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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, and 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, 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?

 

Please write or call your congress man or women and or senator and let

them know what you think about this!

 

Please share this with everyone you know and all the groups you are

on.

 

Thank you.

 

Allana Stroop