Codex Alimentarius: Food Safety Regulation or Health Control?

My husband found something, on one of the blogging communities that he frequents, called Codex Alimentarius. It's basically an international food regulation code. From the looks of it, it's been in place and been in effect for a number of years. However, the post he found regarded it as if it were infringing on our rights to health safety. I'm a bit on the fence here, primarily because I can't really find much information that doesn't appear massively biased against it, or that have clear information about what, exactly, it does.

Let's start with the people that are against the Codex. The Natural Solutions Foundation claims that the Codex is trying to, more or less, eliminate things like organic foods and vitamin pills. The Natural Health Information Centre also claims that the Codex is looking to outlaw health information on vitamin and mineral supplements.

The problem is, though the Codex itself (at least what I found) states anything about actually controlling or prohibiting....well...anything. Now, there are regulations, but from what I've seen, they're not much different than what the FDA has on consumables--what is acceptable (or even "necessary") to be added to our foods. And there's only one entry pertaining to vitamin and mineral supplements, and it goes into minimums of the % daily value vitamin supplements have to contain. Now, it does mention that people should get their nutrition from food, not supplements, but nowhere does it prohibit the use of them, nor prohibits distribution of information on them.

I think what bothers me most about the anti-Codex sites are the "your stories" section.

The first one I read came from the mother of a 21-year-old who committed suicide after being on a number of SSRI antidepressants, which she blames for her daughter's suicide. While I know taking any antidepressants can increase suicidal tendencies, it's not necessarily because of the drugs themselves, but the nature of depression. The thing with depression is that suicide isn't at the point where one hits "rock bottom." When one hits that point, they no longer care enough or have enough energy to actually go through with it (that's not to say some people don't, but it's less likely at that point, and they also still have the thoughts). Therefore, when someone seeks help during that "rock bottom" time and starts recovering, they have to go back through that suicidal phase, thus increasing the chance that they'll actually try to commit suicide.

The other story that I found made such a huge leap in logic I had to reread it. I'll post it here for reiteration, because it just confuses the hell out of me.

“Several days ago I was in NYC walking down Madison Avenue when I passed a building where there were several armed police who looked they were part of a swat team standing with machine guns on the sidewalk in front of an office building and I along with others couldn’t help but wonder why. A woman in front of me asked what was going on and they answered, “nothing” and we all looked at each other. Three people in full police swat garb at 10:30 in the morning and nothing was going on! It made me wonder what our country has come to and I thought how some day if I refuse a vaccine for a flu epidemic that doesn’t exist, that very team could show up at my door and take me to some horrible place until I consented to take something that would only do me harm. The very thought was just horrifying and I realize that some of what haunts me lately is the chilling realization of what all of this is coming to. It is what makes me wake up in the middle of night afraid of something that I can’t seem to give voice to because it is so horrible, and yet you give it a voice and make it real through your work so that we may see and know and hopefully, care, before history repeats itself. Every time that I hear about some new killer cold virus outbreak or something, I wonder if it is a deliberate plant for something worse to come that will panic everyone and make them line up for some vaccine or other. If it weren’t for the work you do, no one would know about this information.”

Is it just me, or is that a huge leap of logic? Because there's a SWAT-like police team in front of a building, it suddenly has something to do with being required to get vaccinated? Last I checked, police weren't allowed to release information about a "crime-in-process" regardless of what said crime was. I would sooner assume a small riot or someone trying to rob the place a gunpoint than anything regarding vaccinations. Could someone please explain this?

And while you're at it, could you help me clarify the whole thing?

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