Bills to Oppose+Support for Health Freedom

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Misty L. Trepke

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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, et c. = 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, www.iahf.com, and 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.

 

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