Part 3

WHO owns the TGA?

A three Part Feature Article on who was behind the world’s largest recall. 

Filed May 12, 2003 By Eve Hillary

[Part 1] [Part 2]

Each year delegates gather in a European city to convene the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The first commission was convened in 1963 as a joint effort between the UN and the WHO (world health organization). Since that time the Codex delegates have overwhelmingly represented large multi national pharmaceutical companies and government regulating authorities including the FDA and TGA. The delegates are determining an eight-step guideline that is already being implemented in many countries of the world. The Codex guidelines are intended to prevent the further sale of supplements and herbs and to regulate them as drugs to be manufactured solely by drug companies. In accord with the Codex guidelines, supplements are being slowly withdrawn from the public domain. 

There are no representatives of small vitamin manufacturers and retailers at Codex meetings and health supplement consumers are not represented, as they are not eligible to attend. There is no press allowed during these meetings. Each successive meeting at the Codex commission advances the coming agenda to set worldwide guidelines on vitamins, supplements and herbs. The full restriction of supplements and herbs is enacted as an eight-step process and begins with seemingly innocent changes that the regulator adopts at first. Finally each country is brought closer to full harmonisation when the consumer can no longer access supplements or herbs.

The guidelines include the setting of recommended daily intake (RDI) levels of supplements, which are set so low as to make therapeutic doses or prophylactic doses of supplements impossible and technically illegal. Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark have already harmonised to step 5. Once harmonised, the codex ‘recommendation’ becomes enshrined in that country’s statutes and laws are strictly observed. One Scandinavian vitamin supplier was chased by the federal police for supplying vitamin C tablets that exceeded 200 mg. The amount of vitamin C contained in three oranges had made this man a criminal. Canada has recently harmonised with Codex, with its regulator withdrawing nearly half of the stocks in health food stores overnight. Possession of one popular supplement DHEA in Canada now attracts the same penalties as crack cocaine. The Canadian regulator is empowered to classify any substance as a drug and it makes no difference if that substance is a food that has been consumed for millions of years and is perfectly safe. That product can be recalled or removed from the market. 

As Codex continues its march, herbs are increasingly classed as drugs with restricted access. Germany has already complied fully by regulating all supplements and herbs as drugs. In a country with an age-old tradition of natural medicine, no one can freely access these products now. This is designed to assist drug companies in their technology of PharmaPrinting, which produces versions of herbs that will be standardised and patented by drug companies and approved by government regulators as drugs. In a press release six years ago, the WHO has announced its collaboration with PharmaPrint, a California based Biotech Company, which has already started to standardise useful herbs such as Gingko, St. John’s Wart, Valerian and many others. (9) 

Once patented, useful Herbs will then be banned and removed from the public domain, even for garden use. There has already been a Federal police raid carried out on a couple in northern NSW who planted a Chinese herb in their garden to use as tea. (10)

For the time being, all herbs and supplements have now been allocated DIN (drug identification numbers) which many regulators have now adopted and implemented in their respective countries as they gradually harmonise with the codex “recommendations”. Australian TGA officials have distributed much of this DIN software to other countries. The TGA is in the process of pressuring New Zealand to adopt similar restrictive standards as are currently in Australia. Graham Peachey, the one time director of the chemicals and non-prescription medicines branch of the TGA has taken over the task of persuading NZ to harmonise to the same level as Australia. That includes the prohibition of any therapeutic claim made with respect to nutritional supplements, even if there exist medical studies to support those claims. So far NZ has resisted moves in that direction, placing value on health freedom for its citizens. However, failure to implement these Codex standards will result in sanctions against governments by the WTO. 

There is a fortune to be made by multinational drug companies solely controlling the manufacture and sale of all life sustaining natural products. Many doctors and health freedom advocates are deeply disturbed by these events. Dr. Matthias Rath, a medical specialist in nutritional medicine demonstrated that nutritional supplements reversed many conditions including heart disease. He states. “If the Codex Commission is allowed to obstruct the eradication of heart disease by restricting access to nutritional supplements, more than 12 million people world-wide will continue to die every year from premature heart attacks and strokes. Within the next generation alone, this would result in over 300 million premature deaths, more than in all the wars of mankind together.” 

Codex has been a well-kept secret for many years. However, lately word has spread and thousands of health conscious and informed people are protesting against the disappearance of health freedom. People are demanding their right to stay healthy in open demonstrations around the world. For countries that have already harmonised, it is too late to reverse this blow to health freedom in the near future. However, greater awareness is gathering strength globally and those with agendas are running out of time to implement their total control over God’s garden and over the citizens of those countries that haven’t yet fully harmonised. 

Back to Pan
It seems an extraordinary stroke of luck for the TGA that half the supplement stocks have been swept away into a toxic waste incinerator while the media manufactures public consent for the regulator to clamp down on the vitamin industry with tighter controls. “Clean up the industry” the public demands. “Standardise herbs”. “Tighten up the regulations”, demand those who know nothing of the global agenda, and the same cry is heard from those who know the plan. Many senior TGA officials have deep ties to WHO. News of Pan travels fast. It was posted in Geneva the day after it was announced to Australians. 

We would be well advised to watch the developments from now on. And to speak up while we still can. We are nearing midnight, just a few short steps away from “harmonising” with the needs of a very powerful cadre of individuals. It was Benito Mussolini who said, “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. “ 

In the lucky country people still believe Benito lived a long time ago in a land far away. 

The author asserts copyright, but this article may be distributed for non-commercial purposes. For any other purpose please contact the author at; evehillary@smartchat.net.au 

About Eve Hillary

Eve Hillary is based in Sydney. She a medical writer and researcher into issues pertaining to the health care industry and environmental health. She specializes in documenting the human impact of the politics of multinational medical and biotech corporations, covering issues such as emerging epidemics, gene pollution, chemical pollution, government regulators and the role of the media. 

She is the author of Children of a Toxic Harvest: An Environmental Autobiography, and numerous articles relating to environmental health issues. Her most recent book is Health Betrayal; Staying away from the sickness industry. She is also a public speaker. 

Eve has spent 25 years in health care where she has observed the medical industry at first hand from the inside.

Knowledge is power, and Eve’s primary objective is to return this power to the individuals whose lives depend on it. She uncompromisingly believes that knowing the facts about health care is a right that belongs to the public. 

References and Sources

(1) TGA website www.health.gov.au/tga/docs/html/zyban
(2) Journal of Emergency Medicine 2002 April; 22(3):235-9J
(3) Obes Res 2002 Jul:10(7):633-641)
(4) Health Policy Journal Health Affairs. 9/7/2002
(5) CSM: Zyban safety update, 11 April 2002
(6) Legal Consumer Guide www.legalconsumerguide.com 
(7) www.chemicalindustryarchives.org 
(8) Eve Hillary, Health Betrayal, Synergy Books, 2003 
(9) www.tetrahedron.org/articles/codex
(10) Beware – Therapeutic Goods Act – Proposed changes. By Susan Drew Rasmussen

Sources:
Anyone wanting to inform themselves of these issues should access the website of John Hammell, a prominent health freedom advocate, founder of the International Advocates for Health Freedom www.iahf.com 

Additional Sources:
http://ahha.org/codexbuchanan.htm
http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/vitaminbattle/stopcodex.htm