Codex Committee Backs Science-Based Safety
Standards forVitamin and Mineral Supplements
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Hello Dr. Terry,
Receipt acknowledged of your e-mail.
You like this Codex outcome?
Interestingly, so do I. It is unusual for us to agree.
Please see our recommended standards FOF ODI & TDI file attached below.
Pleased to provide scientific backup if you would like.
Our non-toxic medicinal food health care approaches actually have superior
EBM [[evidence based medicine] science to back it up than modern burn, cut,
and drug medicine techniques of modern medicine.
On an objective science based risk / benefit analysis our natural health
products are far safer than almost any drug or modern medicine technique,
and / or most foods. Watch out aspartame!
Just look at the damage that modern medicine does - it is even on legally
applied, so-called properly regulated basis the # 1 killer in North
America - also see attached death by medicine, and modern medicine.
As Codex is there to protect consumers we are going to make sure it does
that. See the rather interesting comments about the sugar industry and Dr.
Dean and the CPSO attached. Codex next year will be very interesting.
All we need to do is work on the Codex and related organizations to
establish web-based AER reporting system for all foods, and to redefine
foods as three types;
[1] Whole foods - naturally occurring traditional minimum processing and
adulteration. Sub 1 - regular, and sub 2 - certified organic and all GMO
free.
[2] Medicinal foods - naturally occurring, with micro cellular and or other
preventive, curative, and treatment benefits.
[3] Adulterated foods - natural and synthetic.
Every one with mandatory 100% disclosure of ingredients, nutritional
benefits, and adulterations.
It is important to realize that medicine is not necessarily a drug -
sunlight, exercise, and food medicines are examples of what I mean.
Also, that the Medical Doctor is just one of many well qualified health
practitioners, and that the practice of medicine, like that of law, is not a
sole monopoly right.
AND of course there is the AMA's distancing from your nonsense - see
quackersbusted attached file below.
Trueman Tuck
Friends of Freedom Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Polevoy [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:57 PM
To: Health Fraud
Subject: Codex Committee Backs Science-Based Safety Standards for
Vitamin and Mineral Supplements;
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November 04, 2003 06:11 PM US Eastern Timezone
Codex Committee Backs Science-Based Safety Standards for Vitamin and
Mineral Supplements; Breaks Eight-Year Stalemate
BONN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2003--The Codex Committee on
Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), after two days of
deliberations, affirmed the primacy of science-based standard-setting,
striking down subjectively-applied recommended daily allowances (RDAs) and
paving the way for the global sale and marketing of dietary supplements
based on objective standards that will simultaneously preserve consumer
safety and fair trade. Led by the Washington, D.C.-based Council for
Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the supplement industry worked for years to
bring about the development of compromise language that would satisfy
regulators and allow the industry to market safe products to consumers
around the world, an effort that ultimately bore fruit this morning.
The dramatic set of decisions broke an eight-year logjam and moved the
Standard for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements from Step 3 to the pivotal Step
5 in the Codex Alimentarius Commission's eight-step international food
standard-setting process.
Codex, which was established by the United Nations' (UN) Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) in 1962,
was designated as the principal arbitral mechanism for resolving food trade
disputes, with the advent of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994.
CRN officials and Board members expressed satisfaction at the outcome,
calling it a victory for consumers. "Today's result is a vindication of the
efforts of so many who have worked to preserve scientific integrity as the
cornerstone of the international standard-setting process," said CRN's John
Hathcock, Ph.D., vice president, scientific & international affairs.
CRN's International Trade and Market Development Committee chairman
and CRN Board member, Mark A. Le Doux, observed that the result "bore
witness to the fact that committed regulators from a variety of countries,
working with industry and consumers in a spirit of goodwill, can achieve the
seemingly impossible."
Mr. Le Doux added that "today's decision represents the single most
important development in the ongoing effort to open the world's markets to
safe, healthy products that have the potential to enhance the quality of
life for billions around the globe."
Both men singled out for particular praise the U.S. and European
Commission delegations for their leadership and willingness to compromise at
key junctures in the negotiations. Mr. Le Doux noted that "this meeting
provides an excellent example of what can happen when the United States and
the European Union work in concert for the common good."
Note to Editor: For background materials, visit
www.crnusa.org/shellnr110403.html
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a
Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing dietary supplement
industry ingredient suppliers and manufacturers. CRN members adhere to a
strong code of ethics, comply with dosage limits and manufacture dietary
supplements to high quality standards under good manufacturing practices.
Council for Responsible Nutrition
Judy Blatman, 202-204-7962
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