fw: Codex Emergency, Breaking News, What to Do, USA, All Countries

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This is the latest information I've received from the International Advocates

for Health Freedom. Check to see where your representatives stand on the issues

of CAFTA and CODEX and let them know how we feel about them taking our health

freedoms away. And please pass this information along to others.

Becky Gibbons

becky

 

 

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 till 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 556

Boundary Bay Rd, Point Roberts, WA 98281

 

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

556 Boundary Bay Road

Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com

jham

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World