Form Letter to Send En Masse to US Codex Chairman Scarbrough Complaining About Illegal Actions of US Codex Delegates at CODEX Meetings

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Form Letter to Send En Masse to US Codex Chairman Scarbrough

Complaining About Illegal Actions of US Codex Delegates at CODEX Meetings

 

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IAHF List: I just sent the letter below to US Codex Chairman Dr.Ed Scarbrough to

demand an explanation for why both US Delegates to the Codex Committee on Food

Labeling in Montreal did not back the South African proposal at this meeting to

allow for truthful health claims to be made for dietary supplements. (The US

Delegates SHOULD have backed the South African proposal because it was

consistent with US law.)

 

If you agree with my letter, I encourage you to copy it, (irrespective of what

country you're from) and to email it to Dr.Scarbrough and to the list of others

in the US Government (see below) to demand action in defense of consumer's

access to dietary supplements.

 

Please consider adding a brief preface to my letter before sending it. Your

preface might read as follows:

 

Having read John Hammell's concerns as expressed in the letter below, I'd just

like to add my voice to his and to let you know that I share his concerns. (and

add the text below from the body of my message, then

 

email it to: ed.scarbrough, Robert.Lake,

mary.cutshell,elizabeth.yetley,

danielle.perrault, norman.singleton,

lissa_camacho, patricia_deLoatche,

ben.neralla,president

 

HERE IS THE LETTER I SENT- IF YOU AGREE WITH IT- PLEASE ADD THE COMMENT

SUGGESTED ABOVE AND SEND IT YOURSELVES

 

 

 

To:

 

Ed Scarbrough, US Codex Chairman

Also to L.Robert Lake, JD, CFSAN, FDA, US Delegate to the Codex Committee on

Food Labeling

And to Mary Cutshell, FSIS, USDA, Assistant US Delegate to the Codex Committee

on Food Labeling

And to Elizabeth Yetley, CFSAN, FDA, US Delegate to the Codex Committee on

Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses

 

 

 

[see South African Government Complaint to CODEX re opposition to the

finalization of a Draft Guideline for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims, below

my comments- I would like an immediate response to all questions asked herein.]

 

 

 

Dear Dr.Scarbrough:

 

 

Below my comments you will find the Official Complaint of the South African

government to CODEX opposing finalization of a Draft Guideline for Use of

Nutrition and Health Claims because Codex is refusing to allow for truthful

health claims to be made for dietary supplements.

 

 

In their detailed complaint they cite evidence that the World Health

Organization itself has acknowledged the role nutrition plays in the prevention

and alleviation of disease states. Given that WHO administers CODEX, I share

their concern that if the Draft Guideline for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims

is allowed to be finalized as currently written, it will directly contradict

positions already taken by the WHO, which would cast WHO and CODEX into total

and complete DISREPUTE amongst vitamin consumers world wide (along with the US

Government unless you take appropriate action in light of my concerns.)

 

 

It is totally inconsistent with US law that US Codex Delegates to the Committee

on Food Labeling (Robert Lake and Mary Cutshell) failed to back the South

African proposal at Codex to allow for health claims to be made for dietary

supplements.

 

 

I know Dr.s Anthony Rees, and Dr.Antoinette Booyzen on the South African Codex

Delegation, and have been to South Africa where I worked closely with Dr.Rees. I

have had numerous lengthy communications with them both and know that they have

been influenced heavily in their thinking at CODEX on the issue of allowing

health claims to be made for dietary supplements by the ideas contained in both

the US Nutrition Labelling and Education Act of 1990 and the US Dietary

Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, which as you are all well aware

have been US law since 1990 and 1994 respectively.

 

 

As one of the legions of American vitamin consumers who worked diligently to get

DSHEA passed in 1994, it angers me greatly when I see unelected US bureaucrats

who supposedly " represent me " taking actions as official representatives of my

country at UN Codex meetings which directly CONTRADICT established US law which

most unquestionably represents the express will of We the People of these United

States of America, and the will of Congress.

 

 

I find this ESPECIALLY galling when I know that the USA's dietary supplement

laws serve as a MODEL which many health conscious people world wide seek to

emulate, especially in the third world where the insane costs of the current

allopathically oriented " medical model " are bankrupting entire governments,

while NOT bringing about ANY improvement in health whatsoever. This problem is

well documented in the article DEATH BY MEDICINE by Gary Null, PhD, Carolyn

Dean, MD,ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Deborah Rasio MD, and Dorothy Smith, PhD

http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?Article=/documents/iatrogenic/deathbymedici\

ne/deathbymedicine1.htm

 

 

Currently an estimated 48% of Americans consume dietary supplements regularly.

Thats an estimated 139,000,000. people. I am quite aware that the multinational

pharmaceutical companies which FDA and USDA represent as de-facto " trade

associations " fully realize that Senator Durbin's bill S.722 has zero chance of

passage given these demographics, so the only way FDA and USDA and the drug

companies which control them can hope to make an end run around current US law

is via pushing draconian finalized trade standards for dietary supplements

through to completion at CODEX and via the US being hauled before the WTO's

Dispute Settlement Body- a new international court that does not follow US rules

of evidence, which deliberates behind closed doors, and where we would be

" represented " by the same unelected bureaucrats who are setting us up to lose in

a trade dispute in the first place.

 

 

As you are all well aware, both US laws (NLEA and DSHEA) allow for the limited

making of health claims on the labels of dietary supplements so that vitamin

consumers shopping in health food stores can benefit from a wealth of thoroughly

documented scientific information at the point of sale.

 

 

A primary example of this is shown through the example of health claims being

permitted on folic acid supplements for the prevention of neural tube defects.

Having once visited The Matheny School in New Jersey where I witnessed numerous

victims of a horrible paralyzing disease called Spina Bifida caused by their

mothers not having sufficient folic acid when they were pregnant (because at

that time the FDA still forbade the making of this health claim), I remain

genuinely perplexed by the actions of Robert Lake and Mary Cutshell as US

Delegates to the Codex Committee on Food Labelling in Montreal where they were

both were AGAINST the South African motion to allow for health claims to be made

for dietary supplements.

 

 

I would like a complete explanation of Lake and Cutshell's actions in this

instance, and would like to know whether or not you (Dr.Scarbrough) intend to

REMOVE Lake and Cutshell from the US Delegation to this (AND ALL) Codex

Committees in the future, and to urge that they be fired for acting

inconsistently with US law, and if NOT, WHY NOT???

 

 

Please explain your answer. (Mr.Lake and Ms. Cutshell, if you have anything to

say in your defense regarding your highly questionable non backing of South

Africa's proposal to allow health claims be made for dietary supplements at the

meeting on Food Labelling in Montreal, I'd really like to see it.)

 

 

In addition to being cc'ed to numerous key members of Congress, this email is

being posted on the IAHF website, and any lack of a response will be very

conspicuously noted by not only these members of Congress, but also by the huge

number of visitors to our site from all over the USA and the world. It is also

being circulated via email to thousands of vitamin consumers across the USA and

the world, and we demand immediate answers, as the USA's non backing of the

South African proposal seems to us to be part of a " World Health Organization "

Genocide Agenda to cull our numbers. [ See Article: Population Control:

Conspiracy or Fact

http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/AER/Misc/Articles/population.doc

 

 

I would also like a detailed official US reaction to the South African COMPLAINT

lodged with CODEX on this issue. (See Below.)

I am also sending this email to Dr.Beth Yetley at FDA (US Codex Delegate to the

Committee on Nutrition) and would like her detailed reaction to my comments as

well since the South African motion would impact things at both the Codex

Committee on Food Labeling and the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special

Dietary Uses.

 

 

It is painfully obvious to a growing number of people world wide that US actions

at CODEX go diametrically against current US law, and that systematic efforts

are being made by unelected bureaucrats " representing " the USA at Codex meetings

abroad to set the USA up to LOSE in a future WTO Trade Dispute via which US

Dietary Supplement Laws can be forcibly harmonized to an emerging mindlessly

restrictive international trade standard under " development " at the non

transparent, undemocratic FARCE known as Codex. (See

http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtml

 

 

Will there be any ACCOUNTABILITY in this matter, or is this just another rampant

example of the sort of heinous GOVERNMENT ABUSES documented in Omar Garrison's

well written book The Dictocrats- Our Unelected Rulers , or in James Bovard's

book How the Government Screws You From A-Z (?)

 

 

I would like to see detailed comments to all concerns expressed in this email

which I am also sending to you by certified mail with return receipt requested

with an extensive paper trail to other interested parties including Senators

Hatch and Harkin, Congressmen Paul, De Fazio, and Burton.

 

 

Here is the COMPLAINT the South African Government has just lodged with the

Codex Commission on this issue, and as US Codex Chair, I would like to know what

the official US response to it will be:

 

 

Comments from South Africa to the Codex Commission

(2004)

CL 2004/22-FL

Draft Guideline for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims at step 8 for adoption by

the Commission

 

South Africa is concerned that a Draft Guideline is presented for adoption at

Step 8 that contains a section that is no longer sustainable because of

overwhelming scientific evidence that contradicts the message of this section.

Since Codex adopted the principle that Standards and Guidelines should be based

on scientific evidence, the above-mentioned Guideline should not be adopted at

Step 8 with this section still in operation.

 

In the following documents, the WHO, acknowledges the role of " diet and

nutrition in the prevention of chronic diseases " ', and the " promotion of optimal

nutrition amonq consumers throuqh adequate labellinq and the use of health

claims, to assist them in makinq the riqht choices " z:

 

1. " WHO Technical Report on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic

Diseases " (2003)

 

2. WHO's Director-General's report of the Joint FAO/WHO evaluations of the work

of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Fifty sixth World Health Assembly

Provisional agenda 14.19, reference A 56/34, dated 3 April 2004), paragraph 23.

In paragraph 17 the Director-General noted that the Codex Commission recommends

that the scope of the Commission should also fully cover health-related aspects

of food standards.

 

In our opinion two Codex Committee's failed to implement this policy

recommendation of science-based decisions, namely CCNFSDU 2003 and CCFL 2004 by

not acknowledging -

 

1. In the case of CCNFSDU 2003: The use of the wording " prevention of chronic

diseases " in the preamble to the document Proposed Draft Guidelines for Vitamin

and Mineral supplements " , based on an outdated clause in the Codex general

Guidelines on Claims (CAC/GL 1-1979 (Rev. 1-1991) which prohibits claims as to

the suitability of a food for use in the prevention, alleviation, treatment or

cure of a disease; and

 

2. In the case of CCFL 2004: The revision of the Codex general Guidelines on

Claims (CAC/GL 1-1979 (Rev. 1-1991) to update the abovementioned clause to

reflect the latest scientific evidence that nutrients can heal nutritional

deficiency diseases and certain metabolic disorders, can prevent chronic

diseases and can be used as an alternative option in the treatment of some

diseases.

 

WHO finds it acceptable to use the word " diseases " when referring to diet and

nutritional policies which are within the scope of Codex Alimentarius. In other

words, the fact that foods and nutrients can prevent diseases and some cases

cure diseases (e.g., classical deficiency diseases and certain metabolic

disorders) do not make these foods and nutrients medicines from a scientific

point of view. Dictations from national legislation should not be permitted to

influence and allow incorrect statements in a global Guideline.

 

South Africa recommends that the Draft Guideline for Use of Nutrition and Health

Claims not be adopted at step 8 by the Commission and that section 3.4 of the

Codex general Guidelines on Claims (CAC/GL 1-1979 (Rev. 1-1991) which prohibits

claims as to the suitability of a food for use in the prevention, alleviation,

treatment or cure of a disease be revised to correctly reflect scientific

evidence.

 

 

For Health Freedom,

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

556 Boundary Bay Rd.

Point Roberts, WA 98281 USA

http://www.iahf.com

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World

 

cc: President George W. Bush

 

cc: Senators Orrin Hatch and Tom Harkin

Congressmen Ron Paul, Peter De Fazio, Dan Burton- (c/o Danielle Perraut- House

Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness danielle.perrault)

To Sen. Hatch via Lissa Comacho, and Patricia DeLoatche--- To Congressman Paul

via Norm Singleton; to Congressman De Fazio via Ben Neralla; to Senator Harkin

via Peter Reinecke

 

cc South African President Thabo Mbecki c/o Drs. Anthony Rees, Antoinette

Booyzen- South African Delegation to the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods

for Special Dietary Uses and the Committee on Food Labeling.

 

cc: Drs. Anthony Rees, Antoinette Booyzen- South African Delegation to the UN

Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committees on Food Labeling and Committee on

Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses, and to South African President

Thabo Mbecki c/o Rees and Booyzen.

 

cc: Vitamin consumers world wide on the IAHF email distribution list

 

cc To IAHF Webmaster for Posting on the IAHF Website

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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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