CODEX: Health Freedom is Under Global Stealth Attack

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[sSRI-Research] CODEX: " Health Freedom is Under Global

Stealth Attack "

 

 

 

 

" Health Freedom is Under Global Stealth Attack "

by John C. Hammell, President, International Advocates for Health

Freedom

 

http://garynull.com/issues/codex/aboutcodex.htm

 

Vitamin Consumers World Wide, Especially Americans:

 

Multinational Pharmaceutical Interests are currently engaged in a

global stealth attack on the dietary supplement industry and it won't

be stopped without immediate massive grass roots action, especially

in the USA and in the European Union. Currently in the European

Union, vitamin consumers are under direct attack and there is a need

for vitamin consumers world wide to go to www.laleva.org to sign the

Anti-EU Vitamin Directive Petition. The EU Vitamin Directive

threatens to destroy consumer access to vitamins and minerals within

the therapeutic range, except by prescription, all over Europe, to

force all EU nations to walk in lockstep with Germany and France

where dietary supplements are heavily restricted. Unless stopped, all

15 EU nations will harmonize with Germany going into the next Codex

vitamin meeting in November of 2001, and this could drive it through

to completion.

 

This would set up the USA and the rest of the world for

harmonization, in the same way all the EU countries are currently

threatened. Consumers world wide must protest en masse, in the EU to

your MEPs, elsewhere to your MPs and in America by demanding an

oversight hearing which has been denied us since 1996 due to pressure

from pharmaceutical interests.

 

For the past 5 years, members of Congress have told American vitamin

consumers that an Oversight Hearing on Codex is a non issue because a

Federal Statute protects our laws, including the Proxmire Vitamin

Act, and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994,

from harmonization to a restrictive international standard.

 

People receiving this response from Congress are being misled, and

Congress is being scripted on how to respond by the FDA, which is

acting in the best interests of the multinational pharmaceutical

industry, instead of representing the best interests of American

vitamin consumers.

 

If the Federal Statute in question (19 U.S.C. 3512(a)(1) and also (a)

(2) in FACT protected our laws from harmonization to international

standards which are usurping our sovereignty, it would not have been

necessary for Congressman Ron Paul to introduce the American

Sovereignty Restoration Act HR1146. " (ASRA " )

 

Paul felt compelled to introduce ASRA because it is apparent to him,

and to Jeanne Grimmett of the Congressional Research Service, that

our domestic laws are not in fact protected by the aforementioned

Federal Statute, due to the threat of trade sanctions being imposed

by the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body whenever we try refusing to

harmonize our laws to an international standard. There are many

examples in which Congress has in fact caved to this threat of trade

sanctions. They are shown at www.iahf.com " US Laws Not Safe " section.

 

Proof that we're being set up for harmonization to the highly

restrictive EU and Codex standards can be found at

www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html in an article titled " U.S. and

European Leaders Agree on Principles to Harmonize Dietary Supplement

Regulations " The American people seem to have been cut out of the

loop as the pharmaceutically dominated working group on dietary

supplements of the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue has flat out

stated their intention to harmonize our laws, whether we like it or

not!!! The FDA is in bed with these multinational pharmaceutical

companies, and all of this would come out in an Oversight Hearing.

 

This Codex Vitamin Issue is proof positive that we must pass the

American Sovereignty Restoration Act, because none of our domestic

laws are safe from harmonization, and this issue proves it. Oversight

is, therefore, sorely needed