National Health Federation receives threatening letter over Codex status

[Sepp]

The National Health Federation has recently received a letter from the attorney for the Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF), Ralph Fucetola, demanding that the NSF be allowed to participate in Codex meetings as part of the delegations that are regularly sent by the National Health Federation.

Natural Solutions Foundation has - to say the least - not been very careful about the 'facts' it publishes about the Codex Alimentarius and its intention to regulate things from food supplements to genetically modified foods, hormones in meat and milk, and food irradiation.

National Health Federation's Scott Tips responds to the threatening letter in an article published on the NHF's website:

http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_30_jun_2009.html

After reading the piece, I can only say that I am in substantial agreement with Scott here and would be interested in your views as well...

Update 11 July 2009:

Apparently there has been some discussion around this threat of "taking away your Codex seat" and here is what Scott Tips says in respect to that.

http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_09_jul_2009.html

[Catherine Rott, CNHP]

I appreciate Scott's noble effort to explain the brash audacity of the Natural Solutions Foundation, however, there IS no explanation.

The modus operandi from this organization from the very beginning has been to behave like spoiled children, thinking that they are due and entitled to.....fill in the blank.

I echo heartily Scott's statement, "NSF doesn’t even deserve the time of day". This has been my position from the very
moment these folks appeared on the scene...literally out of nowhere.

Having said that, I appreciate deeply all that Scott and NHF has accomplished and stood for along this rough and rocky path to freedom.

Catherine
Oklahoma

[Sepp]

Beldeu Singh from Malaysia has sent a lengthy piece on Codex Alimentarius in reply to this post. I have given it its own space as a blog post, and you can read it here:

The Powers of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

A quote from Beldeu's article that directly relates to this post is:

"Naturally I do not approve any form of tiff between the National Health Federation and the Natural Solutions Foundation nor any undiplomatic or unfriendly moves requiring the use of attorneys and lawyers for the bottom-line is that both must work together at the various levels as well as in actually organizing grass-root action against the Gulag of Codex."

[Sepp]

I agree that "extortion" is probably a wrong term to use here, as it has a defined legal meaning and I certainly am no expert in US libel laws. Accordingly I have revised the headline and article to say that there was a "threatening letter" received by the NHF, which I don't think is contested.

[Catherine Rott, CNHP]

It is my understanding that Scott was in Rome at the Codex meeting the weekend of July 4th.

I could be wrong, however, so I would be glad to be corrected on this.

Catherine

[Sepp]

Well yes, Scott was in Rome at the recent Codex Commission meeting and yes, he did miss some of the sessions. Here is what he has to say why he did miss some of the voting to approve (or rather to rubber stamp) this year's crop of new Codex rules and why, to say that he's not there or "phoning it in" would be way out of line:

http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/pr_09_jul_2009.html