"Mads Wedel Ibsen" <heilpraktik@city.dk> wrote in message
news:94ore8$oki$1@news.cybercity.dk...
> Jeg skriver til gruppen i anledning af det forestående
> EU-Kosttilskudsdirektiv, som:
Her er et referat fra et Codex Alimentarius-møde. Det er IKKE KUN Europa,
men HELE VERDEN, de vil lægge deres klamme hænder på.
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Codex Alimentarius [Confidential! Please do not forward!]
English notes on the 22nd meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Committee (CA)
on Nutrition and foods for special dietary uses, Berlin 19. - 23 June, 2000
(There are thirty committees under CA).
The German Chairman Grossklaus asked in the beginning of the meeting, that
the press not do interviews during the meetings and that filming,
videotaping or recording was not allowed. Taking notes was ok - these are
the notes.
The Chairman later mentioned the Matthias Rath demonstration outside, and
that the critic John Hammell was off the US delegation, but of course was
allowed in the meeting as press, because of the German freedom of press.
[- John Hammell himself explains that it took a very long time for Codex to
give him an answer to whether he could be allowed to observe the Codex
meeting as a member of press, as he is writing for the Life Extension
Magazine. After several weeks he was told, that he was not allowed to
attend, as he was writing for private press. - As several people from the
private press were attending the meeting, this is then not true!]
[Monday evening the 19.06. there was a ten minute program on the German TV
News about the demonstrations for free access to vitamin- and mineral
supplements and protests against "the pharmaceutical industries plans
through Codex to reduce supplement levels".
According to the heilpraktiker and Codex delegate Oden from New Zealand,
some delegates had earlier said they knew what was going to be on the news.
It was quite obvious that the Monday evening program was thoroughly
researched and prepared in advance. The TV program focused only on the
person Dr. Matthias Rath, implying that he was misleading sick people by his
extreme and paranoid campaign against authorities, making people buy and
take vitamin- and mineral-supplements, only because he had a business
selling dietary supplements and natural medicines. - No patients were
interviewed.
Two German people from the German authorities were interviewed speaking
against Rath - no demonstrators/ex-patients pro vitamins/minerals were
interviewed - even though there had been 1500 at a demonstration in Berlin
all Saturday, 2000 at a meeting Saturday evening and 1000 demonstrating in
front of the Codex meeting at the BgVV. Codex Alimentarius or the Codex
meeting was not mentioned at all. Some TV reporters who worked with the
protesters said the story would later be on Rath's website
www.rath.nl].
(The NZ delegate Oden (American) said he was threatened by the Chairman
personally that he would "get in trouble" for talking at the outside
demonstration).
(The general secretary of the Reform products producers association, the VRH
(like a Judas) pointed out to the Chairman that Matthias Rath was inside the
BgVV building and about to have a lunch in the internal self-service
restaurant. They thus got Rath thrown out. Some German journalists covered
this drama).
The vitamin issue/Proposed draft guidelines for vitamin and mineral
supplements:
Even though there was no vote, the vitamin- and mineral item 5 on the agenda
was taken up on Monday afternoon (and was literally rushed to conclusion -
avoiding discussion and controversy by keeping everything pretty much at the
same step as previously by the Committee Chairman).
(Regarding the "voting" on the vitamin issue, the technique of putting
matters through "democratically" at these kinds of meetings is to decide by
"consensus". This is an abolition of the vote, and adoption of any proposals
by consensus, apparently defined as "absence of sustained opposition". In
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