{"id":196,"date":"2022-06-24T10:48:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T10:48:25","slug":"the-codex-alimentarius-commission-the-facts-that-everyone-needs-to-know","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/the-codex-alimentarius-commission-the-facts-that-everyone-needs-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Codex Alimentarius Commission: The Facts That Everyone Needs to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#dddff1&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"vc_custom_heading vc_custom_1623845114286\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The Codex Alimentarius Commission: The Facts That Everyone Needs to Know<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624003964226{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624004080399{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;197&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1656067703504{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#dddff1&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624264312258{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"vc_custom_heading\">Structure and goals of the Codex Alimentarius commission<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CODEX Establishment<\/strong>. Established in 1963, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/fao-who-codexalimentarius\/en\/\">Codex Alimentarius Commission<\/a>\u00a0(CODEX) is responsible for creating global \u2018standards,\u2019 \u2018guidelines,\u2019 and \u2018codes of practice\u2019 for the food and nutrition industries. CODEX functions as the primary political instrument for controlling and regulating the global food and nutrient supply.<br \/>\n\u200b\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>CODEX Structure<\/strong>. Among the 23\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/fao-who-codexalimentarius\/committees\/en\/\">CODEX committees<\/a>, each dealing with a different aspect of the global food trade, the so-called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/fao-who-codexalimentarius\/committees\/committee\/en\/?committee=CCNFSDU\">Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses<\/a>\u00a0(CCNFSDU) is easily the most notorious. The CCNFSDU is the key committee controlling all aspects of CODEX work relating to nutrition.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>Role of Germany.<\/strong>\u00a0Since its inception more than half a century ago, the CCNFSDU has been steered under the auspices of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany \u2013 the world\u2019s leading export nation for pharmaceutical drugs. Behind the scenes, political stakeholders in Germany have been directing this committee for decades.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>Corporate interests behind CODEX.<\/strong>\u00a0The primary stakeholders behind CODEX are the pharmaceutical and chemical investment businesses. The biotech and industrial-scale agriculture industries also play key roles. Representatives from all these industries are regular attendees at CODEX The pharmaceutical investment business is based on patented synthetic drugs, with patent royalties determining the return on investment (ROI). Natural, non-patentable health approaches, including vitamins, nutritional supplements, and even vitamin-rich organic foods, pose a fundamental threat to the future of this investment business. Thus, the decisions taken at CODEX committee meetings are essentially protectionist measures to protect the global markets of the drug industry and its multitrillion-dollar investment interests.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>CODEX goal: Global control.<\/strong>\u00a0To protect its corporate stakeholders and strategically monopolize the global health and food markets, CODEX has been aiming at becoming a de facto multinational decision-taking body \u2013 outside the reach of national governments and beyond any democratic control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624264365328{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"vc_custom_heading\">Enforcing the global ban on natural health<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CODEX plans for a global ban on vitamin therapies.\u00a0<\/strong>From its beginnings in 1963, a key goal of the corporate\/political interests behind CODEX was to strategically eliminate vitamins and other non-patentable natural compounds \u2013 substances that had already been established for decades as essential for optimum cellular function.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nBy 1963, the comprehensive health benefits of these natural molecules had been recognized by nine Nobel prizes and documented in essentially every major textbook of biology and biochemistry. Suppressing the established scientific facts about nutrition and human health was therefore not an easy task. It required a determination to effectively erase humankind\u2019s awareness of the health benefits of natural health compounds by publicly discrediting them, discouraging further scientific research, criminalizing any health claims associated with them, and even outright banning unrestricted, public access to natural health approaches.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nThe key document summarizing the CODEX regulatory position in this field was published in 2005. Entitled the \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/fao-who-codexalimentarius\/sh-proxy\/en\/?lnk=1&amp;url=https%253A%252F%252Fworkspace.fao.org%252Fsites%252Fcodex%252FStandards%252FCXG%2B55-2005%252Fcxg_055e.pdf\">Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements<\/a>,\u2019 it mandates:<br \/>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The setting of arbitrary low \u2018upper limits\u2019 on the daily recommended dosages of vitamins and minerals\u00a0<\/strong>around the world, thereby knowingly impairing essential body functions, including a) tissue stability via collagen production, b) cellular energy supply via adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, c) antioxidant protection against oxygen free radicals, and d) immune defense against viruses and other infectious agents.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>A global ban on science-based natural health information.\u00a0<\/strong>CODEX mandates prohibiting claims that vitamin and mineral supplements are suitable for prevention, alleviation, treatment, or cure of disease.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>Restricting free access to science-based natural health.\u00a0<\/strong>While categorizing supplements as foods, CODEX also specifically allows \u2013 and thereby encourages \u2013 the world\u2019s governments to arbitrarily regulate vitamins, minerals, and other natural compounds as prescription drugs. This enables draconian control of these substances, restricting free access to lifesaving natural compounds for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#dddff1&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624264418527{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"vc_custom_heading\">Devastating consequences for the people of the world<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The global consequences of CODEX.\u00a0<\/strong>The major pharmaceutical export nations have vigorously promoted all these CODEX measures. This is because they are designed to facilitate the development and spread of diseases among the people of the world \u2013 a fact that can hardly be considered coincidental for an investment industry that has defined globally spreading diseases as the target market for its multitrillion-dollar investment business.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>CODEX \u2013 creating the precondition for the coronavirus pandemic.<\/strong>\u00a0With an optimum daily intake of vitamins essential for the immune system\u2019s peak functioning, an artificially low daily nutrient intake \u2013 as mandated by Codex \u2013 is a precondition for infections to turn into epidemics and eventually pandemics. The global CODEX crusade against lifesaving vitamins, driven by Germany and other pharmaceutical drug exporting countries, is the single most crucial factor behind the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the devastating damage it has caused to human lives and national economies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624264484578{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"vc_custom_heading\">Codex: deception and bribery on a global scale<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CODEX: Hiding its lack of legitimacy.<\/strong>\u00a0To hide its lack of democratic legitimacy, the political\/corporate interests behind CODEX also abuse sub-organizations of the United Nations. These interests are using the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in an attempt to create the appearance that CODEX corporate protectionist efforts supposedly reflect the will of the people of the world via support from the United Nations.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>CODEX and the role of the Brussels \u2018European Union\u2019<\/strong>. Another veil behind which CODEX tries to bolster its legitimacy is through support by the so-called \u2018European Union\u2019 in Brussels. This support by the \u2018Brussels EU\u2019 is used to create the impression that the entire European continent is united behind the CODEX In reality, however, nothing could be further from the truth. Headed by the unelected \u2018European Commission,\u2019 the Brussels EU operates as the global politburo of the pharmaceutical export business. Germany accounts for around 20 percent of global pharmaceutical drug exports and, together with a handful of other European countries, accounts for about 75 percent of these exports overall.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>CODEX securing the participation of developing nations.\u00a0<\/strong>Great efforts are being made by CODEX to ensure the participation of a significant number of developing and threshold nations at CODEX meetings. This is deemed necessary since none of these countries obtain any benefits from supporting the protectionist plans of a handful of wealthy pharmaceutical export nations. On the contrary, implementing CODEX-derived legislation in the developing world would make developing countries dependent on expensive drug imports \u2013 thus removing the only possibility for developing countries to provide effective and safe healthcare for their people via scientifically proven natural and nutritional health approaches. Therefore, CODEX is a powerful political instrument of pharmaceutical colonialism.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nIn this context, the so-called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/foodsafety\/areas_work\/food-standard\/codextrustfund\/en\/\">CODEX Trust Fund<\/a>\u00a0plays a crucial role in incentivizing CODEX participation among developing countries. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/foodsafety\/areas_work\/food-standard\/CTF-eligible-countries-Round4.pdf\">list of countries seen as eligible for support<\/a>\u00a0includes 47 African countries. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/fao-who-codexalimentarius\/sh-proxy\/en\/?lnk=1&amp;url=https%253A%252F%252Fworkspace.fao.org%252Fsites%252Fcodex%252FMeetings%252FCX-701-42%252Fcac42_17e.pdf\">Trust Fund report<\/a>\u00a0presented at the Codex Alimentarius Commission annual meeting in 2019 shows that, not surprisingly, the Brussels EU and its member states were its largest donors.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><strong>CODEX and the manipulation of global public opinion.<\/strong>\u00a0The two main arguments used by CODEX to hide its protectionist interests are a) the establishment of \u2018international trade standards\u2019 and b) the need for \u2018consumer protection.\u2019<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nIn an attempt to marshal support for these arguments among countries and delegates attending meetings of the CODEX nutrition committee (CCNFSDU), as well as among the general public, key international gatherings of the CCNFSDU are often preceded by media reports about the alleged side effects of vitamins and other natural health approaches. These reports are launched, of course, completely contrary to the facts: natural health approaches are essentially safe, with hardly any significant side effects being reported. Meanwhile, every year, hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide die from the known side effects of taking pharmaceutical prescription drugs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#dddff1&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624264458376{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"vc_custom_heading\">Articles about Codex<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2004\/03\/codex-guidelines-for-vitamins-and-minerals-optional-or-mandatory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Codex Guidelines for Vitamins and Minerals: Optional or Mandatory?<\/a><br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2005\/08\/codex-guidelines-for-vitamin-and-mineral-food-supplements-the-bigger-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements: The Bigger Picture<\/a><br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2007\/01\/new-york-university-law-review-criticises-codex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York University Law Review Criticizes Codex<\/a><br \/>\n\u200b<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2008\/01\/codex-alimentarius-the-control-and-denial-of-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: The Control and Denial of Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#dddff1&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Codex Alimentarius Commission: The Facts That Everyone Needs to Know [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624003964226{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624004080399{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;197&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1656067703504{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=&#8221;bg_color&#8221; bg_color_value=&#8221;#dddff1&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1624264312258{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health4all.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}