Protect Your Right to buy vitamins and supplements!

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" Lynn Michaels " <lmichaels02

 

 

Protect Your Right to buy vitamins and supplements!

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:44:57 -0500

 

 

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Europe has passed laws prohibiting sale of high dose vitamins,

minerals, and other supplements.

 

Pharmaceutical companies are pushing for the same in the US, and

Congress has bills heading for votes soon.

 

This is absurd, in view of the 100,000+ deaths annually from

medications properly prescribed, compared to next to no serious

negative effects from the soon to be banned products.

 

Contact your congressperson

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

 

Contact your senators

http://www.arcwa.org/contactsenators.htm

 

 

WTO/CODEX WILL TERMINATE U.S. SUPPLEMENTS IN JUNE 2005

Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other

supplements may end in June of this year (2005). After that U.S.

supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade

Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CODEX

ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code) is setting the supplement standards for all

countries in the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and will over

ride U.S. laws. The U.S. President and Congress agreed to this

take-over when the WTO Treaty was signed. Violations are punished by

WTO trade sanctions.

 

CODEX drastically restricts vitamins, minerals, herbs and

other supplements. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and finalized

" Step 8 (the final stage) " to begin implementation in June, 2005. The

CODE includes: (1) No supplement can be sold for preventive or

therapeutic use. (2) Any potency higher than RDA (minimal strength) is

a " drug " requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug

companies. Over 5000 safe items now in health stores will be banned,

terminating health stores as we now know them. (3) CODEX regulations

become binding internationally. (4) New supplements are banned unless

given very expensive CODEX testing and approval.

 

CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among others,

where zinc tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52. Echinacea (an

ancient immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153 (both examples

are now allowed by prescription only). They are now " drugs " . Vitamin C

above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg—all are banned

over-the-counter as drugs. No amino acids (arginine, lysine,

carnitine, etc. = essential amino acids!), essential fatty acids

(omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.), or other essential supplements such as DMEA,

DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc. are allowed. The CODEX rules are

not based on real science. They are made by a few people meeting in

secret (see web sites below), not necessarily scientists.

 

In 1993 the FDA and drug corporations tried to put all

supplements under restriction and prescription. But over 4 million

Americans told Congress and the President to protect their freedom of

choice on health supplements. The DSHEA Law was passed in 1994, which

does so. But this will be over ruled by CODEX and the World Trade

Organization. Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What

the drug corporations have failed to do through Congress they have

gotten by sneak attack through CODEX with the help of a silent media.

 

What can be done at this late hour? (1) Spread the word as

much as possible. Inform yourselves fully at www.ahha.org

<http://www.ahha.org/> , www.iahf.com <http://www.iahf.com/> , and

www.alliance-natural-health.org

<http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/> . (2) Oppose bills S.722 and

H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws,changing

the DSHEA law. (3) Support H. R.1146 which would restore the

sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution over CODEX, etc. (4) Express your

wishes to the President, Senators and Representatives (They got us

into this!) ASAP. (5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that

can get their members to inform the government. (6) Send donations,

however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (see web

site above). It has succeeded in challenging the CODEX directives in

World Court later this month or next. They need help financially,

having carried the fight effectively for everyone.

 

CODEX and the FDA wish to protect us by controlling

supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs. A study of the

latter by three medical scientists was reported in the Journal of the

American Medical Association, April 15, 1998—Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200

" …Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR's) was found to be

extremely high. " Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found that in

the U.S. an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year (290 per

day) die from ADR's and 2,200,000 need more hospitalization for

recovery. These were FDA approved drugs, properly administered by

competent professionals in hospitals--none were considered

malpractice. This is the number four cause of death in the U.S. When

combined, these account for 7% of all hospitalized patients. This is

equivalent to a 9-11 attack every ten days.

 

There are very few fatalities from supplements or the news

would be on every front page. There is no need for more FDA control of

supplements than is already in place, which is substantial. Instead of

drastically restricting supplements, why doesn't the FDA better

control and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs

which are now killing us at the rate of a major airline crash per day?

 

Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.

 

1145 Marine Drive

 

Bellingham, WA 98225

 

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