Urgent! Act today...email letter and adresses to protect vitamin use

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International Advocates for Health Freedom idx

 

INSTRUCTIONS TO SEND FORM LETTER BELOW TO CODEX DELEGATES FROM ALL OVER THE

WORLD TO BE ATTENDING THE Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special

Dietary Uses Meeting November 1-5, 2004 in Bonn Germany

1) Copy the First email address of the Delegates on this list into the " to "

line of a new email on your computer.

2) Copy all the rest of the email addresses to the other delegates into the

BCC line of your email

3) Copy the Text of The following email into the Body of the email, and SEND.

IF YOU ARE AN AMERICAN:

In addition to the above, please ALSO print out this form letter to all Codex

delegates, and INCLUDE it with the LEGAL DEMAND LETTER to send to the FDA

which I encourage you to send to them by certified mail with return receipt

requested. The more people who send this to the FDA the better!! We can sue the

FDA

Commissioners and Schneeman as private citizens under Title 42 and by other

means as discussed in the form letter if they don't act to protect our access

to supplements at Codex as discussed in the letter.

Email Addresses of CODEX Delegates that should be sent the below form letter:

CODEX DELEGATES FROM ALL MEMBER COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN THE CODEX

COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES- BONN, GERMANY ON

NOVEMBER 1-5: " NO " to FINALIZING AGENDA ITEM #4- THE STANDARD FOR VITAMINS AND

MINERALS

As a vitamin consumer concerned about safeguarding the public health, I

totally oppose finalization of AGENDA ITEM # 4 (VITAMINS AND MINERALS) at step

8,

and urge you to vote against such finalization due to the specific public

health concerns expressed by the Alliance for Natural Health; Alan Gaby, MD;

Gladys

Block,PhD; Alan Dobson, PhD; Gary Null,PhD,Carolyn Dean,MD,ND,Cheraskin, MD

and Ringsdorf Jr,MD cited below.

OPPOSE GERMAN PROPOSAL TO INCORPORATE SO CALLED " POSITIVE LIST " OF

" ADMISSIBLE VITAMINS " INTO CODEX FROM EU FOOD SUPPLEMENT DIRECTIVE

ESPECIALLY Oppose finalization IF the vitamin and mineral standard contains

Germany's proposal to incorporate an Appendix which would create a (so called)

" Positive List " of " admissible " vitamins and minerals (similar to that found

in EU Directive 2002/46/EC).

(Germany made this recommendation in their written comments submitted before

the 2003 CCNFSDU Meeting- see Section 3.1.2 and 3.2.2 in Germany's comments

http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/archives.jsp?lang=EN

Meeting of the CCNFSDU 2003

EUROPEAN FOOD SUPPLEMENT DIRECTIVE (AND THIS SO CALLED " POSITIVE LIST " ) IS

BEING CHALLENGED IN THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE

This " positive list " of " admissible " vitamins and minerals is being

challenged in the European Court of Justice by the Alliance for Natural Health,

a pan

European group of concerned dietary supplement consumers, manufacturers, and

alternative practitioners who have widespread international support for their

work http://www.alliance-natural-health.org. ANH has received a referral to ECJ

court by the High Court in London, they've filed papers with the ECJ and are

awaiting a court date. They fully intend to overturn EU Directive 2002/46/EC on

the grounds that it violates European law by arbitrarily, and without any

scientific justification, blocks the sale of nearly 300 safe ingredients which

have been in use in dietary supplements for DECADES in Britain and around the

world. They contend that the European Food Supplement Directive is supposed to

EXPAND the sale of dietary supplements, when in reality, the so called

" Positive " list actually has the OPPOSITE effect--- of arbitrarily and

capriciously

REDUCING the number, kinds, and potencies of products ALLOWED to be sold, and

wholly without just cause based on sound science.

It is apparent to me that if the German Chair of the CCNFSDU meeting pushes

for and allows this EU based " Positive List " to be incorporated into a global

trade standard, that their motives would have NOTHING to do with safeguarding

the public health, and EVERYTHING to do with protecting Germany's huge

pharmaceutical industry from unwanted competition from safe dietary supplements.

If the CCNFSDU finalizes a standard for vitamins and minerals DESPITE our

concerns, millions of vitamin consumers world wide would be forced to regard the

UN as having a EUGENICS agenda that is RADICALLY INCONSISTENT with any

expressed desire to " safeguard the public health " This would bring the UN into

serious disrepute with vitamin consumers and others around the world.

It would be PREMATURE to advance a global trade standard for vitamins and

minerals based on the European Food Supplement Directive while the Alliance for

Natural Health's court case is still pending.

GABY: SAFE UPPER LEVELS FOR NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS: ONE GIANT STEP BACKWARD

Furthermore, the move to create a framework intended to eventually cap

allowable potency levels for vitamins and minerals based on so called " Safe

Upper

Levels " is not the least bit scientific and must be REJECTED!! We call your

attention to this article SAFE UPPER LEVELS FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: ONE GIANT

STEP BACKWARD by Alan Gaby, MD which was published in a Special Issue of the

Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Volume 18 Third & Fourth Quarters, 2003

Numbers

3 & 4 devoted to the safety and efficacy of dietary supplements

http://www.iahf.com/20040127.html

Gaby, a highly experienced clinician with years of experience in treating

patients using dietary supplements, is sharply critical of the UK's " Expert

Group

on Vitamins and Minerals " report to the Food Standard Agency that set " Safe

Upper Levels " for the doses of most vitamins and minerals. Gaby notes that the

EVM Report reveals " that the dose levels were set inappropriately low for many

vitamins and minerals; well below doses which have been used by the public

for decades with apparent safety. " Gaby states that the public health could be

jeopardized if this report is used as the basis for creating public policy.

Gaby is sharply critical of guidance levels created for Riboflavin, B6,

Manganese, Niacin and Vitamin C, noting that benefits were ignored, while only

risks

were focused on- and that this is not science. " While the directive to evaluate

only the risks, and to ignore the benefits, of nutritional supplements created

a rigged game, the members of the EVM appeared to be willing participants in

that game. "

GLADYS BLOCK, PhD CONDEMNS RDAs AS UNSCIENTIFIC, CALLS FOR OPTIMAL NUTRIENT

LEVELS TO SAFEGUARD PUBLIC HEALTH

Comments made by Gladys Block, PhD

(http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/faculty/block.htm) at the US National Academy

of Sciences symposium on RDAs held June 28-29, 1993 are in sync with Gaby's

concerns. (Food Chemical News- July 5, 1993) Block agreed that RDAs should

address " Optimal " levels of nutrients needed to prevent chronic diseases. " The

RDAs

are meaningless and pointless if they don't bear a relation to health, "

declared Dr.Gladys Block, University of California (Berkley) School of Public

Health, noting that the public already believes the recommended levels are

" adequate

to keep us in reasonably good health so we won't die prematurely. "

Explaining why the NAS Food and Nutrition Board had not addressed chronic

diseases in the past, Block cited poor or inappropriate methods for determining

optimal intake, and a focus on short-term " unifactorial " outcomes such as

beriberi or scurvy. For example, the RDA for vitamin E is based on levels of

intake

by " apparently healthy people " despite evidence that higher levels could

reduce risk for atherosclerosis, cancer, and cataracts, she said.

Describing humans as " living in a sea of oxidative agents and free radicals "

that lead to chronic diseases, Block charged that the current RDA's are

sufficient " to get us through our reproductive years, " after which nature ceases

to

care what happens to our bodies. " Calling the RDA's adequate for long term

health is incorrect, " she declared.

Asserting that knowledge of nutrient needs is " exploding, " Block urged

scientists to " look for intersections between epidemiology and biochemistry " in

trying to arrive at appropriate nutrition recommendations. She continued: " We

should err on the side of public health. The burden of proof should lie with

those

who say less is adequate rather than those who say more is beneficial. "

Block noted that chronic diseases affect very large population segments and

account for billions of dollars in health care costs. " I'm convinced that

substantially higher intake of antioxidants would decrease the risk of diseases

of

maturity and old age, " she concluded.

Asked about possible harm to vulnerable sub populations from higher nutrient

intakes, Block conceded some risks due to genetic variability. " However I'm

reassured because a majority benefit, " she continued, adding " Its like pesticide

residues on fruits and vegetables. Sure, its a worry, but people with high

levels of antioxidants have a lower risk of cancer. "

ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE THAT CODEX GOES AGAINST SOUND SCIENCE- STATEMENT BY AL

DOBSON,PhD, The Lewin Group, Falls Church,Virginia- Statement Before the

Committee on Government Reform, US House of Representatives- REGARDING: Dietary

Supplements: Nature's Answer to Cost Effective Preventative Medicine

September 22, 2004

http://reform.house.gov/UploadedFiles/testimony%20dobson.pdf

At the Codex Committee on Food Labelling in Montreal, South Africa introduced

a proposal that would have allowed for the making of truthful health claims

for dietary supplements, citing an overwhelming body of evidence attesting to

the fact that these natural substances can be used to prevent disease and that

this does not " make them drugs. " Their proposal to change the Preamble was

wrongly voted down.

If finalized at Step 8, the Codex Vitamin Standard would block consumer

access to healing nutrients necessary to prevent disease, and to cut down on

expensive health care costs.

To ignore the findings of the Lewin Group that a daily intake of 1200 mgs of

calcium with vitamin D could result in 734,000 fewer hip fractures among the

population age 65- and over, which could save an estimated $13.9 Billion over a

5 year period (in the USA alone) would be cast the UN's Codex Commission into

serious global disrepute.

Ditto to ignoring the Lewin Group's finding that at least 600 fewer children

would be born with crippling neural tube defects, resulting in a lifetime

savings of over $321.9 million, if just 25% of the woman of childbearing age in

the US currently not taking 400 mcg of folic acid supplements began taking it.

The estimated 5 year savings, taking into account the very low cost of the

supplement is $1.3 Billion in lifetime costs compared with costs of caring for

babies with neural tube defects. See the url above for more information.

COMPREHENSIVE NUTRIENT REVIEW

http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?Article=/documents/Codex/CodexIntro.htm

A comprehensive review of 50 selected nutrients in preventing, retarding, and

treating disease culled from 484,000 peer reviewed studies contained in the

medical literature which justify the use of OPTIMAL doses of vitamins,

minerals, and other natural substances. Null, et al generated this paper due to

CONCERN about the effort underway at Codex to create a global trade standard for

vitamins and minerals that goes against the public health. If the UN ignores

this

paper, and passes a finalized Codex Vitamin Standard over all these

objections, it will fall into serious global disrepute and we'd only be able to

conclude that it has a Eugenics Agenda.

SUGGESTED OPTIMAL NUTRIENT ALLOWANCE

Through the effort of a 15 year study it is now possible to extrapolate

suggested optimum daily nutrients allowances, or SONA's. These SONA's are levels

of

nutrients found in a study of 13,500 male and female subjects living in six

regions of the United States conducted by senior investigators, Drs. Emanuel

Cheraskin and W. M. Ringsdorf Jr. of the University of Alabama School of

Medicine. The results of their two million dollar study are contained in 49,000

bound

pages found in 153 volumes, whose results have been published in over 100

papers during the 1970's and 1980's.

http://www.enerex.ca/chinese/Establishing%20SONA.htm

ANH's, Gaby's, Block's, Dobson's, Null and Dean's, Cheraskin and Ringsdorf

Jr's concerns reflect my own that the proposed Codex vitamin standard threatens

the public health.

Sound Science and respect for the Public Health require that all work on

creating a global trade standard for vitamins and minerals immediately CEASE, or

at the VERY LEAST be set back to step 3 so that PROPER CONSIDERATION of these

concerns be given MORE TIME to be PROPERLY ADDRESSED.

Information Courtesy Of

John C. Hammell, President, International Advocates for Health Freedom

http://www.iahf.com

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