Codex Alimentarius

Has anyone heard of the Codex Alimentarius?

It sounds kind of like the WTO (World Trade Organization) trade regulation but pertains to dietary supplement international regulation. Here's a link to an article and then a quote if you don't want to read the whole article:
http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/codex-alimentarius.html

"WHAT CODEX WILL BRING
What can we expect under Codex? To give you an idea, here are some important points:

~ Dietary supplements could not be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use.
~ Potencies would be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the drug companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies would have the right to produce and sell the higher potency products (at inflated prices).
~ Prescriptions would be required for anything above the extremely low doses allowed (such as 35 mg. on niacin).
~ Common foods such as garlic and peppermint would be classified as drugs or a third category (neither food nor drugs) that only big pharmaceutical companies could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water.
~ Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (escape clauses would be eliminated).
~ All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through Codex testing and approval.
~ Genetically altered food would be sold worldwide without labeling."

The article says our FDA and FTC are considering joining this international organization.

I had never heard of this until about a half hour ago. In her "Drugs versus the Natural Way" discussion, Aussie Lass included a link to a video and I heard about it there. Here's the link to the video--start about 20 minutes from the end. http://www.understand-andcure-anxietyattacks-panicattacks-depression.com/ph armaceutical-greed.html

Is this an alarmist article or is it for real? I didn't see any dates on the article or the video and don't know if this is current.

I wondered why some of the people from England and Austrailia said they couldn't get over-the-counter strontium citrate. Maybe it's because their countries have signed onto this Codex?

Do we need to write our representatives in Congress and say "NO, we don't want this!"?