Codex Alimentarius at the USDA
Michael R. Taylor heads our new Office of Foods.
He upholds standards. Here is a great quote.
Mission is: Preventing Food Borne Illness,
and ensuring everyone across the food system
are doing what they can to reduce the hazard....
FDA authority will increase will passage of s-510,
will mandate prevention this video says.
Date: 8/14/2010 1:02:16 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 2740 times
MICHAEL R TAYLOR
HEADS OUR FDA OFFICE OF FOODS
ON LEAFY GREENS
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.
Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition.
One of them, the “Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses” (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the “top-guy” for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that “nutrition is not relevant to health”.
As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared nutrients to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements! It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus happens to own the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on this issue. This company makes money when its toxicology services are used for the “assessment” of nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call that a “conflict of interest”.
Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients.
Codex Alimentarius is a set of regulations that was originated in 1962 by the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO), as directed by the United Nations to control the international trade of food.
The Codex is to be implemented on a global scale as of December 31, 2009, and would force all animal products to be treated with anti-biotics and growth hormones, and all other food products to be irradiated. Any non-Codex compliant nation would lose food trade contracts to Codex compliant nations.
The Codex defines nutrients as toxins, by way of the non-scientific method of risk assessment instead of the more appropriate method of biochemistry. According to Wikipedia, "Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat...methods may differ whether it is about financial decisions or environmental or public health risk assessment." If the codex used the proper scientific method to evaluate nutrients, nutrients would retain their value as essential to human health.
NOTED TALKING BEET HAS SIGHTS ON
INFLUENCING CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION
AS WELL AS FDA.
Michael R. Taylor, Monsanto Company friend,
urged to plant a beet in a pot so we can regain his
beat with nature.
Keep The Beet, star of the forthcoming cartoon,
KEEP THE BEET, projected to feature
THE LUMINAERIES, the nation's most popular spirited
Rappers, perform at Venice Whole Foods Market Today.
Keep The Beet, the noted namedropper, was hopnobbing
with co-ceo Walt Robb of Whole Foods Market at last
year's Organic Center VIP event at the Natural Product Expo West.
"I am fully committed to working with my FDA colleagues to make the changes necessary to ensure the safety of America’s food supply from farm to table," said Mr. Taylor.
"We look forward to working in new ways within FDA and with partners in other government agencies, the consumer community, and the food industry to tackle the important challenges – and the unprecedented opportunities – we currently face."
eputy commissioner for policy. He was involved in issuing regulations to address seafood safety and in carrying out nutrition labeling requirements.
Other positions held by Mr. Taylor include senior fellow, Resources for the Future; professor, School of Medicine, University of Maryland; partner, King & Spalding law firm; and vice president for public policy, Monsanto Company.
MICHAEL R TAYLOR AND CODEX ALIMENTARIUS
ARE GREAT ALLIES
INFO OF WHERE THIS ID GOING
ACCORDING TO ONE GLOBAL RESEARCHER
At its July 2005 session, the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), drew up guidelines that set restrictive upper dosage limits on popularly used vitamin and mineral supplements and nutrients. They prohibit the sale of all curative, preventative, and therapeutic supplements without a doctor's prescription, most now accessible over-the-counter at health food, other stores, or by mail order.
Twenty-six other committees are tasked with setting global standards for different areas of the global food and drug trade, including:
-- fruits and vegetables;
-- fruit and vegetable juices;
-- fats and oils;
-- meat, poultry and fish;
-- cereals, pulses (used for food and animal feed) and legumes;
-- milk and milk products;
-- natural mineral waters;
-- sugars;
-- cocoa products and chocolate;
-- food hygiene;
-- food labeling (as a way not to disclose GMO foods and ingredients)
-- pesticide residues;
-- residues of veterinary drugs found in foods;
-- food additives;
-- regional coordination, and more.
Codex standards are binding on all WTO members under its Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. Both were included among the Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods that was part of the 1994 Marrakesh Agreement that established the WTO.
Currently, it says that "there is no legal obligation on Members to apply Codex standards, guidelines and recommendations." In fact, the WTO uses them to resolve international trade disputes that are legally binding on all members.
On December 31, 2009, Codex standards will be globally mandated unless legal challenges prevent it. In force, they'll override food and drug laws of all member countries, including consumer protection ones and America's 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). It classifies nutrients and herbs as foods, sets no dosage limits, and permits the sale of all dietary supplements unless expressly proved unsafe. Codex rules reverse things by prohibiting everything NOT proved safe, including high potency, therapeutically effective nutrients and supplements.
Common foods, herbs, nutrients, amino acids, homeopathic and other natural remedies would be called drugs. Potencies would be limited, and prescriptions would be required for their use. Some would be banned altogether.
In contrast, about 300 dangerous food additives will be allowed, including aspartame, BHA, BHT, potassium bromate, and tartrazine. New guidelines will authorize the worldwide proliferation of unlabeled GMO foods, drugs, and ingredients, known to harm human health.
In addition:
-- dangerous high-potency industrial chemicals, pesticides, and fungicides will be allowed, ones now near-universally banned, including aldrin, hexachlorobenzene and toxaphene;
-- growth hormones for cows will be mandated;
-- antibiotics as well for all "food herds, fish and flocks;"
-- irradiation will be required for all foods not locally grown and sold raw and unprocessed; and
-- new standards will permit dangerous toxic levels (0.5 ppb) of aflotoxin in milk produced from moldy storage conditions of animal feed; aflotoxin is one of most potent carcinogenic compounds known.
In addition, professional written, oral or other nutritional advice will be banned, including about the benefits of vitamins, minerals, nutrients and other health-promoting substances. Henceforth, they'll be considered toxins or poisons to be removed from food because Codex will prohibit their use to "prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease."
In America before the 1996 Food Quality and Protection Act passed, the 1958 Delaney Clause prohibited use of known carcinogens in processed foods. It specifically said:
"the Secretary of the Food and Drug Administration shall not approve for use in food any chemical additive found to induce cancer in man, or, after tests, found to induce cancer in animals."
It protected against unsafe food additives, meat and poultry drugs, color additives, and cancer-causing pesticide residues in processed foods above a certain level.
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A June 14, 2001 FTC press release headlined "Operation Cure All Wages New Battle in Ongoing War Against Internet Health Fraud." It cited a 1997 initiated law enforcement and consumer education campaign in announcing new actions against "the fraudulent marketing of supplements and other health products on the Internet" targeting dietary supplements, herbal products, and various other "questionable" substances. The FDA claimed (without evidence) that "unscrupulous marketers (were selling to) the sickest and most vulnerable consumers." To the general public as well that relies on them as essential nutrients and natural remedies that are far more effective, safer, and vastly cheaper than dangerous overpriced drugs.
At stake isn't consumer safety. It's protecting drug company profits by eliminating competition. It's about removing safe alternatives, natural therapies, and information about them. It's to empower drug giants and approve only their products for sale. It's to establish standards they alone write; to pave the way for mass-marketing of genetically modified foods and drugs. It's a stepping stone toward mandated harmful global Codex rules.
IT WILL ALL TURN OUT O.K.
I am sure everything will turn out O.K.
Our Health system is basically bankrupt
and nothing that Wasshington does except supporting
local, organic Food Safety will repair true health Food Safety,
That's the message of Keep The Beet,
our Nations Food Czarina.
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When we get back the beat of nature,
we will start to be on the right track.
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