Both CodexAC and EFSD make higher doses illegal with or without a doctor's prescription.

The ECJ ruling, which follows by only a few days the close of the anti-nutrition CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission's meeting in Rome last week, presents a significant threat to the American tradition of high potency dietary supplements despite the fact that the ECJ has no jurisdiction in the US. Ruling against a legal challenge by the UK's Alliance for Natural Health, the ECJ upheld the new rules which allow only those vitamins and minerals on an approved list, the so-called "Positive List" for use in supplements. Since this fits so neatly with the CODEX principles these two regulatory thrusts give added weight to the international and domestic pressure against nutritional medicine and the wellness industry which presents a major economic challenge to illness-care industries like Big Pharma.

In the US, consumers and natural health care practitioners make heavy use of supplements to prevent, treat and cure the chronic diseases of under-nutrition. Chronic degenerative diseases (i.e., cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease and stroke, etc.) are well known to develop from nutrient restrictions or shortages like those imposed by the ultra low nutrient levels resulting from Risk Assessment techniques. These degenerative diseases can often be prevented, and well treated by, nutritional medicine. Nutritional preventive and clinical strategies will be illegal under both the EFSD (described as "the future face of CODEX") and the toxicology-based CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guideline.

World Health Organization Urges Codex Turnaround to Support Global Health.

Noting that CODEX had "failed to make a contribution to health", the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) now require that CODEX develop a "relationship to nutrition" and implement the WHO Global Strategy for health. WHO and FAO chastised CODEX sharply at the close of its meeting in Rome last week, referring to the epidemic of the diseases caused by declining nutritional status of the world's population as a "non communicable epidemic" and called upon the CAC to alter its anti-nutrition stand in order "to make a positive impact on human health" for the first time in its 42 year history. [Note: The Codex Alimentarius Commission is a part of the WHO/FAO.]

The United States supported the Codex’s Vitamin and Mineral Guideline's anti-nutrition approach to supplementation and natural medicine practice (i.e., ultra low dose, ultra low potency nutrients which may not be used to prevent, treat and cure diseases).

Both the ECJ ruling and the CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guideline are in sharp contrast to the US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), passed unanimously by Congress in 1994, which classifies nutrients and herbs as foods which, by definition, can have no upper limit.

It is anticipated that the Wellness Industry in the United States will be negatively impacted by these two interlocking events unless forces in the US and abroad join together to support the US tradition of nutritional supplementation and the WHO/FAO focus on nutrition and health.

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