b'! He is an excellent committee chairman.On the other hand, New Zealands delegate Bill JollyBREAKING NEWS ONa relative newcomer to Codexwas spoiling for a fightGLYPHOSATEwith NHF, displaying his bad manners by insulting and demeaning NHF on the last day (July 20th) during theBY SCOTT C. TIPS, NHF PRESIDENTreading of the Committee Report by characterizing NHF as unscientific and not worth recording in the Report. And this, coming from a man who told the Committee that climate change results from cattle farts! With New Zea-lands Codex team having argued strenuously over the years at Codex that glyphosate, aspartame, aluminum, Zilpaterol, and GMOs are all safe while doses of Vitamin C above 60 milligrams/day and other important and vital vitamins and minerals above bare subsistence levels are unsafe, then we know we are dealing with some seriously scientifically challenged or morally compromised people.The U.S. delegate, and the Merck front group mislead-ingly named Health for Animals, tried hard (along with(Beijing,July27,2021)OnDayTwoofthevirtual New Zealand) to remove from the Report the last half ofmeeting of the Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues the last bullet-point comment (see above) made by NHF;(CCPR), the National Health Federation (NHF)the however, thanks to the EU and the Codex Secretariat, theonly consumer group represented at this CCPR meeting wording on the ESG goals remained in the Report.spoke up against the following pesticides, fungicides, Zilpaterol is already in use in most of those countriesandherbicidesasallposingpublic-healthconcerns: that argued in favor of a Codex standard for it, which in- Pyflubumide, Chlorothalonil, Glyphosate, Buprofezin, cludes the entire Western Hemisphere from Canada all theBifenthrin,Cyprodinil,Dicamba,Fluensulfone,and way down to Argentina and Chile. However, Australia,Tolfenpyrad.New Zealand, Uganda, and Senegalall of whom hypocrit- Our objections to these toxins were not well-received ically argued for a worldwide Codex standard for Zilpaterolby the Australian regional branch office for the pesticideprohibit its use in their own countries, demonstrating oncecompanies (otherwise known as the Australian Codex again that the Australian and New Zealand Codex officesOffice), which several times tried to get NHFs comments are rogue agencies that answer not to their own govern- deleted from the record. When NHF objected to Cypro-ments but to their Big Pharma and Big Ag handlers. dinil as carcinogenic and referred the committee back to Why is the Zilpaterol standard at Codex so important?our previously filed written comments made to CCPR, If this Zilpaterol Codex standard were ever to be adopted,Australia had the sheer audacity to object that our sci-then Zilpaterol could flood the World markets. Merckence had not been approved by the Joint FAO/WHO could then force the EU, Russia, China, Switzerland, Nor- Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR)! way, and many other countries to open their markets toThen, piling on top of NHF to add weight to Austra-Zilpaterol-tainted meat as well. And Merck would onlylias absurd argument were CropLife International (an be richer. admitted front-group for the pesticide industrycute As NHF argued several times at the Codex meeting:name though), the drug-happy World Health Organi-You cannot get healthy people from eating unhealthyzation, Uganda, and Kenya. When I was recognized to food.speak a second time to address the committee, I told Thanks again to all of our NHF members and support- them all what nonsense their argument was, that NHF ers who helped make this victory possible! For those whohas attended numerous different Codex committee and wish to support our work, we gratefully accept donationscommission meetings over the last 20-plus years and at: thenhf.com/join-us/make-a-donation/. had never seen such a nonsensical argument made, and ### that no one needed a rubber-stamp approval by JMPR 25H ealtHF reedomN ews /s ummer2021 25'