies in attendance at the meetings include the 49th Parallel Biotechnology Consortium, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Consumers Union, Crop Life International, Dow Chemical, Dupont, the European Association of Bioindustries, the Grain and Feed Trade Association, the International Cooperative Alliance, the International Council of Beverages Associations, the International Council of Grocery Manufacturers Association, the Institute of Food Technologists, the International Glutamate Technical Committee and the International Life Sciences Institute, Monsanto, and Sygenta, among others –with the exception, that is, of any democratically elected and accountable representatives of citizens these food codes will affect.
4:42 PM
From the World Health Organization
New CODEX GUIDELINES
July 6 week-long meeting
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2009/food_standards_20090706/en/...
Other new work proposals adopted by the Commission include:
principles and guidelines to assist governments in the development and operation of comprehensive national food control systems that protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade;
practices to control viruses in food, especially noroviruses (NoV) and hepatitis A (HAV) in fresh produce, mulluscan shell fish and ready-to-eat food;
prevention of aflatoxin (toxic substances produced by moulds and known to cause cancer in animals) contamination of Brazil nuts; and
setting maximum levels and defining sampling plans for Fumonisins, (toxic substances produced by fungi) in maize and maize products.
"We welcome the participation of more developing countries in the meeting this year which reflects global awareness of food safety issue and the impact of Codex Trust Fund," said Dr Jørgen Schlundt, Director of WHO's Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses.
Approximately 500 people, representing 125 countries, participated in the Commission meetings. Karen Hulebak of the United States of America was re-elected Chairperson; Knud Østergaard of Denmark, Sanjay Dave of India and Ben Manyindo of Nigeria were re-elected Vice-Chairpersons.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, jointly established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and WHO, develops international food standards that protect the health of consumers and ensure fair trade practices in the food trade. The Commission has 181 Member States and one member organization, the European Community.
For further information:
Sari Setiogi
Media Relations Officer
Health Security and the Environment, WHO
Geneva, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 791 3576
Mobile: +41 79 701 9467
E-mail: setiogis@who.int
Steven Cohen
Media Relations Officer
Codex Secretariat
Rome, Italy,
Telephone: +39 06 570 55283
Mobile: +39 339 627 7627
E-mail: steven.cohen@fao.org
4:39 PM
July 31, 09
Home > News & Events > Newsroom > Press Announcements
FDA NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: July 7, 2009
Media Inquiries: George Strait, 301-796-4829; george.strait@fda.hhs.gov
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
Noted Food Safety Expert Michael R. Taylor Named Advisor to FDA Commissioner
Michael R. Taylor, J.D., a nationally recognized food safety expert and research professor at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services, will return to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to serve as senior advisor to the commissioner.
“I am pleased to welcome Mike Taylor back to the FDA,” Commissioner of Food and Drugs Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., said in announcing Taylor’s appointment. “His expertise and leadership on food safety issues will help the agency to develop and implement the prevention based strategy we need to ensure the safety of the food we eat.”
Commissioner Hamburg said that Taylor would work closely and collaboratively with her office and with the management of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Center for Veterinary Medicine, the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Congress, and with members of the Obama Administration.
Specifically, Taylor will work to:
Assess current food program challenges and opportunities
Identify capacity needs and regulatory priorities
Develop plans for allocating fiscal year 2010 resources
Develop the FDA’s budget request for fiscal year 2011
Plan implementation of new food safety legislation.
“I am honored and grateful that Commissioner Hamburg has asked me to return to the FDA in the position of Senior Advisor to the Commissioner,” Taylor said. “I am looking forward to working with her, Principal Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, and all of the FDA’s dedicated and talented people.”
Taylor has had a long and distinguished career in public service. He began at the FDA in 1976 as a litigating attorney. He served as the FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Policy from 1991 to 1994, overseeing FDA's policy development and rulemaking, including the implementation of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act and issuance of new seafood safety rules.
From 1994 to 1996, he served at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety. During that time, he spearheaded public health-oriented reform of the FSIS. Since 2000, Taylor has worked in academic and research settings on the challenges facing the nation’s food safety system and ways to address them.
Taylor’s recent research agenda has focused on policy, resource, and institutional issues that affect the success of public health agencies in carrying out their prevention-related missions. He served as chair of the steering committee of the Food Safety Research Consortium, collaboration among six universities and a nonprofit think tank to improve food safety decision making and priority setting.
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm170842.htm
4:18 PM
July 31, 09
I read a paragraph about MICHAEL R. TAYLOR
speaking favorably about the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
the other day.
I am looking for other references
on Google for this connection.
This are my findings:
4:26 PM
Juy 31, 09
The drug industry,
recognizing the growing preference for natural remedies
over pharmaceuticals, wants nutritional supplements
and herbs either forbidden or priced out of reach.
In Europe, the drug cartel has succeeded in enacting
the European Food Supplements Directive,
which will accomplish that objective
on the European continent very soon.
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/codexalimentarius15jan09.shtml
4:10 PM
July 31, 09
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