Fw: Huge Supplements Ban Coming To Europe

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" elijahnyc " <lmichaels02

 

Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:05 AM

Huge Supplements Ban Coming To Europe

 

 

> Huge Supplements Ban Coming To Europe

> BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE COVER-UP

> http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtml

>

> An Interview with John Hammell of International

> Advocates For Health Freedom (IAHF)

> by Greg Ciola

>

> Crusador Newsletter DEC-JAN 2004, (ISSUE 16)

>

> In August 2005, everything in Europe is about to change. Over 300

> bioavailable nutrient forms present in over 5,000 safe vitamin and

> mineral products that include a large number of the safest, most

> readily absorbed and most effective, food-derived forms will be

> banned from the market. It stems from radical legislation passed in

> Europe by member State governments in June 2002 known as the EU Food

> Supplements Directive (FSD). The list of banned items includes

> natural vitamin forms such as mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E),

> carotenoids and methylcobalamin, all forms of sulphur, boron,

> vanadium, silicon and most trace elements, the most readily absorbed

> and safest forms of calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, chromium and

> molybdenum. It will severely limit the doses of vitamins and other

> nutrients allowed in products, removing all high-dose products from

> the market. It will include future restrictions on nutrient forms

> other than vitamins and minerals such as fatty acids, amino acids,

> enzymes, probiotics, phytonutrients, etc. It will dramatically limit

> future innovation in the dietary supplement industry, with consequent

> serious impacts on retail outlets, complementary practitioners and

> consumers who choose to take responsibility for their own health.

>

> In addition to denying most Europeans access to safe nutritional

> supplements, this draconian EU Directive is going to be used as the

> blueprint for establishing international dietary supplement laws at

> Codex of which the U.S. has agreed to adopt. If this happens, which

> is a very likely scenario in the next year or so, Codex will outlaw

> or severely restrict virtually everything millions of us have grown

> accustomed to using safely every day. We no longer live in a world

> where national borders mean much of anything. We are witnessing the

> rapid unification of the world into a new global government with

> Europe at the helm. When the World Trade Organization (WTO) was given

> teeth to enforce international trade laws in the early 1990s by

> establishing an international court known as the Dispute Settlement

> Body, all WTO member nations in principle agreed to harmonize their

> domestic trade laws to a new set of international laws so every

> nation operates by the same set of standards. Most supplement

> consumers were unaware at the time that in effect, this would

> eventually lead to an incremental attack on all of our food

> supplements here in America and around the world. Most supplement

> companies have simply gone along with the advice from their

> pharmaceutically dominated trade associations and know very little,

> if any, about what is taking shape across the Atlantic.

>

> The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), a consumer advocacy group

> based in Britain, was recently granted the green light to challenge

> the FSD at the last minute; however, very rarely has a EU Directive

> ever been overturned and in this case, it would be a historic event

> considering the pharmaceutical interests backing its implementation.

> Resources are very scarce and desperately needed to keep the lawsuit

> going to overturn the Directive before it's too late. They've hired a

> top staff of EU lawyers and together with its multidisciplinary team

> of experts they are prepared for a legal challenge in a EU Court.

> With the EU expanding by ten more nations in early 2004 to a combined

> total of twenty-five member nations, and with heavy pressure to

> finalize a Codex vitamin standard, we're at a critical juncture on

> this issue. If the FSD is not overturned, and with Europe's ever-

> expanding power, it's very possible that there will be enough

> countries onboard to overrule the U.S. at Codex where many parts of

> the FSD will be used when international vitamin laws are codified.

> Once a Codex vitamin law is finalized, it will supercede all U.S.

> supplement laws. The only way for America to truly protect its vital

> interest is to get out of the U.N. and the WTO entirely, which is

> something nobody realistically sees happening. If America is not

> vigilant to this threat, our supplement industry will be blindsided

> and knocked out without even putting up a valiant fight.

>

> In an effort to educate supplement consumers around the world to this

> dangerous threat to our health freedoms, CRUSADOR interviewed John

> Hammell of IAHF in a no holds barred discussion. Hammell has been

> sounding the alarm since 1996 that serious trouble is brewing for our

> industry. Unfortunately, John's pleas for help have mostly fallen on

> deaf ears as these international agreements continue to plod forward

> virtually unopposed and with complicity from high level U.S.

> delegates with pharmaceutical ties representing us at Codex. The time

> to muster the troops and kill this Directive and block a very

> restrictive Codex vitamin standard is now. Otherwise, it will be too

> late and America's supplement laws will be harmonized to a new set of

> draconian international vitamin laws.

>

>

>

>

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" elijahnyc " <lmichaels02

 

Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:05 AM

Huge Supplements Ban Coming To Europe

 

 

> Huge Supplements Ban Coming To Europe

> BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE COVER-UP

> http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtml

>

> An Interview with John Hammell of International

> Advocates For Health Freedom (IAHF)

> by Greg Ciola

>

> Crusador Newsletter DEC-JAN 2004, (ISSUE 16)

>

> In August 2005, everything in Europe is about to change. Over 300

> bioavailable nutrient forms present in over 5,000 safe vitamin and

> mineral products that include a large number of the safest, most

> readily absorbed and most effective, food-derived forms will be

> banned from the market. It stems from radical legislation passed in

> Europe by member State governments in June 2002 known as the EU Food

> Supplements Directive (FSD). The list of banned items includes

> natural vitamin forms such as mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E),

> carotenoids and methylcobalamin, all forms of sulphur, boron,

> vanadium, silicon and most trace elements, the most readily absorbed

> and safest forms of calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, chromium and

> molybdenum. It will severely limit the doses of vitamins and other

> nutrients allowed in products, removing all high-dose products from

> the market. It will include future restrictions on nutrient forms

> other than vitamins and minerals such as fatty acids, amino acids,

> enzymes, probiotics, phytonutrients, etc. It will dramatically limit

> future innovation in the dietary supplement industry, with consequent

> serious impacts on retail outlets, complementary practitioners and

> consumers who choose to take responsibility for their own health.

>

> In addition to denying most Europeans access to safe nutritional

> supplements, this draconian EU Directive is going to be used as the

> blueprint for establishing international dietary supplement laws at

> Codex of which the U.S. has agreed to adopt. If this happens, which

> is a very likely scenario in the next year or so, Codex will outlaw

> or severely restrict virtually everything millions of us have grown

> accustomed to using safely every day. We no longer live in a world

> where national borders mean much of anything. We are witnessing the

> rapid unification of the world into a new global government with

> Europe at the helm. When the World Trade Organization (WTO) was given

> teeth to enforce international trade laws in the early 1990s by

> establishing an international court known as the Dispute Settlement

> Body, all WTO member nations in principle agreed to harmonize their

> domestic trade laws to a new set of international laws so every

> nation operates by the same set of standards. Most supplement

> consumers were unaware at the time that in effect, this would

> eventually lead to an incremental attack on all of our food

> supplements here in America and around the world. Most supplement

> companies have simply gone along with the advice from their

> pharmaceutically dominated trade associations and know very little,

> if any, about what is taking shape across the Atlantic.

>

> The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), a consumer advocacy group

> based in Britain, was recently granted the green light to challenge

> the FSD at the last minute; however, very rarely has a EU Directive

> ever been overturned and in this case, it would be a historic event

> considering the pharmaceutical interests backing its implementation.

> Resources are very scarce and desperately needed to keep the lawsuit

> going to overturn the Directive before it's too late. They've hired a

> top staff of EU lawyers and together with its multidisciplinary team

> of experts they are prepared for a legal challenge in a EU Court.

> With the EU expanding by ten more nations in early 2004 to a combined

> total of twenty-five member nations, and with heavy pressure to

> finalize a Codex vitamin standard, we're at a critical juncture on

> this issue. If the FSD is not overturned, and with Europe's ever-

> expanding power, it's very possible that there will be enough

> countries onboard to overrule the U.S. at Codex where many parts of

> the FSD will be used when international vitamin laws are codified.

> Once a Codex vitamin law is finalized, it will supercede all U.S.

> supplement laws. The only way for America to truly protect its vital

> interest is to get out of the U.N. and the WTO entirely, which is

> something nobody realistically sees happening. If America is not

> vigilant to this threat, our supplement industry will be blindsided

> and knocked out without even putting up a valiant fight.

>

> In an effort to educate supplement consumers around the world to this

> dangerous threat to our health freedoms, CRUSADOR interviewed John

> Hammell of IAHF in a no holds barred discussion. Hammell has been

> sounding the alarm since 1996 that serious trouble is brewing for our

> industry. Unfortunately, John's pleas for help have mostly fallen on

> deaf ears as these international agreements continue to plod forward

> virtually unopposed and with complicity from high level U.S.

> delegates with pharmaceutical ties representing us at Codex. The time

> to muster the troops and kill this Directive and block a very

> restrictive Codex vitamin standard is now. Otherwise, it will be too

> late and America's supplement laws will be harmonized to a new set of

> draconian international vitamin laws.

>

>

>

>

Please pass this message or article on to someone else so that they may

learn also.

>

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>

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> " Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you.

Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a

happy life and how to work for a better world. " - Linus Pauling

>

> Getting well is done one step at a time, day by day, building health and

well being.

>

> .

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