WTO / Biotech trade dispute / Codex - Impact on DSHEA
Here is clearer supporting data for"The Growing Threats to DSHEA" post.
Chris Gupta
---------------------------Friends of the Earth have just obtained, and published on the Internet, the full WTO interim report on the GMO trade dispute.
References to Codex and Codex texts can be found on pages 47, 48, 121, 137, 138, 154, 181, 190, 192, 196, 214, 215, 254, 258, 259, 301 of the descriptive report and on pages 5, 7, 60, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 119, 121, 136, 138, 248, 299, 378, 538, 550, 686, 728, 729, of the findings.
Examination of the above pages shows conclusively that Codex GM guidelines, various other Codex standards and texts, Codex definitions, Codex risk analysis principles, Codex evaluation procedures and even the Codex Procedural Manual itself were crucial to the outcome of this dispute, and were seen by the WTO Panel as representing an international consensus.
As such there can no longer be any doubt that because of the existence of the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements, DSHEA would definitely be at risk if the US were to become embroiled in a trade dispute at the WTO involving dietary supplements. Moreover, it can now clearly be seen that the threat of WTO sanctions provides the political and economic pressure for all countries to adopt Codex guidelines and standards into their national legislation. For any countries that don't comply these same Codex guidelines and standards are simply used as evidence against them at the WTO.
Paul Taylor
posted by Chris Gupta on Wednesday March 1 2006
updated on Monday March 27 2006URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/03/01/wto_biotech_trade_dispute_codex_impact_on_dshea.htm
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