b'both For and Against zilpaterol. Ier done. And we know zilpaterol isvotingscheme,littleGrenadas willskipovertheelaboratema- not safe, otherwise why is it bannedone vote counts the same as enor-neuvers that were initially under- for use in horses and why was it with- mousChinasorIndiassingle taken by the anti-zilpaterol forcesdrawn from the market by the manu- votes.Tellingly,throughoutthe to avoid a vote altogether on thefacturer in 2015?debate, the leaders of the pro-zil-standard,butspeakingagainstButwhetheryoubelievethatpaterol forces seemed smugly con-thestandardweretheEurope- non-therapeuticzilpaterolissafeorfident of victory. And rightly so, as anUnion,Switzerland,Norway,not safe is irrelevant here. This is notit turned out.Russia,Kazakhstan,Turkey,Chi- a product that will add to the safetyNow they can turn their atten-na, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Qatar,of our food supply. It will not maketion to spreading yet another toxic Iran, Iraq, UAE, Algeria, Belarus,any one person or any animal one bitdrug across the face of the Earth. Syria,Tunisia,NorthMacedonia,healthier.WhatzilpateroldoesistoStill,NHFandothersheldthem and Cameroon. Those pushing thehelp increase the profits of a $262-bil- backformanyyears,probably standardweretheUnitedStates,lion drug company. Is that what youcosting the manufacturer millions Canada, New Zealand, many Af- want your legacy to be here? ofdollarsfromthedelaywhile rican states, and every single onePlease reject any zilpaterol stan- protecting consumers.oftheWestern-hemispherecoun- dard, not because you are rejecting aZilpaterolisalreadyinusein tries. The UK remained strangelyJECFA assessment on safety but be- most of those countries that argued aloof,asifwishingtoavoidof- causeyourefusetoallowanydrugin favor of a Codex standard for it, fending anyone. into our worldwide food supply thatwhich includes the entire Western NHFandIBFAN(theInter- does not make our food or our animalsHemispherefromCanadaallthe nationalBabyFoodActionNet- any healthier but simply makes moreway down to Argentina and Chile. work) were the only two INGOsmoneyforafat-catcompany.TheyHowever, New Zealand, Uganda, to speak against adoption of thedont need the extra money. Bangladesh,andSenegalallof zilpaterolstandard.IBFANex- As I said, I was the last one towhomhypocriticallyarguedfor pressed its strong opposition first,speakonthesubject,butIwasaworldwideCodexstandardfor and then NHF was called upon tointerruptedandchastisedbythezilpaterolprohibit its use in their speak, as the very last speaker onChairmanformyuseofthecor- owncountries,demonstrating the subject before a decision wasrect depiction of a $262-billion me- once again that these Codex offic-to be made. ga-corporation as a fat-cat com- es are rogue agencies that answer What I roughly said on the zil- pany.Idefendedmystatementnot to their own governments or paterol issue just before 5:00 p.m.to the Chairman as one of fact andcitizensbuttotheirBigPharma local time has been set down be- not intended to impugn anyone orand Big Ag handlers.low from memory: anything. If a $262-billion compa- As a footnote, let me say that I Ourthankstothosewhowantny is not a fat-cat company, thenwas pleased that several delegates to protect consumers, such as SaudiI dont know what is. Some mightcameuptomeaftermyspeech Arabia, Qatar, Iran, UAE, China, theevenconsideritacompliment.to thank me for having said what EU, Norway, Russia, Turkey, and oth- And the need for any amount ofmany delegates there thought but ers. On the safety issue its importantzilpateroladdedtoanimalfeedcouldnotsaythemselves.Two to know that no risk assessment hasstill remains zero! peopleevendescribeditasthe been done per the Codex ProceduralRegardless,twovoteswerebestspeechmadeonanytopic Manual,whichveryclearlystatestaken, and the anti-zilpaterol del- during the entire Codex meeting.that, the Risk assessment should beegations lost both times. The Unit- Thanks again to all of our NHF basedonrealisticexposurescenari- edStatesandtheindustryfrontmembersandsupporterswho os. This means that risk assessmentsgroup Health for Animals had al- helped make this participation in should have been done on zilpaterolsmost certainly lined up their votestheCodexmeetingpossible!For synergistic effects with the other tox- long before the meeting as almostthosewhowishtosupportour ins, endocrine disruptors, and chem- everypostage-stamp-sizedcoun- work, we gratefully accept dona-icals that we are directly exposed totryfromaroundtheGlobewastions at https://thenhf.com/join-intherealworld.Thiswasnev- present to vote. So, in the Codexus/make-a-donation/.H ealtHF reedomN ews /w iNter2023 15'