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Scott Tips discusses NRVs with Malaysian and Benin delegates at CCNFSDU Meeting
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Codex Nutrition Committee Chooses Malnutrition
Dec 31, 2012 | GreenMedInfo | Scott Tips JD
In a
stunning display of nutritional ignorance, three women ram through a
Codex standard that leaves many with sub-optimal nutrition
The Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses
(CCNFSDU) just finished meeting all last week (December 3-7) in Bad
Soden, a small German city near Frankfurt am Main. Nearly 300 delegates
were in attendance, comprised of government functionaries and
international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) representatives.
So, for one week, the assembled delegates – including the INGO
delegation of the National Health Federation (NHF)
[1]
–met, discussed, and debated a wide number of food and food-supplement
issues, including the controversial draft Nutrient Reference Values
(NRVs) for vitamins and minerals.
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Remember, the food guidelines and standards adopted by this
Committee, and approved by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, are
important because they are then used domestically by numerous countries
worldwide and by virtually all countries in international food trade.
Nutrient Reference Values
Those who have been following the National Health Federation's
efforts at Codex since the mid-1990s will recall that at the Codex
Nutrition Committee meeting in Dusseldorf, Germany in 2009, the NHF
singlehandedly launched the opposition that stopped the Australian
delegation and others from "dumbing down" these Nutrient Reference
Values.
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