Fwd: Connecting the Dot$$$ on CODEX- An Email to Elwood Richard of NOW Foods

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Connecting the Dot$$$ on CODEX- An Email to Elwood Richard of NOW Foods

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IAHF List: This is an email that I sent to Elwood Richard, owner of NOW Foods- a

large American vitamin company. Lets hope he reads it and starts connecting the

dots on how the Pharma Takeover of the supplement industry is proceeding

globally, and what must be done to STOP it!! Lets how a lot of other vitamin

company owners and ceos world wide also read this and start grasping what is

going on, and what must be done!

 

At the end of this email is a thought provoking message from Croft Woodruff,

owner of a Canadian health food store, and President of a new vitamin trade

association in Canada that was formed because the CHFA can't be trusted. Please

print this out and bring it to the owner of your local health food store- ask

him to communicate about it with as many industry people as possible.

 

The biggest problem we face is that the vitamin trade associations are being

controlled from the top- down by the pharma cartel. If we want to stop the

takeover, ALL of us have to GET BUSY to bring this message to the health food

stores or they along with the global supplement industry will go over the cliff

together- just as we see happening in Australia....

 

EMAIL TO ELWOOD FOLLOWS------> (PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!!)

 

 

Elwood- Scott Tips, attorney from the National Health Federation can vouch for

the truth of what I'm saying here- he and I just spoke today in a conference

call with Saul Kent, President of Life Extension Foundation.

 

Scott has an article coming out in the January issue of Whole Foods about the

Codex meeting that just took place in Germany and about the extreme importance

of the ANH lawsuit to monkeywrenching the Codex process. Scott is very depressed

about the huge defeat our industry just sustained at Codex, and about how people

are ignorantly buying in to CRN's spin on what happened.

 

 

Croft Woodruff is a past President of the Canadian Health Food Association.

Currently, he is very disgruntled with the CHFA, as are a growing number of

people in Canada. Today Croft is the President of the Canadian Alliance of

Health Retailers http://www.canadianallianceofhealthretailers.ca/CAHR.html which

has broken away from CHFA because they aren't doing a thing to defend the

industry.

 

On June 18th Health Canada illegally harmonized Canada to Australia's dietary

supplement laws in total violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and

Freedoms. CHFA is doing nothing to oppose this, while CAHR is doing everything

humanly possible to fight back.

 

 

Croft lives a half hour from me in Burnaby BC ( I moved to Point Roberts,

Washington which is right on the Canadian border http://www.pointrobertsusa.com

Point Roberts is a geographical anomaly- its detached from the rest of the

state- its on a penninsula thats attached to the British Columbia mainland. To

get here you have to travel 23 miles north into Canada, then recross the border

onto Point Roberts.

 

I moved here in order to work simulaneously in Canada and the USA. My girlfriend

lives a half hour from here in Surrey, BC where she works in a health food

store.

 

Between us, we have our fingers on the pulse of whats happening in the US,

Canada and Globally. We're going to be turning IAHF into a membership

organization.

 

The Canadian Alliance of Health Retailers has filed a lawsuit against Health

Canada and against their Health Minister to overturn these illegal regulations.

 

This lawsuit was originally filed in '97 and at that time the effect it had was

to get the Canadian government to back down from regulation that had been

threatened.

 

Although this lawsuit had been filed, they did not go to court in '97 because

the government backed down- but now they're resurrecting this old lawsuit which

has lain dorment- and they're reactivating it.

 

Just as the CHFA can't be trusted and are doing nothing to defend the Canadian

industry, forcing Woodruff and others to form CAHR--- none of us in the USA can

trust CRN or NNFA any more- and we need to form a new vitamin trade association

on our side of the border for the exact came reasons. Here is why:

 

CRN has announced a " victory " at Codex http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr110403.html

" Codex Committee Backs Science Based Safety Standards for Vitamin and Mineral

Supplements- Breaks Eight Year Stalemate "

 

CRN- dominated by multinational drug companies has been actively dissuading its

vitamin company members from backing the ANH lawsuit to overturn the EU Food

Supplement Directive. As goes the EU, so goes the WORLD due to the clout the EU

wields at Codex. Up til now, the EU has only had OBSERVER status at Codex, but

in next years meeting they'll have FULL status for the first time.

 

The EU's Observer, Basil Mathoudakis, will be their Codex Delegate next year,

and he drafted the EU Food Supplement Directive. Already the text under

deliberation for the Codex standard for vitamins and minerals is becoming closer

and closer to the EU Food Supplement Directive, and the only way we can stop the

Cartel's plans to destroy our industry is to HELP ANH with their lawsuit to

overturn the EU FSD.

 

Mannatech is a member of CRN, and we know they've been actively dissuaded from

backing the ANH lawsuit, and so have other vitamin company members, because CRN

is NOT IN FACT TRYING to defend health freedom. They don't WANT to overturn the

EU Food Supplement Directive, and they want you to THINK a " victory " has been

won at Codex- but thats just SPIN.

 

They're using the old " problem- reaction- " solution " method of manipulating the

industry, here is how: First the Cartel threatens to regulate us to RDA levels

in order to trigger a desired public REACTION (fear of regulation.) In that

climate of fear, CRN, a controlled opposition group, ushers in a supposed

" SOLUTION " (so called " scientific risk assessment " ----- which in fact isn't much

better than RDA's and which isn't the least bit scientific.

 

As evidence of THAT- see the most recent issue of the Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine- a special issue devoted solely to the Safety and Efficacy of Vitamins

and Minerals. The editorial by Dr. Hoffer, and an article by Dr.Gaby expose so

called " Safe Upper Levels " as a GIANT STEP BACKWARDS. Please order a copy of

this issue of JOM at http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jom.htm and see its table of

contents- this is a special issue, over 100 pages, and it exposes the scientific

fraud being engaged in the the EU's Scientific Committee on Foods.

 

CONNECTING THE DOTS ON THE CARTEL'S TAKEOVER

 

1. Hegelian Dialectic ( Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis) (Problem + REACTION =

preplanned " Solution " )

First the Cartel threatens to regulate us to RDA levels. In a consensus based

program such as Codex, there is no way that could be accepted by the US

Supplement Industry.

 

So CRN, a pharma dominated controlled opposition group ushers in a supposed

" Solution " , and when this supposed solution is accepted at Codex- the spin they

put on it is that it represents a " victory " . CRN then uses this supposed

" victory " as the basis to dissuade their vitamin company members from backing

the ANH lawsuit. They realize fully the impact the EU has at Codex, and they

don't WANT the EU FSD overturned, because what they want is for the Codex

standard to end up paralleling the EU FSD.

 

2. The EU will have full status at Codex for the first time at next years

meeting. Basil Mathoudakis, the EU's delegate at Codex, drafted the EU Food

Supplement Directive and has more influence at Codex than any other delegate

because he represents 15 countries.

 

3. Australia, which yanked 1600 safe products off the shelves in the past year

under false pretenses without a single product assay to prove contamination, is

generating a supposed " White Paper " on so called " Scientific Risk Assessment " .

 

4. The only way a country can legally avoid harmonizing their supplement laws to

a finalized Codex vitamin standard is on a basis of SAFETY.

(SPS Agreement- a subsection of GATT)

 

FDA + NAS + CRN have already teamed up to set us up to lose in a WTO Trade

Dispute.

 

They've been doing this by creating FALSE DEFINITIONS of vitamin safety. FDA has

been doing this via the pharma dominated National Academy of Science which isn't

subject to FOIA. Through NAS they've generated the bogus paper " A Risk

Assessment Model for Establishing Safe Upper Levels for Nutrients " which was

exposed in JOM in 2000 in the rebuttal by Dr.Rick Malter- see

http://www.iahf.com NAS and NAS Rebuttal. The fraudulence of so called

" scientific " risk assessment was exposed in the latest issue of the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine, especially by Dr.Gaby's article " Safe Upper Limits " for

Dietary Supplements: One Giant Step Backward "

 

5. At Expo East in September, Maury Silverman was kicked out of the meeting of

the Joint International Committee of NNFA and AHPA. He was representing Alliance

for Natural Health. He was kicked out by Randy Dennin, Chair of IADSA, and Chair

of the Joint International Committee. Dennin had all the literature that

Silverman attempted to distribute at the meeting about the ANH lawsuit removed

from the back table. Silverman was told that the reason he was being removed

from the meeting was because he had been circulating copies of my article from

Life Extension Magazine about the ANH lawsuit on the show floor.

 

My article exposes IADSA as a controlled opposition group. In an effort to cover

his tracks, the week before Expo East, Randy Dennin had the IADSA EXPOSED

website that was at Tripod.com removed from cyberspace. It wasn't hard for

Dennin to have the site removed because Tripod is a free hosting service that

will remove any site based on any complaint. The information has since been put

back up at http://www.iahf.com/iadsa I emailed Dennin telling him I had put the

site back up not only on my own website, but also on 5 mirror sites, and I

challenged him to rebut any of the information presented there. No response.

 

Val Johanson of CHC in Australia is an especially active member of IADSA. She

used to be a compliance officer at the TGA (Australian FDA). She played an

active role in getting Canada to harmonize to Australia, and also tried to get

several South American nations to harmonize to Australia at the IADSA meeting in

Rio in the fall. Now Australia, the nation which jerked 1600 products from the

shelves in the past year under false pretenses, is coming in to Codex with a

phony white paper re supposed " scientific risk assessment. "

 

Its not hard to see the writing on the wall.

 

We must alert the vitamin companies that belong to CRN and urge them to quit CRN

and help fund the ANH lawsuit before its too late.

 

As goes the EU, so goes the world due to how harmonization is proceeding world

wide.

 

Its not hard to connect the dots on how the global takeover of the supplement

industry is proceeding.

 

WHAT MUST BE DONE TO TURN THINGS AROUND

 

1. American vitamin companies must follow the example being set in Canada by

Croft Woodruff and the Canadian Alliance of Health Retailers, a new trade

association which had to be formed in Canada because the CHFA is doing nothing

to defend the Canadian industry from harmonization.

 

Companies should quit NNFA and CRN in droves and get behind the ANH lawsuit in

England, and behind CAHR's lawsuit against Health Canada.

 

They need to recognize the Cartel's plan to isolate the USA in the world and to

take us last.

 

They need to grasp that FDA has already set us up to lose in a WTO Trade Dispute

by whitewashing the Codex vitamin oversight hearing on March 20, 2001.

 

They must pressure congress to hold a proper oversight hearing on this issue.

 

Unless these things happen- the end result will be GENOCIDE.

 

>

> croft woodruff [sMTP:croftwoodruff]

> Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:56 PM

>

> To those whom it ought to concern:

>

> It was the opinion of " expert advisory committees " (struck by different

> health ministers in federal PC and Liberal governments since 1985) that

> the amino acids and many herbs and products that were banned during and

> since 1985 posed no health threat should be freely available over the

> counter. If Health Canada was operating in good faith that would have

> happened five years ago and should have happened much earlier than that.

>

> If one reads and understand Gazette ll one will realize that Health Canada

> is taking the health food industry down the same road as Australia, Europe

> and the United Kingdom and now New Zealand. Products of any therapeutic

> value will be diluted to potencies that will be barely useful and the rest

> will be available by prescription only.

> In the aforementioned countries hundreds of product have been now banned

> and ordered off the shelves.

>

> Aside form the fact that prescription only basis will add tremendously to

> the price for dispensing fees - try finding a doctor who has the nutrition

> knowledge to prescribe and if he does and should dare cross his/her

> licensing board you can kiss the doctor good by. Even now medical doctors

> in every jurisdiction are under scrutiny for practising alternative

> medicine, prescribing vitamins, minerals and herbs, counselling diet,

> offering chelation therapy, etc. Just read the following....

>

> " In 1996 I was investigated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons

> (COPS) because of a complaint by one of the assistant registrars for the

> censored who attended a press conference where I was asked to present

> information about censored This gave the COPS an open door to investigate

> my practice. This dragged on over 3 years. The doctors that investigated

> my clinic were " peaches and cream " when they were at my clinic for 1 day

> but 6 months later I received their 15 page report which tore my practice

> to shreds and made it look like I was practicing very bad medicine.

> Fortunately, because of my very thorough office notes, I was able to

> refute the lies that they put forth in this report in an 18 page rebuttal

> which was so assertive in its nature that my lawyer said he would never

> have allowed such a report if I had not been practicing complementary

> medicine. So, the COPS tried to make it look like I was a menace to

> society - they did not try to refute the complementary medical practices I

> was doing. That is their strategy. At my last meeting with the executive

> committee of the COPS I was told that I would be expected to practice more

> thoroughly than my family practice peers. So, this is what I try to do.

> As one retired Judge whom I was treating in 1998 said " they have all of

> the legal and political power behind them " so his advice to me (even

> though he himself could not stand the COPS and their old boys club

> mentality) was to be as cooperative as I could. So, I am waiting for them

> to come back and hope for the best. I observe mistakes that other doctors

> make every day - which cause untold suffering. But, if I start making

> complaints to the COPS then that will turn the spotlight onto me even

> more. I think this is what happened to Dr. censored " (Names & places

> deleted to protect the MD from further harassment or retaliation. - CW)

>

> In short the COPS don't " get " MD's for practising alternative medicine.

> Instead, they trump up charges on unrelated issues to make a good doctor

> look bad.

>

> In British Columbia the naturopathic physicians are losing the right to

> even make a diagnosis and they certainly won't have any more access to

> prescription items than they do today which happens to be ZERO.

>

> The natural health products consumer, retailer, wholesaler and

> manufacturer will be the ultimate losers in the end.

>

> It amazes me that so many people in the natural health products industry,

> from manufacturer to retailer, are in lock step with their trade

> associations in Canada and the United States and do not or refuse to see

> the handwriting is on the wall. Just read Scott Tips report from the

> recent CODEX farce in Berlin where CODEX Chairman Grossklaus - he is no

> Santa - made certain all decisions were engineered to fit the

> pharmacartels' agenda.

>

> 650 pages of ATI has revealed that middle management in Health Canada are

> in collusion with the pharmacartels to emasculate the natural health

> products industry in Canada to such a degree it will wither and die and

> just go away. Which is just what Health Canada has wanted since I got

> involved with my family in this industry in the middle 1960's.

>

> Those who think that getting one crumb (a la Kava) back on retailers

> shelves is a sign of government's good faith better check and see what

> they are smoking.

>

> Wake up before it is too late.

>

> Croft Woodruff

> Chelation Association of Vancouver

> Canadian Alliance of Health Retailers

> 6262-A Fraser Street

> Vancouver BC V5W 3A1

> 604 327 3889

>

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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