Natural Solutions Foundation

November 13, 2007

Today was a day like any other day at a Codex meeting: boring, stultifying, mind numbing and filled with tiny treasures of reality amidst a sea of obfuscation. As I have said so many times, the great majority of the people who come to these meetings are the bamboozled, not the bamboozlers. They come with a variety of expectations and beliefs about the process, but they are not interested in subverting either reality, health or freedom as far as General Stubblebine and I can make out. As the words flow on and on and on and on, though, if you listen carefully enough you will hear the subtext which comprises the reality of Codex. And then, when you point these underpinnings of reality out to people who actually sat in the room as they flew by, the reaction is really quite interesting: a lot like the stages of dying: denial, shock, depression, anger, and, unlike dying, a determination to change the outcome, at least in the home country of the person processing the newly identified reality. I had the opportunity to speak at length with two members of the supplement industry (who had no clue that Codex was working pretty hard to put them out of business but began to “grok” it pretty hard and fast as we talked over dinner) and five African and 2 Asian delegates who, likewise, were not clear about Codex’s agenda before our talk, but see it rather differently now.

In fact, an African delegate whom I had met several times before at Codex and her home country came up to me today and said that she was shocked that everything that Codex was doing was fine with me. Now it was my turn to be shocked and I asked her what she was talking about. She explained that she knows me to be very vocal and forthright but I had made no comments during the meeting. I told her that the Natural Solutions Foundation is a Public Observer (no opportunity to speak during the meetings) but that I most assuredly did not agree with what Codex was doing. Then she did something extraordinary: she asked me if I would please make sure to email her a month or so before the Codex meetings and tell her what the Natural Solutions Foundation positions and concerns were so that she could give them language during the meetings! This African government official wants our input so that our concerns can be the concerns of her country in the dialogue of Codex! Being there is half the fun. Speaking there is the other half of the fun and this delegate volunteered to have half the fun for us!

What happened today? Some other amazing things, in addition to the one!

A few examples: The standard for gluten free foods has been dragging on and on and on and on. For years and years and years.
I mentioned that in the full day workshop on the topic (Saturday, November 10, 2007) the debate ranged hot and heavy between the “not one part per million more than 20 ppm of gluten as the absolute upper standard for a gluten-free product” and the “well, we’ve been selling gluten-free foods up to 100 ppm (and the 1981 Codex standard allows 200 ppm) for years so what’s the big deal with allowing 100 ppm as the gluten-free standard” teams. YEARS! Back and forth, days and days, papers and more papers, working groups and electronic letters and on and on and on.

Today, somebody let the cat out of the bag. The Great Gluten Food Fight was a meaningless struggle that had absorbed well over a decade of time and effort. In exasperation, Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, Chairman of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) finally uttered the truth. Here is a verbatim report of his remarks: “Whether it is 20 or 100 ppm, these are trace elements and do not put the patient at risk.”

In other words, these meaningless struggles which have been going on for well over a decade are useful because they absorb energy and time, diverting attention and awareness from the real agenda of Codex. By numbing the mind, distorting and fragmenting the process of dialogue and agreement, enmities and allegiances are created which are then skillfully exploited to cement total control of the process while a feeling of compliance and [pseudo] accomplishment is allowed to pass for real forward movement on real food safety and security.

Responding to that comment, the Association of European Coeliac Societies (AOECS) said, “To put things in the right situation, we are talking about hand luggage on the biggest ship in the world: the Queen Elizabeth. You are talking about how many pieces of hand luggage you want to put on the world’s biggest ship.” This meeting has been rich in people doing small, irrelevant things on huge ocean liners. This is not a meeting of one liners! (Joke).

The amount of energy which this standard has absorbed is astonishing but makes sense viewed from the perspective I outlined above. That is not to say that reliable labeling for “gluten free” (or “reduced gluten” or “low gluten”) are unimportant. But 14 years? Come now!

Another example: Health Claims. If you make it impossible to let people know what nutrients and foods can do for them, then they will be far, far less likely to use them for a health benefit. That is the game the FDA is playing in the US and they have made sure the game extends to Codex as well. The US attends all of the Codex Committees (as you would expect, after all) so it can tie together efforts to achieve something in one of them with the same agenda in other committees.

As you may recall, we reported from the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (Ottawa, May, 2007) that the US (of course) had tried to bull through (assisted by the usual cast of culprits: Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and the EU) a definition of advertising which said that ANY communication which linked a health benefit to a food or food component which resulted in a change in the consumer’s beliefs, behaviors or buying patterns around food was to be considered advertising. We provided enough information on that absurd guideline that a number of countries took exception to it and academic publications without no commercial interest in the food were exempted. But what your friend says to you over the water cooler or what your doctor (or mother) tells you is still “advertising” and can expose the “advertiser” to legal action by the FTC, FDA or their legal lackies.

Here in the US, both the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission could jump all over anyone who provided such information – anyone. That would include scientists who published papers on food and health, journalists, doctors, mothers, health food store clerks, anyone at all. Through selective enforcement, plus some mainstream propaganda, suppressing that competitive information could get even easier for the drug folks.

Since the FDA (whose Dr. Barbara Schneeman so ably represented industry interests in her position as US Delegate at that meeting) had worked on that Codex Guideline for several years, it is, in our opinion, no surprise that they were already positioning the US for implementation of restrictions on truthful information about the health benefits of food (the single most significant competitor to drugs and drug profits) and took actions like the following:
December 2006: FDA issues Draft Guidance on CAM Regulation for Industry which states that products used with a health intent may be declared untested [hence, illegal] devices or drugs. Information used to convey that health benefit and intent to gain it thus become a force in moving foods into the category of untested drugs since it creates the expectation of a health benefit when using the food or food component.
March 2007: the Michigan Cherry Growers post several independent scientific papers stating that cherry juice is good for people with arthritis. FDA orders them to remove the papers and all references to them or they will declare cherries an untested drug and thus ban them in the US.
July, 2007 FDA issues Draft Guidance on Health Claims which says that “significant scientific agreement”, an impossible and totally unnecessary standard for safe, effective and long-used supplements (no new ones are allowed on the market which were not in use by June, 1994 unless they undergo extensive testing). By confusing information (like the cherry juice studies) with health claims, true speech is being stifled. Truthful statements about health benefits would be illegal and subject to FDA enforcement.
March, 2007 Ron Paul (R-TX) introduces Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 2117, to assure Americans the right to make, and learn about, truthful health claims which are supported by scientific evidence. (Evidence-Based Review System for the Scientific
Evaluation of Health Claims)

June, 2007 FDA introduces Good Manufacturing Practice for supplements which, by its own economic impact analysis, will drive most small and many medium size nutrient companies because of burdensome requirements. Nutrients are safe and effective. Virtually no nutrient-related deaths have ever been reported.
November, 2007 US, represented by FDA employee Barbara Schneeman, PhD, head of FDA Office of Dietary Supplements, supports CCNFSDU Health Claims document which the US comments on saying a Health Claim is any representation that states, implies that a relationship exists between a food or a constituent of that food and health” and that such claims must meet absurdly high scientific agreement standards.

Is this a plot? No it is a plan. Remember, when I used the term “Nutricide” I gave it 2 definitions. The first one is “the death of the body of knowledge relating health benefits and food”. For the second one, go here (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php) and click on the featured video.

Can’t get enough of Codex: Special bonus: If you want to read a near-real time account of some of today’s Codex session and its implication, click here (http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2007/11/notes-skyped-from-codex-by-dr-laibow.html).

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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation

November 12, 2007

Today was the first full day of work for the good men and women who attend the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) and they are, at least for the most part, hard working, honest people who have been bamboozled.

The Report (from the Ad Hoc Committee on Foods Derived from Biotechnology about genetically modified (GM) plants which have been modified to produce nutrient(s) or related substance(s)) that we are reviewing right now in the Codex meeting is very, very interesting and very, very disturbing — but may ultimately be quite useful in the US and elsewhere. For example, although the US, via the FDA, has declared administratively, not scientifically, and in the absence of any testing to determine the truth of its position (or the safety of genetically modified [GM] foods) that GM foods and natural foods are equivalent and GM foods are safe. They refuse to do any safety testing to back up this dangerous – and potentially lethal – assertion. My assumption, of course, is that testing is the last thing they would want because it would show how very dangerous GM food actually are.

In this Report, curiously specific to “foods modified for nutritional or health benefits”, it is clearly stated in Section 1.1 that this document “does not cover assessment of the benefits themselves” but (Section 1.2) “the [GM] trait is a result of i) introduction of a new nutrient(s) or related substance(s), or ii) alteration of either the quantity or bioavailability of a nutrient(s) or related substance(s), iii) removal or reduction of undesirable substance(s) (e.g., allergens or toxicants), or iv) alteration of the interaction(s) of nutritional or health relevance of these substances.” Whew! Sounds like we could do with a little “assessment of the benefits themselves” before we go messing with the food and nutrient supply.

Oh, yes, for those of you in the US or eating US foods and taking US nutrients: under US law, it is not legal to introduce a new or novel Dietary Ingredient which was not in use before June, 1994 without extensive testing. Whoops! The US Delegate, Dr. Barbara Schneeman (FDA head of Office of Dietary Supplements). did not think fit to mention that, therefore, this Codex provision violates US law in several ways and so cannot be subject to FDA’s announced penchant for “HARMonized” regulations. So unsafe/untested foods could then be marketed in the US which violate US law because they introduce novel nutrients, although the benefit of doing so has not been evaluated or studied. Yummy! Sounds like food safety to me. NOT! So if the US “HARMonizes” with this standard, as it has said it will do, illegal foods could be marketed in the US with the knowing acquiescence of the US FDA!

Next in the list of Wonder Words produced for the “Guidance of the world community” is the following (Section 3.6) “Foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants modified for nutritional or health benefits may benefit certain populations/sub populations, while other populations/sub populations may be at risk from the same food.”

Hang on there! The US FDA assures us that all GM foods are exactly identical to their non GM counterparts. Exactly. There is no difference whatsoever. So how can some populations be at risk from them? In fact, in a statement taken from the FDA website, we read, “The 1992 policy is based on existing food law, and requires that genetically engineered [GM – REL] foods meet the same rigorous safety standards as is required of all other foods. The law places a responsibility on producers and sellers to offer only safe products to consumers, and provides FDA with the legal tools for enforcement.” It is worth asking, though, if the FDA forbids the labeling of GM foods (except raw produce which carries a little oval tag with an identification number starting with the number 8) how such enforcement could be carried out when traceability, and therefore liability, is totally impossible if the food is not labeled with the strain of GM foods it contains. Do you feel safe yet?

But back to the issue at hand: if Codex acknowledges that these GM foods ARE different and the US says they are not, what happens next? Can the US use its might to force a change at the Codex Commission level? We shall see. Can the World Trade Organization force the US to identify those foods which are GM because Codex says that they are different? Can the US policy of refusing to label GM foods be challenged in court? In the World Court? In the World Trade Organization? Through a Consumer-initiated class action suit?

Moving right along, Section 3.7 notes “Rather than trying to identify every hazard associated with a particular food,…

[Hazard? Maybe foods should have upper dose limits assessed through Risk Assessment: for example, “That’s one too many Brussels sprouts, my fine young bucko! Risk assessment shows that the sulfur contained in 6 sprouts can help detoxify mercury stored in the brain – that could be a risk because you might not be able to get rid of that mercury floating around so you can only eat 5 of them!” REL]

… the intention of a safety assessment of food derived from recombinant-DNA plants is the identification of new or altered hazards relative to the conventional counterpart….

[Now hang on there once again: the US FDA, which we all know is working in our best interests, not for the good of industry, right? {after all, Dr. Schneeman personally told me on Saturday that it should be the goal of the FDA to protect the consumer} says that there ARE no risks and hazards associated with GM food. IF there were, FDA could not approve GM foods as if they were identical to foods that have not been modified. Yet Codex is saying that there may be new or altered hazards in GM foods compared to natural foods. What’s wrong here? Has reality, coming from the unlikely source of a Codex Report, come face to face with administrative fantasy engaged in by the FDA for the benefit of the Biotech industry? Imagine that! ]

The paragraph goes on to state, “Since recombinant-DNA plants modified for nutritional or health benefits
[assumed, not established, as pointed out before -REL] result in food products with a composition that may be significantly different from their conventional counterparts [sorry to break in again, but what did we just hear? “May be significantly different from their conventional counterparts”? But the FDA says it has already decided, without the science to back it up, that GM foods are NOT significantly different from their counterparts and, for that reason GM FOODS MAY NOT BE LABELED AS SUCH IN THE US SINCE CONSUMERS WOULD MAKE THE “MISTAKE” OF REJECTING GM FOODS IF THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE GM FOODS. It doesn’t sound like such a mistake to me when you read that Codex says that they may be significantly different and may have hazards that regular foods don’t.]

Moving right along, “the choice of an appropriate comparator is of great importance for the safety assessment addressed in this Annex [the US, of course, says that no safety assessment is needed since GM foods are the same as non GM foods so the concept of a “comparator has no meaning if you accept the US position. REL]. Those alterations identified in a plant modified to obtain nutritional or health benefits are the subject of this safety assessment.” [So these plants need safety assessment in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, but not the US. OK. Got it! REL]

But if that were not quite bad enough, consider this little bit of madness: Section 3.11 says, “With conventional fortification of food, typically a nutrient or a related substance is added at controlled concentrations and its chemical form is characterized. Levels of plant nutrients or related substances may vary in both conventionally bred and recombinant-DNA plants due to growing conditions. In addition, more than one chemical form of the nutrient might be expressed in the food as a result of the [genetic] modification and these may not be characterized from a nutritional perspective.” [Emphasis added – REL]

Whoa! So unknown versions of the chemicals we call nutrients could be produced and we are supposed to eat them? Just like we are supposed to use patentable but dangerous hormones which science has shown to cause cancer, stroke, blood clots, Alzheimer’s Disease, Heart Disease and high profits for the owners of the patents instead of low profit, un-patentable bio-identical hormones which are not associated with these disease states? In a biologically active compound, a change in a single molecule can mean the difference between toxic/deadly and nutritional/health promoting. These GM plants are producing God-knows-what version of what might be a nutrient and might be a poison and we are supposed to eat it and feed it to our children? Are you still feeling safe?

The report continues, “Where appropriate, information may be needed on the different chemical forms of the nutrient(s) or related substance(s) expressed in the portion of the plant intended for food use and their respective levels.” MAY be needed? Well, yes, I rather tend to think so, don’t you? There are unknown hazards from eating chemicals that have never before been produced on this planet and it MAY be advisable or appropriate to get some information on them? Of course, the FDA doesn’t think so. How safe should we feel?

Section 3. 12 makes the point that the bioavailability of these “nutrients” should be established. A good point, because modified substances may not have any nutrient value or may be downright toxic. Who knows? Not even the Shadow knows! Yet the item says that that bioavailability should be established, where appropriate as if it might not be an absolute necessity! My safety meter is pegging out. How about yours?

But wait! There’s more!
Section 3.13 makes the point that that animal testing is nearly meaningless so the “nutrients and related substance” [that could easily mean a toxic compound, or a whole uncharacterized stew of them] are best tested in human beings to determine “to what extent the nutrient or related substance is bio-available”. So let’s use humans to see if they develop deficiency diseases because the “nutrient” turns out to be non bio-available or develop toxic reactions (perhaps, say, cancer, death, etc.), shall we, because the modified substance may be bio-available, but it may be a bio-available toxin. This is contrary to the Declaration of Helsinki on Medical Experimentation. (http://www.wma.net/e/ethicsunit/helsinki.htm)

Interestingly, Section 3. 14 notes “When evaluating exposure, it is appropriate to consider information on whether the consumption of the modified food could lead to adverse nutritional effects…,” Right. I think that’s appropriate, too. The FDA, of course, does not. But another interesting question is, from where is that exposure data supposed to come?

Thailand picked up on this serious problem: human experimentation to evaluate dangerous hazards of the GM foods. He said that he was sure that the necessity to test these GM foods on humans was an error and that they should be tested on animals. It was at that point that the German Secretariat interrupted and stated that the only option CCNFSDU had was to approve the report. And some tell us we are “alarmist” when we seen a totalitarian agenda behind Codex! Like a child, the nature of the parents impacts Codex. Click here (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&q=Nutricide&total=12&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0) for more detail on those totalitarian roots.

Yesterday, I took the organization with Observer Status at Codex which identifies itself as pro-health freedom to severe task because instead of protesting the dangerous (and illegal in the US) Codex policies of nutrient risk assessment, they were, as I put it, “rearranging the cushions on the Titanic’s deck chairs”. Someone characterized this assessment as “a mindless attack”. It was, in fact, quite seriously mindful of the dangerous tactics taken by Codex and the failure of this group to speak out against them. When a health freedom organization fails to speak out for health freedom (despite a later press release to the contrary), it should expect to be taken to task for that failure. That way, it can improve its representation and participation. Hopefully, we all learn from criticism. We appreciate constructive criticism and it was in that spirit that we told you what we observed (and what did not happen !) at the meeting.

But today, one of the members of that organization did, in fact, ask a good question. He did not make the rest of the point (that this is an atrocity and must not be perpetrated on consumers) but he did ask the following question of the CCNFSDU plenary session: “Since”, he said, “95% of the consumers of the European Union and millions of others do not want to eat Genetically Modified foods, where will you get the exposure data to tell you whether there is exposure to unintended components?”

Dr. Grossklaus answered, “If you have a PKU person [who cannot ingest a specific amino acid without major damage – REL] and you make a Phenylalanine-free [the specific amino acid they cannot tolerate – REL] maize [corn – REL], then people will see that it is a good thing and they will eventually change their minds”.

People with Dr. Grossklaus’ degree of arrogance often make the most blatant statements which make clear exactly what they mean while other, more cautious, people would forebear. This was one of those moments. In essence, Dr. Grossklaus said, “Let them eat Genetically Modified Cake! They’ll learn to like it!” And it’s risky cake, as even Codex makes clear!

So, in addition to asking a philosophically interesting question, I was appreciative that the organizations representative asked a question that smoked out a clearly stated statement from one of the primary Codex manipulators. When a person or organization does something that I think deserves commendation, I will commend it.

And so it continues…

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

PS – Perhaps even more telling, when I expressed my concern to Dr. Grossklaus over the cast he was wearing on his leg and asked if he was taking certain nutrients (that accelerate the healing process) he admitted he was… but they are forbidden by the European Food Supplements Directive! Ach! such a good nutritional doctor. REL

The rules here in Codex land are different from the ones that you and I know.
As you may know, Gen. Stubblebine and I are attending a Codex committee meeting in Germany. In our world, yours and mine, food should be clean and government agencies charged with protecting public health should prevent dangerous toxins from reaching our food or air, soil and water. But here in Codex-land, just the opposite seems to be true. Dangerous/profitable toxins of every sort are enthusiastically permitted into food and the environment EXCEPT for those alleged “toxins” which have a beneficial impact on health. In Codex-land, nutrients have to be controlled rigidly and kept at minimum levels, barely sustaining life but compromising health. That way, the preventable diseases of maximum profit caused by under nutrition can take root and flourish. You know what those diseases are; Codex’ parent UN agencies, the WHO and FAO have listed them: cancer, diabetes, heart disease…

As bizarre as it seems to us, all nutrients are treated as toxins here in Codex-land. So far, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline doing so has been ratified, but the plan, articulated well today during the Codex session, is to treat all nutrients the same way: as toxins. But the one “health federation” group accorded “Official Observer” status does not get what is going on
Since natural therapies and health options (including herbs) are to be eliminated through Risk Assessment, the only legal strategies left to treat these preventable diseases of under nutrition will be … drugs! Considering the provable history of Codex as a drug industry idea, that makes pretty good sense, at least from their viewpoint!

Sunday was a fascinating (and troubling) day here in Codex-land. There was no amplification for the meeting (although it was an announced Working Group, just like yesterday’s session on Gluten-Free Foods for which amplification was provided) and the room where the meeting took place was full of reverberations making it very hard to hear (and making my verbatim note taking really challenging). There were hardly enough seats for everyone although the group was small so we were crowded together in a very big room nor were outlets provided as they usually are. That made electronic note-taking difficult unless you found a wall socket and plugged your computer in creating a hazard in the walkway. That’s what I did. I figured that my minor hazard was nothing compared to the global one they were creating in the meeting.

Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, Chair of CCNFSDU (Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses), supported by the European Union and the United States, of course, has been enthusiastically flogging the notion that nutrients should be treated like toxins for a very long time, since about 1995, in fact. (The fact that he runs a Risk Assessment company has nothing to do with his position on the issue, right?)

Today it became clear that everyone in the room, including those people who might well be expected to be on our team – the health freedom team – had succumbed to the lure of the group mind. The health freedom team was nowhere to be seen intellectually although a “health federation” which is an Official Observer (and can thus speak in the meetings) was actually physically present. Natural Solutions Foundation – as an NGO (nongovernmental) public observe – was relegated to the balcony – and has not been granted Official Observer status since, we were told, the Codex observer rule says that groups with similar interests are supposed to work together and, says Codex, such a group already has “status.” We have not, I am saddened to state, ever been invited to participate in the “official” health federation group, although, for example, industry groups are regularly allowed to participate in the official US delegation.

Well, the official health federation delegates’ contributions were dismally disappointing. Instead of representing the voice of reason and health freedom, neither the lawyer nor the scientist representing this group took the least exception to the idea that nutrients SHOULD be regulated as if they were dangerous. Instead, they spoke in favor of using ranges of permitted doses between the necessary minimum and the permitted upper limit of a nutrient instead of hard and fast numbers.

Let me ask you, WHAT upper limit?

Under US law there can be no upper limit set.

Because of biochemical individuality there can be no upper limit set.

When nutrients are used to restore lost health, mega doses may be needed on an individualized basis so there can be no upper limit set.

Nutrients are foods and, as such, generally regarded as safe so there can be no upper limit set.

But, first and foremost, we in the US are protected by DSHEA*, the 1994 law which says that there can be no upper limits set on nutrients are foods and, as such, generally regarded as safe so there can be no upper limit set.

So I ask again, WHAT upper limits?

The Health Freedom Movement, as fractured and dysfunctional as it may be, is united on one idea: no unscientific restrictions on access to nutrition. At least I thought that until today’s meeting.

Since one of the people on what I would have hoped was “our team” is a lawyer, you might suspect that he would know that. And since the other is a scientist, who has made many pronouncements on nutrition and nutrient needs, including the variation of requirements for them and the very wide range of individual needs for nutrients matched to their astonishing safety profiles, you would also expect him to have had more to say than ‘we need to be aware that there is both good and not-so-good evidence and we need to be cautious on that account’. This organization proudly flaunts the fact that it is an official observer so it can speak in Codex meetings. True enough. And so perhaps we all have a right to expect that they would actually be speaking for health freedom. But what they spoke for is the dangerous status quo as defined by the Pharma Phriendly Codex folks. Why would our team (if they are our team anymore) accept and acquiesce to the notion that there should be any upper limits on nutrients? Natural Solutions Foundation is a PUBLIC observer so we cannot speak during the meeting sessions while this organization has pointed out many times that it is in the unique position of being able to speak. In fact, the lawyer for this organization stated to the Natural Solutions Foundation two years ago that he was encouraged by Dr. Grossklaus to continue speaking out since he was able to act as “the conscience of Codex”. To be a conscience, though, one has to remain true to ones precepts and beliefs, not look for acceptance and an invitation to come have a drink at the old boy’s club. What’ll you have, boys, pesticide on the rocks with a twist of genetically modified lemon?

Tribute to George Orwell: Repeat Double Speak Long Enough and It Becomes the New Truth
Another contribution that “our team” made during today’s session was to point out that the example given in one section of the Nutrient Risk Assessment document under consideration was erroneous because the negative effects of the substance referred to (Beta Carotene) were only present if the synthetic version were used but were absent with the natural version of the supplement. The example was to show how “dangerous nutrients” should be controlled. He suggested that iron would be a better example for the document’s purposes.

Shame!

While that is correct, it begs the point: whether natural or synthetic beta carotene (or any other nutrient) is under consideration, its treatment as a member of a toxic class of materials violates US law, is therefore illegal under our legislation, cannot be approved by consensus or otherwise by the US or its employees in this or similar meetings, may not be implemented in the US and represents both bad science and bad global health policy since it mandates global under nutrition in any country which becomes Codex compliant in this regard. And, as you know, the only way for a country to avoid the WTO mandates that enforce Codex is to adopt the Natural Solutions Foundation “Codex 2 Step” – while others do ‘business as usual’ your Natural Solutions Foundation proposes solutions countries (including the US!) can adopt despite Codex manipulations. Click here for a discussion of how the Codex Two Step process works. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QNg3MD6BxM) on the Natural Solutions Foundation YouTube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=NaturalSolutions.

The Delegates of this federation also joined in the discussion of the function of the Nutrient Risk Manager which each country will have under Codex. Whom would you like to nominate for the US Nutrient Risk Manager? Perhaps this very scientist who, just a year or two ago, was actually suing the European Food Supplements Directive because they were treating nutrients like toxins and limiting their doses to absurd and insufficient upper limits. He was here today, discussing what the Nutrient Risk Manager should do, instead of demanding an end to such pernicious bureaucracy. The Nutrition Czar of each country will keep nutrients out which s/he decides are not to her/his liking and limit the doses of those which are permitted to levels favored by Risk Assessment and Risk Analysis. Does that sound like US law or the will of the US population as expressed in our law? Not to me. Is that what you want? I don’t. But “our team” participated in this meeting by rearranging the cushions on the deck chairs on the Titanic when there was an alarm to be sounded, even thought it might be less welcome to the people who called the party than their balsamic participation in the global destruction of nutritional health freedom. That’s what Dr. Ron Paul called giving FDA more authority: “changing chairs on the Titanic…” and that thought applies to Codex too… but no one there who would have “spoken truth to power” was allowed to speak. Thanks, “team”!

We stand with former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor who wrote for the majority in Thompson v Western States, “If the First Amendment means anything, it means that regulating speech must be a last – not first – resort… “We have previously rejected the notion that the Government has an interest in preventing the dissemination of truthful commercial information in order to prevent members of the public from making bad decisions with the information… Even if the Government did argue that it had an interest in preventing misleading advertisements, this interest could be satisfied by the far less restrictive alternative of requiring … a warning that … risks were unknown.”

On a Historical Note

Codex was, according to its own account – it’s happy picture of itself, created in 1962 and began promulgating standards and guidelines shortly thereafter. When the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created in 1994 by the Uruguay Round of GATT, the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the US law which enabled our participation in the WTO specifically prohibited “HARMonization” with any aspect which compromised our nutritional freedoms. The FDA Modernization Act of 1997 did the same and so did USC 3512. The Natural Solutions Foundation’s challenge to the FDA’s illegal determination to restrict US nutrient access to comply with Codex (which you can join here [ [http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=184]) reminds the FDA of that in strong legal terms. In 1995, despite US law, the FDA had announced in the Federal Register (October 11, 1995) that it would pursue “HARMonization” with international standards – in other words, Codex; it never withdrew this position, preferring to ignore Congress’s strong mandate. If you recall that Codex was created at the behest of the Pharmaceutical industry, that makes pretty good sense: set the situation up so that real toxins are dealt with as if they are innocuous while really innocuous – and biologically necessary- competitors to the illness industry are treated as toxins.

Then, although the idea is as absurd as needing a drug for every emotion or experience in life, or the “fact” that properly used drugs, the leading cause of death in the US, are actually good for you, the Pharma clones just keep banging away and repeating the notion that nutrients need to be strictly limited since they can be “dangerous” and eventually, if the audience is not thinking very hard or very fast, they will buy into the oft-repeated, but wrong (and dangerous) idea: “Yup! Nutrients are like dangerous toxins and should be limited as if they were. Dangerous toxins like pesticides and veterinary drugs (including antibiotics) are really OK, see, but nutrients are very, very dangerous.”

That doesn’t hide the truth: nutrients are foods!

But repeat the lie and repeat it and repeat it and, with enough propaganda and enough pseudoscience, people – governments, delegates, even the “health freedom team?” – will finally buy in to the idea as if it did, indeed, make sense. The principle is the same as repeated ads for drugs. It apparently does not make any difference that happy, healthy people running through fields of wild flowers probably do not need drugs: bring the two ideas together enough times and people will conclude that IN ORDER to be happy and healthy and run through fields of flowers gaily, they NEED drugs. So … ask your doctor! And ignore the rapid fire, quickly intoned and quickly forgotten reality disclosures of what these drugs do to you, whether you need them or not.
Back here in Codex-land, the Sunday morning session was a short one, just two hours, to discuss Risk Assessment as it applies to nutrients was a short one, just two hours. And it ended about 45 minutes early. The work was done rapidly and with seeming banal boredom. No passion, all civility. Quietly and politely set up a system that will condemn who knows how many people – billions? – to chronic under nutrition and what the World Health Organization identifies as its inevitable results: cancers, cardio-vascular diseases, stroke, diabetes and obesity. Here in Codex-land we can just decide to treat nutrients as if they were dangerous toxins. That lets us set minimum intake levels (since, unlike toxins, even in Codex-land a total lack of nutrients is a very bad thing). In fact, the Australian Chairwoman of the meeting noted that traditional Risk Assessment does not apply to things which are necessary for life, only to those which are toxic to us. “Modifications” which have never been tested by science, have been made to the Risk Assessment profile and procedure to account for this difficulty. Never mind that these modifications have no scientific validity. The much-vaunted “Science Based” ethic of Codex is, as it says in Porgy and Bess, “a sometime thing”.)
Once the inhabitants of Codex-land got that point established, they could make the decision to set nutrient upper limits (ULs) since, here in Codex-land we don’t want people to have enough nutrients to stay, or get, healthy. Remember, not only did Dr. Grossklaus, the Chairman of CCNFSDU, state in 2003 that “Nutrition has no role in health” but even if it did, it would not be permitted. You see, “healthy” is a very, very bad idea here in Codex land. Sick and taking drugs in Codex-land. Now THAT’s a good idea!

The Council for Responsible Nutrition,, or CRN, a US supplement trade group, has been a huge fan of setting upper limits for nutrients using Risk Assessment. (see, for example, http://www.crnusa.org/pdfs/CRNCommentsCAC062804.pdf )

I was not really looking, after all this time, for much support for the idea of high potency nutrients as our legal right in the US from Council for Responsible Nutrition, whose John Hathcock was at the meeting asking for limits to guide manufacturers, no matter how low, nor from the IADSA, http://www.iadsa.org/ , the, International Alliance of Dietary Supplement Associations, another trade group which seems to have missed the point that if nutrients are limited to doses so low that they, by design, have no impact on people, then people will stop buying nutrients. Duh! In other words, the supplement industry is blindly shooting itself in the pill bottle. Could that be because of the guidance it is getting from its trade organizations, NPA ( http://www.naturalproductsassoc.org/site/PageServer ) and CRN? And could THAT be due to the influence of their board members who are from drug, biotech and Agribiz industries, whose wishes and whims control Codex? Hmmm.

I was not looking for their support in protecting your high potency self determination from CRN or IADSA and I was not disappointed. It is true, I must admit, that John Hathcock did kindly point out that the Codex Two Step” (a template which we have applied to the Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline in our Codex eBook ( http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=220), is a valid process and open to any nation that wants to use it. He did not call it that, he just identified the portions of the WTO trade agreements which makes it both legal and accessible to any country which wishes to protect itself from Codex. So thank you for that, John. It is also true that the attorney representing the “Health Freedom” federation at this meeting has repeatedly condemned, derided and scoffed at the Codex Two Step process. As a lawyer, I would have expected better. So Mr. Hathcock got that point, at least, exactly right.

But the two “Health Freedom” team members? Where were they? Rearranging the cushions.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

*Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act, passed in 1994 by unanimous Congressional Consent says that nutrients are foods which are generally regarded as safe.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

*Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act, passed in 1994 by unanimous Congressional Consent says that nutrients are foods which are generally regarded as safe.

November 10, 2007

Several months ago, while I was on the road, someone found my “mute button.” That may be good news for some, but having laryngitis is not a whole lot of fun for someone who is trying to educate Congress and national decision makers! I could not make a sound above a whisper and had a hacking, painful cough to boot. I was out of the natural remedies I depend upon and was pretty miserable.

The Magic of Magnets Up Close and Personal

At that point, serendipity brought me a gift. My friend, Peter Kulish, chief scientists at the the Foundation for Magnetic Science had sent me a BiomagScience™ Wellness Kit which arrived right then! At the hotel where we were staying for a couple days.

Here’s the letter I wrote to him two days later:

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Dear Peter:

I had been suffering from profound laryngitis and a hacking, paroxysmal cough which disturbed my sleep and left me unable to breathe 12 to 15 times per hour for about 4 days. Nothing seemed to help the symptoms or the distress despite mega doses of vitamins; my herbal remedies were not available.

When my Biomag Wellness Kit arrived, I put two of the smallest magnets in a Power Stack (2 magnets, green side toward my skin) over my sternum. Within 15 minutes the coughing was virtually gone and my voice had returned. I went to bed without the magnets and was up most of the night with the same hacking, breathless coughing and my voice was absent once again in the morning.

I got up and put the magnets back on my sternum: the same almost magical relief took place in the same short time. But when I showered and got dressed again, forgetting the magnets (since I am not used to using them), the cough and laryngitis started plaguing me once again. Remembering the Power Stack, I clipped them to my clothes and, as if by the magic of magnetic therapy, my cough was gone and my voice came back!

I am still little hoarse but I can be heard over the phone and my voice is getting stronger by the hour. Unless I take the magnets off, my symptoms have gone from disabling to minor and resolving.

These two days have taught me the astonishing power of magnets in a highly personal way. Since I am never (well, hardly ever!) sick or in pain, I have not had the opportunity to experience the power of magnet therapy personally. Now I have and I am deeply impressed by the technology. I can strongly recommend Biomag Science and its excellent products.

Thanks for the magnets and thanks for the lesson,

Dr. Rima

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Peter is a far-sighted natural health leader with decades of research and involvement in the science and application of magnets, as his magnetic fluid conditioning patents show. He understands that health freedom is vitally important to us all and has made an offer that turns win-win into heal-heal.

He has pledged to donate $10 to the Natural Solutions Foundation for each Wellness Kit sale generated through this emailing! WHAT A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO HELP NATURAL SOLUTIONS WHILE EXPERIENCING THE BENEFITS OF MAGNETS… AND ALSO, JUST THE PERFECT GIFT OF HEALTH FOR THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!

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The remarkable Wellness Kit contains the therapy book “Conquering Pain, the Art of Healing with Biomagnetism” with its A-Z therapies, a bottle of Liquid Oxygen for those in need, the three sizes of medical grade Rare Earth Biomagnets, a set of Water Jar Energizers for your drinking water [shown by research to be beneficial to your health and according to many – very tasty to drink], and a pictorial guide of the advanced therapy circuits BiomagScience has developed for supporting increased vitality and resolution of painful aches, sprains, acute, chronic or degenerative conditions.

My recent experience makes it clear that everyone should have a BiomagScience Wellness Kit in their medicine cabinet for any emergencies that arise.

Please give the Foundation’s message your close attention. It is clear to me that the proper use of magnets can have remarkable benefits for your health and well-being. Because of Peter’s involvement with health freedom, you can purchase exceptional magnets at an exceptional price AND support the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time.

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PS – For the few of our Natural Solutions supports who may not like receiving messages like this, when someone agrees to support foundation activities and we recommend their products… As you know from our www.organics4U.org web site (where you can also find the link to Biomag Science) we have endorsed a number of wholesome, natural products and services. We do this because we believe in the products – we only endorse products we have personally used and for which we have personally experienced the benefits – and because you will benefit from the products and/or special pricing… and because the marketers support Health Freedom… win, win, win… And for those who feel there should be no endorsements, please understand that running our campaigns cost money; trips to Codex meetings and DC meetings cost money; running our web site costs money every month. We are not rich enough to pay for it all ourselves – – nor should we have to. Regular small contributions will both strengthen us and keep us going… if you prefer not to purchase to help us, donations are gratefully accepted: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?page_id=189 .

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SPECIAL INFORMATION ABOUT MAGNETS AND WELLNESS

Note from Peter: Another Practitioner who has had encouraging results in many applications :

“I have had a wonderful adventure learning about your Biomagnets, they are everything you said they would be and much more! I enlisted as many people as possible to put the magnets to the test with their many different and varied complaints. The one constant was that all the people gained more energy and slept better at night.

Then there was the removal of pain and dysfunction from all sorts of different areas/problems: joint issues, glandular dysfunctions, digestive problems, TMJ, inflamed nerves, warts/root removal and pain relief from insect bites/stings. Everyone has been most pleased with the results and the fact that the book, pictures and magnets are so user friendly. The magnets are easy to use, do not wear out and can be used over and over again with the same degree of results each and every time. Thank You! The magnets are truly a blessing to all who use them! Cheers.” JF Oakville, CA

TORN MENISCUS RESOLVED

Pain from torn Meniscus (cartilage in te knee) goes away in a day with BiomagScience Knee Circuit Therapy.

“I’m a 62 year young dog walker in New York City and I suffered a torn meniscus in my right knee. The doctor prescribed narcotics for the pain and said that I needed surgery. A friend told me about your magnets and I decided to try anything because I did not want the surgery nor did I want to keep taking narcotics.

I got my magnets and instructions on Thursday and I put the magnetic circuit on right away and I went about my walking the dogs. Well I just can’t believe it, today Friday the pain is gone!!! You have given me hope again that I might not lose my livelihood nor need the surgery and I have stopped the pain killers. Thank you, thank you for your wonderful product and for your help.”

S. L. NYC

RELIEF FROM SCOLIOSIS AND SPINA BIFIDA PAIN

For years I had awful pain from scoliosis and spina bifida in my lower and upper back, especially when sitting. I tried everything including painful therapies: acupuncture two to three times a week; special Chinese massage which almost left me an invalid; Reiki energy healing which lessened the pain temporarily; physiotherapy; Ancient Mexican therapy; a very uncomfortable special brassiere brace; chiropractics for six months along with Swedish massage; Nikken Products; pain drugs which did nothing but cost money and made me sick; nothing worked and I believed I just had to live with the pain the rest of my life. Then I was introduced to the advanced back pain therapy from BiomagScience. For the first time in many years, I got relief. Since then, the therapy has helped my back heal as the pain does not occur as often. When it does, I put the advanced therapy on and it goes away instantly. T.K. North Wales, PA

BiomagScience through the Foundation for Magnetic Science offers specific therapies for over 170 health conditions. Based on nearly three decades of research in the development and application of specialized magnetic circuits, dramatic results have been achieved in supporting vitality and resolution of acute, chronic and degenerative conditions.

These specialized magnetic fields have been designed for simple, proper placement for increasing the electromotive vitality (Zeta potential) of the cells resulting in such issues as:

1. After 25 years of chronic illness from low energy, stuck cells, nutritional transfer increased within an hour of CVS therapy – after one year of therapy, playing competitive tennis: http://www.biomagscience.com/mother_s_life_returned_after_25_years

2. 50-year old woman awoken from a terminal [acute pancreatitis] coma with advanced Meridian Energizing Therapy and Super BioMagnet therapy on pancreas. http://www.biomagscience.com/woken_from_coma_pancreatitis_is_able_to_heal

3. Acute pain, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, and insomnia from whiplash resolved with BiomagScience advanced neck circuits.
http://www.biomagscience.com/live_cell_microscopy_test_results_by_fms

4. 72year old man with lifetime loss of mobility and feeling from knee down regains mobility and feeling from Regeneration of nerves, tendons, muscles using advanced knee circuit @ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3sGAGOpgwI

5. 22-year Arthritic knee resolved http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORkfRyKvsjA

6. Extremely painful TMJ/Lockjaw resolved http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORkfRyKvsjA

7. See testimonials http://www.biomagscience.com/user_testimonials

BiomagScience.com offers white papers [and FAQs] giving simple scientific explanations about the proper applications and what must be addressed to support advanced healing and what should not be done to prevent harm (electromotive stress).

Did you know that one side of the limb is positive and the other is negative?

Did you know that each hemisphere (right-left side) is the opposite polarity?

Did you know that the same magnetic polarity placed on the proper polarity supports rapid healing, but if placed incorrectly – often causes pain because of short circuiting by the wrong voltage.

Did you know that positive energy promotes acidity and can activate pre-cancerous cells and negative energy promotes alkalinity which increases oxygenation and according to testing [on Medline] reduces cancerous growth.

Learn more: http://www.biomagscience.com/cmd.php?af=591011

Also available, Before and After Case Studies Research of:

1. Cellular photo microscopy of rouleau blood cell patterns changing into healthy positioning in less than an hour;

2. Cellular voltage increases in less than hour which would normally take months of supplementation – tests with FDA certified BIA (Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis) instrument;

3. Photomicrographs of before and after oxidative stress tissue showing neutralization of free radical sites, supportive healing and immediate reduction of inflammation within an hour.

BiomagScience has broken through many boundaries in establishing carefully designed, electromotive energies, that when properly placed, support and amplify the body’s natural healing energies which provide rapid pain relief, increased immune functions, and support re-constructive and/or regeneration of all tissue.

BiomagScience is very pleased to submit the results from our advanced, yet simple to use Circuit therapies – Meridian Energy, Overnight MET, Daytime, Nightime, CVS, Organ Group Energizing Therapy, advanced knee and back circuits, etc.

After reviewing the results and research, it is easily realized why BiomagScience protocols are used and taught worldwide.

Respectfully submitted by:
Peter Kulish, Senior Science Adviser
Foundation for Magnetic Science

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Disclaimer: The use of magnetism or any of the products offered herein are intended as therapy to benefit normal structure and function and such use is not prescribed as treatment for medical or psychological conditions, nor intended for diagnosis, care, treatment or rehabilitation of individuals, nor to apply medical, mental health or human development principles. The statements herein have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Not intended to support or sustain human life, or to prevent impairment of human health; for self-education and research purposes only. Testimonial results are not typical.

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