b'!or JECFA to argue science at any Codex meeting and togroup felt obligated to make the following speech in ask that that science be mentioned in the Report of theresponse to NHFs comments about glyphosate the pre-meeting. Any concerns, I continued, could be addressedvious day:in the Report by starting out the sentence with something like The NHF stated its view that I ended up byOn behalf of the sponsor, we would like to make a statement asking the Codex Secretariat to confirm what I was say- with regard to the advancement of glyphosate CXLs to step ing and then by telling Australia and the others that they5/8. All regulatory authorities around the World routinely should be ashamed. The Codex Secretariat did, in fact,evaluate the safety of glyphosate. No regulatory authority confirm what I said and thanks to it, and the very fairin the World has classified glyphosate as an endocrine dis-CCPR Chairman, NHFs comments will be in the Report. ruptor. It is undergoing review in the EU. In June 2021, the Speaking of captured regulatory agencies, on the in- draft renewal assessment report concluded that glyphosate ternational stage, I have long argued that Australia anddid not meet the ED criteria as laid in the regulation. We New Zealand are two of the worst of the whole lot. Theyinvite all the CCPR delegates to take advantage of the Trans-do not represent the interests of their citizens, certainlyparency website that can be found at https://www.glyphosate.not their health; but they both do a great job of promot- eu/, where the EU glyphosate submission and other related ing the interests of the big pharmaceutical, agricultural,materials (such as individual study reports) can be accessed.and pesticide interests. As I have said before, if you one day just happened to stroll into a Codex meeting andWell, I thought my razor was dull until I heard this knew nothing about what was being said or done, all youspeech. The science condemning glyphosate and its toxic would have to do is adopt the exact opposite position toand carcinogenic effects abounds. See, e.g., https://www.that espoused by Australia and New Zealand and yougreenmedinfo.com/article/neonatal-exposure-glypho-could be 99% sure that you were taking a position on thesate-based-herbicide-alters-uterine-differentiation-pr and side of good health. (I wrote an article about Australia onhttps://www.figo.org/removal-glyphosate-global-usage. this, which you can read on the NHF websiteby goingAnd as I also told the Committee, glyphosate in formula-tohttps://thenhf.com/codex/our-work-at-codex/the- tion with other ingredients (such as arsenic in RoundUp) great-australian-health-mystery/) is up to a thousand times more toxic, and, as such, we The saddest part of the meeting, though, is not theshould be dealing with real-world products and not just sheer ignorance & vindictiveness of the Australian, Ugan- isolated ingredients.dan, Kenyan, and CropLife delegates (and I rather sus- Battered by costly lawsuits around the World, Mon-pect that they are all new to Codex meetings), but thatsantos parent company Bayer AG just announced at the NHF was the only one out of the 389 people present toend of July 2021 that it will remove its glyphosate-based speak out against any Codex approval of glyphosate.products from all retail store shelves no later than 2023, Yes, the European Union delegate did reserve the EUsin its bid to head off future lawsuits resulting from con-rights to not accept the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs)sumer use of the herbicide. The company said that it in-for glyphosate within the EU; but there was no generaltends to replace glyphosate with new formulations that objection to this incredibly toxic poison being approvedrely on alternative active ingredients. Of course, Bayer at all by Codex. still denies that it has any safety concerns about glypho-Interestinglyenough,the70-registered-partici- sate, claiming instead that the products removal is only pant-strong CropLife delegation felt so threatened byto manage litigation risk. Well, we shall see. There is no NHFs one-man delegation and NHFs arguments againstplace on Earth for glyphosate and it needs to go.glyphosate that on July 28th, this pesticide-industry front###26 H ealtHHF reedomN ews / ummer202126 H ealtF reedomN ews /ss ummer2021'