Official site. Part of FAO and WHO food and veterinary standards activities. With information about procedure, forthcoming activities, members and participating organizations. All Codex Alimentarius standards document available for download in English, French and Spanish.

"If we fail to get the Codex draft proposal for vitamins and minerals removed entirely... consumers world wide will be deprived of access to potency levels within the therapeutic range, restricted to strictly RDA levels of nutrients, and deprived of health information about these products via labels and labeling. Moreover, anything without an RDA would be regulated as a 'drug.' This would kill millions of people."

Scary news - CODEX, which overwhelmingly represents the huge pharmaceutical cartels, is attempting to wrest control of vitamins and herbs away from natural health food shops and others - and to criminalise selling vitamins for preventive purposes! Why? Because prevention hurts their profits!

"Kava kava, in use for several decades in Canada without incident, was recently prohibited from sale by the HPB (Health Protection Branch). DHEA, a very popular health food store supplement was also the target of the HPB. Several months previous to this, melatonin was the HPB victim. All this has gone on despite zero deaths or adverse reactions taking place as a result of Kava kava, DHEA, or melatonin."

Collection of articles, mainly by John Hammell, sorted by date.

"The Drug Cartel's effort to 'Harmonize' the laws world-wide in order to KNOCK OUT competition from the dietary supplement industry is no longer mere conspiracy theory!"

'Threatening large fines, the so called "Health Protection Branch" (HPB) has just ordered Toronto's biggest health food store, the Big Carrot, to remove over one third of their stock because the products don't contain so called "Drug Identification Numbers."' (1997)