November 15, 2007
Here is the relevant Code and the exemptions to the “restrictions” passed by Congress in April 2000 which permits deadly experimentation on US citizens without informed consent.
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 50USC1520a]
TITLE 50–WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
CHAPTER 32–CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM
Sec. 1520a. Restrictions on use of human subjects for testing of
chemical or biological agents
(a) Prohibited activities
The Secretary of Defense may not conduct (directly or by contract)–
(1) any test or experiment involving the use of a chemical agent
or biological agent on a civilian population; or
(2) any other testing of a chemical agent or biological agent on
human subjects.
(b) Exceptions
Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section, the
prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a test
or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes:
(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical,
therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research
activity.
(2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection against
toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents.
(3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose related
to riot control.
(c) Informed consent required
The Secretary of Defense may conduct a test or experiment described
in subsection (b) of this section only if informed consent to the
testing was obtained from each human subject in advance of the testing
on that subject.
(d) Prior notice to Congress
Not later than 30 days after the date of final approval within the
Department of Defense of plans for any experiment or study to be
conducted by the Department of Defense (whether directly or under
contract) involving the use of human subjects for the testing of a
chemical agent or a biological agent, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report
setting forth a full accounting of those plans, and the experiment or
study may then be conducted only after the end of the 30-day period
beginning on the date such report is received by those committees.
(e) “Biological agent” defined
In this section, the term “biological agent” means any micro-
organism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or protozoa),
pathogen, or infectious substance, and any naturally occurring,
bioengineered, or synthesized component of any such micro-organism,
pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin or method of
production, that is capable of causing–
(1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human,
an animal, a plant, or another living organism;
(2) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or
materials of any kind; or
(3) deleterious alteration of the environment.
(Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title X, Sec. 1078, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat.
1915; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, Sec. 1067(4), Oct. 5, 1999, 113
Stat. 774.)
Codification
Section is comprised of section 1078 of Pub. L. 105-85. Subsec. (f)
of section 1078 of Pub. L. 105-85 amended section 1523(b) of this title.
Subsec. (g) of section 1078 of Pub. L. 105-85 repealed section 1520 of
this title.
Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1998, and not as part of Pub. L. 91-121, title IV,
Sec. 409, Nov. 19, 1969, 83 Stat. 209, which comprises this chapter.
November 15, 2007
Here is a brief precise of the contents of vaccines. Source: the website of the CDC:
…vaccines also contain other toxic substances which can cause serious side effects themselves. The following ingredients are actually listed on the CDC website with this introductory statement: “Many things in today’s world, including food and medicines, have chemicals added to them to prevent the growth of germs and reduce spoilage.”
Additional ingredients antibiotics, aluminum gels, formaldehyde, monosodium glutamate (MSG), egg protein, and sulfites, aluminum (which when combined with silicon deficiency and fluoride, results in the neurofibrillary tangles seen in Alzheimer’s disease – REL], formaldehyde, MSG (a potent neurological ‘excitotoxin’ which, like aspartame, can cause seizures, brain tumors, etc.), egg protein, Thirteen of the vaccines currently available are cultured on aborted human fetal tissues
Ethyl-mercury (contained in the preservative thimerosol) is also present. Mercury is a highly toxic heavy metal, known to cause cancer, and serious neurological diseases, including, in my belief, autism. Mercury is 1,000 times more toxic than lead, and is second only to uranium as the most toxic metal. If children receive all recommended vaccines, they will receive many times the [fictional] “allowable safe limit” for mercury in the first two years of life”
In addition, squalene, a response enhancer or adjuvant, is present in many modern vaccines and is highly irritating to the immune system. Use in vaccines like “Vaccine A”, or Anthrax vaccine in Gulf War I soldiers is believed by many to be a primary cause, along with depleted uranium, of the devastating condition known as “Gulf War Syndrome”.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
November 15, 2005
A Maryland Court has threatened thousands of children with imminent harm, and threatened to abrogate parental rights in a massive assault on both parents and children in Maryland.
In an article by Nelson Hernandez, a Washington Post Staff Writer, it was revealed that the State is attempting to coerce parents to expose their children to potential harm through its powers of intimidation and sanction.
This kind of intimidation to enhance State control of health decisions appears to be accelerating.
Only strong Health Freedom Advocacy will prevent the complete take over of our bodies.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
Sign up for Health Freedom Alerts and take action to protect your rights now. www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Wednesday, November 14, 2007; Page B01
The parents of more than 2,300 Prince George’s County students who failed to get needed vaccinations could face fines of $50 a day and up to 10 days in jail if their children do not meet the state’s immunization requirements, county officials said yesterday.
The threat of legal action is a last resort after months in which Prince George’s has struggled to get its 131,000 students immunized for chicken pox and hepatitis B, as mandated by the state. More than 2,300 students have not been immunized and have been barred from attending schools, almost two months after a Sept. 20 deadline for meeting the requirement.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it’s got to get done,” Prince George’s State’s Attorney Glenn F. Ivey (D) said at a news conference in Upper Marlboro. “I’m willing to move forward with legal action.”
School officials have made calls, sent letters and conducted home visits to make arrangements for free appointments for the needed shots. But often the students’ addresses and phone numbers have been outdated, making contacting them difficult. Other students have received the vaccines but failed to get the necessary booster shots.
The school system turned to the justice system as a final option and received the backing of Circuit Judge William D. Missouri, the county’s administrative judge, and Circuit Judge C. Philip Nichols Jr., who handles juvenile matters.
“This is an educational crisis,” said R. Owen Johnson Jr., chairman of the school board. “This is a public health and a children’s rights issue.”
Nichols and Ivey sent another round of letters to the families still out of compliance. Nichols’s letter ordered the parents to show up at Prince George’s Circuit Court for a court hearing and a free vaccine; Ivey’s letter warned that “unexcused absences by your child may subject you to a criminal charge.”
They expect almost 1,700 children to show up Saturday with their parents for the first in a series of Circuit Court hearings on the matter. School officials said the parents would receive a verbal reprimand from the judge and be ordered to have their children immunized in the courthouse. The students would then be allowed to return to school.
Parents who do not appear could face fines of $50 for each day they fail to get their children immunized after being charged. They also could serve up to 10 days in jail. Ivey said he hoped charging parents would not be necessary.
“The goal is to get kids in school, not to put parents in jail,” Ivey said.
Missouri said he looked forward to talking to the parents who had not gotten their children immunized, to understand why.
“I’d like to know exactly what the reasons are because the reasons may be able to be addressed without ratcheting it up to this point,” he said.
Schools officials said they were sorry the crisis had gone this far, but that it needed to be solved immediately.
“This has really, really been a difficult time for us,” said Betty Despenza-Green, the school system’s chief of student services. “It hurts us when any child is out of school because he needs to be immunized, and so we felt we needed to be creative. We need those students immunized. We need them in schools.”
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November 15, 2007
Here are some of the letters we have been getting recently. They have not been edited but their authors’ names have been omitted. If you have a question or a comment you would like to share with the Natural Solutions Foundation, please feel free to send it along to the Natural Solutions Foundation at dr.laibow@gmail.com. We WILL answer you although it may take a little time since we are staffed by volunteers. If the matter is urgent, please say so in the subject line and we will give our email priority.
Thanks for writing! Keep those cards and letters coming!
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.orgwww.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
November 11, 2007
Dear Dr. Laibow:
I can tithe my time and feel this is very important-
I want to screen your videos for health professionals in the Body Mind field here in [writer’s home town]-
I am a licensed psychologist who works as an alternative healer/energetic therapist-
Our western health system is fascist and in shambles!
You are my hero! You go girl!
Contact me at [phone number redacted]
DM
I answered:
Dear DM:
Since I am in Germany at the Codex meeting calling you would be difficult BUT I am deeply grateful for your offer of help and your enthusiastic support.
I would be delighted if you would make sure that the professionals in your area are informed and, even more important, activated. You are quite right about our system and, since they are caught in the middle of it psychologically, culturally and personally, it is hard to see it until your eyes have been focused on the reality – and it is especially helpful if a peer assists in changing the cognitive framework.
I think the best place to start is a meeting with a brief introduction to the fact that the FDA is hell bent for leather on getting the economic competitors to drugs out of the way (giving people the opportunity to learn about the FDA Cam Guidance which will allow the FDA to define CAM as MEDICINE, thereby making the practice of natural techniques the province of licensed physicians ONLY, then discussing the other threats (what is your State doing to support or attack your activities?) and then an introduction to the Codex would be a pretty dense information flow for the first meeting. What should emerge from that is a determination to
1. learn more – please have our website available for people to go to:
2. do more – if people are energized to spread the word to colleagues and patients they can become a positive and effective force for protecting mind body practices
3. arrange another meeting with colleagues, patients, friends, etc. At that meeting, a screening of my nutricide lecture (available on “Nutricide: the DVD” , a discussion of the implications of the Codex process (including HARMonization) and how it fits into the US suppression of natural health, gathering signatures on the legal challenge to HARMonization, the Citizens Petition, having a computer available in the room so that people can go to our site and sign up for the Health Freedom Alert (and make donations to our Foundation if they are so inclined) right there and a group decision on the next steps for your community would be a great “two step process” all on its own.
Please contact Kathy Greene
Thanks for your support!
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Dear Dr. Laibow:
This [Codex threat] sounds like a worthwhile message, but I don’t really understand it.
> Can you, perhaps, explain it in terms that are simpler and more direct
> — and without quite so much detail?
WD
and we answered:
Dear WD:
Your email to Dr. Laibow was sent to me for response. Thank you for taking the
time to communicate.
Now, how can we make the message simpler?
In common law countries like the US, you are free to do whatever is not
specifically forbidden by law. In “code” countries, like most EU countries,
you can only do what is permitted by law.
Codex Alimentarius – the World Food Code – arose from part of the Napoleonic
Code and with its various approved lists and guidelines attempts to control
all foods, including supplements. It goes even further, though, led by a
chairman who has a personal interest in a “risk analysis” company in Germany.
Codex wants to treat supplements as though they were industrial toxins,
subjecting them to a “risk analysis” that would forbid all that have a
demonstrable impact (for good or ill). Without considering bio-individuality.
At the same time, of course, no such analysis is required for genetically
modified or irradiated foods or drugs (drugs are allowed to have “risks”
If you want to remain free to control your own food and healthcare, we need
your help. It’s that simple.
For Natural Solutions,
Ralph Fucetola, JD, Trustee
The Vitamin Lawyer.com Consultancy
http://www.vitaminlawyer.com
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com
All Rights Reserved . . .
November 11,2007:
Dear Dr. Laibow:
Thank you very much for the update on what is going on regarding the attempted implementation of Codex Alimentarius. It has been an on-going battle to stave off the loss of our health freedoms ever since CODEX was adopted in the U.N. in the early 1960’s. Under the guise of uniform standards for all nations of the world for health and nutritional products, CODEX actually is designed to make it very difficult and expensive for the average person to have affordable access to herbs, vitamins, nutritional supplements and other health promoting products. The more people become healthy and don’t need pharmaceutical drugs, the less money the drug companies can make. It’s all about money. If we are all sick and have long-term degenerative diseases and are all on drugs, what a financial boon for big Pharma. Lately, the FDA has been trying to even prevent information from being published and distributed about historic and traditional benefits that have been known for centuries regarding natural herbs and other natural therapies and supplements. People should not be taking this sort of thing lightly but rather should be alarmed. The FDA has lost sight of it’s true purpose of keeping food & medicine safe and have instead become the pawn of the drug companies to squelch competition from the natural health sector so Big Pharma can have ALL the Pie. Luckily, more and more people are waking up to what is going on and are willing to do something about it like you have been. Thank you! Your efforts are very much appreciated! On Nov 11, 2007 10:16 PM, Vicki Knapp
Dear Dr. Laibow: Thank you very much for the update on what is going on regarding the attempted implementation of Codex Alimentarius. It has been an on-going battle to stave off the loss of our health freedoms ever since CODEX was adopted in the U.N. in the early 1960’s. Under the guise of uniform standards for all nations of the world for health and nutritional products, CODEX actually is designed to make it very difficult and expensive for the average person to have affordable access to herbs, vitamins, nutritional supplements and other health promoting products. The more people become healthy and don’t need pharmaceutical drugs, the less money the drug companies can make. It’s all about money. If we are all sick and have long-term degenerative diseases and are all on drugs, what a financial boon for big Pharma. Lately, the FDA has been trying to even prevent information from being published and distributed about historic and traditional benefits that have been known for centuries regarding natural herbs and other natural therapies and supplements. People should not be taking this sort of thing lightly but rather should be alarmed. The FDA has lost sight of it’s true purpose of keeping food & medicine safe and have instead become the pawn of the drug companies to squelch competition from the natural health sector so Big Pharma can have ALL the Pie. Luckily, more and more people are waking up to what is going on and are willing to do something about it like you have been. Thank you! Your efforts are very much appreciated! VK
We responded:
Dear VK:
And Thank YOU! Our effectiveness is in the fact that our associates (those on our email list) are wonderful, decent people who have a dream of what America can become again! They know that our health freedoms are an important part of that dream! Every time we ask that people send out messages to Congress, Wash DC gets blasted with tens of thousands of emails- much more than they are used to getting- and they know that our group is WATCHING!! The grassroots groups are growing and spreading the word, and hopefully, soon, we will be able to get millions of emails to Wash DC. Dr. Rima has tremendous energy! (It helps to be wearing skates if you are with her when she is lobbying in Congress!) So keep spreading the word, and if people are interested, get us their email addresses so we can keep them up to date, and stay focussed on that future we all hope to see!
Kathy Greene for Dr. Rima Laibow
November 11, 2007
Dear Dr. Rima:
First, I want to thank you for your dedicated work to fighting for
Health Freedom. I read most of your report about how “the team”
seems to be back sliding. What infuriates me is the fact that ANY
foreign regulation will attempt to control the nutrient
quality/quantity of our foods and supplements. Any attempt will
prove along the lines of genocide. Believe me, God in heaven will
call on those who will be awakened and this WILL be resisted and
overcome. He has had you fight this good fight, but please be
assured that you are not alone in this. His unconditional and
everlasting LOVE will sustain you and provide you with the relief you
will need when you think you just may be utterly alone. You are not
alone, Dr. Rima, and I felt led to just let you know this. Hang in
there, we are here fighting along side of you even if we are just in
the shadows. God Bless!
FF
We responded:
Hi FF!
What a nice letter! And yes, Dr. Rima has been doing a marvelous job of leading this crusade for health freedom! But our effectiveness is in our numbers and that includes people like YOU who happily send those thens of thousands of emails to Congress making the Powers that Be aware that we are all WATCHING! So keep spreading the news about Codex, et als., and when you meet people who wish to know more, get us their email addresses so that we can keep them up to date and so that we are soon sending MILLIONS of messages to Wash DC. That’ll keep em in line!!!!
Kathy Greene for Dr. Rima Laibow
Date: Nov 11, 2007 9:10 PM
Dr. PR sent a copy of a letter to another health freedom organization with two questions for them. We are glad he shared them with us, too:
Dear Sir/Ms:
1) As a member of the [another health freedom group], before I forward [Natural Solutions Foundation’s] email to my Distribution List, I kindly request that you comment on it and on one of its links:
2) The only person I ever hear from about what’s going on at the Codex nutrition deliberations is Dr. Laibow. Why don’t I ever hear from the [other organization] about what’s going on at the Codex nutrition deliberations?
Sincerely yours,
PR, PhD
We answered:
Thanks for letting us know about your questions. The reason you hear from the Natural Solutions Foundation when we attend Codex meetings is that we know that every one can’t be here, but everyone needs to know what is happening at Codex since it impacts us all so strongly.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
we responded:
This same correspondent started his communication to us this way:
Dear Dr. Laibow:
Asking Health Freedom supporters to send petitions to Schneeman is doing them a great disservice – it makes them think that they are doing something useful. It’s like asking asking civilized people to send a petition to Hitler to shut down the extermination camps and making them think that such actions would be helpful to his victims. Schneeman is a bureaucratic lowlife and nutritional Neanderthal who has done everything possible in her power to subvert nutritional freedom. It’s incredibly naive, even self-destructive, on your part to think she would be amenable to ANY number of petitions from health freedom supporters – they end up in her wastebasket as fast as they arrive. YOU ARE DIVERTING PRECIOUS CITIZENRY RESOURCES FROM MUCH MORE USEFUL ACTIONS, such as petitions to CONGRESSMEN asking them to clamp down on her criminal Codex actions on behalf of Big Pharma. Unless you change your petition approach to a more productive direction, I will reluctantly conclude that your
Health Freedom efforts will likely come to naught.
Sincerely yours,
PR, PhD
to which we replied:
Dear Dr. R.,
You have totally missed the point of the Citizens Petition, I am afraid. We are not petitioning Schneeman, nor are we petitioning Scarbrough. We are using our First Amendment Right to Petition for Redress to institute a legal challenge to the illegal “Harmonization” with Codex being carried out by the FDA. The process that we are involved in right now is called “Exhausting our administrative remedies” and renders the case, as they say in law, “Ripe” for further action.
So I beg to differ with you and actually wonder why you did not think to ask about the reason we have chosen this action before blasting us for not doing it in a way that made sense to you. Our health freedom actions are, in fact, well conceived and carefully planned with lawyers and expert strategists. No one is perfect and we could be making a mistake but, in fact, we are not.
Thanks for your input and your passion, though. I hope that you will continue to use it as a supporter of what we, alone among other health freedom organizations, are doing: solving the problem on multiple fronts.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
November 14, 2007
Today was the final day of deliberations for the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU). Tomorrow is a day off for the delegates who get to slog around in the cold, gray and wet German November (it snowed a bit today, mixing in with the rain for a fun walk back to the meeting hall after lunch!). While the delegates slosh around (or take the guided tour of German underground bunker cities designed for residence during a nuclear war – I kid you not!) the CCNFSDU Secretariat will take the discussion and turn it into a final report. Then delegates get 1.5 hours to examine it and the final session of the meeting is held where there is usually blood on the floor by the time the session is finished as delegates fight to have their positions included in the report if the CCNFSDU power elite does not want them there or fight to correct what their contributions have been altered into.
At the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) in Rome this past July, in fact, the Swiss delegation was so peeved about the report and its abuse of their position that they fought comma by comma, word by word, for several hours (overtime, of course) to get things the way they wanted them. So these final sessions are always fraught with numbing tedium interspersed with food fights. The whole thing would be pretty interesting (and occasionally entertaining from an anthropological or political science point of view) if the matter were not so serious and of such consequence to so many people on the global stage. If you have been reading the Natural Solutions Foundation email Health Freedom Alerts (which you can sign up for at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) or have read, for example, the Codex 7 Point Summary (https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=157) you know that Codex is the international Food Code and that it serves not the needs of the needy or even the average consumer, but the multinational interests which profit from industrialization and globalization of the world’s food supply: Big Pharma, Big Chema, Big Biotech, Big Agribiz and Big Medica. Countries, especially the developing ones, mistakenly look to it for a level of safety and technical guidance on which they can base their own food laws and codes, erroneously believing the propaganda it puts out repeating endlessly that the purpose and impact of the Codex is protective and will enhance health and food safety through international trade and domestic regulation.
In fact, of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Codex is dangerous, deceptive and the very unequal playing field of the very rich countries and the multinational corporations whose interests they represent at Codex and elsewhere on the global stage.
Consider India: India is the world’s second largest country with a population of 1.2 billion people. She has a huge land mass and, like many developing countries, has a vast gulf between the affluent and the poor. The affluent include the burgeoning middle class, the obscenely wealthy. ” India’s middle class constituted less than 10% of the population in 1984 and 1985, according to the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). Since then, it has more than tripled, but is [as of 2001 it was]still less than 20%. [It was projected in 2001 that] India’s individual purchasing power will climb from $2,149 in 1999 to $5,653 per person in 2020 — and to $16,500 in 2040. (Global Currents, http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2195)
But the number of people living in slums in India, Asia’s fourth largest economy, has more than doubled in the past two decades. According to the Indian Junior Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Kumari Selja, urban slum dwellers rose from 27.9 million in 1981 to 61.8 million in 2001 – the latest census data available.
India regularly asks for help from Codex, and particularly the CCNFSDU, which deals with food for special dietary uses, on setting standards for cereal based foods for children who are starving and seriously underweight. India, supported by many African and Asian countries, including, for example, Benin and Thailand, repeatedly states that the problem there is not reducing calories for children’s food (which occupies CCNFSDU’s focus when it deals with items like how to implement the World Health Organization’s much neglected Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA57/A57_R17-en.pdf)
but finding internationally acceptable ways to increase the calories, protein and other nutrients available to save the lives of their millions of starving children.
Year after year this concern is raised by India when the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) and CCNFSDU deal with calorie and sugar restriction in foods for infants and children (and decide, year after year, not to do the right thing. Sugar is left in baby food and weaning foods despite its health risks (including habituation for its young consumers), dangerous additives are permitted (like dangerous artificial colors, preservatives, artificial sweeteners which cause brain cancer, for example, and mono sodium glutamate). And year after year, nothing happens to help India set international standards to protect its starving children from supposedly calorie and protein enhanced foods which are, in fact, neither or which do not provide necessary nutrients, calories, protein, etc.
Consider: There are 146 million children in the developing world under the age of 5 who are underweight and more than half of them live in South Asia. Out of these 146 million babies, toddlers and preschoolers (assuming that they might some day go to school), 106 million of these dangerously underweight children live in 10 countries and 57 million of these starving children live in India Undernutition, according to the World Health Organization Report (2002) if the underlying cause of 60% of all deaths in children under 5 years of age (this figure was endorsed by Lancet in 2003). And, of course, the UNICEF publication “Progress for Children, a Report Card on Nutrition, No. 4, May 2006” says definitively that “the world must alter its priorities in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of reducing child under nutrition by half in 2015”. By the way, I believe firmly that the international organizations like UNICEF, WHO, FAO organizations are deeply flawed and, at some upper stratum, may be directly involved in highly dangerous social culling policies. But, like Codex, they are composed primarily of armies of good men and women doing good work, or trying to, while, unlike Codex, they often produce highly useful and informative documentation of the problems which the world faces.
One of the tricks that Codex uses is to create meaningless standards on the basis that they pertain “to the general population”, not to any single group in order to make sure that the apparent underlying goal of mandating under nutrition for the global population (while proclaiming just the opposite, of course) is achieved. If you recall that Codex functions as, in essence, a pharmaceutical and chemical marketing strategy, and that healthy people do not buy many drugs, this makes good sense. That is why, in our opinion, nutrients are restricted as if they were toxins (through phony science like “Risk Assessment” and the types and levels of available nutrients (such as the European-banned boron and vanadium which Dr. Grossklaus, who lives in Europe, admitted that he is taking to help heal his bone injury) to levels so low that they cannot aid anyone’s health very much but do make sure that people are good customers for Big Pharma and Industrialized Illness Care (IIC).
There has been an ongoing struggle in CCNFSDU to introduce meaningful nutritional levels through the adoption of Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) which would tell consumers all over the world how much of each nutrient, micro or macro nutrient, they should aim for. At least that was the intent of South Africa’s years long work on the topic. You may remember that in 2005, at the CCNFSDU meeting in Bonn, Germany, when the South African Delegate attempted to present the results of a several-year long Working Group to establish these NRVs “to promote optimum health” she was rudely and stunningly cut off by Dr. Grossklaus with these memorable words: “Codex is not about health. Codex is about trade. It would be nice if Codex could provide nutrient levels for health, but it is about trade, not health!” He then refused to allow her to proceed with her report (on which she and the other members of the Working Group had been working for years and instructed her to go back and redo the NRVs and bring them back next year! South Africa declined and Korea took over. During the presentation and discussion of the NRVs this year, Korea did not rouse the ire of the Chairman since it dutifully presented the principles, not the content, of the NRV standard. BUT the NRVs were declared to be “for the general population” and “for labeling purposes only, not for health or intake guidance”.
Here’s what that means:
NRVs will be listed on every package of food in international trade (and in domestically compliant countries). Consumers will see that this food provides x percent of their daily requirement of a particular nutrient and will, quite naturally, assume that this requirement applies to them. What they will not know is that the amount of the nutrient has nothing at all to do with their needs as a healthy man or woman, a pregnant woman, a man with HIV, a post menopausal woman, a 4 year old child, etc. They will not know that the NRV is derived from a process which took assumptions about a mythical ‘average expectable global diet’ without any reference to genetic, gender, environmental, health status or other specifics and set those values so low that, through the process of Risk Assessment, the nutrient in question might keep an average expectable global body alive, but certainly will not support health under any stress at all, let alone “optimal health”.
In the ladies room, while washing our hands side by side I spoke to the African delegate who invited me to mail her my comments before each meeting so that she could speak them since I cannot and the only “Health Freedom” observer group admitted by Codex does not do so either. I took the opportunity of clean hands and a quite room to say the following to her:
“Could you please explain to me”, I said, how it works that health claims for foods are strongly discouraged because, as stated earlier today in the meeting, ‘health claims on foods give the consumer the false impression that those foods confer a nutritional benefit'” [False? that’s why the claim is there: to tell the consumer that the food confers a nutritional benefit – REL] “but NRVs, which every consumer in the world will assume pertains to them when they read the food label, are to be derived from an amalgam of population statistics, where they exist, or from ‘probabalistic statistics’ [I swear: that is the term of art here in Codex for making up data! -REL] and ‘corrected’ by Risk Assessment to make sure that the nutrient levels do not exceed some mythical ‘Upper Safe Level’ which does not promote health?” She looked at me for a long time and then slowly said, “It doesn’t work. That makes no sense at all. I had never thought about it before!” Then we got into a long discussion about the real game of Codex and I handed her our updated Nutricide DVD (https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=156) with the added section on how the “Codex Two Step Process” works to allow countries to protect themselves from the deadly and irrational standards and guidelines of Codex and from the World Trade Organization’s trade sanctions. I also gave her a hard copy of the Codex eBook (https://staging.drrimatruthreports.com/index.php?page_id=220)which shows how the Codex Two Step Process can be applied, in this case to the deadly Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (ratified by Codex July 4, 2005, Rome). So Codex is about trade, health claims would give people the idea that certain foods were good for them so must not be allowed without significant scientific agreement, (a standard which foods, which are safe, cannot meet and which the US FDA does not require drugs, which are dangerous, to meet) and NRVs are for labeling only and are derived from somebody’s guess about what the global average expectable person might need without any intent to provide health information or guidance.
Whew! What did the CCNFSDU body do? It fought over whether these NRVs should be produced for vitamins and minerals including global average expectable children from 6 to 36 months or just for global average expectable adults. The compromise was to produce a request for New Work that would go to the CAC and then the new NRVs, the ones that do not promote health but trade, would be produced for adults, following which, years and years down the road, they would also be produced for global average expectable children from 6 to 36 months. Consumers can rest assured that trade, if not their health, will someday be
enhanced by having meaningless information on the labels of their prepared food. What a way to go, Codex. Protecting the health of consumers, as mandated by your mandate:
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.
http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp
Maybe tomorrow we can talk about the proud announcement of the Chair of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL), Dr. Ann McKenzie, that the CCFL’s contribution to the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (which CCFL and CCNFSDU have been mandated to implement) was to set up a committee to standardize the names of foods internationally! Now that should certainly make a difference to the folks in the world dying from a contaminated food supply rich in sugar and saturated fats, artificial flavors, colors and pesticides, veterinary drugs and so forth, don’t you think?
We could also talk about the fact that, not to be outdone, despite lots of what seemed to me like snide and contemptuous references to the Global Strategy during the meeting (and at last night’s pleasant social event for delegates) by the Dr. Grossklaus, the CCNFSDU decided that it had already fulfilled its requirement to implement the Global Strategy since they had sent a letter on the topic last year!
What support for the needs of the developing world! But, then, most of them are pretty poor and have no money to buy drugs. Do you think…….? You don’t suppose……?
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org