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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 September 30 through October 6, 2024. The National Health Federation (NHF) was there as a Codex-accredited organization for its 28th-straight meeting in that committee – still the only one representing health freedom. About 200 or more other delegates and observers joined the NHF at this meeting.
Although there were a number of issues on the CCNFSDU agenda, the primary interest for the NHF was the establishment of healthy Nutrient Reference Values (NRVs) for older infants and young children. As you will see, though, the referent values used by the committee to establish these NRVs all came from a handful of mainstream scientific bodies recognized by Codex as “authoritative.” In Codex-speak, they are called Recognized Authoritative Scientific Bodies (RASBs), Except for values set by the FAO/WHO, no other scientific values may be considered, no matter how accurate they might be. I find this approach highly restrictive, dangerously biased, open to influence from the highest bidder, and likely to lead to errors – kind of like limiting yourself to just watching a few network television news programs and expecting that approach to give you complete and truthful intel.
The Working Group for Children’s NRVs
To get to this meeting, I flew in to Prague airport and took the intercity train to Dresden as that was less expensive than arranging a flight directly to the small airport servicing Dresden. That was on the plus side. On the minus side, I had to awaken at 2:15 a.m. that morning to make the flight to Prague.
Arriving on Monday afternoon, September 30th, I was in time for the ad hoc Physical Working Group (PWG) meeting that started the next morning. Ably chaired by the delightful Irish delegate Dr. Mary Flynn, this PWG was to discuss both the general principles for setting the NRVs and the actual values for Vitamins A, D, C, K, and E, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, Vitamins B6 and B12, folate, pantothenic acid, biotin, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, iodine, copper, selenium, manganese, phosphorus, and potassium for these older infants and young children... Read More |
