OPPOSE CAFTA. Codex and LOSS of vitamins!

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Dear Rep. Bradley,

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

www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_

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 Also you can view this movie

http://iahf.com/wbs-weba.mp4 Or you can read whats below... We may not be

ABLE to stop CODEX, but we CAN keep it from coming HERE. The pro-CAFTA

forces aren't really for true free trade. They are for global managed

trade...because that is what CAFTA (like NAFTA) really is. Think about it.

Why does it take over 1,000 pages to define free trade? We've had over 10

years of NAFTA so we should know what to expect with CAFTA. CAFTA fits

hand-in-glove with the world-government agenda to make the U.S. just

another client state. How? Consider: CAFTA article 10.16.3 places the

United States under the jurisdiction of international tribunals supervised

by the United Nations. Consider: CAFTA article 10.5.2(a) states that these

international tribunals must use " customary international law " as

established by the " principle legal systems of the world " when deciding

cases. Welcome to the United Nations' world court system! And then there's

the unconstitutional granting of " fast track " authority to the president.

Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the

sole authority to regulate international trade. But CAFTA, like NAFTA,

treats the U.S. Constitution as a relic. We already suffer from the World

Trade Organization and its international bureaucrats. CAFTA will add

another layer of unaccountable world elites who will tell us what we can

and cannot do. Even the French understand the critical importance of

national sovereignty. They recently rejected the proposed constitution of

the European Union. Remember that the E.U. started as a trade agreement in

1957, and now it is a regional supra government. NAFTA. CAFTA. And then

the Union of the Americas. CODEX TEXT APPROVED IN ROME JULY 4, 2005 THE

ONLY WAY TO STOP CODEX IN THE USA IS TO TAKE ACTION NOW AND STOP CAFTA!!!!

The nightmare scenario which IAHF first warned the world about in 1996

came true today at the 28th General Session of the Codex Alimentarius when

the global trade guideline for vitamins and minerals was RATIFIED (with

nary a whimper of protest from US Codex Manager Dr.Ed Scarbrough, our

traitorous delegate.) SEE WHAT TO DO BELOW: WE MUST KILL CAFTA TO STOP

CODEX FROM COMING HERE: THE SHELL GAME CONTINUES------> CODEX RATIFIED AN

EMPTY SHELL What Codex ratified was a FRAMEWORK with the blanks on

allowable potencies to be filled in next November at the Codex Committee

on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use Meeting in Bonn. How they

intend to fill in those blanks, however, is highly predictable given that

the World Health Organization's " Nutrient Risk Assessment Project " is

being " led " by an FDA employee: Christine Lewis Taylor, a dietician who

firmly believes that taking any nutrient above RDA levels merely " enriches

the urine. " The Pharma Dominated vitamin trade associations have conned

their vitamin company and health food store members into thinking that

" SOUND SCIENCE " would be used to fill in the blanks on allowable

potencies, and that a " victory " was won when a move to scrap RDAs as the

basis for filling in the blanks was replaced by a move to base them on

" scientific " risk assessment instead.

www.crnusa.org/PR04_110204jointCodex.html) But just how " scientific " is it

in FACT when they're only looking at presumed " RISKS " while ignoring

BENEFITS? The Pharma Dominated trade associations have conned their

members into believing that the END POINT of the Codex risk assessment

would be the " SUL " S or " Safe Upper Levels " generated by the US National

Academy of Sciences. These numbers aren't much different from the

potencies that vitamin companies are currently allowed to sell in the USA

so vitamin companies have easily bought into this LIE. The awful REALITY,

however is that the SULs are only the STARTING point for this most

unscientific risk assessment, because the fine print calls for them to be

further watered down til by subtracting junk science derived " nutrient

risk factors " and junk science derived numbers from some mythical " average

diet " which doesn't in fact exist, you end up with a the numbers generated

by the German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment show in this table,

which as you can see in some cases are even LOWER than the RDAs:

www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc The UK based

Alliance for Natural Health sees all of this, and in an effort to head it

off commissioned the Dutch based HAN Foundation to do a PROPERLY

SCIENTIFIC risk assessment which takes into account the BENEFIT of dietary

supplements, which the so called World Health Organization is outrageously

IGNORING completely:

www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ;ID=174 Judging from

what just happened in Rome, however, no vitamin consumer in America can

count on Codex paying the least bit of attention to the HAN Foundation's

findings however when Codex meets next in November. We have to assume the

worst- that they'll fill in the blanks on allowable potencies exactly the

way the FDA would want them to, which is of course just the way the German

government would like as seen in the table above. WHY YOU MUST KILL CAFTA

ON THE HOUSE FLOOR- HOW CAFTA TIES IN WITH CODEX CAFTA VOTE - CONGRESS

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

modeled 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:

www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_

Index.html . If you then look at Article 3 of the WTOs 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. ~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. I URGE TO VOTE

AGAINST CAFTA NOW. 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

www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_

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 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 citizen's concerns. I urge you to watch

Kevin Miller's excellent documentary on this issue at www.welltv.com and

or accesshttp://iahf.com/wbs-weba.mp4 Since I was disabled from using an

FDA approved substance, I NEED my vitamins to live, work, be a

CONTRIBUTORY citizen! CAFTA will take my HEALTH away, necessitating a

visit to the doctor for a VITAMIN, which CAFTA, via Codex Alimenatarius

may NO LONGER be available! This in and of itself, IS UNAMERICAN nad NOT

what our fore-fathers believed! PLEASE!!!! OPPOSE CAFTA!!! Respectfully,