FDA ENDGAME ### URGENT....ALL Vitamins Alert Bill! WE NEED TO STOP THIS NOW! ###

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This is the END GAME..They are serious about this. We cannot give rest yet.

CALL and let the (so called) Representatives know we do not appreciate the

treaties which are collapsing us into this draconion control grid of taking

away our right to eat well. I suggest not to be overly polite. They work

for you. This is taking away our choices and they have no jurisdiction to

legislate this. Much education is necessary to understand how to take this

beast down... according to some, the treaties will superceed and make void

our wishes. This is a terrific stand off.

 

TEXANS: State legislation will not be honored if this passes. This is a

treatie and will not honor any state choice. This is a very serious set of

events. CALL THEM NOW!

 

 

FW: ### URGENT....ALL Vitamins Alert Bill! WE NEED TO STOP THIS

NOW! ###

 

 

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>>>I received two messages urging action on S1082 which would put control of

>>>natural alternative health measures in the hands of the big

>>>pharmaceutical

>>>companies and restrict our access. IT MUST BE STOPPED. Please contact

>>>your

>>>elected representatives TODAY!

>>>

>>>Don Stacey

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>>>

>>>This week the Senate will hear and vote on a bill S1082 which will

>>>literally

>>>turn over the FDA to the pharmaceutical companies, increasing their

>>>ability

>>>to market new drugs faster and with even less oversight. It will also

>>>enable

>>>big Pharma's dream to become a reality: to derail the strong public

>>>movement

>>>to natural alternative health and return it to their own restrictive grip

>>>for their profit and our loss of freedom and health. The vote could take

>>>place as early as Tuesday or Wednesday may 1st or 2nd. Please use the

>>>info

>>>below to arm and inform yourself, and then use the link near the bottom

>>>to

>>>locate your Senators and Congressman and CONTACT their offices as soon as

>>>you recieve this message. If we don't act, our freedom to choose will be

>>>lost!

>>>

>>>

>>>Pharmaceutical Industry - Health - News

>>>The House, as part of its 100-hour agenda, already passed a similar bill.

>>>... according to the proposal as outlined in FDA Docket number

>>>2006D-0480,

>>>...www.wikio.com/health/pharmaceutical_industry - 67k - Cached - Similar

>>>pages

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>CODEX ALIMENTARIUS ALERT!!

>>>

>>>Public Commentary Expiring to Halt the FDA's Regulation of Vitamins,

>>>Supplements and Alternative Treatment

>>>

>>>Alarming draconian legislation regarding the FDA's ability to regulate

>>>basic vitamins, nutritional supplements and even juices as a " drug " is

>>>being snuck in as a rider to an unrelated bill in the Congress [under

>>>Docket Number 2006D-0480 ].

>>>

>>>The window for public commentary [COMMENT HERE A.S.A.P.] and opposition

>>>expires April 30, 2007, leaving almost no time to inform the populace or

>>>debate the seemingly absurd treatment of public health-- which hands

>>>over a monopoly to the big-pharma industrial complex and criminalizes

>>>natural

>>>treatments of all kinds.

>>>

>>>Here's the summation from Mike Adams of News Target:

>>>

>>>When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game. A new

>>>FDA " guidance " document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans

>>>to

>>>reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable

>>>juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be

>>>classified as " medical devices " and require FDA approval. The document

>>>is called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on

>>>Complementary and Alternative Medicine [CAM] Products and Their

>>>Regulation

>>>by the Food

>>>and Drug Administration.

>>>

>>>And now, with this CAM Products Regulation effort, the FDA is about

>>>to deal a final, fatal blow to the alternative medicine industry,

>>>outlawing

>>>nutritional supplements, functional foods, homeopathy and natural

>>>therapies all at once.

>>>

>>>The legislation is largely a " harmonization " with the World Health

>>>Organization's CODEX Alimentarius, which on the surface establishes

>>>standardized food guidelines to ensure. Docket Number 2006D-0480 would

>>>forced into effect by December 31, 2009 all types of frightful practices

>>>in the name of food sanitation and reliable food supply:

>>>

>>>1. Codex Alimentarius requires that all meats, poultry, fish, fruit and

>>>vegetables must be irradiated by Dec. 31, 2009.

>>>2. Codex Alimentarius requires that all dairy cattle are to be given

>>>Monsanto bovine growth hormone by Dec. 31, 2009.

>>>3. Codex Alimentarius reclassifies vitamin and mineral supplements as

>>>toxins

>>>and dramatically limits their dosage and availability.

>>>4. Many nations have already harmonized their laws with Codex

>>>Alimentarius

>>>making it their de facto law.

>>> This has already been approved by the European Union, Australia, New

>>>Zealand, Canada, and others.

>>>5. Codex Alimentarius allows significant trade sanctions to be levied

>>>against noncompliant nations.

>>>6. In 2005 there were five bills submitted to congress to weaken or

>>>eliminate DSHEA.

>>>

>>>Similar regulation was attempted in 1992, but rejected after public

>>>outcry turned the tide. Hopefully a halting response will surface in

>>>enough

>>>

>>>time to stop this new attempt to restrict even basic rights to natural

>>>products.

>>>

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>>>

>>>From the Life Extension Foundation's excellent article and call to arms:

>>>

>>>Major Expansion of FDA Powers will Target Dietary Supplements

>>>

>>>A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements

>>>was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major

>>>support

>>>from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration

>>>Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past

>>>few

>>>years working hand-in-glove with the FDA's dysfunctional management and

>>>legal team - meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big

>>>Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.

>>>

>>>S1082 is a Trojan Horse bill that pretends to address safety issues.

>>>Unbelievably, the bill turns the FDA into a drug development company that

>>>will expose Americans to new and dangerous biological drugs that have

>>>little

>>>testing to prove safety or effectiveness. And to top it off, the bill

>>>gives

>>>broad new regulatory powers to the FDA that can be used to frivolously

>>>attack dietary supplements and forward the FDA management's anti-American

>>>globalization agenda.

>>>

>>>On April 18, 2007, S1082 was approved by the HELP committee (which

>>>Kennedy

>>>and Enzi control) and now moves to the floor of the Senate. In a slick

>>>move, Kennedy has attached his long-planned FDA/Big Pharma " reform "

>>>measures

>>>to the renewal of PDUFA (Prescription Drug User Fee Act). Current PDUFA

>>>law

>>>expires later this year and must be reviewed by Congress. PDUFA allows

>>>Big

>>>Pharma to pay the FDA fees to speed the approval of its drugs. The new

>>>Kennedy bill will increase these FDA bribes to 380 million dollars in

>>>2008,

>>>well over 50% of the FDA budget for new drug approvals. This is like

>>>paying

>>>the mob for protection. Kennedy, by replacing the existing PDUFA law

>>>with

>>>this new bill (S1082), is ensuring that his twisted legislation is the

>>>one

>>>that will be put before the Senate for a vote.

>>>The FDA Drug Company, an Agency with New Regulatory Power

>>>

>>>It is hard for anyone to comprehend that the agency that is supposed to

>>>be

>>>in charge of drug safety is about to become a drug company. It is

>>>astonishing that the FDA will now manage a full scale business activity

>>>that

>>>uses a " non profit " foundation as a shield to avoid international patent

>>>problems, protect proprietary rights of its commercial drug-development

>>>enterprise, and massively expands FDA regulatory powers to quickly remove

>>>anything from the market that is competition to its own products and

>>>licensing agreements.

>>>

>>>This new FDA business enterprise is called the Reagan-Udall Foundation

>>>for

>>>the Food and Drug Administration (see pages 105-125). In previous

>>>versions

>>>of the Kennedy bill it was going to be an independent drug company within

>>>the FDA (the Reagan-Udall Institute for Applied Biomedical Research). In

>>>the current bill it is a " non profit " collaboration of the FDA, private

>>>industry, government funding, and private funding. It is run directly by

>>>the FDA even though it pretends to not be part of the government. Under

>>>this scam taxpayers will foot the bill for drug development and then be

>>>charged outrageous prices for the drugs. Furthermore, the new bill seeks

>>>to

>>>allow a massive expanse of FDA regulatory power through this new

>>>foundation.

>>>For example, on pages 106-107 the bill states:

>>>

>>> " The purpose of the Foundation is to advance the mission of the Food

>>> and

>>>Drug Administration to modernize medical, veterinary, food, food

>>>ingredient,

>>>and cosmetic product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance

>>>product

>>>safety..The Foundation shall [take] into consideration the Critical Path

>>>reports and priorities published by the Food and Drug Administration,

>>>identify unmet needs in the development, manufacture, and evaluation of

>>>the

>>>safety and effectiveness, including post approval, of devices, including

>>>diagnostics, biologics, and drugs, and the safety of food, food

>>>ingredients,

>>>and cosmetics. "

>>>

>>>Through this foundation the FDA is seeking broad new regulatory power

>>>that

>>>it currently does not possess. This will include the authority to attack

>>>any dietary supplement (which are food ingredients) as unsafe based on

>>>its

>>>use of " Critical Path " technology. This means the FDA will use proteomics

>>>(the advanced study of proteins in biological systems) to assess changes

>>>in

>>>biomarkers (the change in the state of a protein at the molecular level)

>>>in

>>>order to establish whatever it wants to consider as a risk. The FDA can

>>>slant this technology, based on their own personal opinions, to make

>>>anything they want appear as a risk - including your favorite dietary

>>>supplements that you use to stay healthy.

>>>Deceiving the Public

>>>

>>>This new bill panders to concerns of Americans regarding the safety of

>>>drugs. This legitimate worry is used by Kennedy and Enzi to garner

>>>support

>>>when in reality the bill does just the opposite - exposing Americans to

>>>almost unfathomable new drug risks and dangers while simultaneously

>>>making

>>>it possible to remove super safe, therapeutic, and helpful dietary

>>>supplements. The entire Critical Path initiative is a plan to race new

>>>and

>>>untested powerful biological drugs onto the market and experiment on

>>>patients all over the country - throwing caution to the wind as far as

>>>drug

>>>safety is concerned.

>>>

>>>While S1082 also pretends to address the issues of drug safety, in

>>>reality

>>>all the needed Big Pharma loopholes are firmly in place. Additionally,

>>>the

>>>establishment of a clinical trial database as written in this proposed

>>>law

>>>will enable Big Pharma to hide experimental and undesirable side effects.

>>>Instead of full disclosure we will have a sterilized clinical trial

>>>database

>>>that will have the net effect of being used as a tool by Big Pharma to

>>>promote off label use of drugs. This is a far cry from disclosure that

>>>results in safety.

>>>

>>>In response to the Kennedy con Charles Grassley (R-IA) immediately

>>>attacked

>>>the legislation on the floor of the Senate:

>>>

>>> " The bill [s1082] does not address the outstanding critical problem

>>> that

>>>the office responsible for post-market drug safety lacks the

>>>independence,

>>>lacks the authority to promptly identify serious health risks and take

>>>necessary steps that will protect the public. As I think we all agree,

>>>the

>>>FDA is in desperate need of major overhaul. "

>>>

>>>The problem for Grassley, and all Americans, is that his true safety

>>>reform

>>>measures for the FDA are being held hostage by the HELP committee which

>>>is

>>>under the control of Kennedy and Enzi. His proposed legislation is S.

>>>468:

>>>Food and Drug Administration Safety Act of 2007 and S. 467: Fair Access

>>>to

>>>Clinical Trials Act of 2007. As Grassley told the Senate:

>>>

>>> " Let me be clear: Big Pharma does not like these bills. FDA

>>> management

>>>does not like these bills. Lobbyists are spending hours upon hours

>>>lobbying

>>>against these bills.What is wrong with establishing a separate center

>>>within

>>>the FDA--not outside the FDA, within the FDA--with its only job being

>>>that

>>>of a watchdog for those drugs already in the market?...What is wrong with

>>>supporting a clinical trial registry and results database that also

>>>requires

>>>sponsors to reveal their negative trials?...I propose there is nothing

>>>wrong

>>>with any of these proposals. "

>>>

>>>The situation is rather grave for all Americans. Kennedy has attached

>>>repressive legislation to replace the PDUFA funding thereby ensuring that

>>>his agenda will come before the Senate for a vote. The only real

>>>opposition

>>>to the legislation is coming from Grassley, who is attacking the weakness

>>>in

>>>FDA reform regarding drug safety and clinical trials. An even greater

>>>threat to the public - turning the FDA into a drug company and creating

>>>new

>>>regulatory powers that can be used to attack dietary supplements and

>>>remove

>>>them from the market - is being ignored by everyone - until now. Kennedy

>>>knows he can defeat Grassley and keep Grassley's bills from ever seeing

>>>the

>>>light of day. Can Kennedy defeat the American public? Solving this

>>>problem

>>>is up to you.

>>>The Secret FDA Agenda - Government Against the People

>>>

>>>The FDA is a puppet organization. Its management is a revolving door

>>>with

>>>Big Pharma, Big Biotech, and Big Agriculture. The behavior of its

>>>management team, set by its current leader Andrew von Eschenbach - but

>>>fully

>>>entrenched in its long and ugly history, is one of acting as a

>>>police-force

>>>bully to forward the profits of those with money and stamp out all

>>>competition (under the false guise of consumer protection). The FDA

>>>management fully believes it is above any law that is in its way or any

>>>attempt at Congressional oversight. It gives lip service to its safety

>>>mission. It is a cult unto itself.

>>>

>>>The anti-American FDA is actively seeking to undermine U.S. laws and

>>>harmonize our dietary supplement laws with Mexico and Canada. This is

>>>being

>>>done through the Trilateral Cooperation Charter - an illegal agreement

>>>set

>>>up with health regulatory agencies in Mexico and Canada. It is part of

>>>the

>>>campaign towards a North American Union, one which would be a catastrophe

>>>for health freedom in this country as dietary supplement laws in Canada

>>>and

>>>Mexico are far more restrictive than in the U.S.

>>>

>>>The FDA would also like to harmonize our dietary supplement laws with the

>>>evolving international standards set by Codex, thus branding therapeutic

>>>nutrition as dangerous and risky and needing to be sold by Big Pharma or

>>>removed from the market altogether (if it competes with a blockbuster

>>>category of drugs). Codex is planning to use the same proteomics and

>>>biomarker technology that will be used by the FDA's Critical Path

>>>Initiative

>>>to remove therapeutic dietary supplements from the international market

>>>and

>>>force their policies on America, thereby superseding the sovereignty of

>>>American law on threat of trade sanctions. The FDA fully supports

>>>draconian

>>>Codex guidelines to regulate dietary supplements and is working with the

>>>Germans to concoct technology to brand nutrients as drugs. The FDA

>>>management is as bad as any government agency can get. Under the

>>>leadership

>>>of Andrew von Eschenbach it has plummeted to an all time low.

>>>What You Can Do

>>>

>>> 1. Call, fax, phone, and write your Senators and tell them you are

>>>opposed to bill S1082 - Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act.

>>>Tell them you want no legislation of any kind that will enable the FDA to

>>>frivolously attack dietary supplements. Tell them you do not want Big

>>>Pharma funding the FDA with user fees for drug approvals. Demand an

>>>independent office within the FDA to monitor drug safety. And tell them

>>>you

>>>want full disclosure by Big Pharma of all their clinical trials. Tell

>>>them

>>>you support the Grassley legislation (S467 and S468) which offers true

>>>reform of the FDA.

>>> 2. Tell your Senators you are completely opposed to any law that would

>>>enable the FDA to act as a drug company, such as S1082, which is

>>>proposing

>>>the formation of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA.

>>> 3. Sign this petition demanding congressional oversight of the FDA's

>>>Trilateral Cooperation Charter - a key point the FDA is using to

>>>illegally

>>>support the formation of the North American Union while at the same time

>>>undermining health freedom. This is the FDA's front line attack that

>>>undermines American law and seeks to harmonize us with the laws of other

>>>countries. We must win this battle to stop Codex and preserve our health

>>>freedom - including access to therapeutic dietary supplements and all

>>>alternative health options.

>>>

>>>If S1082 becomes law and the FDA is allowed to enter relationships with

>>>foreign countries without any Congressional mandate or oversight we can

>>>kiss

>>>health freedom goodbye - as well as our dietary supplements. It is time

>>>for

>>>dietary supplement companies and trade groups to get their heads out of

>>>the

>>>sand and quit jockeying for position in the New World Order at the

>>>expense

>>>of the future well being of their own customers.

>>>

>>>The issue of health freedom is an issue for all Americans who believe in

>>>our

>>>constitution and our founding documents. America is the last bastion of

>>>health freedom on earth. If we fall, the world will be plunged into a

>>>Dark

>>>Ages of health. Our future health will be dictated by a multinational

>>>sickness industry driven by profits for drug and biologic companies with

>>>little to do with real quality of health. This is a crossroads - a

>>>moment

>>>in time. Health freedom is fundamental to all other freedoms as without

>>>health freedom the minds and bodies of a population are easy to control.

>>>

>>>TAKE ACTION NOW! Find your Senators' and Congressman's email addresses

>>>and

>>>phone numbers here:

>>>http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/index.html

>>>

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>>>

>>>

>>>An email and/or phone call to your Senators and Congressman should be

>>>done

>>>immediately! See sample below and add in your own words.

>>>

>>>

>>> " All Americans know that the FDA is in need of an overhaul. However, I

>>>firmly oppose S.1082, the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act

>>>of

>>>2007, which is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Monday afternoon,

>>>April

>>>30, as well as any House companion bill.

>>>

>>>I am outraged that this legislation creates a business relationship

>>>between

>>>the FDA and private industry for the purpose of designing and marketing

>>>drugs (pages 105-125 of the bill). The lack of transparency between FDA

>>>management and the pharmaceutical industry is one of my greatest

>>>concerns-how could the Senate possibly consider legislation that places

>>>the

>>>FDA in charge of licensing arrangements with private industry?

>>>

>>>As one of the 150 million consumers of dietary supplements, I also find

>>>it

>>>appalling that S.1082 gives the FDA new powers to attack dietary

>>>supplements

>>>(pages 106-107). We do not need more legislation that will allow the

>>>FDA,

>>>at its whim, to suppress access to safe, natural health options and

>>>dietary

>>>supplements.

>>>

>>>This entire package of pharmaceutical industry-friendly FDA reform does

>>>nothing to protect myself or my family from another Vioxx catastrophe.

>>>The

>>>FDA has made far too many such mistakes not protecting public health, but

>>>assiting the pharmeceutical companies profits at our expense.

>>>

>>>1) I oppose the pharmaceutical industry funding the FDA for new drug

>>>approvals, which S.1082 not only allows but increases. This is a conflict

>>>of

>>>interest.

>>>2) I demand that an independent office within the FDA be set up to

>>>monitor

>>>the safety of drugs already on the market. The Institute of Medicine has

>>>already told us that the FDA's current management is dysfunctional; I

>>>want

>>>real reform at the FDA.

>>>3) I want full disclosure of all clinical trials, not the watered-down

>>>pharmaceutical industry-friendly version in S.1082 that allows drug

>>>companies to hide their problems.

>>>4) I want all conflicts of interest removed from FDA advisory panels.

>>>There

>>>is no need to have industry-sponsored " experts " voting on drugs which

>>>they

>>>receive money to promote. S.1082 supports the status quo; it is time for

>>>meaningful change.

>>>

>>>S.1082 tries to do too much at once and does nothing properly. Under the

>>>pretense of drug safety, the real agenda of the legislation is to turn

>>>the

>>>FDA into a drug company and increase FDA regulatory power that can be

>>>used

>>>to attack dietary supplements. This 262- page bill was passed out of

>>>committee without a hearing, and there is no report on it so members of

>>>Congress do not even know what it contains. S1082 is seeking to do far

>>>too

>>>much without true and meaningful FDA reform. Minimally, I want the terms

>>> " food " and " food ingredients " removed from this legislation. However, I

>>>ask

>>>you to vote no on the entire bill, because, as written, it will not

>>>prevent

>>>another Vioxx catastrophe.

>>>

>>>

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