US TRADE REPS OFFICE ATTACKS DIETARY SUPPLEMENT CONSUMERS- COALITION RESPONDS- NEW FORM LETTER BELOW

[Guest guest]

IAHF Webmaster: CODEX EMERGENCY, BREAKING NEWS, ANTI

CAFTA,

USA, ALL COUNTRIES

 

IAHF List: Our grass roots health freedom movement has

 

poked a stick directly into the EYE of the US Trade

Representative, and they have responded with the most

INANE spin I've

ever seen coming from a governmental body.

 

Their spin is grossly unimpressive and was easy to

shred,

which The Coalition For Health Freedom has done at

http://www.coalitionforhealthfreedom.org/issues.html

 

Senator Obama and other enemies of health freedom are

quoting the USTR's spin, but we're counter attacking

in several

important ways and have a growing number of allies in

the

House of Representatives, many of whom have viewed, or

will

be viewing WE BECOME SILENT at http://www.welltv.com

and

who will be adding their signatures to a Dear

Colleague

letter that is being disseminated. Floor statements

will be made

that reflect our concerns, but its CRITICAL that we

KEEP

THE PRESSURE ON- t

 

The vote on CAFTA could come any day this coming week,

but

our inside sources tell us it will most likely happen

this

coming Friday, Saturday or Sunday (congress will be in

 

session this coming weekend as they tie up loose ends

before

August recess!!!

 

This new form letter (below) fits on one page in

Microsoft

Word Format if you set your margins high at top and

bottom

as well as fairly wide on the edges. I will be working

with

someone in Bellingham WA who has volunteered to help

me

hand this out in front of the biggest health food

stores

there, and we need more of you to follow suit

nationwide!!!

Theres SAFETY in NUMBERS, folks.

 

If I'm willing to stick my butt out there in the hot

sun to

hand these out, I know more of ya'll can help in

whatever

part of the country you are in. Please LET ME KNOW

you're

helping, that uplifts me, and makes me want to FIGHT

HARDER!!

 

 

email this to your congressman via

http://www.house.gov/writerep/ Call Your Congressman

via

866-340-9281 Capital Switchboard

 

CAFTA BAD FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENT CONSUMERS:

VOTE _NO_ ON CAFTA

 

Dear Congressman_______________________________

 

The US Trade Reps Office is Misleading the public in a

 

policy statement titled CAFTA & Dietary Supplements.

See a

thorough rebuttal to their statement, and to the

pharma

dominated vitamin trade associations at

http://www.coalitionforhealthfreedom.org/issues.html

 

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______________

 

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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