Denmark To Eliminate Concept Of Supplements: 'They're All Medicines'

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September 07, 2004

 

Denmark To Eliminate Concept Of Supplements:

'They're All Medicines'

Health

 

Legislation

 

 

August 2004 - Danish Health Authorities have

issued a proposed national " Guidance on Supplements "

for public discussion which, according to MayDay, an

association campaigning for freedom of choice in

health matters, " is worse than any legislation we have

ever seen before, as it will erase the concept of

supplements, this actually means that Denmark is about

to be the most totalitarian state experiment in Europe

concerning health. "

 

The Danes refer to the new definition of a

" medicinal product " recently passed in the EU

legislature, which declares any substance presented

for preventing disease as well as substances which may

be administered to human beings with a view to

restoring, correcting or modifying physiological

functions to be a medicinal product.

A substance could be anything from human blood to

animals and their products, vegetables,

micro-organisms, plants, parts of plants and even

chemicals, whether natural or synthetic.

Source: The Community code relating to medicinal

products for human use

 

Pretty comprehensive, you say? Well, it seems like

we Europeans have just declared our food supply,

practically anything we'd ever want to swallow to stay

healthy, to be medicinal and therefore subject to

pharmaceutical control.

 

It's as simple as that. Anything we eat - if we

eat well as the health authorities admonish us to -

will serve to prevent one illness or the other, won't

it? Why else would we be admonished to eat five

servings of fruit and vegetables per day? But beyond

that, any food and drink we consume will restore some

type of physiological function in our bodies.

Practically, everything we ever want to swallow to

stay healthy, is potentially a pharmaceutical medicine

if we are to give credence to that legal definition.

 

But that's crazy, you might say, no one ever will

seriously seriously assert that an apple is a medicine

just because one a day keeps the doctor away. Agreed,

but there are many products such as supplements and

herbs that pharmaceutical manufacturers eye with great

envy. They help people stay healthy without side

effects. They actually prevent, like simple vitamin C

in gram dosages, major killer diseases. More than we

can say for the majority of drugs, which, on the

contrary, have become a factor in increasing death

rates as shown by statistical evidence.

 

Nutrients and plants, extracts and concentrates

from natural food sources, unlike the apple, will

certainly be called a medicine and put under pharma

monopolistic control, if shown to be " effective " , that

is, if they take business away from the sickness

industry that the pharmaceutical manufacturers have

built.

 

The phenomenon is by no means isolated to tiny

Denmark. Other European countries such as Germany and

Finland are reasoning along similar lines - protect

pharmaceutical production - it is an important

" industry " . But what about our health? That industry

thrives only when we are sick. Should we go so far as

to lose our health in order to support an industry?

 

You might say no, but what can you do about it?

 

Alert your friends to this and other sites that

write about health freedom. Make your view known to

your favorite newspaper, magazine or your legislative

representative. If you like to be healthy and are

using nutrition and other natural means to stay so,

it's time to defend your rights. One of these rights

is certainly the ability to use food and nutrition to

stay healthy, without pharmaceutical interference.

 

If you are an " operator " , someone in industry or

in natural health consulting, please support the

Alliance for Natural Health, the only group that is

taking effective steps to prevent a pharmaceutical

takeover of the natural health field.

 

If you are a legislator or a " regulator " , think

about the concept of non-exclusivity of the definition

of a medicine. Let me explain: We define medicine in a

very wide way, so as to catch all products that should

have registration. There is however considerable

overlap into other - equally important - areas of

products, such as foods and supplements, many of which

do have the same properties as medicines. They prevent

disease and they restore or correct physiological

functions. (Hippocrates already said " let food be thy

medicine... " ).

 

When there is a conflict between the legal concept

of food and that of a medicine requiring registration,

the latter is destined to win out if we consider

current EU legislation. This is not correct. Food

should definitely have MORE importance than medicine,

unless we want to drown in a sea of sickness.

Addressing only sickness and " treating " only the

symptoms, pharmaceutical medicine is taking us in that

direction...

 

See here below MayDay's alert from Denmark, and

some relevant links:

 

HEALTH FREEDOM UNDER SERIOUS THREAT IN THE

TOTALITARIAN STATE OF DENMARK

 

Another paternalistic assault on free choice and

liberty using " consumer safety " as an excuse.

 

The Danish Veterinary and food Administration has

sent out a Guidance on dietary supplements (and herbs)

as a public hearing notice, in short stating that any

substance with a physiological effect is to be

regarded as a medicine in the future.

 

This means that the concept of " dietary

supplements " will soon no longer exist and that a lot

of widely used and harmless dietary supplements and

herbs will be disappearing from Danish health shops

shelves by November 2004. Gone is the freedom of

choice for the many seeking to maintain and restore

good health and life quality and prevent sickness.

 

Such nannyism is totally unacceptable!

 

MayDay has long been concerned that such

legislative restrictions can be expected throughout

EUrope in the time to come.

 

MayDay invites all health freedom loving people to

support our work to inform about unjust measures from

government authorities and ensure free personal choice

in health matters.

 

Please go to MayDay's website: www.mayday-info.dk

where it is possible to sign up to be a member and/or

support the Alliance for Natural Health's legal

challenge of the EU Food Supplements Directive.

 

Danes are requested to protest against these

serious restrictions writing to their favorite

newspaper and/or politician and/or the Danish Ministry

of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (fvm) plus

the Danish Veterinary and food Administration

(fdir).

 

Tamara Theresa Mosegaard

MayDay, Civil Health Rights Movement

Secretariat:

Rundforbivej 2, Troeroed

DK - 2960 Vedbaek

Denmark

Tel.: +45 4499 8898

Fax: +45 4565 0599

ttm

www.mayday-info.dk

 

For more information on Health Freedom:

www.alliance-natural-health.org

www.laleva.cc

www.thenhf.com

 

 

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