Public Meeting to Review Positions of Codex Committee on Food Additives

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Just typed "Codex" into Google and clicked "news" to see if anything popped-up. What a nice surprise. This is an official U.S. government press release, but it's only been referenced by one other website (so far) as far as I can tell. Still, there's a time and date for a truth action and contact info to interview spokespeople on it.

Big Pharmacide is likely pushing for these policies to criminalize natural health remedies by labeling them dangerous and leaving us popping pills, especially since Codex was started by a former Bayer employee who was an ex-Nazi. After he got out of jail he pitched the idea to the UN and voila, they were down for controlling us.

There's actually two meetings on this in the U.S. coming up in the next month. I'm sure there are more in Canada and around the world before the "22nd Session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (CCFO)" in Penang, Malaysia, Feb. 21-25. They even say they're making plans for the whole world in their own damn press release.

Should we maybe ask some silly questions to get some silly answers?

Should we try to get into these meetings and get people into the info war?

Should we March On Ottawa on Canada Day to let everyone there know we... know?

Meanwhile... a tip of the toque to our North American Unionized Jahnkee bretheren...

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Public Meeting to Review Positions of Codex Committee on Food Additives

Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Catherine Cochran

WASHINGTON, January 21, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Office of Food Safety and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will sponsor a public meeting in advance of the 43rd Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Food Additives (CCFA). The public meeting will be held to provide information and solicit public comments on the draft U.S. positions for items being discussed at the Codex session.

The public meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Harvey Wiley Federal Building Auditorium, FDA, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, Md. Interested parties may submit comments and register electronically for the meeting using the following e-mail address: cfsan-ccfa@fda.hhs.gov. Early registration is encouraged because it will expedite entry into the building and its parking area. Attendees requiring a parking spot should include the vehicle make and tag in the registration e-mail. Photo identification is required to enter the building. Anyone wishing to attend the meeting by phone should request the call-in number and conference code in the registration e-mail.

The 43rd Session of the CCFA will be held in Xiamen, China from March 14-18, 2011. The CCFA is mandated by Codex to establish or endorse permitted maximum levels of food additives, as well as to consider and make recommendations on related matters such as food additive labeling and methods of analysis to determine additives in food. A complete agenda and documents relating to the 43rd session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives will be available online at www.codexalimentarius.net/web/current.jsp. ...

... For further information concerning the 43rd session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives, contact Dr. Dennis Keefe by phone at (301) 436-1200 or by e-mail at dennis.keefe@fda.hhs.gov. For further information about the public meeting contact Dr. Jannavi Srinivasan, Review Chemist, Division of Biotech and GRAS Notice Review, at (301) 436-1199 or by e-mail at jannavi.srinivasan@fda.hhs.gov.

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Last Modified: January 21, 2011

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/NR_012111_01/index.asp

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USDA Announces Public Meeting, Seeks Comments on Positions For Codex Committee on Fats and Oils

The public meeting will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Food and Drug Administration, Harvey Wiley Building, Auditorium (1A003), 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College

GardenNews.biz - Jan 21,2011 - USDA Announces Public Meeting, Seeks Comments on Positions For Codex Committee on Fats and Oils

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2011 - The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 22nd Session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (CCFO), which will be held in Penang, Malaysia, Feb. 21-25, 2011.

The public meeting will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011, from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Food and Drug Administration, Harvey Wiley Building, Auditorium (1A003), 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD. To participate through teleconference for the meeting, dial (866) 859-5767, and enter the passcode 2225276. Documents and agenda items related to the 22nd Session of the CCFO will be accessible at the Codex website at www.codexalimentarius.net/current.asp.

The Codex Committee on Fats and Oils is responsible for elaborating worldwide standards for fats and oils of animal, vegetable and marine origin, including margarine and olive oil. ...

... Members of the public may access the meeting agenda or request copies of documents by contacting Marie Maratos, U.S. Codex Office, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 4861, Washington, DC 20250; calling (202) 690-4795; or e-mail at Marie.Maratos@fsis.usda.gov. Written comments may be offered at the meeting or sent via e-mail.

http://gardennews.biz/?id=3539

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Mission B.C. homeowner fined $5,200 for growing cucumbers: Another good reason to March On Ottawa in 2011?

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Just caught this article about a man in B.C. fined $5000 for growing cucumbers in his basement from a posting at Alan Watt's Cutting Through The Matrix .com. It's probably part of the "food safety" Bill C-36 Act that finally passed after several incarnations and Harper stacking the Senate with his lackeys. This is bad news.

According to Dr. Rima Laibow (among others), similar acts worldwide give the UN control the world's food supply under Codex Alimentarius (.net) regulations. This includes criminalizing vitamins, herbs and minerals unless small amounts are given by prescription like Europe, introducing banned toxins and regulating production.

Non-compliance by December 31, 2010 would result in losing any cases brought up in court at the WTO (World Trade Organization). We just squeaked by and can't be sued by Finland for all our trees and lose, for example. Now, we have crackhouse style laws against purveyors of home-grown food. Now, we can see them in action.

Fortunately, many Canadians have been active on this and people know about it. Senator Elaine McCoy was blogging about Bill C-36 live from the Senate floor and warning us Health Canada was asking for drastic new warrantless powers, more than the cops have, to arrest people and take their property even without a trial.

Using "grow-ops" as their excuse after they've been in the news is a nice touch.

Especially with no evidence that anything (previously) illegal was being grown.

We can see the conspira-stories we've seen for years turning into reality.

Another good reason to March On Ottawa on Canada Day in 2011?

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Mission homeowner fined $5,200 for growing cucumbers

Citizens planning class-action suit over municipal grow-op inspections

By Sam Cooper, The Province January 10, 2011 Comments (100)

There’s no way Len Gratto is paying a $5,200 fine to Mission city hall for growing cucumbers in his basement.

Gratto — a 67-year-old who has lived for 30 years with his wife in their Mission home — says he’s raring to join an imminent class-action lawsuit attacking the municipality’s grow-op bylaw inspections.

A number of citizens, led by Mission man Stacy Gowanlock, will allege their homes were illegally searched for pot grow-ops and they were slapped with fees and repair orders costing upward of $10,000 — all on questionable evidence.

Gratto says he’s never grown pot, but “laughable” evidence against him consists of pictures of some “dirt” on the basement wall and “a furnace pipe going up into the chimney, where it should be.”

“It’s upsetting they can do this,” Gratto said. “We were growing cucumbers in the basement because they wouldn’t take outside.”

Gowanlock said he was searched in 2009 and hit with thousands in fees and repair orders despite never growing pot in his home. A lawyer could be filing his civil suit within days, he said.

“I’m going to be the one that steps forward,” he said. “It’s the whole process. You’re violating people’s rights.” ...

... Including both RCMP and PSIT searches, inspection fees of $5,200 were levied 275 times. Mission says its inspection program is revenue neutral, and paid back its startup costs by Dec. 31, 2009. Fees include funding for the RCMP, who monitor searches from the sidelines.

Critics such as Gowanlock claim Mission’s inspection funding scheme amounts to a “cash grab.”

Coun. Jenny Stevens says she initially supported the program, but now believes about half of homeowners inspected are innocent.

“My biggest worry is about 50 per cent of these people were subjected to embarrassment and innuendo,” she said. “I’m very concerned about the threat of litigation . . .”

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Mission+homeowner+fined+growing+cucumbers/4083756/story.html

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Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

Dr. Rima Laibow - 40 mins



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634#

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

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Bill C-36 Lost

Posted By Senator Elaine McCoy - Dec 14 2010 - 07:38AM

Bill C-36, the Consumer Products Safety Act, was lost in the Senate last night. I say 'lost' even though a majority of senators voted to pass the bill. Unfortunately, a majority also defeated several amendments designed to preserve Canadians' safety from unwarranted state intervention.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: must we choose between product safety and citizen safety? The answer is no (scroll down to the 2030 mark). To pose the question that way is to create a false dichotomy.

We could have had safety for both citizens and consumers. Instead we've ended up with a law that allows bureaucrats to run roughshod over the interests of private citizens, innocent or otherwise.

Is that what you, a Canadian citizen as well as a consumer, really want?

http://www.albertasenator.ca/hullabaloos/?article&543

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Codex Alimentarius

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Welcome to New Codex Members

It is with great pleasure that we welcome the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Nauru as members of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Regions: Europe and South West Pacific).

This brings the membership of the Commission to 185 members (184 member countries and one member organisation).

http://www.codexalimentarius.net/

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UPDATE: 2 Comments

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