Why It Is Imperative To Support The ANH Lawsuit In The EU Food Supplement Fight

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IAHF.COM <jhamWednesday, April 21, 2004 12:40 PMOutline With Bullet Points Delineates Extreme Importance ofDonating to ANH Lawsuit> IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, Whats New, What to Do, All Countries,Codex, EU FSD>> IAHF List: If you swing a sledgehammer at a slab of concrete long enough,you'll start seeing cracks.>> I'm going to Seattle in an hour to meet with Thomas Dorman, MD, Directorof the Paracelsus Center http://www.paracelsusclinic.com/ See this clinicwebsite, and especially re Paracelsushttp://www.paracelsusclinic.com/paracelsus.asp and be INSPIRED by how

thisbrave man overcame the elements of coersion of his era.> Also see this website of Dr.Dorman's http://www.dormanpub.com re hisnewsletter: "Fact, Fiction and Fraud in Modern Medicine" Please -this man is really trying hard to help us with our cause.>> See the email I just sent to Dr.Dorman and several other alternative MDswho are helping us with this effort. We're trying to organize a catalyticprogram to be held in Seattle. The message below contains an Outline whichdetails the extreme global importance of donating to the ANH lawsuit tooverturn the EU Food Supplement Directive- documenting the mechanism bywhich the FDA has set the USA up to lose in a future WTO Trade Dispute.>> One thing I forgot to mention in it is that Congressman Ron Paul hasintroduced a bill (HR4118 American Justice for American Citizens Act) thatwould make it illegal for

Judges to base legal decisions on foreign courtcases. See that at http://thomas.loc.gov>> The fact that this is going on at all should tell you something. Americano longer exists except on paper. We are already in a global totalitarianstate and have zero protection under our laws which is why we have no choicebut to help ANH with their lawsuit in the European Court of Justice. We CANwin, Brick Court Chambers is the only lawfirm to ever succeed in overturningan EU Directive- they established the case law for doing this and they feelthat the EU Food Supplement Directive is blatantly illegal under EU law.>> PLEASE READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY, PRINT IT OUT AND BRING IT TO YOURALTERNATIVE MD, YOUR LOCAL HEALTH FOOD STORE & PUT THEM IN TOUCH WITH IAHF-URGE THEM TO SIGN ONTO THE IAHF LIST AT http://www.iahf.com Please urge themto donate to the ANH lawsuit via http://www.alliance-natural-health.orgPlease---- forward this MASSIVELY- the life you save could be YOUR OWN.>> Serafina Corsello, MD> Thomas Dorman, MD> Ward Dean, MD> Rebecca Carley, MD> Larry Plumlee, MD> cc to:> Ralph Fucetola, JD http://www.vitaminlawyer.com> Richard Malter, PhD http://www.malterinstitute.com> Leanne Wylet, President, Patients for Alternative Medicinehttp://www.pfamhealth.net> Rob Verkerk, PhD, Exec Dir, Alliance for Natural Healthhttp://www.alliance-natural-health.org>'>http://www.alliance-natural-health.org>

David Hinde, Solicitor, Legal Director, Alliance for Natural Health> Debbie Waldeck>>> Dear Dr.s Corsello, Dorman, Dean, Carley, and Plumlee:>> The fate of millions of people LITERALLY rests in our hands right now. Iam working with Leanne Wylet from Patients for Alternative Medicine, toorganize a catalytic program in Seattle ASAP. We will get Dr. Rob Verkerkover from England to give a Power Point presentation about the globalimportance of the ANH lawsuit (the same presentation he did before the JointInternational Committee of National Nutritional Foods Assn (NNFA) andAmerican Herbal Products Assn (AHPA) only to be stabbed in the back by thesePharma Dominated Vitamin Trade Associations.>> The Joint International Committee is chaired by Randy Dennin an employeeof Pfizer. Dennin also Chairs IADSA (International Alliance of DietarySupplement Associations) a UN NGO (Non Government

Organization) whichpretends to be defending the supplement industry's interests at Codex, whileactually doing the diametric OPPOSITE.>> We must sound an urgent alert to every alternative practitioner in theworld and their patients, because for the most part we cannot count on thedietary supplement industry- its been far too heavily infiltrated bypharmaceutical interests via the trade associations. Multilevel companieshave a group culture that frowns on the dissemination of politicalinformation because it scares off potential new distributors.>> While we have not given up trying to reach some of the more innovativecompanies (which would be most heavily impacted) even many of THEM are soundasleep and we're rapidly running out of time.>> Today I spoke with David Hinde, Solicitor, ANH's legal director inEngland for clarification on the time frame to raise the money for theirlawyers.> They

have filed with the court to get a court date which they haven't yetreceived, but WILL receive because they got a referral from the High Courtof Justice in London.>> If they were to get a court date tomorrow, we'd only have 2 months toraise all the money we'd need UP FRONT for the lawsuit ($400,000.) (We haveno way of knowing when they will get the court date. They could get one in afew weeks, or in a few months- we have no way of knowing when, but fromwhenever ANH gets the court date, they have only 2 months to raise the fullamount necessary to pay the law firm.>> We're up against the wall to raise $50,000 YESTERDAY for the next leg ofthe ANH lawsuit, and I appreciate your assistance greatly. In the past weekI've had conversations with all of you about the dire need for emergencydonations to the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) in the UKhttp://www.alliance-natural-health via their secure server.>> On Wednesday I will be traveling to Dr.Dorman's office near Seattle for alengthy discussion to follow up the discussion I had with him by phone.> Dr.Dorman used to work with Jonathan Wright, and I am hoping he can helpme to wake Dr.Wright up because Wright is failing to grasp the timesensitivity of the situation before us despite my having met with him fortwo hours in his office last summer. Despite repeated efforts by LeanneWylet and I to awaken Dr.Wright, he just isn't grasping what we've beentrying to say and he has not been communicating with us directly, only viahis secretary.>> Yesterday I had a lengthy discussion with Dr.Corsello, and she urged me toput my information into a bullet point form to facilitate the creation of aschematic in order to make this complex situation easier for busy peoplewith short attention spans to

grasp. It is extremely difficult to do thisbecause the situation is highly complex, but I have attempted do to so belowin an OUTLINE in a Question and Answer format.>> Dr.Corsello wants to help by communicating about this with some big gunslike Whitaker and others, and I welcome all of your help in this way- it ismy hope that we can work closely together. My past experience with Whitakerwas that his head is buried deeply in the sand- he used to be a client ofmine. Dr.Corsello envisions holding a seminar in Iowa at some time in thenear future in order to have input from Senator Harkin on a range of issues-Codex & the EU Directive being among them.>> I am hoping to put on a program in or near Seattle as soon as possible forthe purpose of catalyzing more rapid national awareness of the globalimportance of ANH's lawsuit. Rob Verkerk, PhD, Exec Dir of ANH is in Irelandright now as a speaker before the Irish

vitamin trade association whichwants to help the cause. He hopes we can put together a catalytic program inSeattle- and we'd have him come over to present his superb Power PointPresentation about the ANH lawsuit and its importance.>> I can document that the FDA has set the USA up to lose in a future WTOTrade Dispute on the Codex issue, and that the Congressional Oversighthearing I pushed for for 5 years was whitewashed on March 20, 2001. Despitewitnessing crimes committed by Dr.Beth Yetley of the FDA at meetings of theUN's Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods forSpecial Dietary Uses at meetings in Germany in 1996, and 1998- I was notallowed to testify at the whitewashed Oversight hearing, and neither wereany of my witnesses. The FIX is in, and we can't get any help from Congressto address the threat. The ONLY CHANCE we have to defend consumer access todietary supplements is by supporting ANH's

lawsuit to overturn the EU FoodSupplement Directive due to the political clout wielded by the EU at Codex.>> OUTLINE WITH BULLET POINTS IN QUESTION AND ANSWER FORMAT TO HELP CONNECTTHE DOTS:> WHY WE MUST GET $50,000 to ANH IMMEDIATELY>> * (1) FDA HAS SET THE USA UP TO LOSE IN A FUTURE WTO TRADE DISPUTE INORDER TO SCUTTLE DSHEA>> On March 17, 1997, acting FDA Commissioner Michael A. Friedman make aspeech before the Senate Labor Committee in which he stated "FDA plans toamend its regulations and procedures for consideration of standards adoptedby Codex. This action is being taken to provide for the systematic review ofCodex standards in order to enhance consumer protection, promoteinternational harmonization, and fulfill the obligations of the UnitedStates under international agreements.">> See FDA/CFSAN Federal Register 62 FR 36243July 7, 1997http://www.fda.gov/ola/1997/319.html speech of Michael A. Friedman (Section6-> FDA and the Global Marketplace: International Harmonization )>> * (2) Q: WHAT "INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS" IS FRIEDMAN REFERRING TO?>> A: The Following Subsections of the GATT Trade Agreement-> later superceded by the World Trade Organization (Which has enforcementpower)>> - SPS AGREEMENT (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures)> - TBT AGREEMENT (Technical Barriers to Trade)> - MUTUAL RECOGNITION AGREEMENT>> (The WTO has enforcement powers which GATT lacked in the form of a newinternational (mickey mouse) "court" (The Dispute Settlement Body)> Every decision the DSB has made has gone against the environment, againstthe public health, against human rights, against labor rights, against allthe intangibles that go

into the make up of every democratic nation's laws,more details below....)>> * (3) Q: IS THIS JUST JOHN HAMMELL SAYING THIS? ARE ANY MEMBERS OFCONGRESS & ORGANIZATIONS ALSO CONCERNED?>> A: Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) and Peter De Fazio (D-OR) share Hammell'sconcerns: See the gif file of their letter to Congressman Dan Burton sentprior to the Codex Oversight hearing that was WHITEWASHED on March 20, 2001:http://www.iahf.com Click on the Spinning Globe on the front of the site toview.>> Several organizations and heavy hitters in the dietary supplement industryalso share my concerns including The National Health Federationhttp://www.thenhf.com> The American Holistic Health Association http://www.ahha.com The LifeExtension Foundation http://www.lef.org Gary Null http://www.garynull.comThe Alliance for Natural Health http://www.alliance-natural-health.org andnumerous alternative medical organizations in Europe (see ANH's extensivesupport base at their website.)>> Several members of Congress ordered Dr.Yetley (via her boss Dr.Moore) notto put a biased, unscientific paper on the table at Codex in '98 because ithad not undergone a public review period, had been funded by pharmaceuticalinterests, had been condemned as unscientific by orthomolecular experts, andto use it at Codex would violate US law (The FDA Modernization Act of 1997was amended to specifically exclude dietary supplements from harmonizationlanguage which would impact the whole REST of the Food, Drug, and

CosmeticAct (The statutes the FDA enforces.) I did the lobbying which resulted inthis amendment.>> These letters were sent to Yetley, via Moore by several members ofCongress, but she ignored them completely:> http://www.iahf.com/codex/20000310.html andhttp://www.iahf.com/codex/letter2.html>>'>http://www.iahf.com/codex/letter2.html>> I queried FDA attorney L.Robert Lake on the FDA's interpretation of myamendment. He provided a response which clearly indicates that the FDA fullyintends to ignore the will of the people and the will of Congress on thisissue by taking an artful interpretation of the language. (I caused the faxmachines of the Senate Labor Committee to run out of paper and ink with ahigh volume of complaints about the bill language of the FDA ModernizationAct's harmonization language that were sent in by an

angry public which Ialerted.>> * (4) Q: HASN'T ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS EVER INTRODUCED LEGISLATION TO TRYTO GET US OUT OF THE WTO?> IF SO- WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME?>> A. Congressman Ron Paul attempted to get us out of the WTO by introducingHouse Joint Resolution 90 in 2000.. Title: Withdrawing the approval of theUnited States from the Agreement establishing the World Trade OrganizationThe bill only had 9 cosponsors, and failed by a voice vote of 363- 56 onJune 21, 2000 , illustrating just how corrupt Congress really is.http://thomas.loc.gov See 106th Congress, type in HJRes 90]>>> * (5) Q: CAN'T SOME MEMBER OF CONGRESS GET US OUT OF THIS MESS BYREINTRODUCING AND PASSING THIS SORT OF LEGISLATION?> SHOULDN'T WE BE WRITING TO CONGRESS? WHY DO WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TOSUPPORT A LAWSUIT IN EUROPE?>>

A) The implementing legislation which got us into the WTO includes a rulethat a bill intended to get us out of the WTO can only be introduced onceevery 5 years. That means no member of congress can even ATTEMPT to get usout of the WTO until 2005, but the outcome of a vote would not be anydifferent because most members of congress receive PAC donations frommultinational corporate interests who they don't wish to offend, and theseinterests don't WANT us to pull out of the WTO because it helps them toCIRCUMVENT the laws of any nation that interfere with their PROFITS. Theonly chance we have to monkeywrench the Pharma Cartel's takeover plans isvia the ANH lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive, becausethe EU is the dominant poltical force at Codex.... more below......>> B) A trade dispute against us would not be adjudicated in a US Court usingour rules of evidence, it would be adjudicated in a new international

courtcalled the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO, a star chamber proceedingthat doesn't follow our rules of evidence. The DSB meets behind closeddoors, and no private citizen ordinarily would have standing to appearbefore it (only if both conflicting parties agree, which has never happenedyet and isn't likely to.) The USA would be "represented" in a trade disputeby an unelected bureaucrat from the FDA, in this case by either Dr.BethYetley (US Codex Rep for the US Delegation to the Codex Committee onNutrition and Food for Special Dietary Use), or by Dr.Barbara Schneeman whowas just named as Director of the FDA Office of Dietary Supplements,replacing Christine Lewis who just went from the FDA to the World HealthOrganization (which administers Codex.)>> C) The Congressional Oversight hearing that I pushed for for 5 years onCodex was whitewashed on March 20 2001. I wasn't allowed to testify, none ofmy witnesses were

allowed to testify, the only person who WAS allowed totestify lied under oath- the FIX IS IN, our only chance is to monkeywrenchthe Codex proceedings indirectly by overturning the EU Food SupplementDirective in Court- which CAN be done, it IS vulnerable- but we can ONLY doit if we can get ANH the money they need to pay Brick Court Chambers, theBEST lawfirm in Europe which is the ONLY firm that has ever succeeded inoverturning an EU Directive.>> KEY THING TO UNDERSTAND: THE FDA HAS SET THE USA UP TO LOSE IN A> FUTURE WTO TRADE DISPUTE- HERE IS HOW- & HERE IS WHY WE MUST SUPPORT ANH>> C) Yetley and Schneeman have played key roles in setting the USA up tolose in a future WTO Trade Dispute by being instrumental in creating falsedefinitions of vitamin safety, and under the SPS Agreement, the only way anation can legally refuse to harmonize its domestic vitamin laws to aninternational Codex Standard is on a

basis of Safety.>> See SPS Agreement, Article 3, Paragraph 3 - in the context of Paragraphs1-3:>> http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/spsagr_e.htm>> 1. To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis aspossible, Members shall base their sanitary or phytosanitary measures oninternational standards, guidelines or recommendations, where they exist,except as otherwise provided for in this Agreement, and in particular inparagraph 3.>> 2. Sanitary or phytosanitary measures which conform to internationalstandards, guidelines or recommendations shall be deemed to be necessary toprotect human, animal or plant life or health, and presumed to be consistentwith the relevant provisions of this Agreement and of GATT 1994.>> 3. Members may introduce or maintain sanitary or phytosanitary

measureswhich result in a higher level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection thanwould be achieved by measures based on the relevant international standards,guidelines or recommendations, if there is a scientific justification, or asa consequence of the level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection a Memberdetermines to be appropriate in accordance with the relevant provisions ofparagraphs 1 through 8 of Article 5.(2) Notwithstanding the above, allmeasures which result in a level of sanitary or phytosanitary protectiondifferent from that which would be achieved by measures based oninternational standards, guidelines or recommendations shall not beinconsistent with any other provision of this Agreement.>> [My note: which includes conformity with international law under MutualRecognition Agreements- harmonization is occurring at every level- noteeffort to create the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) intended

toharmonize all laws between Canada, the US, Mexico, Central and SouthAmerica- see> http://www.ftaa-alca.org/alca_e.asp See Global Trade Watch division ofPublic Citizen http://www.citizen.org/trade/ See Photos from Demonstrationsagainst the WTO which illustrate the New World Order Dictatorship:http://www.louisbeam.com/seattle.htm]>>> By falsely defining Supplement Safety, the FDA has set us up to have therug pulled out from under us in the biased star chamber proceeding known asthe World Trade Organizations "Dispute Settlement Body", and Congressallowed them to do this on March 20, 2001 when the Codex Vitamin Oversighthearing that I pushed for for 5 years was whitewashed.>> [Questions for Yetley and L.Robert

Lake, JD of the FDA athttp://www.iahf.com click on the spinning globe on the front of the site,click to page 2 of Paul and Defazio's letter to Burton, s atthe bottom of the second page, follow links within my questions to the SPSAgreement, etc., also see Global Trade Watch http://www.citizen.org/trade/,see Whose Trade Organization A Comprehensive Guide to the WTO by LoriWallach, JD and Patrick Woodallhttp://www.citizen.org/publications/index.cfm?sectionID=107]>> *(5) Q: WHAT EVIDENCE DO YOU HAVE THAT Dr.s YETLEY AND SCHNEEMAN OF THEFDA CAN'T BE TRUSTED? HOW HAVE THEY CREATED FALSE DEFINITIONS OF VITAMINSAFETY IN ORDER TO SET US UP TO LOSE IN A FUTURE WTO TRADE DISPUTE? CAN YOUDEMONSTRATE EVIDENCE OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND

BIAS AGAINST DIETARYSUPPLEMENTS ON THEIR PART?>> SHORT ANSWER WITH LONGER TO FOLLOW:>>>> A. BACKGROUND I was kicked off the US Codex Delegation to the UN's CodexAlimentarius Commission prior to the meeting in Berlin in 2000 by Dr.EdScarbrough of the US Department of Agriculture on behalf of Dr.Yetley whorequested my removal from the US Delegation. I was kicked off the Delegationfor attempting to be a whistleblower to expose Yetley's illegal actions viaa Congressional Oversight Hearing, and was also banned from any futureparticipation in Codex meetings by Jurgen Kundke, the Press Officer of theGerman FDA (Bgvv) despite the fact that I am a licensed, credentialledmember of the Press.>> This happened because I attempted to videotape the Codex meeting of theCommittee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses in Berlin in 2000.I videotaped the first half hour from the US Delegation

in the upper deck ofthe conference room before the German Chair (Grossklaus) noticed, and forcedme to stop. I digitized the portion of the footage where they forced me tostop taping and put it in the Media section at http://www.iahf.com becauseit proves the non-transparency of Codex meetings, which are really nothingmore than a form of "High Drama" put on for public consumption intended togive the outward APPEARANCE of honesty, scientific integrity, and democracy.In reality, all decisions are made before the meeting even takes place, andthe meetings violate every tenet of representative government on which ournation was based.>> At Codex, the host country (Germany in this case of this committee onnutrition) wields inordinate power because they Chair the meeting. Ratherthan act as a Moderator, the Chair, (Grossklaus) has been acting more like aJudge- ignoring what actually

takes place in the meeting while drafting thefinal meeting report, moving through the agenda in a way that best suits theinterests of multinational drug companies which run Germany in order toblock discussion on things they don't want discussed. Decisions are made byconcensus- in essence its one country, one vote, regardless of the size ofthe country, with no regard to whether or not the country even manufacturesdietary supplements or not. Germany is part of the EU. The EU will go from15 to 25 nations in size prior to the upcoming Codex meeting in Bonn inNovember. The EU will dominate what goes on, via having 26 votes (the EUitself has one vote, plus 25 more for each member nation), plus the EUcountries control approximately 30 other votes from former colonies inAfrica, Central and South America.>> B. SPECIFIC CRIMINAL ACTIONS COMMITTED BY YETLEY & THE FDA- SPECIFICS ONWHY YETLEY & SCHNEEMAN CAN'T BE TRUSTED- HOW

THEY HAVE SET THE USA UP TOLOSE IN A WTO TRADE DISPUTE>> YETLEY's ILLEGAL ACTION IN BONN- 1996>>> It is not legal for Dr.Yetley to take a position at Codex that isinconsistent with existing US law, however at the Codex meeting in Bonn,Germany in 1996, I witnessed her illegally second a Canadian motion to shiftherbs out of Codex (where they're regulated as foods which is consistentwith US law) over to the World Health Organization (where they're regulatedas DRUGS which is NOT consistent with US law.) I wasn't the only one who sawthis. Clinton and Bonnie Miller who were on the US Delegation with me alsowitnessed this illegal act, and it was recorded in the minutes of themeeting.>> The circumstances of the situation were that Canada had made this motionat a previous Codex meeting, and I knew it would come up at the meeting inBonn. So prior to the meeting, I did a lot of public speaking in

Canada andgenerated a flood of opposition to the motion resulting in the CanadianParliament being flooded with angry calls from consumers demanding thatCanada back off from the negative list proposal for herbs.>> Prior to the meeting, when I tried to call Dr.Margaret Cheney, theCanadian Delegate, she wasn't there, but I spoke with Ron Burke. I asked ifCheney intended to obey the will of the Canadian people or not at themeeting vis a vis this matter and back off from the negative list proposalfor herbs.>> Burke mocked my question, engaged in double talk that made it obvious thatI could not expect an honest reaction from Cheney at the meeting. Sureenough, at the meeting, rather than obey the will of the Canadian people,Cheney attempted to SIDESTEP consumers by urging that herbs be shifted to avenue to which we have ZERO access (WHO), where herbs are considered"drugs". (This is consistent with CANADIAN law, but

NOT with US law, hencethe illegality of Yetley's seconding the motion.)>> (Right after Cheney made the motion, which previously in the meeting she'dpretended to back away from), I could see the heads of the Swiss, German,French, and Italian delegates all swivel en masse and fix expectantly on oneperson in the room----- you guessed it------- Dr.Yetley of the US FDA roseas if on CUE to illegally second the motion, (without asking ANY of us onthe US Delegation if we thought that was a good idea or not) (The USDelegation is allegedly a "democratic working group" but nothing could befurther from the truth. Only government officials have their expenses paidto attend the meeting, all but blocking grass roots participation. Mostmembers of Delegations are from multinational corporations that dictate whatthey want to the FDA's of the world which run the meeting.)>> YETLEYS ILLEGAL ACTION IN BERLIN: 1998>>

Yetley put the National Academy of Sciences' unscientific paper titled ARisk Assessment Model for Establishing Upper Intake Levels for Nutrients onthe table at Codex which falsely defines the safety of dietary supplements.This paper was funded by pharmaceutical interests- seehttp://iahf.com/nas/nutrisk.html>> A rebuttal was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine in 2000by Richard Malter, PhD- see http://iahf.com/nas/nasrebut.html>> See letters from Congress to Yetley via her boss athttp://www.iahf.com/codex/20000310.html andhttp://www.iahf.com/codex/letter2.html which told her not to put this paperon the table at Codex- that it was illegal to. Although no

specificreference was made to the harmonization section of the FDA Modernization Actof 1997 (which was specifically amended to remove dietary supplements fromharmonization language which pertained to the whole REST of the Food, Drug,and Cosmetic Act), this is what was being alluded to in the letter. I didthe lobbying which resulted in this amendment to the FDA Modernization Act.>> When I queried the FDA's legal counsel on this I received a response whichshows that the FDA fully intends to ignore the will of the people and thewill of Congress- and they'll probably get away with it because most Judgesgo only by the exact wording of a statute and make no effort to try todetermine what the will of Congress actually was. (The language is ambiguousenough that the FDA has found a loophole they're sliding through.) (Ingetting the amendment that I got, I generated enough faxes to cause theSenate Labor Committees fax machines to

run out of paper and ink, and theycalled me to ask what I wanted. Senator Kennedy was able to get the languageof my amendment watered down on behalf of pharmaceutical interests to thepoint that FDA could slide through a loophole.>> Alan Gaby, MD had an article published in the Journal of OrthomolecularMedicine in 2003 which further documents the scientific fraudulence of theNational Academy of Sciences so called "Safe Upper Levels" which FDA hasgotten Codex to adopt as the official means of establishing allowablepotency levels for vitamins. See his article Safe Upper Levels forNutritional Supplements: One Giant Step Backwardhttp://www.iahf.com/20040127.html>>> The "Safe Upper Level" method of "determining allowable vitamin potencylevels" is going to be in the finalized Codex standard as the means ofdetermining allowable potency levels for

vitamins and minerals.>> See this re Schneeman:>> SCHNEEMAN NAILED IN OUTRAGEOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST: Moves fromUC Davis- to FDA After Chairing NAS Committee to "Evaluate Safety of DietarySupplements"> X-YMLPcode: jham+171+1256>> IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, Whats New, What to Do, Codex, EU FSD, AllCountries>> IAHF List:>> IAHF continues to lead the way in exposing the outrageous Pharma effort tosuppress consumer access to dietary supplements.>> Dr.Barbara Schneeman was just hired by the FDA's Center for Food Safetyand Applied Nutrition's Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, andDietary Supplements after chairing the committee that generated the highlybiased paper titled> "Dietary Supplements: A Framework to Evaluate Safety"http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/s0309091101?OpenDocument>>> Schneeman generated this paper while working at the University ofCalifornia at Davis.> While there, she had a research grant totalling $39,942 from ILSI(International Life Sciences Institute) whose membership reads like a "Who'sWho" of multinational drug companies (specifics below.)>> I noted that Schneeman's predecessor at the FDA, Christine Lewis, has justaccepted a position at the (so called) World Health Organization (WHO). WHOand FAO jointly administer the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission, which ispoised on the brink of forcing a grossly restrictive international tradestandard for vitamins and minerals through to completion mirroring thedraconian EU Food Supplement Directive.>> Due to the congressional oversight hearing on Codex being whitewashed onMarch 20, 2001, the USA has been set up to

lose in a future WTO TradeDispute via which our vitamin laws will be forcibly harmonized to a mindlessinternational standard which Schneeman is obviously involved in crafting onbehalf of her pharmaceutical masters at ILSI.>> Vitamin consumers wishing to avert international genocide should makeurgently needed donations to the Alliance for Natural Health's lawsuit tooverturn the EU Food Supplement Directive. Donations can be made via secureserver on the ANH website at http://www.alliance-natural-health.org>> Anyone who can assist me in getting the urgently needed assistance ofJonathan Wright, MD for the purpose of putting on a catalytic program ofSpeakers in Seattle to spearhead an information campaign on this issuebefore its too late should contact me immediately at 800-333-2553 N.America,360-945-0352 World>> We CAN overturn the EU Food

Supplement directive, and monkeywrench thecartel's agenda. ANH has the best lawfirm in Europe in their corner- theonly firm that has ever succeeded in overturning an EU Directive. The EU isthe dominant political force at Codex. As goes the EU, so goes the world.The FTAA is intended to be a carbon copy of the EU Dictatorship in ourhemisphere- via it the laws of Canada, US, Mexico, Central and South Americaare slated to be harmonized to the EU- seehttp://www.ftaa-alca.org/alca_e.asp> See http://www.citizen.org/trade/>> See UC Davis's response to my information request below, along with mydetailed comments about the enormous pharmaceutical membership in ILSI----->> For additional help in connecting the dots on this issue, please readhttp://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtml and> http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2003/2003_preprint_eu_01.htm>> At 03:38 PM 4/14/04, Lynette Davis at UC Davis wrote:> Dear Mr. Hammell,>> This is in response to your request for "a complete list of pharmaceuticalcompanies who have provided grant money for any research conducted byBarbara Olds Schneeman, PhD during the course of her employment with UCDavis.">> All individuals employed by the University of California who haveprincipal responsibility for a research project if the project is to befunded or supported, in whole or in part, by a contract or grant (or otherfunds earmarked by the donor for a specific research project or for aspecific researcher) from a

for-profit nongovernmental entity must file aForm 700-U (previously 730-U), Statement of Economic Interest. Dr. Schneemanhas six of these forms on file, one is for a research grant from theInternational Life Sciences Institute in the amount of $39,942 and theothers are from the Dannon Institute (a total of $29,000 over the period of2000-2003). While these are the only Statement of Economic Interest forms onfile for Dr. Schneeman, the retention period for those forms is seven yearsso any forms older than seven years have not been maintained. A search inthe database for all sponsored research projects for Dr. Schneeman, whichlists projects as of July 1996, shows no funding from pharmaceuticalcompanies.>> If you have any questions or additional requests please let me know.>> Sincerely,>> Lynette>> *************************************************> Lynette Temple> Information

Practices Coordinator> Office of the Campus Counsel> Offices of the Chancellor and Provost> University of California> One Shields Avenue> Davis, CA 95616-8558> Telephone: 530-752-3949> FAX: 530-752-2400> http://campuscounsel.ucdavis.edu/>> MY COMMENTS:>> I have requested additional specifics about this ILSI Grant from UCDavis....>> I note with interest that ILSI's membership includes a slew ofmultinational pharmaceutical companies, all attempting to advance theirdevious anti health agenda- in this case the suppression of consumer accessto dietary supplements around the worldhttp://www.ilsi.org/about/Assembly_of_Members.pdf>> ILSI's member companies include Monsanto, Bayer, BASF, Wyeth,

BoerhingerIngleheim, Merck, Shering Plough- and numerous others ad nauseum. It is ashame that UC Davis associates with such parasitic entities because theyhave a "business with disease" and it is AGAINST their business interestsfor the people of this planet to be HEALTHY.>> You might ALSO be interested to know that Dr.Schneeman has just LEFT UCDavis to work directly for the FDA, where she will be continuing her effortsto screw vitamin consumers from around the world.>> This is indeed a very SAD state of affairs.>> See the following articleshttp://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtmlhttp://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2003/2003_preprint_eu_01.htm>> I note that her predecessor at FDA has just left FDA to go work

for the socalled "World Health Organization." This is one big happy incestuos family.Schneeman is part of an effort orchestrated by the Pharma Cartel to createFALSE DEFINITIONS of dietary supplement safety to set the USA up to lose ina future WTO Trade Dispute. I had death threats because of an effort I madeto get a congressional oversight hearing on this scam which I am stillattempting to monkeywrench.>> See FDA Press Release Below about Schneeman's new job now that she hasjust left UC Davis....>> http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01051.html>>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE> P04-42> April 12, 2004>> Media Inquiries: 301-436-2335> Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA>>> Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman Named To Lead FDA's Center for Food Safety andApplied Nutrition's Office of

Nutritional Products, Labeling, and DietarySupplements>> The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner, Dr. Lester M.Crawford, today announced that Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman has been named tolead the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition's (CFSAN) Office ofNutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements.>> "Barbara comes to us with an extensive background in nutrition sciencethat lines up perfectly with her new position, as leader of the Office ofNutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements," said CommissionerCrawford. "I look forward to her bringing to the Center the leadership andstandard of excellence for which she is very well known.">> Dr. Schneeman comes from the University of California , Davis , where shehas served as a member of the faculty since 1976. For the last three years,she served as the Associate Vice Provost for University Outreach, inaddition

to holding a professional appointment in the Departments ofNutrition, Food Science and Technology and Internal Medicine in the Schoolof Medicine . Prior to that, Dr. Schneeman completed an 18-month term as theAssistant Administrator for Nutrition in the Agricultural Research Servicein the United States Department of Agriculture (1999-2000). She held manyprestigious positions during her tenure at University of California, Davis,including: Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,and Director of Programs, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources(1993-1999); Chairman, Department of Nutrition, (1988-1993); and AssociateDean, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (1985-1988).>> Dr. Schneeman received her B.S. degree from the University of California,Davis, in food science and technology, and her Ph.D. in nutrition from theUniversity of California, Berkeley. She has many professional

activities andhonors to her credit, which include membership on the 1990 and 1995 DietaryGuidelines for Americans Committee, Fellow of the American Association forthe Advancement of Science and the FDA Commissioner's Special Citation.>> As the new ONPLDS director, Dr. Schneeman will oversee the development ofpolicy and regulations for dietary supplements, nutrition labeling and foodstandards, infant formula and medical foods.>> Dr. Schneeman replaces Dr. Christine Taylor, who accepted an assignment tohead a special project on nutrition issues for the World Health Organizationin November 2003. Dr. Schneeman will join FDA on May 3, 2004 .> 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

 

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