Fwd: [SSRI-Research] PETITION - Please SIGN!

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Hi Group I believe the correct name is Congressman

Ron Paul from TX, not Ron Law. CP

 

 

--- Frank <califpacific wrote:

> SSRI-Research

> Urgent

> Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:19:59 -0000

> [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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