Fwd: [S-A] Health Canada Harassment of Effective Vitamin Supplements

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mistylyn trepke

Fri, 13 Jun 2003 05:59:38 -0700 (PDT)

[s-A] Health Canada Harassment of Effective Vitamin Supplements

 

First Europe, then Australia, Canada, and here in the US.... Hmmmm...

Obviously the force behind this is large, well funded and globally organized...

Kinda like a pharmaceutical company....

Other comments?

Misty

http://www..com

 

 

Health Canada Harassment of Vitamin Supplements that Work

 

Here is an example how Health Canada is looking after our concerns.

 

Like in Australia, the CODEX initiative in Europe

(http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html) a battle on food supplements is now in

full gear in Canada.

 

Health Canada is doing everything, except what it should be doing. They are hell

bend on removing our freedoms to access cost effective products and trying to

force us towards the very profitable, disease management toxic drugs paradigm.

All the while they have shameless neglected their mandate to regulate toxic

drugs instead of directing the already meagre resources towards the prevention

and reduction of injury, errors, and loss of service investigative procedures.

As a result our medical system continues to be substandard compared to other

industries. See how dismal Health Canada's efforts to protect it's constituents

is at:

 

http://www.friendsoftruehope.com/paxdoc.htm

 

They literally work for the Pharmaceuticals with our tax money.

Please educate yourselves on these issues and arm yourself for the battles that

lie ahead. There is power in numbers and it gets much easier to fight if one

understands the issues as a result more can be done with less and less effort...

 

Thanks,

 

Chris Gupta

 

 

 

WHERE ARE THE BODIES, HEALTH CANADA?

 

HEALTH CANADA BLOCKS ACCESS TO SUPPLEMENT, DENYING THE RIGHTS OF THE MENTALLY

ILL AND EXPOSING THEM TO DANGER.

 

June the 6th, 2003 Health Canada released an advisory to all Canadians not to

use Empowerplus, a multivitamin-mineral health supplement. Empowerplus has been

imported into Canada for personal use since March of 2000. Now three years later

Health Canada claims its advisory is to protect the public from identified

risks.

 

Repeated requests to Health Canada to provide Truehope and the news media with

the identified riskshave gone unanswered. On June 5, 2003 a ministerial

briefing was held in Room 104 of the Justice Bldg., Ottawa with a number of

Members of Parliament and Health Canada Representatives. In that briefing it was

indicated No reported harm has been associated with this product (Empowerplus).

 

Empowerplus is composed of vitamins and minerals, a few amino acids and

antioxidants, common nutrients found in our everyday foods. There are thousands

of similar supplements sold legally in Canada everyday,

supplements with and without drug identification numbers.

 

Hundreds of scientific studies prove that vitamins and minerals present a

lower safety risk than the consumption of peanuts. Is Health Canada

implying that mineral and vitamin supplements taken by more then 50% of

Canadians are dangerous?

 

One has to ask what's the issue, why the big national hullabaloo over

Empowerplus?

 

UNVEILING THE REAL AGENDA

 

The only apparent concern is that Empowerplus has a powerful effect on mood

disorders. Four medical journal publications [1] [2] [3] [4] demonstrate

research that could well identify Empowerplus as the most significant

breakthrough in treating mental illness since the beginning of

time. Empowerplus does not work for everybody, but the 2500 plus families using

it can attest to its life saving qualities. Many individuals have been able to

return to normal family life, careers, and educational

pursuits. This must pose a grave concern for Health Canada. If this is not

the case then why have they shut down a clinical trial at University of

Calgary using Empowerplus which was funded by The Alberta Science and Research

Authority (ASRA)? The study was peer reviewed for safety by two committees

including ASRA and the University of Calgary.

 

In a January 14, 2003 meeting with Health Canada officials, Truehope

directors were told that if Truehope produced Empowerplus as a general

health supplement only, and not hold out the research that had been

completed on it, that Health Canada could provide a DIN number and allow it to

be manufactured and sold in Canada. Are they concerned with identified risksto

the Health of Canadians or competition with Pharmaceutical interests?

 

Health Canada has not charged Truehope under the Food and Drugs Act. Truehope

and a group of participants are suing Health Canada for denial of their charter

rights in the Federal Courts of Canada. If Truehope is successful in this battle

with Health Canada, then the way we view mental illness, the number 1 cost to

the health care system in Canada would be dramatically altered.

 

Empowerplus has been proven to provide a restorative impact on a

significant number of those who use it for the treatment of mood

disorders. The nutritional approach costs a fraction of the standard

treatment for mental disorders. The impact on the current pharmaceutical system

could be significant if Empowerplus becomes the new therapy of the day.

 

PROTECTING THE PUBLIC OR PROTECTING PHARMACEUTICAL INTERESTS? Is the current

system of drug treatment proven, effective, and safe? No. Let's take a brief

look at the research.

 

For the full article go to:

 

http://www.truehope.com/official_reply.htm

 

The following Breaking news page is very informative and provides

instructions on how to help.

 

http://www.truehope.com/breakingNews.asp

 

PLEASE SIGN A PETITION THE COMMENTS CAN BE PERSONALIZED ON THE FRIENDS OF

TRUEHOPE WEBSITE AT:

 

http://www.friendsoftruehope.com/petition.htm

 

Thanks

 

Chris Gupta

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/