CODEX -- The latest assault on our freedoms of choice for health care

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Folks, the following is posted with Doc's Okay,

 

I have recently become aware of CODEX, which is a move on the part

of the UN, WHO and FAO to eliminate our access to vitamins and all

other natural supplements. This worries me and it makes me madder

than a wet hen because it is all being funded by the pharmaceutical

companies which stand to lose a great deal of money as more and more

people realize that use of supplements will erode the market share of

big pharma.

 

So, I'm posting this here as a point of information. Many of you

are probably more aware of this than I am and are already taking

whatever action you feel is necessary. I hope that this message is

appropriate for posting on this forum.

 

Ron Matthews

 

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KISS YOUR VITAMINS GOODBYE!

 

The U.S. Delegation to Codex has just issued a formal written

statement to the Codex Alimentarius Commission that the United

States, during the July 4-9, 2005, meeting in Rome, will support

compulsory rules created by this international organization directly

overruling U.S. law regarding access to vitamins.

 

The U.S. law that is about to be vanquished is the Dietary

Supplement, Health and Education Act of 1994. Codex is a joint

venture between the United Nation's World Health Organization and

Food and Agriculture Organization. (WHO/FAO) The World Trade

Organization (WTO) has already stated that it will enforce

Codex " guidelines " as the world standard for trade in dietary

supplements. This will mean that gradually, pill-by-pill, our access

to the dietary supplements we depend on will disappear.

 

For those not familiar with the Dietary Supplement Health and

Education Act of 1994, it was passed because 2.5 million ordinary

citizens wanted to make sure dietary supplements such as herbs,

vitamins, minerals and other food-based supplements could stay on the

over-the-counter market. Movement to create this law, known as DSHEA,

started when a 1992 FDA task force published a report announcing the

FDA's desire to remove these products from the shelves as they

represented a " disincentive for patented drug research " .

 

Immediately following this announcement, millions of Americans

learned about how famed vitamin doctor, Jonathan Wright's patient-

filled medical office was raided the same month by nearly two-dozen

gun-toting, flak-jacketed FDA agents in the name of regulating

supplements. Battering down an unlocked office door, these agents,

backed by burly sheriff's department deputies, lined up staff and

patients against the wall, pulled IVs from patients arms in middle of

treatments, confiscated patient records, took the hard drive from the

office computer all because Dr. Jonathan Wright was using nutritional

supplements to heal very sick people who could not get help from

standard allopathic medical care.

 

As the story developed, it turned out that this Gestapo-style raid

was standard operating procedure for the FDA and as the general

public became aware of just how many doctors' offices, manufacturing

companies, distributors and health food stores had been assaulted by

similar raids, the horror of all this forged a mighty health freedom

army that resulted in unanimous passage of DSHEA.

 

The idea of the law was two-fold:

 

1. DSHEA was to make a clear distinction between FOOD, which is

considered generally safe and did not need to have permission from

the FDA to be allowed on the market and DRUGS, which are generally

toxic, potentially deadly and in need of lengthy evaluation before

they were available to the public under prescription from a doctor.

 

2. DSHEA provides the FDA with plenty of legal authority to remove

herbs or dietary supplements from the market providing the agency has

plenty of REAL evidence of REAL harm to the public. The FDA also has

the authority to limit the amount of a supplement to low levels IF

the agency has plenty of REAL evidence to prove higher levels ARE

ACTUALLY dangerous.

 

The FDA and its Big Pharma backers have never liked DSHEA because

these products and the related natural healing arts services often

related to them are putting the allopathic drug/surgical/chemical

medical industry to shame.

 

In my book, Death by Modern Medicine, using the allopathic medical

industry's own official reports, I document how 784,000 people die

every year in the American medical system while following doctors'

orders in a highly-regulated allopathic system. The proof that

dietary supplements and the practitioners who promote them are safe

and work as expected is evidenced everywhere. Studies conducted all

over the world have shown that supplements are actually safer than

food and there is simply no hard evidence to show there is ANY risk

factor worthy of discussion, much less needing universal " risk

assessment " .

 

Yet, the U.S. Delegation, along with its Big Pharma backers are bound

and determined that Codex force " risk analysis assessments " upon the

American dietary supplement industry so they can bypass the expressed

will of the American people.

 

The REAL reason for promotion of " risk assessment " is based on two

agendas. First, to be able to strip the over-the-counter marketplace

of everything but low quality, low dose-level products that won't do

much to support or improve health. Second, to set up the framework to

allow Big Pharma to take over the supplement market as a new form of

drugs where prices can be jacked up outrageously and doled out by

doctors for a fee.

 

UNDERSTAND THIS: If you do not ACT NOW, you and everyone you love,

will be condemned to living under an international law that denies

your basic right to maintain your health. WITHOUT HEALTH, YOU HAVE

NO FREEDOM!

 

ACT NOW! www.friendsoffreedominternational.org

 

Order at least one year worth of supplements so that you are safe

while the legal war will go on. Prices can rise endlessly so that we

can not afford our supplements any more and they may be taken off the

market.

 

 

 

CODEX ALIMENTARIS ENDS U.S. SUPPLEMENTS IN JUNE 2005

 

Working stealthily BIG PHARMA has rapidly pushed their legislative

program (Codex Alimentaris) in Europe that will eliminate the free

choice Americans now have to purchase vitamins, herbs, minerals,

homeopathic remedies, aminoacids and nutritional supplements. This

elimination of all competition for the pharmaceutical industry will

produce an enormous increase in the already exorbitant profits earned

by the pharmaceutical firms. Of even greater significance the lack of

free choice to stay well by taking effective nutritional substances

will promptly be followed by a sharp increase in illnesses that will

only be treated in the future with pharmaceutical drugs.

 

The new Codex Alimentaris adopted in a secret meeting in Europe in

November 2004 is scheduled to take effect in June 2005. Because the

United States belongs to the World Trade Organization WTO any changes

approved in Europe automatically become law in the United States

superceding our own laws (we are no longer a sovereign nation).

Failure to comply with these changes institutes lawsuits which can

not be won as they are settled in international courts which care

nothing about U.S. laws. Incidentally, Europe has been very leery of

genetically modified foods because of serious concerns about their

safety. By this same WTO mechanism Europe will be forced to accept

importation of U.S. GMO foods even if they know they are bad for

health.

 

The features of Codex Alimentaris are:

 

No supplements can be sold for preventative or therapeutic use.

Any potency higher than RDA levels (pathetically low) is a drug that

requires a prescription and must be produced by drug companies.

Codex regulations are binding internationally

New supplements are banned unless given Codex testing and approval

(certain to expensive and lacking in scientific merit). Norway and

Germany are already operating under the new Codex regulations. The

price of zinc tablets has gone from $4 to $52. Echinacea has risen

from $14 to $153.

Codex regulations are not based on science or research findings.

These regulations were developed by 11 appointed persons. Guess who

appointed them?

Why Haven't I Heard About This?

 

The controlled press has been instructed to avoid commenting on this

issue until it becomes a fait accomplis. At that time your

congressional legislators will say they are sorry but there is

nothing they can do to reverse the Codex. The truth is they were, all

but a few, bought and paid for back when the World Trade Organization

was ratified by the U.S. Congress.

 

Can Anything Be Done To Stop This Codex?

 

I hope so but the remaining time is miniscule and the enemy has

carried out a brilliant strategy. There is no reason for any optimism

about the possibility of reversing the Codex regulations. A brilliant

English lawyer (Anderson), considered to be the top lawyer in that

nation, has agreed to fight the Codex in court because he thinks he

can win. This fight needs money because it is against the incredible

financial resources of the pharmaceutical industry. Two other

sinister Directives need to be reversed in Brussels as well as the

implemented Codex Directive. Donations to the http://alliance-natural-

health.org are vital. These funds will be used to try to overturn

Codex and hire lobbyists to oppose the other 2 Directives.

 

Contacting your congressman and senator is desirable. If millions of

persons get involved the legislators may take notice. The New World

Order leaders were shocked when meetings in Seattle in 1999 and

Quebec City in 2001 resulted in riots. When the responsible U.S.

citizens that have kept themselves well with intelligent use of

supplements learn that there is nothing available from now on they

are likely to be very angry. For many persons this may crystallize

the realization that they are living in a police state and that there

is no longer any power in the hands of private citizens.

 

What Can Concerned Individuals Do To Preserve Good Health?

 

If our donations do not stop this pharmaceutical juggernaut some

planning may still be worthwhile. Many large natural health product

providers seem to be oblivious to this danger. Perhaps they are

planning on selling out to BIG PHARMA at the last minute.

 

Buying a stock of the supplements that have helped you seems wise.

Remember the expiration date on a bottle is simply an educated guess.

Manufacturers want to error on the side of public safety and setting

dates close to the time of manufacture encourages increased sales

volume. The U.S. military has taken advantage of the probable safety

of medicines beyond their expiration date by continuing to use

expired bottles for many months beyond their expiration date. This

program has saved the military many millions of dollars in

pharmaceutical costs. To determine safety of products involves

expensive testing for evidence of oxidation and other deterioration

of products so it is not done very frequently by most companies.