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CODEX: The Committee That Feeds the World

A committee in Rome decides what goes into your food — and it was never asked whether any of it makes you well.

Last week we turned a packet over. This week we go to Rome — to a building most people have never heard of, housing a committee that quietly decides what may go into food, everywhere on earth. Ashok and Meera introduce Codex Alimentarius: founded in 1963 by two arms of the United Nations, 189 members, and the author of the rulebook behind almost everything in your kitchen. It ended chalk in the flour and water in the milk, and it deserves real credit for that. But read its own stated purpose twice — “protecting consumers’ health and ensuring fair practices in the food trade” — and you find health and trade in the same breath. The operative word is protect. Not promote. In this episode: why a Codex number is a passport rather than advice, the machine that subtracts goodness from food and sells a fraction of it back as innovation, and the startling arithmetic of who actually sits in the room where “safe” gets defined.

Based on Ashok’s essay “Trust but Read the Label”: https://ashokv.substack.com/p/trust-but-read-the-label

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