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From Joan Schultze, DC

Lake Oswego

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Codex Admits It's Not About Health

Date:

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 03:27:55 +0200

From:

National Health Federation

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National Health Federation

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NEWS RELEASE

CODEX

ADMITS IT'S NOT ABOUT HEALTH

Codex Shoves

Ractopamine Down Our Throats after Narrow Vote

July 5, 2012

(FAO

Building – Rome, Italy) After taking a vote by secret

ballot this late morning, the Chairman of the Codex

Alimentarius Commission, Mr. Sanjay Dave, announced

the results of the voting on whether or not

Ractopamine (a steroid-like vet drug, the residues

of which remain in the slaughtered animal to then be

consumed by meat-eaters) standards were adopted. Out of 143

ballots cast, the vote was 69 for Ractopamine, 67

against Ractopamine, with 7 abstaining. If only one

vote had shifted from the “for” camp to the

“against” camp, then the result would have been

completely different and the Ractopamine standard

would not have been adopted.

This voting was

forced upon the Commission by the insistence of

the United States, Costa Rica, and Brazil that the

long stalemate over the adoption of a standard for

Ractopamine MRLs (Maximum Residue Levels) could

not be resolved through the Codex-preferred

process of “consensus” but would, after all, have

to be voted upon.

The European Union

(EU) and other delegations – firmly opposed to

the adoption of a standard for Ractopamine that

would permit WTO trade challenges against

existing Ractopamine bans – challenged the need

for a vote, as they knew that the United States,

Canada, and others had been lobbying Codex

countries since last year to support Ractopamine

use throughout the World. Nevertheless,

in a late-evening Codex session held yesterday,

the Commission voted to move forward on a vote,

to be held today.

Numerous

delegations had argued for and against the

Ractopamine standard in yesterday’s session

before the Chairman cut off discussion,

leaving 36 country delegations and 2 INGOs

(the National Health Federation and Consumers

International) without any opportunity to

share their views on this issue. This

decision was especially unfortunate because

both NHF and CI were prepared to speak out

strongly against the World Health Organization

representative’s unsupported comment that the

science supported the safety of Ractopamine in

the food supply. The Chairman’s abrupt

decision to cut off discussion also stood in

sharp contrast with that of the previous Codex

Chairwoman, Hulebak, who had permitted a

much fuller discussion of the delegates’

views, no matter how unpopular they might have

been.

The U.S.

Ambassador here in Rome reportedly spent his

time from 9:00 pm last night until 9:00 am

this morning calling Codex delegates to

lobby for their support. In

some cases – our sources report – he, or

someone, instructed countries (such as

Georgia) to vote the U.S. way or else. Pro-Ractopamine

lobbying had been particularly effective

among African countries, with only staunch

Kenya and Zimbabwe resisting the siren song

of Ractopamine.

NHF president

Tips said this about the result, “The narrow

vote reflects the absurdity of this

aspect of Codex. Here

you have less than 30% of the World’s

pork-consuming countries dictating

standards to the other 70% plus of the

World!

The European Union, Norway,

Switzerland, Turkey, Russia, Kenya, and

China correctly argued throughout that

the science on Ractopamine was not

settled, that this standard was not

about health but about pushing

commercial profits instead, and that

Codex would be damaged by the adoption

of this unhealthy standard. In

fact, that is exactly what will unfold

as a result of today’s decision: Codex

has lost whatever scientific credibility

it ever had, even amongst those who have

been its biggest supporters. Despite

especially the EU representatives’

herculean efforts – and they are truly

the unsung heroines of the day – bad

science and ill-health prevailed today,

and the World is a worse place for it.”

NHF predicts

that today’s adoption of a standard for

Ractopamine MRLs will lead to trade

challenges by the United States against

China and by Brazil against the European

Union to crack open those consumer

markets to Ractopamine-doped meat

products. The victory of the

United States today in pushing the

wishes of its commercial masters – and

certainly not those of its citizens,

most of whom oppose Ractopamine-doped

foods – may very well backfire on that

country and its minions as a chain

reaction of events unfold, the full

scope of which no one here yet knows.

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For further information on Codex, please visit the NHF

website (Codex):

http://www.thenhf.com/page.php?id=197

NHF Codex Book -

NHF Codex Overview

(May be used as an article or printed as a

handout to educate on Codex) -

NHF-UK Codex Overview

(May be used as an article or printed as a

handout to educate on Codex) -

NHF-Dutch Codex Overview

(May be used as an article or printed as a

handout to educate on Codex) -

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here for the permanent link to this news release,

use this link to inform others.

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Federation: Established in 1955, the National

Health Federation is a consumer-education,

health-freedom organization working to protect

individuals' rights to choose to consume healthy food,

take supplements and use alternative therapies without

unnecessary government restrictions. The NHF is the only

such organization with recognized observer-delegate

status at Codex

meetings.

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