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Guess who's coming to dinner: Codex Alimentarius.(ALERT!)

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Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "food code") was founded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) in 1962. Codex is a trade organization, not a consumer health organization. International delegates established committees which have met annually to set guidelines on all foods, agriculture, and nutritional supplements since 1963. Virtually anything that can be put in the human mouth has come under the scope of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC).

Little notice was paid until the World Trade Organization (WTO), chartered in 1995, became the enforcer of Codex standards. Even ...

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