URGENT CODEX APPEAL
Dear NHF Member and Friend of Health Freedom, In just a few weeks – from November 2–6, 2026 – the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU45) will meet in Nuremberg, Germany. The City’s name alone carries heavy weight regarding ethical decisions, and decisions made in that room will shape the nutrient…
Codex Alimentarius Commission Thinks 8,157 Million Pounds of Pesticides Applied Annually on Farms is Not Enough
Codex Alimentarius meeting room in Rome, Italy, on November 10, 2025 FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy On behalf of the National Health Federation (NHF) and its members, I began the week of November 9, 2025, with a flight to Rome, Italy, and then a very long day on Monday, November 10th, representing consumer health interests at…
ASPARTAME, PESTICIDES, AND NEW CODEX LEADERSHIP
Looming on the Horizon is also a Scheme to Regulate Supplements GloballyBy Scott C. Tips, NHF PresidentDecember 3, 2024 On my way to Geneva for Codex meeting Under overcast skies but with Winter’s icy grip not yet present, the 47th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) met for six days from November 25-30, 2024,…
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Codex Nutrition Committee Meets in Dresden, Germany
Setting the Nutrient Reference Values for Infants & Children By Scott C. Tips Codex Head Table, 8 women, 1 man ©2024 FAO/WHO All Rights Reserved On the banks of the Elbe, in the city of Dresden, Germany, the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) met for its 44th session from…
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Codex Alimentarius Commission adopts Zilpaterol standard
FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy
November 28, 2023. By Scott C. Tips. After having waged a many-years-long battle around the Globe against the toxic vet drug zilpaterol hydrochloride at both the Codex Alimentarius Commission and committee levels (2016, 2018, 2021, 2022), the National Health Federation (NHF) finally reached the end of the road today when over NHF’s and many Codex member states’ objections, the Commission voted 88-49, with 11 abstentions, in favor of adopting the toxic-drug standard. It took all of Tuesday afternoon, at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, to reach a conclusion.
Remember that zilpaterol is Merck’s special steroid-like veterinary drug for cattle, pigs, and poultry, which unnaturally pushes them to make more muscle and less fat.
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