Fwd: Update from Alliance for Natural Health

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.... an update from the Alliance for Natural Health for information.

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

 

Happy New Year to all ANH partners, members and

supporters! Our thoughts are especially with

those who are suffering as a result of the

tsunami.

 

 

 

I am writing primarily to provide you with an

update on ANH activities. 2005 is set to become

probably the most crucial year for health freedom

the world has yet seen. There is everything to

play for – and much to lose if we don’t do

everything we can to make the campaign successful.

 

 

 

 

 

ANH case in the European Court of Justice set for

25 January – Court Register on ANH website

 

 

 

We would like to remind you that our landmark

Hearing in the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in

Luxembourg is now only 17 days away.

 

 

 

As with our first phase hearing in the High Court

in London, we are running a register from the

homepage of our website

(<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/>www.alliance-natural-health.org,

see top green bar) for those wanting to attend

the Hearing on 25 January in Luxembourg. This

register will allow us to gauge the seating

capacity to give those of you who wish to attend

this key event the best chance of being able to

get a seat on the day.

 

 

 

The case is seminal to how food (dietary) supplements will be

considered by regulators in Europe and a victory

on the 25th will dramatically improve the

prospects of effective nutrients remaining in the

marketplace. It will also set a precedent that is

likely to have considerable beneficial knock-on

effects on other EU legislation affecting natural

healthcare products. Those requiring more detail

of the case can download the Written Observations

for the ANH case in the ECJ at:

<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_107.pdf>http://www.a\

lliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_107.pdf

 

 

 

Since other countries, even the USA, are

contemplating new regulatory systems that are

modelled closely on the system proposed by

the EU, a successful challenge will also be of

great benefit to consumers of innovative food

(dietary) supplements outside Europe.

 

 

 

We will be providing additional materials

summarising the case in separate emails shortly.

 

 

 

 

 

FAO/WHO nutrient risk assessment project

 

 

 

ANH has also submitted a ground-breaking report

to the FAO/WHO which has been tasked by Codex

Alimentarius with responsibility for developing a

nutrient-appropriate risk assessment system that

will largely be responsible for setting ‘upper

safe levels’ of nutrients globally. Just as our

legal challenge will primarily affect ingredients

that can be used in supplements, this risk

assessment project will ultimately affect what

maximum dosages are allowable. Doses above the

‘safe’ levels developed following the risk

assessment will potentially, in most countries,

only be allowable if products are registered as

medicines, which would be, in most cases,

prohibitively expensive.

 

 

 

The ANH submission calls for a complete

re-appraisal of the systems that have been under

development for several years in the USA, through

the Institute of Medicine, and in Europe by

organizations such as the EU’s Scientific

Committee on Food (now absorbed into the newly

formed European Safety Authority) and the UK’s

Expert Group on Vitamins and Minerals.

 

 

 

For background information on the importance of

risk assessments and the ECJ court case

worldwide, please download the paper I gave at

the American College for Advancement in Medicine

(ACAM) meeting in San Diego in November 2004

(<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_112.doc>http://www.\

alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_112.doc).

 

 

 

To download the risk assessment submission

itself, please go to the following link:

 

<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_125.pdf>http://www.a\

lliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_125.pdf.

 

 

 

You will note that this report has now been

endorsed by a wide range of top US and European

doctors and scientists, including Drs Abram

Hoffer, Jeff Bland, Jonathan Wright, Julian

Whitaker, Steve Levine and Alan Gaby. These

doctors fully appreciate the scale of the problem

and the need to establish a new paradigm for

nutrients in order to stop many of the most

effective forms being re-classified as drugs.

 

 

 

The FAO/WHO’s Call for Experts closed today, and

the FAO/WHO will now consider applicants

(including several of the endorsees of the ANH

report and myself) and it is expected that the

risk assessment will be thrashed out at a 5-day

workshop tentatively set for May 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

Fluoride in drinking water

 

 

 

Many of you are likely to be concerned about

chemicals in drinking water. You are right to be.

The WHO recently held a consultation about

proposed drinking water guidelines. What really

stood out to us was the level of fluoride that

the WHO considered to be acceptable: 1.5 mg/l.

This is more than twice the level known to cause

dental fluorosis (discolouration, mottling and

weakening of the teeth) in children.

 

 

 

We submitted a report to the WHO, which has been

widely acclaimed by anti-fluoride groups around

the world. We show why a level of 1.5 mg fluoride

/ litre is not sustainable scientifically. You

can download the report from the following link:

<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_113.pdf>http://www.a\

lliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_113.pdf.

 

 

 

 

 

Media

 

 

 

ANH has appointed the UK-based PR firm IKON

Associates

(<http://www.ikonassociates.com/>www.ikonassociates.com)

as of January 2005 to help promote the ANH

campaign and defend this sector from negative

media reports that are becoming increasingly

common, which are seemingly intent on damaging

consumer confidence in natural healthcare

approaches. It is time for us to not only respond

to these reports (see ANH rebuttals to the

antioxidants and Vitamin E meta-analyses on the

ANH Latest News items dated 1 October 2004 and 11

November 2004 respectively) but also to go to the

media proactively. We must now demonstrate the

huge and ever growing body of evidence that shows

that natural healthcare can justifiably be used

as the primary healthcare system for most people,

and at lower cost than through reliance on

contemporary drugs. That crucial freedom of

choice must be guarded.

 

 

 

Ridiculous Arbitrary Allowance: free online book until 15 January!

 

 

 

Drs Steve Hickey (ANH Expert Committee) and

Hilary Roberts, authors of the book Ascorbate:

The Science of Vitamin C have just published a

fascinating book called Ridiculous Dietary

Allowance: An Open Challenge to the RDA for

Vitamin C. It’s essential reading for anyone with

an interest in nutrition, and readers who have

yet to heed the advice of the great Linus

Pauling, will have great difficulty not doing so

after reading the book.

 

 

 

Download it free of charge up until 15 January

2005 by clicking on the following the link:

<http://www.lulu.com/content/92249>http://www.lulu.com/content/92249.

Thanks to Steve Hickey for making this available

to ANH supporters.

 

 

 

Finally, we’d like to thank you for all the support you’ve offered to-date.

 

 

 

Since ANH is funded entirely by voluntary

donations, we’d like to ask you to maintain your

support. This is vital for the continuing

operations of ANH especially now that we approach

the ECJ Court Hearing where we are incurring very

heavy legal costs and are needing to fund the PR

campaign to offset negative media.

 

 

 

Please donate whatever you are able, details can

be found at the following link:

<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=donate.default>http://w\

ww.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=donate.default.

Thank you.

 

 

 

We greatly look forward to seeing some of you in

Luxembourg on the 25th January.

 

 

 

Our passion is to protect natural healthcare and

traditional medicinal cultures so that they can

be available for future generations.

 

 

 

In health,

 

 

 

Dr Robert Verkerk

 

Executive Director

 

Alliance for Natural Health

 

Tel +44 1252 371275

 

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PS. Please forward this mailshot widely to your

contact lists to help communicate these

vital issues. Thank you.

 

 

 

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