EU-U.S. Summit Signals New Threats To Natural Health Therapies

[Guest guest]

Here is an excellent article by Paul Taylor posted on the Dr. Rath

website, which explains how the FDA's officials are co-operating with

the European Union's health directorate to bring about a harmonized

regulatory environment for supplements between the US and Europe, and

why that regulatory environment will be a direct and rather painful

limitation to the freedom of choice of US consumers unless - there is

a real outcry that can't be overheard...

 

Kind regards

Sepp

 

 

 

EU-U.S. Summit Signals New Threats To Natural Health Therapies

 

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/us/summit07/index.html

 

.... because the European Food Supplements Directive was used as the

blueprint for what is now effectively the global standard for dietary

supplement regulations – the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral

Food Supplements – European regulations are, by definition, already

compliant with that standard. As such, it is clear that in order to

achieve the goal of transatlantic harmonization, American dietary

supplement legislation will have to be harmonized to the restrictive

European model, as opposed to the other way around.

 

Given this reality, one should perhaps not be surprised to discover

that regulatory cooperation between the FDA and DG SANCO (the

European Commission’s Health and Consumer Protection Directorate) is

already well advanced.

 

The ultimate aim behind the recent increase in domestically-based

attacks on supplements in the U.S. can be seen as being to prepare

the ground for the eventual dismantling of DSHEA and the

harmonization of the U.S. dietary supplement market to the more

restrictive legislative regimes that exist in Europe and - via the

planned North American Union – Canada and Mexico.

 

As such, although neither the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and

Mineral Food Supplements – the global standard – or the Food

Supplements Directive – the European standard – have as yet set any

maximum permitted doses for nutrients contained in supplements, it

would seem reasonable to conclude that whatever levels are announced

later this year by the European Commission could - as a result of

both European political power at Codex meetings and the trans-

Atlantic regulatory cooperation outlined above - eventually be

exported to, and implemented in, the United States.

 

To see the whole article: http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/us/

summit07/index.html