New Zealand Government Responds to Health Select Committee- Tells Vitamin Consumers to Go to Hell

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> 25 Aug 2004 23:03:19 -0000

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> New Zealand Government Responds to Health

> Select Committee- Tells Vitamin Consumers to Go to

> Hell

>

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> IAHF List: No matter where you live in the world,

> please grasp that a New World Odor " Harm-onization "

> TEST is under way between Australia and New Zealand

> in the form of a huge tug of war over the issue of

> whether or not New Zealand may continue to regulate

> dietary supplements themselves, as foods, or if they

> are to yield sovereignty to an Australian run

> regulatory corporation which would be a law unto

> itself- not responsive to the will of people in

> either country- but solely to our would be

> pharmaceutical masters.

>

> Grasp that ASEAN (Association of SouthEast Asian

> Nations) http://www.aseansec.org/home.htm is an

> emerging totalitarian dictatorship similar to the

> European Union, and the Free Trade Area of the

> Americas, and that Australia is its " Engine. "

>

> Grasp that the New World Odor intends to use

> whatever they learn through trying to force

> harm-onization upon New Zealand in a similar effort

> to force harm-onization on the USA via the Free

> Trade Area of the Americas. Grasp that last summer,

> Canada illegally harmonized its dietary supplement

> laws to Australia's and the Cartel plans to try to

> take the USA next via regional harmonization,

> Memorandums of Understanding, and CODEX.

>

> Take the time to visit http://www.stoptheftaa.org

> and acquaint yourself with this THREAT to our most

> cherished freedoms-- we must all work together

> against globalization and harmonization, or we'll

> find ourselves living on board a PRISON PLANET.

>

> I just received the email below from Sue Kedgely, a

> member of the New Zealand Parliament who is fighting

> on behalf of vitamin consumers who oppose

> harm-onization of New Zealand's liberal food based

> vitamin laws to Australian's mindlessly draconian

> regulatory system.

>

> Please take a moment to read Kedgely's message, and

> to visit the link below which shows the New Zealand

> ruling Labour Parties outrageously arrogant response

> to the Health Select Committee which recommended

> strongly against harmonization with Australia.

>

> If you live in New Zealand, it is imperative that

> you go to http://www.nzhealthtrust.co.nz to sign

> their form letter which you should personalize

> before emailing to every member of Parliement.

>

> LETTER FROM SUE KEDGELY, NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENT TO

> IAHF

>

>

> Please find below the link to the Government's

> response to the Health Select Committee's report on

> the Proposal to establish a joint Therapeutic Goods

> agency with Australia. It is much as we expected.

>

>

>

> It is

>

http://www.clerk.parliament.govt.nz/Content/Parliamentary-Papers/A.5HealthCommRe\

p%20on%20inquiry%20establish%20T-TasAgency%20to%20reg%20Therapautic%20Prods.pdf

>

> I believe it is scandalous that the Government is to

> completely ignore the findings of a Select Committee

> inquiry into how to regulate dietary supplements.

> The overwhelming majority of submitters, including

> from the dietary supplements industry, were totally

> opposed to the regulation of dietary supplements

> through a trans-Tasman agency, because of the higher

> compliance costs and loss of sovereignty that would

> inevitably result.

>

> The Health Minister has effectively given Australia

> control of New Zealand's $200 million dietary

> supplements industry. Her unilateral decision to

> regulate the industry through an agency based in

> Australia, staffed primarily by Australians,

> governed by an Australian-dominated board and set up

> under Australian law, makes a travesty of New

> Zealand sovereignty.

>

> The new agency would be an expanded version of an

> existing Australian agency. It will have far

> reaching powers, including the power of search and

> seizure, enforcement powers and the ability to make

> what are essentially policy decisions without

> recourse to the New Zealand parliament.

>

> The Australian-based Managing Director of the Agency

> will have extraordinary powers, including the

> authority to make delegated legislation in the form

> of Rules and Orders, which will have a direct effect

> in New Zealand but will not to be incorporated into

> domestic legislation. These unprecedented powers are

> not found anywhere in the New Zealand public service

> and are probably unconstitutional.

>

> I predict that the move will contravene the

> government's own commitment to reducing the

> compliance costs of small business by significantly

> increasing costs across the industry and inevitably

> forcing many small dietary supplements businesses to

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> I trust that this has made the Green party's stance

> very clear. We will continue to strongly oppose this

> move and we will not make any deals with the

> government over this issue.

>

>

>

> Please inform me if you wish to go onto our database

> and receive further information on this and other

> Complementary Health issues.

>

>

>

> Kind regards

>

> Sue Kedgley

> For Health Freedom,

> John C. Hammell, President

> International Advocates for Health Freedom

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