What makes the Codex/CAFTA issue so critical?
What many people don’t understand is that Section 6 of CAFTA would require America to form a Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures Committee to insure that we harmonize our laws with the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization. Article 3 of the WTO’s SPS Agreement requires America to harmonize its food safety laws (read that: DSHEA) to Codex standards: “To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations” (emphasis added, not the significance). Codex sets the standards for food safety, including vitamins and minerals; and those standards are not based on sound science, nor are our health concerns in view. You see, Americans have a very different outlook on nutritional supplements than the rest of the world. We place great value on them as something that benefits our general health and longevity. Millions of Americans emphatically believe that the suppleme
