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2005 Ron Paul Chapter 83
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HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS
BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 11, 2005
Henry Lamb- A Great Freedom Fighter Documents how your Dietary Supplements are Under Attack
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Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to
read ”Your dietary supplements: Under attack again“ by Henry Lamb,
which I am inserting into the record. Mr. Lamb explains the threat to
American
consumers of dietary supplements and American sovereignty by the Codex
Alimentarius commission, commonly referred to simply as Codex. The
United
Nations created Codex to establish international standards for foods
and
medicines. Just last week, representatives of the United States
government
agreed to a final version of Codex’s standards on dietary supplements
which, if
implemented in the United States, could drastically reduce Americans’
ability to
obtain the supplements of their choice. Members of the American
bureaucracy may
be hoping to achieve via international fiat what they cannot achieve
through the
domestic law-making process--the power to restrict consumers’ access to
dietary
supplements. American bureaucrats may gain this power if the World
Trade
Organization, which considers Codex ”guidelines“ the standard by which
all other regulations are judged, decides that our failure to
”harmonize“ our regulations of dietary supplements to meet Codex’s
recommendations violates international trading standards! This
could occur
despite the fact that American consumers do not want to be subjected to
the
restrictive regulations common in other parts of the world, such as the
European
Union.
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This article is typical of
Henry Lamb’s
work. For almost twenty years, beginning at an age when most Americans
are
contemplating retirement, Mr. Lamb has worked to expose and stop
threats to
American liberty, sovereignty, and prosperity. Mr. Lamb became involved
in the
battle for liberty when, as the CEO of a Tennessee construction
company, he
founded a state association of contractors to work against excessive
regulations. In 1988, Henry Lamb founded the Environmental Conservation
Organization to defend true environmentalism, which is rooted in the
truth that
there is no better steward of the environment than a private property
owner,
from those who used the environment as a cover for their radical
statist
agendas. Since 1992, Mr. Lamb and ECO have focused on the threat to
economic
liberty and self-government posed by the radical global environmental
agenda.
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Henry Lamb works to further
the cause
of liberty by giving speeches around the country, editing an on-line
magazine,
making numerous television and radio appearances, and writing a weekly
column to
inform his fellow Americans of the latest scheme to undermine their
freedoms.
Mr. Lamb is the model of a citizen-activist, and all who wish to become
involved
in the battle for freedom can learn from his example. In conclusion, I
once
again urge my colleagues to read Mr. Lamb’s article to learn about the
need to
protect American consumers from Codex, and I thank Mr. Lamb for his
tireless
devotion to the cause of freedom.
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YOUR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: UNDER ATTACK
AGAIN (from WorldNetDaily, June 11, 2005)
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(By Henry Lamb)
The Codex Alimentarius
Commission
sounds like one of those shadowy, sinister organizations conjured up by
one-world-government nuts to scare people.
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Truth: It is!
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The Food and Agriculture
Organization
and the World Health Organization created this commission in the early
1960s to
set standards for food safety and to ”harmonize“ the laws of member
nations.
The commission was endorsed by U.N. Resolution 39/248, which says:
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”When formulating national
policies
and plans with regard to food, governments should take into account the
need of
all consumers for food security and should support and, as far as
possible,
adopt standards from the ..... Codex Alimentarius. .....“
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The Codex Alimentarius
Commission
consists of delegates from 163 member nations representing 97 percent
of the
world’s population. It meets every two years, either in Rome or Geneva.
Between
meetings, the commission is governed by an executive committee that
directs the
activities of its many committees.
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Of immediate concern is the
ongoing
effort to bring dietary supplements in America under the control of
standards
set by this commission. Dietary supplements generate a $17 billion
industry in
the United States, which affects more than 150 million consumers,
according to
Congressional findings (H.R. 2485). Proposed procedures and standards
could
virtually destroy this market and deprive millions of Americans of the
supplements they want to use.
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The European Union Directive
on Dietary
Supplements, which becomes law in August, severely restricts the types
and
quantities of supplements that may be legally sold. Most forms of
vitamins C and
E, for example, are not available, or are available only in extremely
small
doses. If current plans proceed on course, American consumers are in
for a
shock.
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How can this little-known
international
commission control what consumers buy in the United States?
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An even less-known agency,
deep within
the bowels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsible for
U.S.
participation in the Codex Commission and designates delegates to each
of the
commission’s committees. Barbara O. Schneeman is the delegate to the
Codex
Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses.
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The effort to regulate dietary
supplements has been under way for more than a decade. In 1994,
Congress adopted
the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which kept supplements
beyond
the reach of the drug police. In the past, Codex recommendations have
been
non-binding. Now, however, the Codex Alimentarius Commission is teaming
up with
the World Trade Organization to bring international enforcement to the
dietary-supplement battle.
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Ironically, it was primarily
the U.S.
that brought the WTO into existence in 1994, as the successor to GATT,
the
General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade. The WTO agreement specifically
requires
that the member nations--including the U.S.--conform its laws to meet
the
requirements of WTO decisions. Failure to conform results in stiff
financial
penalties. The Codex Commission and the European Union want the WTO to
enforce
Codex standards, which fly directly in the face of the Dietary
Supplement Health
and Education Act.
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Pascal Lamy of France was just
selected
as director general of the WTO. Lamy served as a member of the French
Socialist
Party’s steering committee and was chief of staff and representative of
the
European Commission for President Jacques Delors. Since 1995, he has
served as a
member of the Central Office of the Mouvement Européen (France)
and as a member
of the European Commission, responsible for trade.
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The Codex Commission will be
meeting in
Rome July 4-9 to adopt the final rules on dietary supplement use. Dr.
Carolyn
Dean, president of Friends of Freedom International, will attend this
meeting
and return to the U.S. just in time to present her report to the Sixth
Annual
Freedom 21 Conference in Reno, July 14-16.
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The Codex Alimentarius
Commission’s
reach is much broader than dietary supplements. Its committees are also
working
on standards for pesticide residue, labeling of all kinds of foods,
food
additives and nutrients, veterinary medicine and drugs, as well as
standards and
methods for analysis. The function of this organization is to establish
standards for all food worldwide and to enforce those standards through
the
power of the World Trade Organization.
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Few people know that there is
such a
thing as the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It was created to promote
food
safety in international trade. It is on the brink of becoming an
Orwellian
bureaucracy--far worse than the worst fantasies of the one-world
conspiracy
theories.
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The Codex Alimentarius
Commission is
neither fantasy nor theory; it is real.
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