Mannatech, GNLD, Herbalife, Shaklee- Adding to Supplement Crisis?!

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know more about this? If true, this would be

troubling...

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

CRN " Leads " Its Vitamin Company Members to the CLIFF

 

The Pharma Dominated Council for Responsible Nutrition's membership

includes BAYER, BASF, PFIZER, MONSANTO, and WYETH. It also includes

the following network marketing vitamin companies: MANNATECH, GNLD,

HERBALIFE, and SHAKLEE.

 

If you are a distributor for one of these companies, please call me

at 800-333-2553 (N.America) or 360-9450-9352 World, or email me at

jham- because we SERIOUSLY NEED TO TALK. Here is WHY:

 

Yesterday I had a conversation with Ferris Haddad, a high level

Mannatech distributor who is about to attend Mannatech's big meeting

for top distributors in Hawaii. I had been sending him information

about the precise techniques CRN is using to lead Mannatech (and all

of its other vitamin company members) to the cliff.

 

He, in turn forwarded the information to Mannatech ceo and CRN

Boardmember Sam Caster, who naturally ignored all the information

making no response about it to Haddad.

 

What you have to realize is that the supplement industry is a group

culture where the operant behavior is " go along, get along, don't

make waves. "

 

When Caster decided not to respond to Ferris Haddad after he had

forwarded my information on why CRN cannot be trusted, Haddad

obviously decided to just ignore the information himself because

Caster has been a trusted friend for many years.

 

Friends- this situation is downright SCARY.

 

If you know of any Mannatech distributors who will be in Hawaii on

January 5th for the big meeting of their top distributors, please

call me or email me immediately.

 

I just sent the following information to two top Mannatech

distributors who will be at this meeting with Sam Caster. Frankly,

if Caster does not pay attention to this information and confront

the CRN front office with a demand for an explanation, something is

rotten in Denmark.

 

Mannatech should immediately support the ANH lawsuit. So should

GNLD, Herbalife, and Shaklee- but CRN has told them its " not

necessary " .

 

CRN has told them " we won a victory at Codex this year. " (The

obvious question should be, just who the hell are " we " ?????)

 

The obvious answer, from my perspective, is Bayer, BASF, Monsanto,

Pfizer, and Wyeth- (CRN's biggest drug company members)

 

Read the spin that CRN is disseminating about the last Codex meeting

and our supposed " victory " at

http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr110403.html

 

Compare and contrast this information with the article Scott Tips

just had published in the January issue of Whole Foods Magazine

about this same meeting- Scott is on our side, he's the legal

director of the National Health Federation and he's seeing things

VERY clearly.

 

First the CRN Spin------- Then Tips COUNTER Information----->

If you are a distributor for Mannatech, GNLD, Herbalife, Shaklee, or

know ANYONE who is, please email me at jham or call me

immediately at 800-333-2553 N.America, 360-945-0352 World Our

industry is being set up for total and complete destruction..... It

is IMPERATIVE that you send your donations in to the Alliance for

Natural Health via

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

 

 

They'll be in court on January 30 to try to overturn the EU Food

Supplement Directive. As goes the EU, so goes the WORLD. The EU

wields more clout at Codex than any other entity, and at next year's

Codex meeting (where the vitamin standard could be finalized), the

EU Will have FULL STATUS for the first time, just as they expand

from 15 to 25 nations...... at the same time, Australia, the

country that just yanked 1600 products off the shelves in the past

year under false pretenses, will be bringing a paper on

supposed " scientific risk assessment " .

 

I hope you can " connect the dots " now, but if not, you should be

able to after reading first CRN's pro pharma spin on the situation,

then Scott Tips countering information:

 

Now is NOT the time for complacency- now is NOT the time for people

to act like deer caught in the headlights or do to NOTHING because

this information seems to " cancel each other out " but thats EXACTLY

what is happening, and I need your HELP to WAKE THESE PEOPLE UP----

CRN has been telling its vitamin company members that its " not

necessary " to support the ANH lawsuit----- we've won a " victory " at

Codex----

 

http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr110403.html

 

After reading both these accounts- JUDGE FOR YOURSELF WHO IS TELLING

THE TRUTH AND WHO IS LYING AND GET THIS INFO TO EVERY NETWORK

MARKETING VITAMIN DISTRIBUTOR YOU KNOW- especially if they're in

Mannatech, GNLD, Herbalife, or Shaklee........

 

http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr110403.html

 

" CODEX COMMITTEE BACKS SCIENCE BASED SAFETY STANDARDS

FOR VITAMIN AND MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS- BREAKS EIGHT YEAR STALEMATE "

 

BONN, Germany, November 4, 2003-The Codex Committee on Nutrition and

Foods For Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) after two days of

deliberations, affirmed the primacy of science- based standard

setting, striking down subjectively- applied recommended daily

allowances (RDAs) and paving the way for the global sale and

marketing of dietary supplements based on objective standards that

will simultaneously preserve consumer safety and fair trade. Led by

the Washington DC based Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the

supplement industry worked for years to bring about the development

of compromise language that would satisfy regulators and allow the

industry to market safe products to consumers around the world, an

effort that ultimately bore fruit this morning.

 

The dramatic set of discussions broke an eight year logjam and moved

the Standard for Vitamin and Mineral Supplements from Step 3 to the

pivotal Step 5 in the Codex Alimentarious Commission's eight step

international food standard setting process.

 

Codex, which was established by the United Nations' (UN) Food and

Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO)

in 1962, was designated as the principal arbitral mechanism for

resolving food trade disputes, with the advent of the World Trade

Organization in 1994.

 

CRN officials and Board members expressed satisfaction at the

outcome, calling it a victory for consumers. " Today is a vindication

of the efforts of so many who have worked to preserve scientific

integrity as the cornerstone of the international standard setting

process, " said CRN's John Hathcock, Ph.D., vice president,

scientific and international affairs.

 

CRN's International Trade and Market Development Committee chairman

and CRN Board member Mark A. Le Doux, observed that the result " bore

witness to the fact that committed regulators from a variety of

countries, working with industry and consumers in a spirit of

goodwill, can achieve the seemingly impossible. "

 

Mr.Le Doux added that " today's decision represents the single most

important development in the ongoing effort to open the world's

markets to safe, healthy products that have the potential to enhance

the quality of life for billions around the globe. "

 

Both men singled out for particular praise the US and European

Commission delegations for their leadership and willingness to

compromise at key junctures in the negotiations. Mr.Le Doux noted

that " this meeting provides and excellent example of what can happen

when the United States and the European Union work together for the

common good. "

 

---------SCOTT TIPS COUNTERING INFO JUST PUBLISHED IN JANUARY ISSUE

OF WHOLE FOODS MAGAZINE----------ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OF MINE BELOW

THAT:

 

http://www.thenhf.com/codex_09.htm

 

REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC

by Scott Tips

January 2004, Whole Foods Magazine

 

Some observant person once noted Amateurs built the Ark,

professionals built the Titanic. Well, after attending the recent

Codex Alimentarius committee meeting in Bonn, Germany last November,

I could see that the professionals were at it again. The beautiful

Indian summer weather in Bonn must have lifted their spirits because

the professionals spent an energetic week busily greasing the

skids to launch their Titanic into the water.

 

Of course, as you recall, Codex Alimentarius is an international

body guided by the World Health Organization and the Food and

Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and charged with

establishing international trade standards for foods. The food

standards that it establishes are backed by the power of the

World Trade Organization (WTO), which settles trade disputes between

nations by ruling upon complaints and then levying punitive fines

upon the offending country. The WTOs rulings have caused countries,

including the United States, to change its domestic laws in order to

comply with WTO rulings. Within Codex Alimentarius there are various

committees that deal with specific food issues. My focus has been on

the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses,

which, among other things, has spent several decades inching

forward in its efforts to finalize its Guidelines for Vitamin and

Mineral Supplements. Once completed, however, this document will be

the basis by which food-supplement standards will be measured

everywhere. And like the Titanic, it is a disaster waiting to happen.

 

For the fourth year in a row, I was there as a delegate. Thanks once

again to the National Health Federation (NHF)(www.thenhf.com), the

nonprofit consumer health-freedom organization for whom I obtained

Codex observer status beginning with the 2002 meeting, my travel and

hotel expenses were covered. I was also very ably assisted on the

delegation by Tamara Thérèsa Mosegaard of MayDay and Paul Anthony

Taylor from the United Kingdom. Together, we did our best to stem

the anti-freedom tide; but, unfortunately, the NHF was the only

consistently pro-health freedom voice at the Codex meeting.

 

As the country host for the Committee meeting, Germany provided both

the location and the chairman. It also provided the most attendees.

The chairman again this year was the irrepressible Dr. Rolf

Grossklaus, who (presumably under some pressure from his superiors,

the High Command) ran the meeting more efficiently this year than in

the previous years of my attendance. It is important to remember

that, with almost fifty countries and more than thirty

nongovernmental organizations represented, there is no voting at

these meetings. Dr. Grossklaus sits at the head table and arbitrates

the discussions using a procedure sweetly called consensus. When he

decides that the subject has been adequately discussed, he then

announces what the consensus is and moves on to the next agenda

item. Sometimes, rarely actually, there are murmurs of disapproval

if Dr. Grossklausdecision does not track reality; but most often

there are no expressions of disagreement. Either way, consensus is

reachedand the discussion on the next topic starts.

 

What The EU Wants, the EU Gets

 

Not surprisingly, in finding consensus, this German chairman

consistently and unerringly rules in favor of the representative for

the European Union (EU). Time after time, I noticed that the

Chairman adopted as the consensus decision the very position taken

by the EU representative. When Malaysia wanted to change

the title of the Guidelines by deleting the word food,the EU

objected. Dr. Grossklaus agreed with the EU. When South Africa tried

to amend the Preamble to the Guidelines to include a statement that

vitamins and minerals aid in the prevention of chronic diseases, the

EU objected that food and prevention could not go together. Dr.

Grossklaus agreed with the EU. When the EU announced that

it wanted to make sure that all food supplements (not just vitamins

and minerals) would be covered by the Codex restrictions, Dr.

Grossklaus agreed to the EUs proposed wording. When the EU decided

that the definition of vitamin and mineral food supplements should

be modified by tacking on the words designed to be taken as small

unit quantities,Dr. Grossklaus agreed. When the United States, with

much support from others, wanted to add wording that vitamins and

minerals could be from both natural and synthetic sources, the EU

objected and asked that the language be placed in brackets,

indicating the language was not approved but must run the gauntlet

of approval again next year. Dr. Grossklaus put the language in

brackets. When the EU and the United States argued on the same side

against retaining the RDA upper limits on vitamins, Dr. Grossklaus

found consensus with the EU and United States position. Yet, when the

EU objected to the United Statesand many other delegates(including

the NHFs) position that the Committee should delete the restrictive

wording that When the maximum levels are set, due account should be

taken to the reference intake values of vitamins and minerals for

the population,Dr. Grossklaus agreed with the EU and retained the

sentence. When various delegations (South Africa, IADSA, and the

NHF) objected to language that would require vitamin and mineral

supplements to be namedas food supplementsand suggested instead

alternative wording that would distinguish the need to label

the product as a food supplementfrom the actual product name, the EU

disagreed. Dr. Grossklaus sided with the EU. When the EU and the

United States were again at odds over whether or not the amount of

vitamins and minerals contained in a product should be disclosed by

the inane and useless European bulk-product system of stating so-

much weight of a product yields so-many milligrams or micrograms of

vitamins and minerals (leaving the hapless consumer to do the math

to figure out how much is in each capsule or tablet) or be disclosed

by the more direct American way of stating the milligram and

microgram quantity of the vitamins and minerals per capsule or

tablet, Dr. Grossklaus once again decided in favor of the EU,

although he did permit the American suggested wording to remain in

the sentence in the brackets that indicate it must be reviewed again

next year.

 

By this point, I was so disgusted with the Chairmans pattern of

rubber-stamping as consensusthe EU representatives opinion, that,

when called upon to speak, I told the Chairman that he was just

fashioning the Guideline to whatever the EU wanted. What the EU

wants, the EU gets,I told him and the others, adding that there was

no consensus at all in favor of the EU position. I was not surprised,

though, to find that no other delegation verbally supported me on

this. And Dr. Grossklaus, looking down on the group from his judges

chair, brushed aside my remarks with an unimpressive I reject your

comment as untrue. And the charade continued with subsequent EU

wording suggestions of course getting Dr. Grossklausfair nod.

 

At one time, unknowingly contradicting what he would later tell me

in rejecting my complaint of favoritism, Dr. Grossklaus justified

his favoring of the EU by stating that the EU represented 15

countries, as if that faint logic made any sort of difference. Why

was Dr. Grossklaus counting countries that joined together into a

federal union? What about the fifty states of the United States?

What about China with a far greater population than the EU? Or

India ? Perhaps, expanding upon Dr. Grossklauslogic, he should

weight his decisions instead in favor of the Chinese or Indian

positions since they are the most populous countries of all. But,

no, Dr. Grossklaus is a citizen of Germany, a member state of the

EU. We know where his sympathies lie, as well as where his

instructions must come from.

 

 

South Africa Shines

 

True to her word given at the end of the 2002 Committee meeting,

South African delegate Antoinette Booyzen introduced at this most

recent meeting certain Preamble and other language in an attempt to

avoid the restrictive tone of the Guidelines sought by many other

delegates. Her proposed amendment to the Preamble of the Guidelines

would have had Codex endorsing people to select a healthy diet and

supplement this diet with those nutrients for which the intake

from the diet is insufficient to meet the requirements necessary for

the prevention of chronic diseases and/or for the promotion of

health beyond the demands of preventing micronutrient deficiencies.

Knowing that this wording would be proposed, I had asked Elizabeth

Yetley, the head of the U.S. delegation, to support South Africas

proposed wording; but she declined, saying that it was a losing

cause. So, when the matter came up for discussion, only the

NHF and the Council for Responsible Nutrition supported South Africas

proposal. On this occasion as on many others, I repeatedly slugged

it out verbally with the EU representative, who claimed to speak for

the EU consumer. It was a lonely fight.

 

Not deterred by the EU, Mrs. Booyzen was more verbal at this years

meeting than the previous one and did not shy away from controversy.

Unfortunately, the tag team of the Chairman and the EU

representative effectively throttled any progress away from controls

and restrictions and the mainstream view that vitamins and minerals

are only there to prevent deficiencies.

 

The Chains Are Loosened

 

Press releases from supplement-industry organizations have trumpeted

the victoryof the recent sessions deletion of Upper Limits on

vitamins and minerals based on the insanely low Recommended Daily

Allowances (RDAs). In a limited sense the claim of victory is true

Upper Limits based upon RDAs would have been horribly restrictive.

But in rushing towards looser restrictions based on the

false security of scientific risk assessment,they are only

substituting looser handcuffs for tight ones. Proponents of the

scientific risk assessmentmethod of establishing safe Upper Limits

for vitamins and minerals think that the (expensive) studies that

will be done, and that have been done, will show that the limits

should be set high, even very high. I sincerely hope that they are

right.

 

Unfortunately, recent events are more supportive of the fears of

those of my jaded health-freedom colleagues who note that the EU

Scientific Committee on Food has used scientific risk assessmentto

establish ridiculously low upper intake levels for niacin (10 mg.)

and for Vitamin B6 (25 mg.). This supports what I have argued for

years: Science is not some objective standard these days

(if it ever were), it is a tool that can be shaped to support

whatever argument or position its users want. If researchers want to

argue that Vitamin C is dangerous above a certain level, then they

will find or create scientificstudies that support their position.

They have done this in the past, they are doing it now with the EU

Scientific Committee on Food, and they are doing it through

numerous false studies that are published almost monthly in the

common press to frighten consumers away from dietary supplements. So-

called scientific risk assessment is a trap.

 

So, yes, the severe Upper Limits that would have plagued us had the

RDAs become the standard are gone; but there are still Upper Limits

being set on natural substances that actually do not even require

upper limits at all. All of this time, energy, and money is being

wasted to set standards that are unnecessary as they are currently

being framed. After all, do we set Upper Limits on water, fiber, or

food? So while we can all breathe a sigh of relief that we have

avoided the electric chair, we should not sing too loudly as we are

led into the prison cell that will become our home for the rest of

our lives.

 

The Future

 

In their eagerness to help us, the professionals are determined to

ruin our health and our lives. They are constructing this grand

edifice of health standards to protect us from what they see as

fraudulent and potentially dangerous health supplements. With their

pharmaceutical mindset, it is not difficult to perceive how these

proponents of control might view vitamins and minerals as dangerous

either to health or to their pocketbooks. Others ascribe

an even more sinister motive to these professionals, seeing them as

the tools and agents of the pharmaceutical industry that want to

hijack the dietary-supplement industry and thereby keep it from ever

really competing with the medicines of death that they sell.

 

Regardless, while we are riding on this voyage of regulatory

discovery, it is increasingly apparent that we are all at best

simply rearranging the deck chairs on this Titanic. Unless this

Behemoth changes course radically, and soon, many lives will be

lost. Education, political action, lawsuits, and coordinated

efforts by health-freedom lovers are all important. Each of us must

do whatever we can to stop the onward rush of this ship to disaster.

 

MY FINAL COMMENTS:

 

Sometimes I feel like I'm pissing into the wind by sending

information like this out because I never know who is paying

attention on my list.

 

Do you GRASP what is going on here?

 

If so, please send me a quick email- doesn't have to be long- I want

to know what YOU are doing to try to help me wake people up. I just

did 3 radio shows this week, and will be doing more between now and

January 30th when ANH will be in court.

 

ANH badly needs your support. If you have already donated to them

please forward this to a ton more people and urge THEM to donate.

ANH is being ignored by the pharma dominated vitamin trade

associations world wide so they BADLY NEED grass roots donations at

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

 

They are the only people we can trust who are trying to overturn the

EU Food Supplement Directive, and the only people trying to kill the

EU Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive and the

Pharmaceuticals Directive. They have the best law firm in Europe

working with them, but its very expensive. We CAN WIN in court, and

we MUST! Its as simple as that! As goes the EU, so goes the

WORLD due to how globalization and harmonization are proceeding

against us.

 

We CAN monkeywrench this evil agenda! Let me know what YOU are

doing, so I will know how many of you out there are paying

attention. Oh yeah, did I mention that CRN favors the ban on

ephedra??? Did you know that several of their pharmaceutical members

manufacture Rx weight loss drugs?

 

How blind can the vitamin company members of CRN possibly be? I am

astonished, but not really. This is sickening and very scary. We're

watching genocide unfold unless a lot more of you get off your butts

and swing into action to HELP me here. Please forward this widely.

Post it to Usenet newsgroups, do anything you can to call attention

to it- but don't give me this crap that its " too long " .

 

There is no other way to explain what is going on. The Cartel

doesn't want us to SEE THEIR TAKEOVER, and its a challenge to make

it transparent so everyone can see it. I'm trying.... Did 3 radio

shows this week, can any of you help me get on the air on more

shows? The clock.... is ticking....

 

Thanks.

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

556 Boundary Bay Rd.

Point Roberts, WA 98281 USA

http://www.iahf.com

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World

For Health Freedom,

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

556 Boundary Bay Road

Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com

jham

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World

[Guest guest]

Hi Misty,

 

I don't have more information about all this, but it is VERY troubling.

I can see in the future where all the nutritionals will be off the

shelves and the only thing left will be the big pharma drugs. Didn't

something like this just happen with the Sea Silver MLM company? I

think I remember hearing that they were shut down.

 

Bayer, Basf, Pfizer, Monsanto, and Wyeth - what do they know about

responsible nutrition?????? Monsanto is the scariest company in the

world, with all their GM experimentation, and Round-Up Ready crops, and

by the way - DON'T use Round-Up. PLEASE don't support them!!!!

 

Carol

 

 

Misty L. Trepke [mistytrepke]

 

 

* Does anyone know more about this? If true, this would be

troubling...

Misty L. Trepke

http://www..com

 

CRN " Leads " Its Vitamin Company Members to the CLIFF

 

The Pharma Dominated Council for Responsible Nutrition's membership

includes BAYER, BASF, PFIZER, MONSANTO, and WYETH.