Thursday, March 10, 2005

Codex 2 - Self Care - Not So Good

There's confusion about how Codex Alimentarius Commission standards and a European Union Dieteary Supelement initiative affects Canadian consumers and business. Codex in Canada is managed through several government departments. Health Canada says the standards are voluntary. However in creating of the Natural Health Products Directorate, Health Canada has effectively classified all of those products as drugs with requisite licensing requirements. Next could be the adoption of Codex dosage standards. Those standard are very low. Simply put you might not be able to get 1000 mg dosage of Vitamin C, if these standards are enforced through international trade agreements. A portion of self health care is about to be outsourcing!

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