Fwd: NY TIMES CALLS FOR REPEALMENT OF DSHEA- IAHF RESPONSE

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Fwd: NY TIMES CALLS FOR REPEALMENT OF

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NY TIMES CALLS FOR REPEALMENT OF DSHEA- IAHF RESPONSE

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Harm-onization

 

IAHF List: Yesterday the NY Times Newspaper published the following editorial

calling for the repealment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of

1994. Please read their editorial and my response, below which was posted on the

NY Times Website.

 

Many Americans, including well meaning people in the health freedom movement

are already jumping up and down all excited about this editorial, despite the

fact that neither Durbin's Senate bill (S.722) The Dietary Supplement Safety Act

of 2003, or Davis's House Bill (HR 3377) have any support in Congress, and

aren't likely to pick up any appreciable support, this editorial

notwithstanding.

 

The FDA's ban on ephedra can easily be overturned in court. It is illegal

under the Administrative Procedures Act, but no one can file a lawsuit until the

FDA publishes their Final Rule, which they haven't done yet (it will be out

soon.) Under the Administrative Procedures Act it is illegal for the FDA to act

in an inconsistent way. It is not legal for them to ban epehdra as a dietary

supplement, while leaving pseudoephedrine, which objective data proves is FAR

more dangerous than ephedra, in a slew of OTC cold preparations sold by a slew

of multinational drug companies.

 

The double standard here is a classic, and its outrageous. There is no way the

Cartel will succeed in repealing DSHEA via this sort of angle on US soil, but

there is a VERY REAL danger of repealing DSHEA indirectly via HARM-ONIZATION,

which is why he FDA and Cartel have set us up to lose in a future WTO Trade

Dispute.

 

The Cartel WHITEWASHED the Oversight Hearing on Codex that I pushed for for 5

years on March 20, 2001. I witnessed CRIMES committed by Dr.Beth Yetley of the

FDA at Codex meetings in Germany. What Yetley is doing (in total violation of US

law) is that she and the pharma dominated National Academy of Science are

creating FALSE DEFINITIONS of supplement safety in order to set us up to lose in

a WTO Trade Dispute via which our domestic law can be forcibly HARM-onized to a

grossly restrictive emerging INTERNATIONAL VITAMIN STANDARD.

 

The ONLY WAY we can stop what is unfolding is to support the Alliance for

Natural Health's lawsuit against the EU Food Supplement Directive, and ANH will

be in court AT THE END OF JANUARY (JANUARY 30th) in the British Courts. They

BADLY need donations, not only for this lawsuit, but also to be able to continue

their emergency lobbying in the EU Parliament against the EU Traditional Herbal

Medicinal Products Directive, and against the Pharmaceuticals Directive. This

last, the " PD " is the worst of the 3- and we won't be able to kill it unless we

FIRST OVERTURN the FSD in court.

 

The PD turns any substance that squeaks through the first two Directives into

a " drug " . It turns any substance with ANY PHYSIOLOGIC EFFECT IN THE BODY into a

" DRUG " . It would turn WATER into a " DRUG " .

 

Keep in mind that at NEXT YEARS CODEX MEETING in Bonn Germany they can

FINALIZE a Vitamin Standard which can be imposed GLOBALLY via a new

international court- the " Dispute Settlement Body " of the WTO- which is a mickey

mouse court that does not follow our rules of evidence.

 

It was created to enable multinational corporate interests to strike down any

national law that interferes with multinational corporate PROFIT$$$ and thats

exactly what its been doing.

 

Every single decision made by the WTO's " DSB " has gone against the

environment, against the public health, against human rights, against labor

rights, against every intantible that goes into the shaping of any democratic

nation's laws.

 

We are, quite LITERALLY, being forced into a PRISON PLANET in which all the

laws are being " harmonized " (made the same). Our would be rulers intend to

create a CARBON COPY of the EU Dictatorship in our hemisphere called the FTAA

(Free Trade Area of the Americas) via which they intend to harmonize the laws

between Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central and South America. Unless we oppose

them with EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEINGS, these greed driven Machivellian BASTARDS

FROM HELL will succeed.

 

Food control = PEOPLE control.

 

Codex is all about culling our numbers. They don't want us to be healthy, they

don't make $$$$ when we stay clear of their doctors, their hospitals, and their

DRUGS, so they're trying to raise the hurdles via a ton of red tape so that they

can CRUSH the supplement industry, all in the name of " safety " in the name of

" protecting us from harm. "

 

Well these hypocritical pieces of dog waste can stick it where the sun don't

shine, and its up to everyone in America to do the following things to

monkeywrench their plans:

 

1) Call your members of Congress today via the US Capital Switchboard at

202-225-3121 (ask for your Senators and Congressmen, if you don't know their

names tell the switchboard operator your zipcode and they'll tell you, then

connect you.

 

USE my response below to the NY Times as a script, and EDUCATE THEM so that

they can see the BIG PICTURE which is that this attack on DSHEA is only one

SMALL PART of a COORDINATED GLOBAL ATTACK against the entire supplement industry

which is not only occurring in the USA, but world wide!!! Explain to them about

the whitewashed oversight hearing on Codex in 2001 and tell them that if they

cosponsor Durbin's and Davis's bill (the so called Dietary Supplement Safety Act

of 2003) that you will move heaven and earth to destroy them politically.

 

2) You MUST donate IMMEDIATELY to the Alliance for Natural Health's lawsuit to

OVERTURN the EU Food Supplement Directive. Donate via their secure server at

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org or via the address on their website. (You

must send an international money order if you donate via snail mail or they

can't deposit your check in an English bank.)

 

If ANH fails in court, or in their lobbying campaign, we're done for, but they

have the best lawfirm in Europe working with them and they're VERY CAPABLE

people who are totally WORTHY of our support!!! We CAN WIN in court!! We CAN

STOP the cartel's genocide agenda, we HAVE TO, or we're going to witness

GENOCIDE.

 

See the NY Times Article Calling For the Repealment of DSHEA Below, and Below

it see IAHF's RESPONSE. Please get on the NY Times website yourself

http://www.newyorktimes.com and put your OWN comments to them on their website

and also email them to the editor, and copy them to your Senators and

Congressmen.

 

This is WAR people: GLOBAL WAR:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/opinion/05MON2.html

The Ephedra Ban Is Not Enough

 

Published: January 5, 2004

 

 

It took an unconscionably long time, but the federal government has finally

managed to ban an unsafe dietary supplement before it can harm or kill any more

unwary users. The Bush administration's health regulators announced last week

that they would soon ban ephedra, an herbal supplement used to promote weight

loss and increase energy, on the grounds that it poses " an unreasonable risk of

illness or injury. " That was the only sensible response to mounting evidence

that ephedra has been harming thousands of Americans. Yet the tortuous course of

this regulatory crackdown underscores the dangerous weakness of a 1994 law that

allows the supplement industry to market products whose safety and effectiveness

have never been proved while making it extremely hard for health regulators to

take them off the market if evidence of harm subsequently emerges.

 

Ephedra is an adrenaline-like stimulant, derived from plants, that excites the

central nervous system, speeds metabolism and increases the rate at which a

person burns calories. But it can also drive up blood pressure and stress the

circulatory system. Ephedra has generated far more reports of adverse effects

than any other supplement and has been linked to cases of heart attack, stroke

and sudden death. Ephedra has been banned by three states, including New York,

and by some athletic leagues though not others.

 

Some critics blame the Food and Drug Administration, which has been worried

about ephedra for many years now, for moving too cautiously. There is some merit

in that complaint, but the major culprit is clearly the 1994 dietary supplement

law that requires the F.D.A. to prove that a supplement poses a significant or

unreasonable risk of harm instead of requiring the manufacturer to prove that it

is safe and effective, the standard used for prescription drugs. The law does

not even require manufacturers to report adverse effects to the government.

 

This is a formula for covering up problems and ensuring regulatory inaction.

It is no accident that ephedra will be the first supplement ever banned for

safety reasons under the 1994 law. That sluggish response was precisely what the

supplement industry and its more zealous customers wanted when they pressed

Congress for protection against strict regulation.

 

When Congress returns for its next session, it needs to revise the

ill-conceived 1994 legislation. At a minimum, Congress must require the industry

to pass on any adverse health reports to the F.D.A. promptly. Even better, it

should require the manufacturers to prove the safety and efficacy of their

products before those products are allowed on the market. Under the current lax

system, there is no guarantee that the substitutes for ephedra will be any

safer.

 

IAHF RESPONSE WHICH WAS POSTED ON THE NY TIMES WEBSITE

 

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?11 (AT) 208 (DOT) leh7bTit6Gd.567098@.f4e8c59

 

Re: " The Ephedra Ban is Not Enough "

The ephedra ban is illegal under the Administrative Procedures Act which

requires that the FDA act consistently, and not in a biased way as they regulate

(OSTENSIBLY to " protect the public. " )

 

If the FDA were GENUINELY interested in " protecting the public " they would not

only yank the safe herb ma huang (ephedra) off the market, but they would

SIMULTANEOUSLY ALSO yank pseudoephedrine off the market, but they're NOT GOING

TO.

 

The REASON they're not going to yank pseudoephedrine off the market is that it

is contained in a SLEW of OTC Cold Preparations marketed by a SLEW of

multinational drug companies which OWN the FDA via the " good ol' boy " syndrome

of revolving doors between the Agency and the companies who they serve in the

capacity of a Trade Association.

 

Objective Data collected via the American Association of Poison Control

Centers clearly indicates that pseudoephedrine kills, but the FDA has a double

standard. What they're doing is protecting the sales of prescription weight loss

drugs that are far more dangerous than ephedra, and the public knows it.

 

S.722 and HR 3377 aren't moving in Congress, and your editorial won't cause

either bill to move. Vitamin consumers aren't stupid. You don't have to be a

rocket scientist to go to http://thomas.loc.gov and read the language of these

witch hunt bills. The word " ephedra " isn't used ANYWHERE in either one.

 

The language would demonize any dietary supplement that happens to be used

concurrently with one or more Rx drugs, if there is a reaction, regardless of

causality, without a shred of evidence that the supplement caused the adverse

reaction. This is a naked Big Pharma effort to try to repeal DSHEA, and its

consistent with a Global push to destroy the dietary supplement industry world

wide.

 

On June 18th, 2003 the Canadian Government illegally harmonized Canada's

dietary supplement laws to Australia's draconian drug based laws, in total

violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In Australia in the

past year 1600 safe dietary supplements were yanked from the shelves under false

pretenses.

 

On January 30 the Alliance for Natural Health

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org will be striving to overturn the corrupt

EU Food Supplement Directive. Donations for the lawsuit are badly needed and can

be made via the secure server on the site.

 

In October 2004 at the UN Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on

Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use Australia will be bringing a junk

science pharma generated supposed " white paper " on supposed " scientific risk

assessment " for vitamins and minerals, just at the moment the EU goes from

Observer status at Codex to having FULL Status. As they go to full status the

SIZE of the EU will have ALSO increased from 15- to 25 nations.

 

The FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) is intended to be a carbon copy of

the EU Dictatorship in our hemisphere. It is intended to " harm " onize us to the

EU. The Dietary Supplement Working Group of the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue

http://www.tabd.org is trying to harmonize the US to the EU. This group is

dominated by pharmaceutical interests.

 

The growing number of vitamin consumers on the email distribution list of

International Advocates for Health Freedom http://www.iahf.com can stay abreast

of these issues by signing up at no charge on my website. Donations are much

appreciated and can be made via paypal on my website or send to me at -John C.

Hammell, President, International Advocates for Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay

Rd. Point Roberts, WA 98281 USA 800-333-2553 N.America, 360-945-0352

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

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