Ready for $153-a-bottle (prescription only) Echinacea? Just ask Germany and Norway

[Guest guest]

http://proliberty.com/observer/20050110.htm

 

HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT

While Americans are preoccupied with stories and images of wars and

tsunamis abroad, largely unreported is a cataclysmic domestic event that

may hit home by August, 2005.

by Wallace Heath, Ph.D.

 

Your right to choose what vitamins, minerals and other supplements you

want to take may end in August, 2005. After August, U.S. supplements

will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and

the World Health Organization (WHO). Codex Alimentarius (stringent food/

supplement regulations) is setting the food and nutritional supplement

standards for all countries in the WTO. Codex standards are to be

enforced by the WTO and will supercede U.S. law. The U.S. president and

Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO treaty was signed.

Violators of Codex and other WTO-sponsored international laws will be

punished by WTO trade sanctions.

Codex drastically restricts our free access to vitamins, minerals, herbs

and other supplements. The International Codex Commission met secretly

in November, 2004, and finalized " Step 8 (the final stage) " which is

scheduled for implementation seven months from now. Under Codex, no

supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use; any potency

higher than RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance - minimal strength) is a

" drug " requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies

(over 5,000 safe items now in health food stores will be banned,

terminating health food stores as we now know them); Codex regulations

enforced in the U.S. will be internationally binding; new supplements

will be banned unless the developer is willing to endure a very rigorous

and expensive Codex approval process.

Codex standards, as currently enforced in Norway and Germany, caused the

price of zinc tablets to rise from $4 per bottle to $52; echinacea, an

herb used for immune system enhancement, rose from $14 per bottle of 100

capsules to $153. Both zinc and echinacea are only available by

prescription since they are now classified as " drugs. " Vitamin C above

200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg are only available by

prescription. Essential amino acids such as arginine, lysine, proline,

and carnitine; essential fatty acids (such as omegas 3, 6 and 9) and

other essential supplements such as DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM,

beta-carotene, will NOT be available for purchase unless prescribed by a

licensed physician. These Codex rules are not based on real science.

They are regulations influenced by pharmaceutical giants who have used

the Codex model to take control of vitamins and supplements in order to

protect the lucrative pharmaceutical drug industry.

In 1993 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and drug corporations

tried to put all supplements under restriction and prescription, but

over four million outraged Americans demanded that Congress and the

President protect their freedom to purchase essential health supplements

without a prescription. As a result, the Dietary Supplement Health and

Education Act (DSHEA) was passed in 1994. But unless health-conscious

consumers worldwide get involved, DSHEA will be trumped by Codex and the

World Trade Organization.

What can be done at this late hour?

(1) Spread the word as much as possible by making copies of this article

and sharing with others on talk radio shows,

(2) Go to the following websites, become fully informed and contribute

what you can to this life saving cause: http://www.iahf.com,

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org, http://www.ahha.org

(3) Contact your legislators, telling them to oppose bills S.722 and

H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws

harmonizing with them, in effect repealing DSHEA.

(4) Support H. R.1146, The American Sovereignty Restoration Act that

repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified

related laws so that WTO sanctions and CODEX will not apply to the U.S.

(5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can mobilize their

significant numbers to inform their representatives in government.

(6) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural

Health (ANH - see web site above). It has succeeded in challenging many

Codex directives in World Court. The ANH challenge in the European Court

of Justice is due to be heard on January 25, 2005. ANH is also leading

initiatives to offset proposed limits on dosages and health claims

through Codex legislation.

 

These critical events in Europe are ever more likely to lead to

restrictions in the U.S. and elsewhere, as there is considerable

political and commercial pressure for trade harmonization and regulation

at a global level.

Decide NOW what it's worth to protect your right to natural healthcare.

Codex and the FDA are attempting to " protect " us by controlling

supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs. With the latest

Vioxx scandal, a drug that was FDA approved, do you trust their approval

methods? A study of prescription drugs by three medical scientists was

reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15,

1998-Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200: " .Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions

(ADR's) was found to be extremely high. " Covering 30 years (1966 to

1996) it was found that in the U.S. an average of 106,000 hospitalized

patients per year (290 per day) die from ADRs and 2,200,000 need more

hospitalization for recovery. These were FDA approved drugs, properly

administered by competent professionals in hospitals-none were

considered malpractice. This is the number four cause of death in the

U.S. When combined, these account for 7 percent of all hospitalized

patients. This is equivalent to the deaths on 9-11 occurring every 10

days.

 

Due to the pharmaceutical/government controlled media, if a death

occurred due to consumption of an over-the-counter nutritional

supplement, the news would be on every front page. There is no need for

more FDA control of supplements than is already in place, which is

substantial. Instead of drastically restricting supplements, why doesn't

the FDA better control and restrict the extremely dangerous

pharmaceutical drugs which are now killing us at the rate of a major

airline crashing a 757 every day?