International health officials call for the World Health Organization (WHO) to ban dietary supplements. Health officials want to ban supplements whose status is not recognized as vitamins or minerals. Colloidal silver is an example of a product in the dietary supplement category.
Market Regulation – Banned From The Feast!
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) oversee the analysis of product nutrition data for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). They want to ensure scientifically those food products and vitamin and mineral supplements are fit to be consumed by humans.
The Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) determines which food products to ban, some sources conclude. The CCNFSDU, for instance, is alleged to have banned the selling of colloidal silver in England starting January of this new year. The CCNFSDU, it appears, has the job of scrutinizing all food supplements worldwide and placing supplements on the banned list or removing them.
A food supplement having certain objectionable properties can draw scrutiny and perhaps a ban from CODEX officials. For instance, if an ingredient takes a colloidal form then absorption may be enhanced. But toxicity may be a concern.
Colloidal Foods? Do They Taste Good?
What is colloidal? This adjective conjures up images of Merlin the Magician wearing a pointy hat with pictures of moons on it. You can make a colloid using one fruit and a bottle of water. Chop the fruit into bits so tiny a microscope can barely see each tiny bit (tiny means micron size). Dump the chopped fruit into the water and shake. The water and fruit combined are now called a colloid. And since the particles of one of the substances are so small, the combined product appears as one product, but is really two.
Will CODEX officials ever ban foods based on colloidal properties? Yes, your favorite foods are colloids! There are too many colloidal foods to mention. Ice cream is a food colloid. Colloidal food products include toothpaste, butter and salad dressing. A food colloid is nanotechnology in your food pantry.
Some CODEX officials want to regulate food supplements as drugs. Some countries reportedly already regulate vitamins and minerals as drugs. Germany and Australia are reported to be such nations. Colloidal food products, because of their nanotechnology physical properties are of interest to people who think of food as drugs. How will CODEX officials regulate colloidal food products as drugs? Can mayonnaise become a drug? Mayonnaise is a colloid. Will you need a doctor’s prescription to buy and sell mayonnaise?
International Regulation Becomes Local Rule
Fewer local decisions and more international guidance are reasonable expectations for the future of food. Now the CODEX Commission works towards finalizing the allowable limits for dietary supplements. Afterward, more international food standards and laws should trickle down from various international headquarters to people in their individual localities.
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