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[sSRI-Research] PETITION - Please SIGN!

 

PETITION - Please SIGN!

http://www.laleva.cc/petizione/english/petitioneng.html

 

We the undersigned, users of natural health products and food

supplements, ask legislators and administrators in all European

countries and delegates to Codex Alimentarius discussions

world wide to take into account the following:

 

Considering that international legislation on the subject of food

supplements is currently under discussion at both Codex

Alimentarius and in the European legislative system (Council of

Europe and the European Parliament);

 

Considering further that in both venues of discussion there are

heavy pressures brought to bear by pharmaceutical interests, to

limit the effectiveness and the availability of natural health

products and food supplements to the detriment of consumer

choice and public health;

 

Considering that approved, regulated and properly prescribed

pharmaceutical medicines are causing hundreds of thousands

of preventable deaths each year, having become the fourth most

common cause of death in several countries (see statistics and

article by Ron Law from New Zealand);

 

Considering that vitamin supplements and other natural health

products have a clean bill of health, having been used for

decades by millions of consumers world wide without more than

a handful of confirmed lethal outcomes;

 

Considering that the clearly visible pressures of pharmaceutical

interests to limit the effectiveness and availability of natural

health products are dictated by motives of monetary profit and

and considerations of market share, not by concern for the

health of consumers;

 

Considering that true health preservation today is achieved

through the widespread use of natural health products and

supplements (see recent prevention references in Ron Law's

article) and considering that consumers should not be deprived

of the health preserving and health promoting means of their

choice merely by reason of the distraction of legislators or the

greed for profits of the mentioned pharmaceutical interests, let it

be said then that the consumers of natural health products and

food supplements, both in Europe and internationally, demand

that legislators and administrators, in discussions concerning

food supplements, take into account the following:

 

 

1. Natural health products and food supplements, in the

absence of specific regulations in place internationally, have

shown to possess an unsurpassed safety record and to be of

great benefit to health as evidenced by scientific studies and by

the personal experience of the undersigned users.

 

2. It does not therefore make any sense to limit the dosages of

essential nutrients in supplements except where consumption

of such substances has shown actual, health risks;

 

3. It does not therefore make any sense to limit the availability

of nutrients or other ingredient substances by so called " positive

lists " as contemplated in current international legislative

proposals;

 

4. It would seriously undermine programs for the promotion of

public health and the prevention of illness as well as the practice

of non conventional methods of therapy, to put limits on the

availability of these products, even if ostensibly " in the name of

consumer protection " for these reasons, we demand that:

 

 

ANY EUROPEAN OR INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION BE

CAREFULLY STRUCTURED SO AS TO GUARANTEE THE FREE

ACCESS TO NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS AND FOOD

SUPPLEMENTS THAT HAVE PROVEN TO BE SAFE AND ARE IN

DEMAND BY CONSUMERS, OR BE INDEFINITELY SHELVED.

 

ANY SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL NOT CONTAIN PROVISIONS

LIMITING THE DOSAGES OF NUTRIENTS OR ACTIVE

SUBSTANCES IN SUCH PRODUCTS EXCEPT WHERE

ABSOLUTELY AND CLEARLY NECESSARY TO AVERT

PROVEN, NOT FICTITIOUS OR ASSUMED DANGERS TO THE

HEALTH OF CONSUMERS.

 

ANY SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL NOT LIMIT THE SCOPE AND

VARIETY OF NUTRITIVE AND OTHERWISE HEALTH

PROMOTING SUBSTANCES BY THE USE OF ANY KIND OF

LISTS, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, EXCEPT WHERE SUCH

SUBSTANCES CAN BE SHOWN TO HAVE CAUSED DAMAGES

SIMILAR TO THOSE EVIDENT TODAY IN THE PROPERLY

APPROVED AND REGULATED PHARMACEUTICALLY

PRODUCED MEDICINES.

 

In support of these principles and requesting that legislators and

administrators take into account these demands, we hereby

sign:

 

http://www.laleva.cc/petition/modulo.php3

 

 

 

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