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Codex Alimentarius, goes into effect Dec. 31st 2009

If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic

remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most

of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex Alimentarius is to

shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled

exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical

firms. Predictably, this scenario has been denied by both the Canadian Health

Food Association and the Health Protection Branch of Canada (HPB).

The Codex Alimentarius proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany

where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug

companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E

above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway

pharmaceutical giant, now controls an Echinacea tincture, which is being sold

there as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true

of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government controlled pharmacy has

the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food

stores, convenience stores or pharmacies. "

It is now a criminal offence in parts of Europe to sell herbs as foods. An

agreement called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to selling other illegal

drugs. Action is being taken to accelerate other European countries into

'harmonization' as well.

Donna ACS