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1. INDIA STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Presented byNatural Solutions Foundation

2. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Natural Solutions Foundation Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Retired) President Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director Lacey J. Banks, Esq. International Development Director Natural Solutions Foundation

3. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Estimate of Situation Indian Food Safety And Standards Act • Allows Standards superior to Codex • Allows Strong Pro-Health Regulations • Allows Optimal Health Strategies Natural Solutions Foundation

4. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Problem: Degraded Food Supply Active Agent: Codex Alimentarius Natural Solutions Foundation

5. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH History of Codex Alimentarius • Fritz ter Meer’s “innovations” • German Death Camps (e.g. Auschwitz) • Slave Labor System Natural Solutions Foundation

6. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH History of Codex Alimentarius (cont.) 1952 - Fritz ter Meer brings letter signed by presidents of former IG Farben Pharmaceutical companies urging UN to control • World’s food supply • International food trade Natural Solutions Foundation

7. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH History of Codex Alimentarius (cont.) 1962 - UN asks WHO/FAO to fund/run Codex Alimentarius 1963 - Codex initiates work 1994 - WTO founded, accepts Codex as a (not “the”) standard for resolution of food trade disputes Natural Solutions Foundation

8. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius • Supports US/Multinational interests • Violates consumer health despite clear mandate Natural Solutions Foundation

9. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius (cont.) • Vitamin and Mineral Guideline, mandates Global Under-Nutrition • Antibiotics mandated in food animals • Growth Hormones mandated in dairy cows, food animals Natural Solutions Foundation

10. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius (cont.) • Unlimited irradiation of non local food components • Sugar in baby formula/weaning foods – Diabetes, Obesity Natural Solutions Foundation

11. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius (cont.) • Trans fats permitted despite established health hazards • Cadmium in polished rice increased (0.02-0.04 ppm – pediatric, adult Kidney Failure) Natural Solutions Foundation

12. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius (cont.) • No provision for special nutritional requirements of severely under-nourished children and adults (per India, CCNFSDU 2006) Natural Solutions Foundation

13. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius (cont.) • Consistently avoids mandated responsibility to implement WHO“Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health” (2005-6, CCFL, CCNFSDU) Natural Solutions Foundation

14. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius (cont.) • POPs: 7/9 deadliest pesticides banned by India and 173 other countries reintroduced 2005 (Stockholm Convention, 2001) Natural Solutions Foundation

15. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius (cont.) • Sodium, Potassium Fluoride permitted in formula for sick infants (CCNFSDU, 2006) Natural Solutions Foundation

16. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius Summary • Treats nutrients as toxins • Applies “Risk Assessment” to nutrients • Mandates severe under-nutrition • Sets unscientific “safe upper limits” Natural Solutions Foundation

17. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius Summary (cont.) • Compels importation of highly toxic food • GMO foods, seeds, animals • Dangerous pesticides/veterinary drug residues • Antibiotics/Growth Hormones Natural Solutions Foundation

18. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex Alimentarius Summary (cont.) • Drives family farmers off land, out of food production • Farmer suicides/GMO food • Pesticides/herbicides • Inappropriate technology Natural Solutions Foundation

19. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Solution For India: Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Active Agent: Strong, Pro-health Regulation Natural Solutions Foundation

20. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex & Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Critical Distinction: Codex is a standard for WTO dispute resolution re: food, not the Standard. Natural Solutions Foundation

21. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex & Indian Food Safety and Standards Act SPS Article 3 allows countries to adopt higher standards than those adopted by Codex without WTO Sanctions if those superior standards are Science-Based. Natural Solutions Foundation

22. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex & Indian Food Safety and Standards Act The Natural Solutions Foundation’s legal and regulatory arm has developed a template which allows countries to safely contravene any Codex standard or guideline with which they disagree. Natural Solutions Foundation

23. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Codex & Indian Food Safety and Standards Act This template has been applied to the restrictive and dangerous Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline as an exemplar of this procedure. Natural Solutions Foundation

24. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Strengths • Nutrients are foods, not toxins • Allows High Potency Nutrient Density/ Optimal Nutrition strategies • Permits nutrient/health innovation Natural Solutions Foundation

25. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Strengths (cont.) • Offers health promotion model for India • International leadership in health promotion Natural Solutions Foundation

26. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Weakness: • Vitamins, minerals limited to Indian RDA levels for specific conditions Natural Solutions Foundation

27. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act RDA Limitations • Inadequate for • Health Maintenance • Disease prevention, treatment, mitigation and cure Natural Solutions Foundation

28. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act RDA Limitations Ignore • Biochemical individuality • Increased requirements in toxicity • Degraded nutrient levels in food supply Natural Solutions Foundation

29. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act RDA Limitations Ignore (cont.) • Increased requirements in disease, toxic body burden • Unique requirements of various populations Natural Solutions Foundation

30. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act High Potency Nutrients • Effectively prevent, mitigate, treat and cure diseases. Natural Solutions Foundation

31. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act High Potency Nutrients (cont): • Safe • Effective • Inexpensive Natural Solutions Foundation

32. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Circumventing Weakness Promote and protect Optimum Health by creating a strong regulatory framework which supports individual diversity and needs Natural Solutions Foundation

33. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure: • No upper limits on any category of nutrient which impacts structure or function Natural Solutions Foundation

34. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure: • Protection of food from genetic and other contamination, adulteration Natural Solutions Foundation

35. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure GM crops can not • Permanently cross-contaminate same/other species Natural Solutions Foundation

36. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure GM crops can not • Destroy genetic diversity, organic crops Natural Solutions Foundation

37. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure GM crops can not • Create super weeds Natural Solutions Foundation

38. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure GM crops can not • Destroy market value of non GM foods Natural Solutions Foundation

39. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure GM crops can not • Permanently impair reproductive capacities, health of humans, animals Natural Solutions Foundation

40. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure GM crops can not • Permanently insert totally uncharacterized, untested proteins into food supply, environment Natural Solutions Foundation

41. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework should assure GM crops can not • Create foods which violate religious strictures (Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Jewish, etc.) Natural Solutions Foundation

42. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Precautionary Principle • Protect food supply from dangerous food contaminants, components (natural and man-made) where dangers may exist Natural Solutions Foundation

43. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Precautionary Principle • FDA/USDA GMO certifications are not protective • GM food does not have to be safe to be added to food supply in US Natural Solutions Foundation

44. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Bill Precautionary Principle • US Certificate of Equivalency is voluntary in US, does not assure safety Natural Solutions Foundation

45. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Bill Precautionary Principle • USDA internal audit :US does not record nature, location, disposition or protection of local food supply when pharma GM crops, animals are raised (December, 2005) Natural Solutions Foundation

46. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Precautionary Principle • Foreign DNA can never be removed once inserted into plants, animals, humans, environment Natural Solutions Foundation

47. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Bill Regulatory Framework can be used to • Assure protection of food from genetic and other contamination, adulteration Natural Solutions Foundation

48. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework can be used to • Assure protection of Indian food value in the world market Natural Solutions Foundation

49. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Indian Food Safety and Standards Act Regulatory Framework can be used to • Assure availability of high potency nutrients and other health options necessary for wide-spread Optimal Health in India Natural Solutions Foundation

50. INDIA:STRATEGIC ROLE OF FOOD & HEALTH Strategic Implementation: Optimal Health Strategies Active Agent: High Potency Nutrient Feeding/ Epidemiology of Health Natural Solutions Foundation