Guest guest Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 Soon we wont have any alternative choices or vitamin supplements, if the governments and Pharmaceuticals around the world bring about these proposals. regards Annette 'Zeus' <zeus.info CELEBRITIES PROTEST: THREAT TO NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS Paul McCartney and Elton John lead Celebrity Protest Over Threat to Natural Health Products! Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John have joined over 40 high profile figures in demanding Government action to prevent the destruction of the natural health industry in the UK. Sir Paul McCartney recently wrote to friends and colleagues saying: " I believe that we have a right to buy safe, legitimate and natural health food supplements. This right is under threat and I am pleased to lend my name to a campaign that may become necessary to preserve our freedom of choice in the UK. I would be delighted if you felt able to do the same. " Other celebrities including Marcus Trescothick, Zoe ll, Sir Cliff Richard, Jools Holland, Simon le Bon and Julia Mackenzie are supporting the 'Save our Supplements' campaign, which hopes to prevent hundreds of safe and popular vitamins, minerals and herbal products from being wiped from the shelves of UK stores by new European legislation. The celebrities are urging all consumers who use popular products such as Vitamin C, Echinacea, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid and Multi-Vitamins to write to the Government demanding that it acts to prevent the products being banned. The EU Food Supplements Directive was introduced into UK law on 3rd July 2003. Now the only hope of overturning this legislation is to support the UK's Alliance for Natural Health who are mounting a legal challenge this month, September 2003. Please see the ANH website. Please urge people to donate online to this lawsuit and tell your local health shop. www.alliance-natural-health.org The ANH needs practitioners and natural health product companies worldwide to know about this threat. Strategies are in place through Codex to to try and ban natural remedies worldwide. There are controlled opposition groups that have been assuring the natural health industry there is nothing to worry about. It is imperative that practitioners hear about this threat and donate money (however small) towards the lawsuit, as if the ANH wins, it will set a worldwide precedent. Donate on ANH website. For more information, please contact Dr. Robert Verkerk who heads ANH at <robv robv and please take the time to study the ANH website. Quotes from John Hammell, International Advocates for Health Freedom (USA) <http://www.iahf.com> www.iahf.com " We have the best lawyer in England to take the case, a guy who has made more than 70 appearances before the European Court of Justice (the EU Supreme Court). He has already established pioneering case law in overturning another EU Directive, and he says this case is VERY WINNABLE..... but his services don't come cheaply. " " It would be a terrible SHAME if this case isn't filed due to lack of sufficient funds. How much is YOUR life worth? How would you be if you suddenly couldn't GET the supplements you NEED? " 'US Attorneys urge Support for ANH Challenge' www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news <http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=29> & ID=29 'Top EU Lawyer gives ANH Challenge 'green light' www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news <http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=25> & ID=25 RECAP.... The EU Food Supplements Directive contains a list of permitted nutrients and nutrient sources that may be used in supplements. The list is woefully inadequate and fails to reflect the existing UK market. At present over 300 safe and popular nutrients and nutrient sources on sale in the UK are not on the permitted list and unless extensive assessments are undertaken for each, they will be removed from sale. The Directive will lay down the maximum permitted dose levels of vitamins and minerals for each person. Political pressure from Germany and France is expected to result in these levels being set well below those currently available in UK, and substantially below the levels that scientists confirm are safe. The result is that consumers will be prevented from purchasing the safe and beneficial high doses from shops as they do now, forcing them to buy from unregulated markets such as the internet or overseas mail order. The move, which aims to promote free trade, will hit the natural health industries in the UK and Holland particularly hard, as consumers in these countries purchase more natural health products than in other European countries. There is concern as well that the proposals take no account of the safety record of these products and fail to recognise the difference in diets, lifestyle and nutritional needs of people across Europe. Therefore in England and throughout Europe over 300 safe and popular nutrients and nutrient sources in the UK will be removed from sale. A separate Directive on traditional herbal medicinal products is being introduced. This will have a devastating effect on nearly all herbal supplements currently on the UK market. To remain on sale, a product must have been on the market for 30 years (15 years in Europe) and licensed in the same way as pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines. The likely effect is the collapse of the specialist supplements market including most independent producers and retailers of herbal products. The independent consumer group Consumers for Health Choice (CHC) in conjunction with the National Association of Health Stores (NAHS) has launched the nationwide Save Our Supplements campaign. Two million leaflets explaining the issue are being distributed to consumers, and the groups aim to collect more than 1 million petition signatures to present to MPs and Ministers. Many health analysts believe that the withdrawal of these products is likely to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of visits to GP surgeries as millions of consumers become unable to purchase the natural remedies they currently use. This agenda is being driven primarily by the pharmaceutical industry! Sue Croft, Director of Consumers for Health Choice said: " It is a tremendous boost to our campaign to have these high profile figures, including Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John lending their support " . " We hope that it will help to raise awareness about the real threats that exist to the future of natural health products in the UK. The Government can still take action to secure these products for consumers, and they must do so. If they don't fight our corner now, millions of people who currently take natural health supplements to remain healthy will lose their right to choose beneficial and safe alternatives to prescription drugs. " " European proposals to regulate herbal products are spiralling out of control and the current plans will result in thousands of herbal products being wiped out. It's absolute madness that a herbal product such as garlic tablets will need to undergo the same licensing process as a vaccine for AIDS or treatment for cancer but that is what we are facing. It is essential that the Government and its agencies take action now to prevent the destruction of the herbal products industry in the UK and the destruction of consumer choice. " UPDATE.... In Australia, in response to the PAN fiasco, the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) have convened a committee of 18 members mostly drawn from TGA, government, medical and pharmaceutical industry representatives. Complementary healthcare groups are largely unrepresented. This appears to defy logic. This committee will release their new initiatives for the Australian health industry on September 26th.These initiatives will surely be more restrictive and possibly aligned with the pharmaceutical directives of Europe and the EU. One of the key members of this committee is a Professor Alistair McLennan. Mr McLennan is famous for his comment: " We shouldn't support the complementary medicine (industry) or subsidise it. It's a bit like subsidising the tobacco industry or the gambling industry. " Will this committee be unbiased? In the US, the Senate has re-tabled the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 because of an event similar to Australia's PAN pharmaceutical (Travel Calm) debacle.Coincidence? In the US, the herbal supplement ephedra is being used as a scapegoat similar to Travel Calm in Australia. A new US Senate bill, the " Dietary Supplement Safety Act, " has been introduced. If passed, this bill would amend DSHEA so that the FDA could arbitrarily ban access to dietary supplements. In addition, the bill would subject safe and effective natural therapies to approval standards more stringent than those for pharmaceutical drugs. http://www.iahf.com/index2.html What about Canada? On July 15, about twenty armed officers and Health Canada officials raided the offices of Truehope Nutritional Support, charging that the company has been selling a nutritional supplement to the mentally ill without government approval. The RCMP demanded that employees immediately stop working and back away from their computers. They proceeded to download company information from hard drives while confiscating stacks of documents. The supplement in question, Empowerplus, a combination of 36 vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants, has a successful track record in treating symptoms of mental illness. Health Canada states that, under new Canadian law, making health claims classifies a supplement as a drug and therefore requires solid, scientific proof of effectiveness before it can be legally sold. Meanwhile, without any scientific evidence of safety or effectiveness, Health Canada has approved a plan to distribute marijuana through Medical Doctors. This week Minister Anne McLellan stated that if medical marijuana proved not to work she'll shut down the program. Yet, Health Canada has already moved to shut down the $544,000 study of Empowerplus being conducted at the University of Calgary, despite early evidence of effectiveness. What's wrong with this picture? Why is this happening? Global regulation! Codex Alimentarius, in simple terms, is a code of law for food. What it actually means to each and every one of us is a threat to our health and the health of every human being on this planet. The future availability and legal status of herbs, vitamins, amino acids, minerals and all other supplements in the U.S. and throughout the world, may be determined by a committee made up of 146 nations called the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which operates in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO). It is under the guise of protecting public safety through the standardization of food and botanical codes that the commission has become a tool of the international pharmaceutical industry that is intent on making ALL SUPPLEMENTS - herbal or otherwise - available by prescription only. The pharmaceutical industry's business is sickness, not health, as we would like to believe. The health/wellness industry is set to become the next trillion dollar industry in the US within the next ten years, eclipsing that of the IT and computer industry of today. The pharmaceutical industry wants to control or eliminate competition in the US and around the world. It is of no coincidence that similar events are unfolding around the globe. It is also no coincidence that global events are largely unreported in the press (except for hysterical adverse press releases about so called dangerous health supplements). It is a divide and conquer strategy designed to keep us ill-informed and confused, so as legislation can be passed in the name of " our safety " ! This battle is being waged in the US, Australia, UK and Canada. Governments and media of each country have used subtle scare tactics, in order to table new legislation aimed at withdrawal of health products from our shelves or to severely limit our access. Ask yourself, how many articles you have seen lately about dangerous health supplements, vitamins and minerals? Please pass this on to as many friends and associates that you know (Australian, UK, Canada & US as well). Help us keep our health and freedom of choice! This is of dire importance to our long-term health and that of our children and further generations. If you have friends or associates that are public figures who could raise awareness of this issue, please get them involved otherwise there will be a general media black out on this affair, until it is too late! Those people in Australia, I would urge you to contact as many MPs and Senators as possible and deliver them this message: http://www.paradigm-changes.com/petition.html Europe http://www.alliance-natural-health.org and the USA. Please see: <http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/vitaminbattle/stopcodex.htm> http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/vitaminbattle/stopcodex.htm <http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/vitaminbattle/stopcodex.htm> for the complete story. New Zealand: http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com <http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com/> International Advocates for Health Freedom (US): www.iahf.com Additional Sources: http://ahha.org/codexbuchanan.htm forwarded and edited by Zeus Information Service Alternative News for Health Practitioners to - contact zeus.info The " Kiwi Joe " news letter is provided as a free service to promote the benefits of natural medicine and healing as opposed to drug therapy. All information obtained is from reputable, professional and renowned correspondents throughout the world, leaders in their particular fields. Website addresses of four of the new generation honest professionals <http://www.duffyslaw.com> www.duffyslaw.com Dr D Duffy <http://www.doctoryourself.com/> http://www.doctoryourself.com Dr Andrew Saul www.mercola.cola Dr Mercola <http://www.psrg.org.nz> www.psrg.org.nz or Dr Robert Anderson <roberta roberta for information re: Genetic Engineering. Visit the sites for a new awareness of how medicine should really be conducted. to / <bateson bateson All information, data and material contained, presented or provided herein is for general information purposes only and is not to be construed as reflecting the knowledge or opinion of Zeus Information Service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2003 Report Share Posted September 7, 2003 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:15:44 -0800 Sandy Mintz FW: CELEBRITIES PROTEST: THREAT TO NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS " Sandy Mintz (Sandy Mintz) " BODY { MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 30px; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS, Verdana}IMG { MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: -30px}From Kiwi Joe: Greetings and Salutations, Please get this message out. Sitting on your wealth of knowledge helps no one. Share it out and your wealth will grow. Don't cheat yourself. The free people of the world are uniting and starting to realise what has been planned for them and don't like it. Regards Kiwi Joe - Kiwi Jo Friday, September 05, 2003 8:08 PM CELEBRITIES PROTEST: THREAT TO NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS 'All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British writer and politician. Paul McCartney and Elton John lead Celebrity Protest Over Threat to Natural Health Products! Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John have joined over 40 high profile figures in demanding Government action to prevent the destruction of the natural health industry in the UK. Sir Paul McCartney recently wrote to friends and colleagues saying: " I believe that we have a right to buy safe, legitimate and natural health food supplements. This right is under threat and I am pleased to lend my name to a campaign that may become necessary to preserve our freedom of choice in the UK. I would be delighted if you felt able to do the same. " Other celebrities including Marcus Trescothick, Zoe ll, Sir Cliff Richard, Jools Holland, Simon le Bon and Julia Mackenzie are supporting the 'Save our Supplements' campaign, which hopes to prevent hundreds of safe and popular vitamins, minerals and herbal products from being wiped from the shelves of UK stores by new European legislation. The celebrities are urging all consumers who use popular products such as Vitamin C, Echinacea, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid and Multi-Vitamins to write to the Government demanding that it acts to prevent the products being banned. The EU Food Supplements Directive was introduced into UK law on 3rd July 2003. Now the only hope of overturning this legislation is to support the UK's Alliance for Natural Health who are mounting a legal challenge this month, September 2003. Please see the ANH website. Please urge people to donate online to this lawsuit and tell your local health shop. www.alliance-natural-health.org The ANH needs practitioners and natural health product companies worldwide to know about this threat. Strategies are in place through Codex to to try and ban natural remedies worldwide. There are controlled opposition groups that have been assuring the natural health industry there is nothing to worry about. It is imperative that practitioners hear about this threat and donate money (however small) towards the lawsuit, as if the ANH wins, it will set a worldwide precedent. Donate on ANH website. For more information, please contact Dr. Robert Verkerk who heads ANH at robv and please take the time to study the ANH website. Quotes from John Hammell, International Advocates for Health Freedom (USA) www.iahf.com " We have the best lawyer in England to take the case, a guy who has made more than 70 appearances before the European Court of Justice (the EU Supreme Court). He has already established pioneering case law in overturning another EU Directive, and he says this case is VERY WINNABLE..... but his services don't come cheaply. " " It would be a terrible SHAME if this case isn't filed due to lack of sufficient funds. How much is YOUR life worth? How would you be if you suddenly couldn't GET the supplements you NEED? " 'US Attorneys urge Support for ANH Challenge' www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=29 'Top EU Lawyer gives ANH Challenge 'green light' www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=25 RECAP.... The EU Food Supplements Directive contains a list of permitted nutrients and nutrient sources that may be used in supplements. The list is woefully inadequate and fails to reflect the existing UK market. At present over 300 safe and popular nutrients and nutrient sources on sale in the UK are not on the permitted list and unless extensive assessments are undertaken for each, they will be removed from sale. The Directive will lay down the maximum permitted dose levels of vitamins and minerals for each person. Political pressure from Germany and France is expected to result in these levels being set well below those currently available in UK, and substantially below the levels that scientists confirm are safe. The result is that consumers will be prevented from purchasing the safe and beneficial high doses from shops as they do now, forcing them to buy from unregulated markets such as the internet or overseas mail order. The move, which aims to promote free trade, will hit the natural health industries in the UK and Holland particularly hard, as consumers in these countries purchase more natural health products than in other European countries. There is concern as well that the proposals take no account of the safety record of these products and fail to recognise the difference in diets, lifestyle and nutritional needs of people across Europe. Therefore in England and throughout Europe over 300 safe and popular nutrients and nutrient sources in the UK will be removed from sale. A separate Directive on traditional herbal medicinal products is being introduced. This will have a devastating effect on nearly all herbal supplements currently on the UK market. To remain on sale, a product must have been on the market for 30 years (15 years in Europe) and licensed in the same way as pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines. The likely effect is the collapse of the specialist supplements market including most independent producers and retailers of herbal products. The independent consumer group Consumers for Health Choice (CHC) in conjunction with the National Association of Health Stores (NAHS) has launched the nationwide Save Our Supplements campaign. Two million leaflets explaining the issue are being distributed to consumers, and the groups aim to collect more than 1 million petition signatures to present to MPs and Ministers. Many health analysts believe that the withdrawal of these products is likely to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of visits to GP surgeries as millions of consumers become unable to purchase the natural remedies they currently use. This agenda is being driven primarily by the pharmaceutical industry! Sue Croft, Director of Consumers for Health Choice said: " It is a tremendous boost to our campaign to have these high profile figures, including Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John lending their support " . " We hope that it will help to raise awareness about the real threats that exist to the future of natural health products in the UK. The Government can still take action to secure these products for consumers, and they must do so. If they don't fight our corner now, millions of people who currently take natural health supplements to remain healthy will lose their right to choose beneficial and safe alternatives to prescription drugs. " " European proposals to regulate herbal products are spiralling out of control and the current plans will result in thousands of herbal products being wiped out. It's absolute madness that a herbal product such as garlic tablets will need to undergo the same licensing process as a vaccine for AIDS or treatment for cancer but that is what we are facing. It is essential that the Government and its agencies take action now to prevent the destruction of the herbal products industry in the UK and the destruction of consumer choice. " UPDATE.... In Australia, in response to the PAN fiasco, the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) have convened a committee of 18 members mostly drawn from TGA, government, medical and pharmaceutical industry representatives. Complementary healthcare groups are largely unrepresented. This appears to defy logic. This committee will release their new initiatives for the Australian health industry on September 26th.These initiatives will surely be more restrictive and possibly aligned with the pharmaceutical directives of Europe and the EU. One of the key members of this committee is a Professor Alistair McLennan. Mr McLennan is famous for his comment: " We shouldn't support the complementary medicine (industry) or subsidise it. It's a bit like subsidising the tobacco industry or the gambling industry. " Will this committee be unbiased? In the US, the Senate has re-tabled the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 because of an event similar to Australia's PAN pharmaceutical (Travel Calm) debacle.Coincidence? In the US, the herbal supplement ephedra is being used as a scapegoat similar to Travel Calm in Australia. A new US Senate bill, the " Dietary Supplement Safety Act, " has been introduced. If passed, this bill would amend DSHEA so that the FDA could arbitrarily ban access to dietary supplements. In addition, the bill would subject safe and effective natural therapies to approval standards more stringent than those for pharmaceutical drugs. http://www.iahf.com/index2.html What about Canada? On July 15, about twenty armed officers and Health Canada officials raided the offices of Truehope Nutritional Support, charging that the company has been selling a nutritional supplement to the mentally ill without government approval. The RCMP demanded that employees immediately stop working and back away from their computers. They proceeded to download company information from hard drives while confiscating stacks of documents. The supplement in question, Empowerplus, a combination of 36 vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants, has a successful track record in treating symptoms of mental illness. Health Canada states that, under new Canadian law, making health claims classifies a supplement as a drug and therefore requires solid, scientific proof of effectiveness before it can be legally sold. Meanwhile, without any scientific evidence of safety or effectiveness, Health Canada has approved a plan to distribute marijuana through Medical Doctors. This week Minister Anne McLellan stated that if medical marijuana proved not to work she'll shut down the program. Yet, Health Canada has already moved to shut down the $544,000 study of Empowerplus being conducted at the University of Calgary, despite early evidence of effectiveness. What's wrong with this picture? Why is this happening? Global regulation! Codex Alimentarius, in simple terms, is a code of law for food. What it actually means to each and every one of us is a threat to our health and the health of every human being on this planet. The future availability and legal status of herbs, vitamins, amino acids, minerals and all other supplements in the U.S. and throughout the world, may be determined by a committee made up of 146 nations called the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which operates in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO). It is under the guise of protecting public safety through the standardization of food and botanical codes that the commission has become a tool of the international pharmaceutical industry that is intent on making ALL SUPPLEMENTS - herbal or otherwise - available by prescription only. The pharmaceutical industry's business is sickness, not health, as we would like to believe. The health/wellness industry is set to become the next trillion dollar industry in the US within the next ten years, eclipsing that of the IT and computer industry of today. The pharmaceutical industry wants to control or eliminate competition in the US and around the world. It is of no coincidence that similar events are unfolding around the globe. It is also no coincidence that global events are largely unreported in the press (except for hysterical adverse press releases about so called dangerous health supplements). It is a divide and conquer strategy designed to keep us ill-informed and confused, so as legislation can be passed in the name of " our safety " ! This battle is being waged in the US, Australia, UK and Canada. Governments and media of each country have used subtle scare tactics, in order to table new legislation aimed at withdrawal of health products from our shelves or to severely limit our access. Ask yourself, how many articles you have seen lately about dangerous health supplements, vitamins and minerals? Please pass this on to as many friends and associates that you know (Australian, UK, Canada & US as well). Help us keep our health and freedom of choice! This is of dire importance to our long-term health and that of our children and further generations. If you have friends or associates that are public figures who could raise awareness of this issue, please get them involved otherwise there will be a general media black out on this affair, until it is too late! Those people in Australia, I would urge you to contact as many MPs and Senators as possible and deliver them this message: http://www.paradigm-changes.com/petition.html Europe http://www.alliance-natural-health.org and the USA. Please see: http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/vitaminbattle/stopcodex.htm for the complete story. New Zealand: http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com International Advocates for Health Freedom (US): www.iahf.com Additional Sources: http://ahha.org/codexbuchanan.htm forwarded and edited by Zeus Information Service Alternative News for Health Practitioners to - contact zeus.info The " Kiwi Joe " news letter is provided as a free service to promote the benefits of natural medicine and healing as opposed to drug therapy. All information obtained is from reputable, professional and renowned correspondents throughout the world, leaders in their particular fields. Website addresses of four of the new generation honest professionals www.duffyslaw.com Dr D Duffy http://www.doctoryourself.com Dr Andrew Saul www.mercola.cola Dr Mercola www.psrg.org.nz or Dr Robert Anderson roberta for information re: Genetic Engineering. Visit the sites for a new awareness of how medicine should really be conducted. to / bateson All information, data and material contained, presented or provided herein is for general information purposes only and is not to be construed as reflecting the knowledge or opinion of Zeus Information Service. Sandy Mintz http://www.vaccinationnews.com http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm " Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. 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