Conversely from our point of view, it is vital that the states maintain the ability to have control over intrastate commerce because it makes harmonization much more difficult. Passage into law of section 807 would make our situation much worse. If however, Section 807 were law and that law were upheld by the courts, California would be powerless to set a different, more liberal standard. I am interested in living in America, under the Constitution, and under laws that WE create. I was an NGO observer on the American Codex delegation last October to the Bonn meeting of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use, and Suzanne Harris, of the Law Loft, who I work closely with, attended the meeting of the Codex Executive Committee in Geneva at the end of June where she also attended a briefing of the WHO committee on sanitary and phytosanitary measures, which was supposed to be for delegates only, but which she sneaked into as a member of the press.
Harmonization sounds so beautiful.
The word is mellifluous. It rolls off the tongue rather nicely, and it sounds like a tremendous thing. From my website you can link in to the FDA's Office of International Relations. As I write this, FDA is in the process of drafting new GMPs for dietary supplements. Its not in our best interests to blur the lines between food and drugs.