Codex Alimentarius hits Europe

[heyokah]

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Just what is the Codex Alimentarius (CA)?

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by the World Health Organizationa to “develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme,” according the official Codex website. In this context, it sounds responsible and reasonable: “The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.”

But the reality is different. The big pharmaceutical companies have taken over the implementation and coordination of this monster. The Codex Commission has produced documents in excess of 15,000 pages with all kinds of pitfalls. It is now designed to outlaw and prohibit virtually any food, herb, vitamin or supplement that is not required by prescription or that holds a patent (meaning it is not natural).

The CA essentially prohibits all natural substances, vitamins, herbs and supplements above miniscule amounts. Under CA, any quantity of a vitamin larger than the RDA is considered to be potentially toxic and is illegal to sell. For example, the RDA of Vitamin C is only 100 mg. Standard preparations are virtually never less than 500 mg. We recommend taking at least 2000 – 4000 mg of Vitamin C per day, or up to 40 times the RDA. Start getting used to taking bucketfuls of tiny tablets all day.

It gets worse: Only 28 vitamins will be permitted in the ultra-low doses noted above. ALL other vitamins, supplements and natural substances will be banned and considered illegal.
CoQ10, one of the most effective heart healthy supplements that even mainstream medicine recommends, will be banned – at any dose.
Fish oil (omega 3′s), one of the most essential supplements on the planet – will be banned.
Only synthetic versions of these 28 nutrients will be permitted. All natural versions will be considered illegal.

CA makes the un-labelled use of GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) legal in all foods in all circumstances. For example, farmers in Irag, must purchase their seeds from Monsanto and are forbidden from retianing seed crops.

The new law under CA sets permissible upper limits of pesticide residues, toxic chemicals, hormones in food and other environmental contaminants that are many times higher than levels advocated by industry and lobbying groups.
CA mandates that all animal feed MUST be treated with antibiotics, hormones and growth stimulants world wide.
Organic, free range and biodynamic farming will become illegal.
CA mandates irradiation of food.

This is not a joke. This is reality. An evil, big government, big drug company reality.
Even though the May first implementation is all about herbs in Britain under the guise of THMRS (Traditional Herbal Medicine Registration Scheme), it is still complying with the Codex Alimentarius as pushed by the Eurocrats – which includes the ban on vitamins and supplements mentioned above. (By the way, the remainder of Europe will impose the CA later this year).

The herbal portion of the law requires sellers of virtually every kind of herb to obtain permits and licenses with heavy regulation by the MHRA. Getting herbs licensed apparently can cost upwards of US$100,000. Of course, the whole idea is to drive all small (and many larger) sellers out of business.

I suppose you can try getting your peppermint tea from the local mafia in London? Imagine where this is going?
This will affect most our products that we sell in Britain. Our world-best selling product: IodinePlus2 is about 80 times the RDA – gone. Vitamin D5000 is twelve and half times the RDA – gone. Our Omega 3,6,9 product will be banned. Our hormone products, Progest50, Progest100 will be banned.

I suggest for our British customers to order massive quantities now and start hoarding before the ban kicks in. The lawyers say that the shelf life of our products is two years. In reality, these will save for 3 years and more, if you store in the refrigerator.

Before any Americans get smug about our friends in Britain and Europe, you are forewarned – the Codex Alimentarius is coming to America. The recent Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) (don’t you just love these names? – always the direct the opposite of the effect), gives the FDA authority to move forward with Codex Alimentarius implementation. This has been planned at least, since 2005.
The FSMA, by the way, mandates that the FDA should try to sterilize food entering the US, which destroys much of the foods nutritive qualities. How about that irradiated fruit from Mexico?

There are even more onerous laws from the FSMA that affect small farmers, growers, flea markets, farmer’s markets and even gardeners.

I don’t know what else to say. All the governments around the world are evil. Some are nastier than others (USA and most of Europe at the top of the list). They are the enforcers of the corporate/fascist lobbies and will happily kill off and sicken their slaves (citizens) all in the name of big profits. This is not just in medical/food arena that I write about, but about all facets of life: from banking, finances and money to regulating your every behavior and speech.

We are screwed. Buy as much as you can now and hoard. Bad times are coming.

Andrew Jones, M.D.

Medical Director, Women’s Health Institute

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UPDATE

sign the petition. http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/05/03/herbal-remedies-banned-as-new-codex-alimentarius-eu-rules-take-effect/


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[starsmoonmtns]

nice thread HeYOKA.....................
btw, where did u get your name? Or, are u a HEYOKA?

[marko]

Well, it's so unbelievable... i wonder if the petition will ever make a change - masses just don't hear the message or don't pay attention anyway. it breaks my heart.

[observer]

From a previous comment in another thread on this subject:


Would it surprise any one in here to learn the principal author of Codex Alimentarius was Fritz derMeer the convicted Nazi war criminal and the former president of IG Farben, preceding and during the Second World War. (Source: Dr. Rima E. Laibow - Nutricide, Criminalizing Natural Health - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&hl=en#)

As Jim Marrs has so often pointed-out, "the Nazis didn't loose the Second World War, the German people did".

None of this control would be possible if there weren't some sort of outside "influence" manipulating this reality from behind the "smoke-and-mirrors". "They" are very clever at what they do.....

The unfortunate thing is that the global elite are hell-bent on depopulating the planet.

I can tell you this is the agenda.
I can show you the evidence that this is the agenda. (just pm me and ask)
This latest development is simply further evidence the plan is taking shape - one step at a time.
There is nothing any of us can do about it.


As I've so often said in the past: "They are very clever at what they do"....

[GlassSteagallfan]

Just what is the Codex Alimentarius (CA)?

Here is the summary version - 5:19 minutes:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLI8UVdTzQ


Full version:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spoucYXa3-A
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyDpxqXkluU
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0IZ-5i4zDc
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seT6Mp75nTc

[loveandgratitude]

Codex Alimentarius = Witch Hunt in the Inquisition. The people who used herbs were the first to go. The Americans have put up a good fight so far, I do not understand why the Europeans did not fight back on this issue. Never too late.

[Marin]

Any feedback from members living in Europe regarding the Codex roll out?

[gabbahh]

Let's see.

There is a TV show on which displays customs blocking fresh herbs and vegetables from outside the EU.

Since a year or so I only need to drink 1,5 glasses of Orange Juice to meet daily recommended dose of vitamin C.

There are "scientific" studies proving that vitaminc C has no positive health effect.

Don't know if the CA is implemented 100%, but it sure is close.

Greetings, Ton

[heyokah]

Europeans, GET OFF YOUR KNEES as David Icke would say....
We can take action !!!

WjDXO48AAhU

http://youtu.be/WjDXO48AAhU


On April 30, 2011, natural healing remedies made of herbs and plants are going to be banned by a directive from the European Union, leaving pharmaceutical products as the primary option for patients .

The directive, called the THMPD (Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive) seeks to not just ban the use of herbal remedies but to actually criminalize them — making the growing or keeping of herbs for use in teas just as illegal as those for less conventional use.

The use of traditional and herbal remedies has already been banned in Canada.

According to the Alliance for Natural Health, the EU, in a pact with Big Pharma, hopes to force the use of pharmaceutical products no matter whether they are truly the right choice for your situation.

On the other hand, proponents claim they are attempting to protect the naive from shoddily produced ‘snake-oil’ elixirs and medicines. They claim that herbal remedies will still be available but that they will simply be safer.

Herbal remedies are used throughout the world and have been in use since the beginning of history.

This proposed ban is seen by the ANH as a direct attack on your right to seek alternative medicine for yourself or your family, the motive being to force your money into the pockets of big pharmaceutical companies.

The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) is at the forefront of a massive effort to stop what they deem ‘this unprecedented attack’ on the rights of patients. The ANH is taking legal action against this directive, with the assistance of the European Benefyt Foundation (EBF).

Between them they have already managed to raise 90,000 pounds to fight the court case, but they’re requesting your help, too. Because, they say, if people don’t cry out in protest, it will be seen as agreement of the ban, or as lack of interest, which is why a citizens action group has been formed and has been circulating a petition to counter the THMPD Directive.

If the ban is allowed to take effect, the ANH says it will effectively eliminate access to phytotherapy, herbalism and all of the traditional plant-based remedies of Indian, Amazonian, African and Chinese cultures. In a very real sense, then, this could also be seen a a cultural attack on specific ethnic groups and ways of life.

The topic of alternative medicine is a hot-button issue with many communities, as is seen in this report about a mother trying to wean her daughter off prescription medications in favor of holistic treatment. Child services is trying to take the child away, citing ‘failure to provide proper medical care’, which is deemed as neglect.

For more information on the directive and how the ANH is fighting it, see their video attached to this report. You can also go to the link to sign the petition. http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/05/03/herbal-remedies-banned-as-new-codex-alimentarius-eu-rules-take-effect/

Below is a letter sent with the petition:




Dear All,

I know it sounded like hyperbole when you were informed about the Codex Alimentarius and its goal to control the world through food and medicine. Today we are seeing this diabolical plan galloping forward to reach its goal to ban all holistic healing protocols and natural/organic food. The Codex clearly supports GMOs, antibiotic use on each and every animal (including your pets), use of hormones for animal products and toxic sprays for agriculture. It applies Napoleonic Law which makes everything illegal unless otherwise approved. That includes organic foods, herbs, and other holistic methods we use for our health and survival.

Please watch this 10″ video on the current banning of herbs in all of Europe and sign the petition. Then pass it around. Time appears to be of the essence.
http://youtu.be/WjDXO48AAhU

Then support the ANH (Alliance for Natural Health-EU) in their legal challenge of this draconian directive.

BTW, Canada did pass its Codex bill in 2008 (C-51) which bans herbs and homeopathic remedies are being limited. People did not believe Canada would do something like this, but they did. The FDA is raiding small raw milk farms in the US at an increasing rate only to create financial hardship and force them out of business. The Codex demands that any country that signs onto the Codex force their national laws to change to comply. Codex uses the World Trade Organization model in some ways and we have been seeing the FDA, USDA and the Obama administration aggressively pushing the Codex agenda forward. It is illegal in the sense that it forces people to use toxic chemicals against their will/knowledge. It attacks our civil liberty to pursue our personal lives in peace the way we chose.

Tanya

[TWINCANS]

re part-post comment: "BTW, Canada did pass its Codex bill in 2008 (C-51) which bans herbs and homeopathic remedies are being limited. People did not believe Canada would do something like this, but they did."

I'm no legal expert but I don't think that's strictly true. The conservatives reinvented this bill and tried 2x more to ;put though restrictions but it's still not there for them..
Of course not that they have a majority the nnatural health community has to redouble efforts against this.

The following website has a comprehensive history to the 3 bills that were tried and a petition to sign. The tactic being tabled by the natural health community is a freedom to choose bill. So please sign the petition:

http://www.charterofhealthfreedom.org/index.php?/regulations-bills


Charter of Health Freedom - Petition
www.charterofhealthfreedom.org

[Lettherebelight]

Here in the Uk, we are still able to buy herbs, but the variety has greatly decreased over the last ten years.

I remember 15- 20 years ago, it was not uncommon to be able to buy herbs, weighed out of jars at the health food shops (the privately owned ones). Now there are very few small, privately owned health food shops, they have all been run out of town by GNC and Holland & Barrett (wonder who's running them!).

Their(CA) strategies have been implemented very gradually, so gradual these changes have been almost imperceptible over the years.

[TWINCANS]

As a trained herbalist I had major 'talks' with our local health food store, reminding him that they were providing a service to the community, many of whom come from eastern European countries with a strong 'family use' herbal background and knowledge. I asked if I could order raw herbs, which are still legal here as long as they are not prescribed for a condition and for personal use only. My husband needs them as he has ME and fibromyalgia. Anyways the health food store owner asked me for a list, then sourced them for me and gradually I managed to increase his raw herbs shelf to the point that the local community are again supporting him to buy them.

Maybe you could try a quiet revolution of your own?

[Gustav]

Amazing that immediately before this legislation is enacted there suddenly were a few items in mainstream media claiming that of course it is only to protect everyone from bad witches that are trying to poison you and magicians that want to turn you into frogs... :blah:. Anyway, it is sad to see everything turn this way. I am wondering when police will enter our garden to check if the lettuce, apples, garlich and others are not taking part in a conspiracy to destroy our town...
Sorry, am being a bit sarcastic, but it is absolutely crazy and anyone knowing just a little bit about this subject must realize that this is not the only thing they are being lied about. Luckily there is Avalon and hundreds of thousands of initiatives around the world that are unplugging people daily.

[observer]

Here's what is coming:

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Thank you to http://www.sl-webs.com/deesillustration/home.asp for allowing the use of this image.

[heyokah]

Or this.....


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or this......

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[phillipbbg]

I see a great underworld trade in all things natural.... from smuggling drugs to smuggling natural foods.... now that is a world changing event. When will we turn on these rule makers...... everyone can make a difference, buy local , store seeds etc

[siggy]

Yep, it's the common law (of the UK), where everything is legal unless it's stated to be illegal, being replaced by the napoleonic law (of Europe), where everything is deemed illegal unless stated to be legal (at least that's my understanding).

Once this starts biting & people finally start to see what's going on I hope & pray that the stubborn streak in the British - & the rest of Europe of course - starts to kick in.
I mentioned this a few years ago to some friends & colleagues and they just rolled their eyes, but we'll see....

[heyokah]

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"Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: Whole Foods Market okays GMO coexistence"

This is making me so sad.
When visiting the US, I always love to go to shops like Whole Foods Market and Organic Valley.
We don't have many big 'organic shops' like that in Europe.
Now they have decided it’s time to surrender to Monsanto !!!!!!!

http://www.earth-matters.nl/19/2153/genetische-manipulatie/organic-elite-surrenders-to-monsanto-whole-foods-market-okays-gmo-coexistence.html

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[observer]

I see a great underworld trade in all things natural.... from smuggling drugs to smuggling natural foods.... now that is a world changing event. When will we turn on these rule makers...... everyone can make a difference, buy local , store seeds etc

I stand with a line drawn in the sand ready to defend what you are saying here, phillipbbg.

The problem with the 'local scenario' is, how will the local organization of your private food-chain effect those natural products, such as, vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements that we have all grown so accustom to using?

I rely heavily on vitamins and mineral supplements alone in my lifestyle. I work long hours at a labor intensive job. I'm single and provide all my meals for myself. It is impossible, given my lifestyle, to spend the time and energy it would take to supplement my dietary requirements using locally grown foods. It would simply take too much of my limited time to do so.

I'm afraid the eugenicists tactics of the global elite are winning, and what is unfolding before our eyes is the evidence of that tactical offensive....

[Nanoo Nanoo]

If you buy these GMO goods you are endorsing their existance. Find local producers of foods and support them , go to a local farm and buy your fruit and veg from them direct. Its easy to do and bypass the machine. The produce you get will be fresher and have more vitamins in it and you wont need suppliments.

We need to act locally if we are to affect it globally.

N

[Gustav]

I'm afraid the eugenicists tactics of the global elite are winning, and what is unfolding before our eyes is the evidence of that tactical offensive....

If you feel bound by the laws of traitors, than yes they have won. Implementation by covert means has no one winning but all of us. It is precisely with every legislation, treaty and soforth that people will wake up and smell the treason and fear that those global elite generate. Not the victory of those few but the waking up of the many will follow these laws. At least, that is my conviction.

[scifiscriptwriter]

I agree Marko - perhaps they're ingesting too much flouride!

[marko]

We got to spread the message, there is still hope i feel... 803231 voices already there!

direct avaaz petition link.. http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_herbal_medicine_ban/?copy

[marko]

Topic discussed on Red Ice Radio - http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2011/05/RIR-110508.php

marko.

[GlassSteagallfan]

Where could I find a list of the banned herbs? Of everything banned?

[heyokah]

I'm not really finding a list and I think that is on purpose.
It's not that vitamins or herbs are being banned, its that they are going to be regulated to death.

As was stated in the original post :
."The herbal portion of the law requires sellers of virtually every kind of herb to obtain permits and licenses with heavy regulation by the MHRA. Getting herbs licensed apparently can cost upwards of US$100,000. Of course, the whole idea is to drive all small (and many larger) sellers out of business"

Best I can get so-far is several articles mentioning some approved preparations (many of which are variations on one or two popular herbs); and mentioning that so-far no Chinese or Avadic (India) herbs have been "approved."

All the Codex docs I have read over the years do not/have not listed individual herbs as being "on the list."

Anyway, if I will find a list I will certainly post it here.....

[aranuk]

This Codex thing is absolutely shocking. Is there anyone here that knows of any petition I can sign in UK? Obviously doctors like Rima Laibow and people of her stature are our best spokepersons but they need our support to give them credence and validity. The world is becoming Fascist almost every day it seems. With all these goings on which the media dont want us to know about.

Stan

P.S. I just saw your post above Marko thank you!

[heyokah]

Dear aranuk, you can find a link to a petition in the OP nr 1 and post 9 as well....:)

[iceni tribe]

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[DNA]

Bottom line in my opinion.

There hasn't been a world wide plague of any magnitude since the 1919 Spanish Flu.
The real difference between now and 1919 isn't really the inoculations or the antibiotics,,,it's the food supply.
There are no more famines or starving people in the industrialized world of any note.

In order for plagues to take root, the population must be deficient in vitamins and minerals.
This weakens the immune system so that flu strains become deadly.

The true aim of all of this is the depopulation of the world via the deseases they want to introduce through inoculations such as what Jane Burgermiester talks about in the Project Camelot interview.

[loveandgratitude]

Natural Solutions Foundation WEBSITE -
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

Thank you Rima Laibow for the job you are doing. I knew of Codex Alimentarius and I'm very happy that there are people like you. Things will start in the USA and the world will follow... this time for good reasons.My best best wishes, "

GO TO THIS WEBSITE and see the leading push in the USA, by Dr. Rima Laibow (who had to leave the USA, and lives in Panama) to stop Codex ALemtarius. RIma Laibow can be heard on -
ORACLE BROADCASTING.com on the link below -

http://oraclebroadcasting.com/archives.php?who=Rima

(TECHNICAL PROBLEMS IN THE FIRST PIECE OF THE LATEST INTERVEIW)

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

See how she leads the fight for your health.

[mosquito]

The time for action was BEFORE the legislation came into effect. Now it's too late, sign as many online petitions as you want (oh, and how do they get delivered ? By whom ?), you're stuck with it.
They tried this sort of thing in '95, I think it was, and MPs were bombarded with letters demanding it not hapopen, that time we won. Or should I say, we got a stay of execution.
Please - anyone who can prove me wrong on my next statement - DO SO : The UK government, to my knowledge, does not undo legislation.

This is yet another area where China is far far more "free" than the so-called democracies, Traditional medicine here is alive and well, and also a damn-sight cheaper than the NHS.


Where's it going to stop folks ?
I wish you power, and to all those who've posted regarding health problems, please please please don't lose hope, as far as possible, get as balanced a diet as you can, and eat as many fresh vegetables as you can, before the bastards decide that vegetables are "terrorists"