What is the Codex Alimentarius Commission and what is its function and purpose?
The Codex Alimentarius Commis sion (CAC) formed by the United Nations in 1962 is an international food commission chartered to set the standards for governing international trade. The Commission has created the World Food Code, a collection of internationally adopted food standards designed to regulate and control every aspect of how food and nutritional supplements are produced and sold to the consumer. The agency is under the joint sponsorship of the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization, two primary organs of the United Nations. According to statute, Codex’s first purpose is to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade. In my opinion, people who consider Codex Alimentarius(Codex) as benevolent consumer protection or as harmless to their health freedom are seriously mistaken. It has nothing to do with consumer protection. It has everything to do with the economic ambitions of multi-national corporations, in particular the ph
