ANTI CAFTA/ANTI CODEX ACTION ALERT: Current House Vote Tally on CAFTA- See Where Your Congressman Stands & Keep Pressure On

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IAHF Webmaster: Codex Emergency, Breaking News, What to Do,

USA, All Countries

 

IAHF List: Go to

http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/caftavotecount.htm to

see where your congressman stands on CAFTA or if he is

undecided.

 

Live outside USA? Forward this to friends inside the USA,

vitamin consumers world wide depend on access to supplements

purchased by mail order here and only Americans are in

position to drive a stake through the black heart of

CAFTA/CODEX.

 

See this excellent Action Alert on the Liberty Committee

Website which details the flurry of last minute back room

deal making leading up to the vote as Bush's Whip Operation

goes into High Gear and he tries to shove CAFTA down our

throats (AND CODEX WITH

IT)http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/update07.21.05.htm

 

Keep those phone calls raining down on them 24/7 from now

til Wednesday or Thursday when the vote will likely occur.

OK to call after hours & leave mssgs on their machines.

 

Call TOLL FREE via 866-340-9281 to Capital Switchboard---

use the FORM LETTER BELOW as your phone script and also send

it in.... REPEATEDLY..... the more times the BETTER if your

Congressman is on the fence or if he's planning on voting

FOR CAFTA. If he has decided to oppose it, please THANK him

and urge him to make a FLOOR STATEMENT to air our concerns-

also rest assured that IAHF and allied forces are doing

some behind the scenes things that we can't discuss yet which

we hope will bring our specific CONCERNS about CAFTA's

connection with CODEX FRONT AND CENTER in this

debate>>>>>>>>>>>PRESS ON>>>>REGARDLESS!!

 

 

email this to your congressman via

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

 

CAFTA BAD FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENT CONSUMERS: VOTE _NO_ ON

CAFTA!!

 

Dear Congressman_______________________________

 

Section 6 of the CAFTA Treaty requires us to create a

Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures Committee to insure that we

enter in to a constant process of harmonizing our laws to

international standards. Section 3, the SPS Section of the WTO

Trade Agreement, requires us to harmonize our laws to Codex

standards: " 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 standards)

 

On July 4, 2005, the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission

ratified a framework to create a global trade guideline for

vitamins and minerals. In November Codex will move to bill in

the blanks on allowable potency levels. The methodology

being employed by the World Health Organization to fill in

these blanks is scientifically biased given that it is only

examining supposed " risks " of vitamins, while completely

ignoring benefits, and its been heavily criticized by the

Alliance for Natural Health in these extensive comments

submitted to WHO

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

 

ANH, along with all other critics of WHO's biased

methodology were barred from participation in a " Nutrient Risk

Assessment Workshop " presided over by an FDA employee,

Dr.Christine Lewis Taylor, an unelected bureaucrat with a known bias

against the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of

1994 and against consumer access to vitamins and minerals

within the therapeutic range.

 

Given the well demonstrated bias, and flawed scientific

methodology being employed, it is highly probable that Codex

will fill in the blanks for allowed potencies of vitamins

and minerals to potencies that are well below the therapeutic

range- even lower than RDAs in some instances are reflected

by column in the right side of this table:

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

 

Attorneys who have analyzed this situation caution us that

we're dealing with emerging law here and that anything can

happen. For example, the FDA has recently blocked some

manufacturers from marketing products containing one or more

New Dietary Ingredients (NDIs). Under DSHEA, any ingredient

not in use at the time DSHEA was ratified is classified as

an NDI, and the FDA requires the manufacturer submit 90 days

advance notice of intent to market a product with it along

with safety data to show a history of safe use.

 

It would be easy for FDA to block a foreign product from

coming in here due to its containing one or more NDIs, and

the foreign manufacturer could initiate a trade dispute

against us. Threat of cross sector trade sanctions has forced

congress to change our laws on several occassions. Under

these circumstances there is no reason to expect that the SPS

Committee established under CAFTA wouldn't strongly

recommend that congress pass legislation which scuttles the Dietary

Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 as mandated by

Section 3 of in the WTO Trade Agreement which requires

harmonization to Codex. Enormous political pressure could be

applied to congress for this purpose by industries that would

be impacted by trade sanctions- overriding the will of the

people.

 

A vehicle for this purpose has already been introduced in

the form of HR 3156 " The Dietary Supplement Access and

Awareness Act " which would force substantive changes to the

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, effectively

gutting it.

 

Public Citizen has documented that we have lost 33 out of

36 cases brought against us before the WTO, and that we've

lost EVERY case pertaining to environmental or public health

matters. Frankly, I don't like those odds, and am not

willing to take any chances.

 

Signed_________

 

Address___________

 

 

Note: IAHF received a huge bill for going over allotted

bandwidth on our website this month due to enormous visitation

generated from radio shows and interest in this issue. Many

thanks to those who have donated, but if you haven't made

your donation yet, please do via paypal at

http://www.iahf.com, enter the site and see the paypal

button on the top of the scrollbar, or please donate to: IAHF

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IAHF to speak at PANLA Conference in Pennsylvania in

August, see http://www.panla.org for details.

Radio Shows Coming Up This Coming Week..... PLEASE SNOWBALL

THIS ALERT>>>>>>

 

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For Health Freedom,

John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

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Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com

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