Attilio, Group, info on USA and EU bans.

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Dear Attilio, here is more info and a USA action item.

http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=237 & i=597

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

http://www.iahf.com

In August 2005 everything in Europe is about to change

due to the EU Food Supplements Directive (FSD). Banned

items will include natural vitamins such as mixed

tocopherols (natural vitamin E), carotenoids and b-12

methylcobalamin, all forms of sulphur, boron, vanadium,

silicon and most trace elements, the most readily

absorbed and safest forms of calcium, magnesium, zinc,

selenium, chromium and molybdenum. It will severely

limit the doses of vitamins and will remove all

high-dose products from the market. It will include

future restrictions on nutrients such as fatty acids,

amino acids, enzymes, probiotics, phytonutrients, etc.

The directive will dramatically limit future innovation

in the supplements industry, and seriously impact

retail outlets, complementary practitioners and

consumers who choose to take responsibility for their

own health and let food be their medicine.

 

Here, again, is where it affects us: the draconian EU

Directive goes far beyond denying most Europeans access

to safe nutritional supplements; it is about to be used

as the blueprint for establishing international dietary

supplement laws at Codex, which our government in its

questionable wisdom has made us part of. Codex will

outlaw or severely restrict virtually everything

millions of us have grown accustomed to using safely

every day. National borders don't mean much anymore; we

are witnessing the rapid unification of the world into

a new global government with Europe at the helm. When

the World Trade Organization (WTO) was given teeth to

enforce international trade laws in the early 1990s,

all WTO member nations agreed to harmonize their trade

laws to new international laws so every nation operates

by the same set of standards. Since then, every single

ruling that the WTO has made has gone against the

environment, against the public health, against

consumer rights, against labor rights, and against

human rights. Although activists protested against the

WTO, most people were unaware that it would eventually

lead to an incremental attack on all of our food

supplements around the world. Most supplement companies

have simply gone along with the advice from their

pharmaceutically dominated trade associations.

 

Germany, the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing

nation on earth, currently dominates the EU which hosts

the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods For Special

Dietary Use, and is leading the charge to railroad our

dietary supplement laws into international

harmonization. The European Union is the blueprint by

which our would-be rulers intend to form a global

totalitarian state. What they're doing with the EU is

their first project; they're trying to make and control

similar regional trading blocks all over the world. For

example, they're trying to create the Free Trade Area

of the Americas (FTAA) through which they're trying to

harmonize the laws between Canada, the U.S., Mexico,

and Central and South America.

 

The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), a consumer

advocacy group based in Britain, was recently granted

the green light to challenge the Food Supplements

Directive at the last minute; however, very rarely has

a EU Directive ever been overturned and in this case,

it would be a historic event considering the

pharmaceutical interests backing its implementation.

Resources are very scarce but they've got to keep the

lawsuit going to overturn the Directive before it's too

late. They've hired a top legal staff and they are

girded for battle in a EU Court. With the EU expanding

by ten more nations in early 2004 to a combined total

of twenty-five member nations, and with heavy pressure

to finalize a Codex vitamin standard, the situation is

critical. If the FSD is not overturned now, with

Europe's ever-expanding power it's very possible that

there will be enough countries onboard to overrule the

protests of the few countries at Codex, where many

parts of the FSD will be used when new international

vitamin laws are codified. Once a Codex vitamin law is

finalized, it will supercede any member country's

supplement laws. The only way for a country to truly

protect its vital interest on this and other matters is

to get out of the U.N. and the WTO entirely, a 'best

case' scenario that nobody realistically sees

happening.

 

In the 21st century we live under siege. There are

concerns about pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, GM,

mobile phones, microwaves, amalgam fillings, falling

sperm counts, mad cows, MMR - even milk. Farmed salmon

is a Trojan horse for carcinogens. Obesity and diabetes

are on the march. There is a mass of documentation on

all this. So what is the European Commission's big

idea? 'Let's clamp down on vitamins and minerals.'

 

In order to prevent a sinister one-world government

from mining people as the resource, usurping our

natural freedoms and dictating our moves, we must pony

up and donate to the ANH so they can make a decent

legal presentation; if we don't do it for ourselves,

how about our grandchildren and the rest of society? Go

online to www.alliance-natural-health.org and make a

donation. Or suffer.

 

------------and in USA--------------

A matter that needs your urgent attention immediately is a bill

before congress that threatens our legal right to use nutritional

supplements.

The " Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003 " or Senate Bill 722 was

written to amend the " Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of

1994 " or DSHEA.

If passed into law, SB 722 will restrict your freedom to use

nutritional supplements, potentially cripple the nutritional

supplement industry, and endanger your health and that of your

clients.

 

The bill was created in a reaction to fears about ephedra and was

brought forth by Richard Durbin (D-Il) and co-sponsored by Hillary

Clinton (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Charles Schumer (D-NY).

A companion version is in the House of Representatives, titled

the " Dietary Supplement Access and

Awareness Act " (H.R. 3377). The intent of H.R. 3377 is to amend the

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to dietary

supplements and is sponsored by Susan A. Davis (CA-53).

Dr. Julian Whitaker writes on his website, " Some of you might

remember the pre-DSHEA days when the FDA was completely out of

control. They raided the offices of nutritional physicians like

Jonathan Wright, MD, of Kent, Washington. They barged into

manufacturing facilities and seized natural substances such as stevia

and GLA. They authorized the removal of coenzyme

Q-10 and other supplements from health food stores, claiming they

were illegal. They refused to allow any information on nutritional

supplement labels that would help consumers make informed choices.

They mandated that many supplements now sold over the counter require

a prescription, making them more expensive and less accessible. This

is the kind of tyranny we

experienced then and if you think this kind of stuff couldn't happen

again, you're wrong. "

Please take just a few moments to block SB 722. Go to

www.citizens.org click on TAKE ACTION on the main page. Type in your

name, address and zipcode and a letter will be sent to your

representatives. It takes 30 seconds. If you have a few more

minutes write a personal letter. And if you live in California, New

York, or Illinois contact the sponsors of this bill and educate them

about the safety of supplements and how your clients rely on them to

be well. The Senate switchboard number is 202-224-3121 or go to

www.senate.gov to contact Richard Durbin (D-Il) Hillary Clinton (D-

NY) Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Charles Schumer (D-NY).

Back in 1994 over two million people wrote letters in support of

DSHEA and that same type of response is needed now to protect it. We

can easily top that number with increased access to the internet when

sending a clear message to congress. Forward this email to your

clients and colleagues in complementary and alternative medicine, and

together we can stop this bill.

More information on HR 3377 to follow in the coming weeks.

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Attilio, Group, info on USA and EU bans.

 

 

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