Fwd: CRN CALLED PATHOLOGICAL LIARS RE CODEX OUTCOME- WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING US & WHAT WE MUST DO

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A Mannatech distributor just sent me the following

outrageous press release from the Council for Responsible Nutrition

which Mannatech is a member of despite this being a total

conflict of interest.

(Mannatech's membership includes Monsanto, Wyeth, Pfizer,

Bayer, BASF, Cargill and numerous other huge pharma

interests.)

 

John Hathcock and Mark LeDoux at CRN are pathological liars

from HELL.

 

CRN's LATEST MISLEADING PRESS RELEASE ON CODEX & IAHF's

RESPONSE

 

Here is their latest grossly misleading press release in

the aftermath of the July 4th Codex meeting and IAHF's

analysis of it, along with instructions on what we must do to

defend health freedom which CRN is hell bent on DESTROYING:

 

Council for Responsible Nutrition Press Release

Contact: Judy Blatman at 202-204-7962

 

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION ADOPTS

VITAMIN AND MINERAL FOOD SUPPLEMENT GUIDELINE

 

—Consumers, Manufacturers Will Benefit—

 

ROME, July 5, 2005 – The Codex Alimentarius Commission

(CAC) yesterday declared vitamin independence worldwide from

arbitrarily-set standards for supplement upper levels by

approving and adopting the Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplement

Guideline during the meeting of the CAC in Rome.

 

The result of a multi-year effort led in part by the

Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), one of the leading trade

associations for the dietary supplement industry, adoption

of the guideline means the acceptance of science as a

rational approach, the freedom of trade for the industry, and

the increased freedom of choice for the public.

 

The guideline specifies that maximum levels for vitamins

and minerals in supplement products in international trade

are to be set on the basis of safety evaluation through risk

assessment, and not on the basis of recommended dietary

allowances (RDA). The population reference intakes (PRI) and

RDAs are based on nutritional need, and are not

scientifically valid for assessing safety and setting maximums.

 

CRN’s analysis is that the guideline should improve the

international market for U.S.-made products, and contrary to

the notions of some alarmists, the guideline cannot override

DSHEA for U.S. domestic policy.

 

CRN’s Chair of the International Trade and Market

Development Committee, Mark LeDoux, noted, “What we now have is a

pathway to expand global access for consumers of dietary

supplements that is predicated on science. Our next steps will

be to secure upper level guidelines that will assure safe

and adequate outcomes for consumers and that are determined

in an open and transparent process.”

---------------------EXPOSE OF THE _LIES_ CONTAINED IN THIS

EVIL PRESS RELEASE:

 

CRN would have us believe that the " risk assessment " being

done by the World Health Organization and CODEX is

" scientific " and an " improvement " on RDAs.

 

What CRN is NOT TELLING YOU is that the so called " Safe

Upper Levels " generated by the US National Academy of Sciences

aren't the END POINT for this risk assessment, they're only

a BEGINNING POINT.

 

American manufacturers easily buy in to what they want to

hear, and its not hard for them to buy into the LIE thats

being foisted off on them because the National Academy of

Sciences " SUL " s aren't much different from what American

companies are currently allowed to sell as far as vitamin

potencies go.

 

SO..... WHAT _ISN'T_ CRN TELLING US?

 

What CRN isn't telling us is that the fine print at Codex

calls for these " SUL " s to be further watered down by

subtracting JUNK SCIENCE derived so called " Nutrient Risk Factors "

and additional JUNK SCIENCE DERIVED numbers extrapolated

from a mythical " Average Diet " that doesn't exist in real

life.

 

What they're not telling you is that ONLY the German

Federal Institute of Risk Assessment ( " BfR " in German) has done

the full MATH required by Codex or that this entity is

chaired by Dr.Rolf Grossklaus, the German Chair of the Codex

Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (the

person in charge of " FILLING IN THE BLANKS " on allowable

potencies for vitamins and minerals this coming November when

CCNFSDU meets next in Bonn, Germany (!!!)

 

Check it out: Grossklaus's " Maximum Safe Permitted Levels "

are even LOWER than RDAs in many cases:

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_Docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

 

The Alliance for Natural Health generated a White Paper

which they submitted to the World Health Organization which

totally exposes the gross LACK OF SCIENCE in what the WHO's

" Nutrient Risk Assessment Project " , pointing out that WHO is

only looking at the presumed " risks " posed by dietary

supplements, and they're NOT looking at BENEFITS at ALL (!!!)

 

This White Paper has been signed off on by a slew of

orthomolecular MDs and preimminent industry nutritionists

including Jeff Bland, PhD and many others. You can read it for

yourself at

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_Docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_121.pdf

 

Moreover, ANH has commissioned the Dutch based HAN

Foundation to do a PROPERLY SCIENTIFIC risk assessment of dietary

supplements in a study projected to take 8-9 months since

its obvious that what the World Health Organization is doing

under the dubious " leadership " of FDA employee Christine

Lewis Taylor is not the least bit scientific or HONEST.

 

See ANH's press release about the study they commissioned

the HAN Foundation to do here:

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=174

 

How is it that John Hathcock at CRN feels so comfortable

LYING about all of this?

Simple: He used to work DIRECTLY ALONGSIDE Christine Taylor

and Beth Yetley when he used to work at FDA before moving

over to the Pharma Dominated CRN.

 

As for his and LeDoux's LIES that Codex poses " no threat "

to DSHEA, that is absolute GARBAGE:

 

Watch Kevin Miller's documentary film on this issue " We

Become Silent " at http://www.welltv.com

Give it 5 minutes to load even if you have a broadband

connection.

 

Hathcock is trying to PRETEND that Globalization isn't

happening, but he KNOWS what the truth is.

 

I called him up a couple of months ago and he is PRETENDING

that globalisation isn't happening in the form of CAFTA or

the FTAA, but he knows it is.

 

For insight into his thinking, read Suzanne Harris's

article: " Who Says Whatever Happens at Codex Does Not Affect US

Law and Why Do They Say

It " http://www.thelawloft.com/Freedom/050125_us_law.htm

 

The National Health Federation, The Coalition For Health

Freedom, International Advocates for Health Freedom, The

National Health Freedom Coalition, and the Alliance for Natural

Health have no reason to mislead anyone, and we've been

crawling over broken glass to bring out the TRUTH on this

issue.

 

The TRUTH is that the USA is being set up for harmonization

to Codex standards via CAFTA, the FTAA and the WTO.

Harmonization is proceeding in our hemisphere in the same way that

it has been in the EU for many years.

 

WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OVERRIDE DSHEA

 

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty

will require the U.S., a member of the World Trade

Organization, to revise our food laws and regulations based on Codex

decisions. CAFTA would force harmonization of our dietary

supplements and regulations to international standards,

overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.

 

 

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the

even-broader Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are

both modelled after the North American Free Trade Agreement

(NAFTA). These agreements are typical bureaucratic

monstrosities of “managed” trade that masquerade as free trade and

would expand NAFTA to include first Central America and

then the rest of the Americas in an economic “union.” True

free trade would take a few pages of written text to enact

(“eliminate these barriers to trade and these tariffs,”

etc.); all three of these agreements encompass thousands of

pages of bureaucratic textual garbage sprinkled liberally with

rules, regulations, and special-interest benefits.

 

 

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would

require of all its members that they form a Sanitary and

Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee for the purpose of insuring

ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in

the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that text

at the following website:

 

 

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Sectio\

n_Index.html.

 

 

 

If you then look at Article 3 of the WTO’s SPS Agreement,

you will read the following words: " To harmonize sanitary

and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible,

Members shall base their food safety measures on

international standards, guidelines or recommendations. " (emphasis

added) And as you all know by now, Codex sets the international

standards for food safety including vitamins & minerals.

 

 

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of

Representatives any time after they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is

another critical link by which health-freedom haters hope to

bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of

1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by treaty to

harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex

vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and we at

the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put

a knife in the back of our health freedoms.

 

 

 

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~CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on

July 1st, 2005.

~Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening

July 11, 2005.

~IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the

Senate Bill 1307 (click here

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:3:./temp/~c109OjRqbt::

to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on without

going to committee. It is on the House calendar and may be

brought up at any time.

 

 

 

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CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO VOTE AGAINST

CAFTA NOW.

 

 

YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE VOTING IN THE

HOUSE WILL BE CLOSE. WE MIGHT ONLY HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD

THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION LETTERS.

 

 

PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR

REPRESENTATIVES.

 

 

 

Contact any member of the House of Representatives via

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

 

 

LETTER TO USE:

 

 

Dear Congressman______________________

 

 

In 1994 vitamin consumers generated the largest volume of

mail to Congress on any issue in the HISTORY of Congress

when we passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

of 1994.

 

 

Today, CAFTA threatens to undo all of our hard work, and to

set the USA up for harmonization to an excessively

restrictive global trade guideline for vitamins and minerals just

finalized on July 4th 2005 at the 28 General Session of the

UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission.

 

 

The seeds of our health freedom destruction are sewn inside

Section 6 of CAFTA where members are forced to form a

Sanitary-Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Committee for the purpose

of insuring ONGOING HARMONIZATION of our laws under the

terms of the SPS Agreement in the WTO Trade Agreement. (See

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Sectio\

n_Index.html

 

 

If you examine Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement you

will read the following words: " To harmonize sanitary and

phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, members

SHALL base their food safety measures on international

standards, guidelines or recommendations. "

 

 

(Codex sets the international standard for food safety, and

they intend to fill in the blanks on allowed potencies at

levels even LOWER than RDAs- see

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

 

 

Vitamin consumers drove many congressmen out of office who

failed to vote for DSHEA in '94.

Any member of Congress who fails to heed our concerns about

CAFTA and votes for this unconstitutional trade agreement

anyway, despite how it sets us up for harmonization to

Codex, and despite its continuing the failed policies of NAFTA

which gave us our present $617 Billion trade deficit risks

being driven from office. IAHF will be posting a list of any

member of Congress who ignores our concerns. We urge you to

watch Kevin Miller's excellent documentary on this issue at

http://www.welltv.com

 

 

Signed____________________

Address____________________________

 

 

 

For Health Freedom,

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

556 Boundary Bay Road

Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com

jham

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World

 

 

 

 

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