Health, Codex Alimentarius EU THREAT

[Guest guest]

They've been planning this for years as Codex Alimentarius. For those who cannot

be brainwashed into believing geocidal pharmedical drugs are good for their

heal, they will be prevented from taking supplements to stay health without side

effects while carcinogenic herbicides and pesticides, aspartame, etc. are

welcomed into the population controlling food chain.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1379780,00.html

 

Vitamin supplements used by thousands of Britons, from pregnant women to people

warding off winter colds, are to be swept from shop shelves from the new year

under controversial European Union safety regulations.

Carole Caplin, former style adviser to Cherie Blair, will front a last-ditch

campaign next month to get the directive on food supplements overturned.

 

It would affect up to 5,000 products, including best-sellers such as Solgar's

Pre-Natal Nutrients tablets, taken by pregnant and breastfeeding women; and

VM-2000 multi-nutrient pills, a compound of antioxidants. Megadose vitamins,

such as the high-strength vitamin C tablets taken by many to stave off coughs

and sniffles, are also under threat, with new safety standards to be issued

separately early next year.

 

Campaigners will take their fight to the European courts in January. However,

they say some manufacturers have begun withdrawing from the legal challenge or

started reformulating supplements to ensure they comply by August, when the

directive will become law.

 

'We have got to do everything we can to put pressure on the British government,

otherwise British consumers who have used these products for 40 or 50 years will

lose out,' said Sue Croft of the pressure group, Consumers for Health Choice.

 

'People are using supplements as an insurance policy to keep themselves well.

I'm not saying vitamins are a cure-all, but as a measure to keep somebody in

good health, they work.

 

'If it's safe, you should be allowed to use it; therefore I cannot understand

why the British government is not fighting our corner.'

 

She said campaigners were also worried about the threat to megadose vitamins.

'We have a vitamin culture here, and we do take these high-strength nutrients

where good science supports them. That could be 3g of vitamin C for example,

where on the continent the highest dose you can get in some countries is 200mg.'

 

One in three women takes some form of health food supplement, particularly

during pregnancy or menopause, as does one in four men.

 

Caplin, who regularly recommends alternative remedies to clients, is understood

to have lobbied the Prime Minister personally.

 

She has also publicly accused the Health Minister, Melanie Johnson, of showing a

'distinct lack of care and interest' in the issue. Peter Hain, the Leader of the

Commons, who has a longstanding interest in alternative therapies, is also

understood to have raised objections to the directive, which he has described as

'heavy-handed'. Some 180 MPs have signed a Commons motion expressing 'grave

concern' that pills and powders in common use are to become illegal.

 

The Food Supplements Directive in effect outlaws health food preparations

containing ingredients not on its 'positive list' of permitted substances.

Manufacturers prepared to draw up a detailed scientific dossier arguing that

their ingredients are proven to be safe are allowed an extension until 2008.

 

Campaigners say the 'agreed' list was simply borrowed from one drawn up for baby

foods, and there is no evidence any of the ingredients are unsafe for adults.

They argue Britain is suffering from a culture-clash with continental countries,

which traditionally treat vitamins as akin to medicines. In Greece they are

usually obtained through pharmacists, while a 'megadose' of vitamin C in Italy

can be only one-tenth as strong as one in Britain.

 

A Department of Health spokeswoman said: 'We want to protect public health while

keeping wide consumer choice.'

 

Many doctors are sceptical about megadose vitamins, arguing that a healthy diet

meets most people's needs.