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Health Threat From EU and UN <http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/6918> By:

Gregory A. Hession, J.D. Published: February 4, 2008

 

An oddly named UN bureaucracy is the driving force behind a larger European

and American effort to take away our liberty to use dietary supplements in

effective doses.

 

In the endless war between liberty and government regulation, we have an

opportunity to win an important battle, one that will promote the health of

Americans. This one is over the freedom to choose one's diet and food

supplements, and the opponents are a formidable assemblage of world powers:

the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Union, groups pushing

for a North American Union, and the large international pharmaceutical

companies. The ringleader is an obscure, but powerful, United Nations

bureaucracy with the curious moniker of " Codex Alimentarius. "

 

This battle has been conducted quietly around the globe, without much media

attention or input from Americans, other than those in the nutrition field.

However, it has far-reaching consequences for the health of our citizens, in

that these groups seek to heavily regulate the availability of

vitamins andherbal supplements,

and to radically lower their potencies.

 

The European Union has already enacted severe restrictions on the nutrients

that can go into supplements. The UN's Codex Alimentarius group has recently

followed suit, aided by aggressive multi-national pharmaceutical companies.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) and other groups can now force compliance

with the new standards. And in this hemisphere, an obscure trade agreement

between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, called the Trilateral

Cooperation Charter, could usurp our food and supplement laws even further.

 

No widespread problems plague the supplement industry, but the UN

andEuropean regulators, along with the FDA, are intent on looking for

them

and fixing them anyway. Groucho Marx was surely thinking of agencies like

these when he quipped, " Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding

it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. "

What follows is a tour through the maze of government and supra-government

organizations that intend to regulate food and supplements for the entire

world.

What Is Codex Alimentarius?

 

Codex Alimentarius is Latin for " food code " or " food book. " It is a global

United Nations agency, comprised of member states, which establishes

international quality standards for food and food products. It was created

in 1963 by the UN World Health Organization and the UN Food and Agriculture

Organization (FAO).

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) is located in FAO headquarters in

Rome, and is actually a fairly small bureaucracy. Its stated purpose is to

protect consumers and to promote fair practices in the trade of food. To

that end, it issues hundreds of standards covering thousands of food

products. Two dangerous trends by Codex now converge to the detriment of the

consumer — adoption of a new political, rather than scientific method of

determining food supplement standards, and newfound power to enforce these

standards on member states.

 

As to Codex's power, its decisions started out as voluntary and nonbinding

on member states, and were intended merely to create a uniform set of

standards to facilitate international trade. As often happens, the

regulators increased their control and coercion by means of World Trade

Organization agreements, which were now binding on all countries including

the United States. We are now bound to honor all Codex standards as law, at

the risk of multilateral retaliation from our trading partners.

 

Even a reliably establishment publication like the *New York University Law

Review* has noted this intensifying coercion by Codex with alarm. In a May

2006 article entitled, " Authority and Legitimacy of Global Governance:

Deliberation, Institutional Differentiation, and the Codex Alimentarius, " it

notes that WTO restrictions now give the Codex " coercive authority for the

first time. " This happened when it changed from a " forum for the discussion

of scientific information and best practices, " to a new regime of " embedding

Codex standards in the system of rules and incentives of the WTO. "

 

The second disturbing trend by Codex is its effort to impose a new paradigm

of " risk management, " to drastically reduce the quantity of nutrients

allowed in regulated supplements. In July 2007, the commission met in Rome,

Italy, and passed these new risk-management proposals in a rush. Scott Tips,

an attorney and president of California-based National Health Federation,

the only " health freedom " organization allowed to participate in the Codex

meetings, was at the Rome meeting. He reported:

 

Heaping platefuls of Codex standards and guidelines were advanced to their

final stages as if starving people were gathered around a banquet table....

Chairman Claude Mosha was most definitely a man on a mission. And that

mission was to take that hill,... with the hill being a pile of standards

and related texts submitted by the various Codex Committees for approval by

the Commission itself. Attacking the pile like a man possessed, the Chairman

considered each standard passed up from the committee level for adoption

here only long enough to pronounce the words " adopted, " so that he could

then move on to the next standard for its approval.

 

The standards and guidelines passed by the Codex Commission impose severe

restrictions on nutrients in food supplements, and will find their way to

our country. The solution to restore our sovereignty would be to get out of

the WTO, but that would disrupt the internationalist juggernaut which is

determined to homogenize all world trade.

EU Winning the Regulatory Race

 

When the Codex Commission took up its voting frenzy on supplement standards,

the European Union had already beat it to the punch by several years.

The EUis becoming the international standard of regulation in the

marketplace,

including food and supplements. A September 20, 2007 article in *The

Economist*, entitled " Brussels Rules OK — How the European Union Is Becoming

the World's Chief Regulator, " argues that the EU (based in Brussels,

Belgium) is becoming the world regulator that other countries — and Codex —

now look to and emulate.

 

The European Parliament beat Codex by years when it adopted the European

Directive 2002/46/EC relating to food supplements on June 10, 2002. That

directive started the process of harmonizing the rules of the member

EUnations for food supplements

and restricting their contents.

 

The new EU model is based on the hyper-cautious theory of " risk management, "

in contrast to the American model of cost-benefit analysis. It sets maximum

permitted levels of various nutrients, based on a quasi-scientific process,

with the goal of avoiding any risk to any person under any circumstances who

takes a supplement. Rather than vary the recommendations for age, sex,

sensitivities, and type of ailments, the EU applied an unscientific

one-size-fits-all approach.

 

The standards set by these regulations are considered wholly inadequate for

human health by many nutritionists and scientists. An October 27, 2007

report from the Alliance for National Heath, entitled " Proposed European

Model for MPL's Not Fit for Purpose, " illustrates these unrealistic limits.

For example, the regulated upper limit of beta-carotene is 2 mg — less than

half the 4.7 mg of beta-carotene contained in a single carrot. The upper

limit for selenium is one-fifth the amount contained in a single Brazil nut.

Vitamin C limits are set at 225 mg per day, whereas many nutritionists

recommend at least 10 times that amount.

 

The Codex regulations passed last July, referenced above, injected the

EU " risk management " model into the Codex rules. They have already

affected

retailers in Europe, and are now changing the supplement business in

America. Jonathan Evans, business representative of the Herbarium, an herb

and supplement retailer in Chicopee, Massachusetts, who also maintains

business ties in Ireland, says that retailers there lost the majority of

their supplements after the 2005 EU regulations went into effect. He has

already noticed downward potency changes in many of the products that his

store handles, although the law does not mandate it.

FDA Partnering With Codex

 

The FDA is also joining the EU and Codex in their worldwide regulation of

supplements. The FDA brags on its website that it regulates the sale of a *

trillion* dollars, worth of products a year, accounting for 25 cents of

every dollar spent by American consumers, including food, cosmetics,

medicines, medical devices, pet food, and drugs. The FDA is responsible for

regulating these products in the public interest, but politics and business

often play a role in its stance on issues like supplements.

 

The FDA is set to follow the European and UN pattern of multi-national

coercion, if it is not stopped. The FDA has a Codex office, with a separate

web page to tout progress toward merging our laws with those of other

countries. One of the FDA's standards, published in the *Federal Register*,

declares that " where a relevant international standard exists, or completion

is imminent, it will generally be used in preference to a domestic

standard. " The FDA will apparently default to standards used elsewhere,

rather than develop its own standards based on America's needs.

 

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), who has consistently opposed the loss of

health freedom, stated on July 19, 2005, " [The] FDA and Congress are also

working (FDA quite openly, Congress more covertly) toward the goal of

harmonizing our health laws with Codex Alimentarius standards andguidelines. "

 

However, there is a legal obstacle to the plans of the international

regulators. In 1994, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health

andEducation Act (DSHEA), a law which protects dietary supplements,

including

vitamins, minerals, herbs, enzymes, and other similar substances, from the

intensive regulations and testing imposed on prescription drugs. DSHEA also

allows potencies and label claims that would never be otherwise tolerated in

the European or Codex models. Big Pharma and the international regulators

have this law in their sights and want to eliminate it.

 

In his July 2005 remarks, Congressman Paul also stated: " Make no mistake

about it: those international standards are moving steadily toward the Codex

regime and its draconian restrictions on health freedom. Pharmaceutical

companies have spent billions of dollars trying to get Washington to

regulate your dietary supplements. So far, that effort has failed, in part

because of a 1994 law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education

Act. Big Pharma and the medical establishment hate this Act, because it

allows consumers some measure of freedom to buy the supplements they want. "

 

Byron J. Richards, a Certified Clinical Nutritionist in Minneapolis,

Minnesota, and author of *Fight for Your Health: Exposing* *the FDA's

Betrayal of America*, concurs. He asserts that the FDA has worked on behalf

of the big drug companies to gut DSHEA and has pushed to treat supplements

as drugs, with all the same expensive and time-consuming regulation. His

close scrutiny of the situation has convinced Richards that the FDA is

trying to set up Codex standards as the legal rule in the United States.

U.S. Joins in Regulating Supplements

 

In February of 2004, the food and drug regulation agencies of the

governments of the United States, Mexico, and Canada put together a

virtually secret tri-part union between the three countries, called the

" Trilateral Cooperation Charter, " to jointly regulate " drugs, biologics,

medical devices, food safety and nutrition. " This happened without the

legally required U.S. Senate approval for a treaty. The FDA website devoted

to this pact displays the flags of all three countries, and urges

collaboration and harmonizing of positions. If that happens, our supplement

industry will be threatened because Mexico and Canada already heavily

regulate dietary supplements and vitamins as drugs. If this treaty is

enforced, it will eventually challenge our sovereignty and void the

protections in our DSHEA law.

 

The Trilateral Cooperation Charter is likely designed to work within the

" Security and Prosperity Partnership " framework instituted by the same three

North American countries in 2005 in order to harmonize other aspects of our

culture and economy.*

Do Americans Need Supplements?

 

Recent government and pharmaceutical industry efforts to restrict

availability and potency of nutritional supplements are harmful to those who

need these products. Supplements demonstrably aid optimum health, by

providing needed nutrients depleted by the stresses of modern life, by

environmental degradation, by nutrient-stripped soil, and by the use of

manufactured foods in place of natural ones, says Byron J. Richards.

 

The use of supplements has gained mainstream acceptance to treat many

illnesses and conditions. Bill Nagler, M.D., a nutrition and weight loss

doctor, author, and president of Diet Results in Livonia, Michigan, states

that supplements often work better than prescription drugs for many

applications. Most Americans are seriously nutritionally deficient, he says,

which leads to more infections, digestive disorders, cancer, excess weight,

arthritis, women's problems, and chronic fatigue. Proper dietary

supplementation has reduced the incidence of these ailments considerably for

his patients. Richards agrees, suggesting that supplements prevent and heal

many diseases by supporting the body's own ability to repair and recover

health.

Will It Happen Here?

 

The dietary supplement industry has become a $182 billion global

market anda growing $20.3 billion U.S. market, so it can no longer be

considered an

" alternative " health business.

 

The trend toward internationalization of our health and supplement industry

is becoming more visible, while the FDA continues to tighten the screws on

American manufacturers. Byron Richards explains that an industry bombshell

lurks in a recently issued 800-page FDA " rule " about good manufacturing

practices for dietary supplements. The report admits that up to 50 percent

of smaller manufacturers may go out of business under its strictures. The

larger companies, some of which are owned by pharmaceutical giants, can

afford to comply with its complex regulations. The FDA wants to have fewer

players to regulate, and the drug companies want less competition, according

to Richards.

 

Certain vitamin and mineral products which Jonathan Evans has sold at his

store, the Herbarium, for years are already being formulated in the lower

potencies. These doses are far less than what is needed for optimal health,

according to Dr. Nagler. For example, he says that the new vitamin D

standard of 400 I.U. per day is " grossly deficient, " and that inadequate

intake of vitamin D is the worst nutritional deficiency in America right

now. According to Dr. Nagler, studies show that low doses of that vitamin

are linked to increased rates of cancer, arthritis, depression, fatigue,

fibromyalgia, and multiple sclerosis. Some vitamin D can be obtained

fromthe sun, but not enough, he says, especially in northern areas.

Dr. Nagler

insists that daily intake of tens of thousands of I.U. are needed for good

health, not the tiny standard amount imposed by the regulators.

 

All efforts at regulation, whether by government or private efforts, are

subject to manipulation, negligence, or inconsistency. As with virtually

every aspect of human existence, freedom, education, and self regulation

work better than government fiat. The question now becomes whether we will

formulate our vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplements through good

scientific research, based on nutritional needs, or by political fiat. With

enough outcries from consumers, Congress and the FDA may stand against the

hijacking of our supplement industry by forces of global food imperialism.

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* See the special " North American Union " issue of THE NEW AMERICAN. A

downloadable copy is available free at www.thenewamerican.com/node/6230.

 

 

On 6/5/08, bestsurprise2002 <bestsurprise2002 wrote:

>

>

> STOP CODEX FROM COMING TO AMERICA BY TAKING THESE ACTION STEPS

> _http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3113337.htm_

> (http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/page/page/3113337.htm)

> (Additional Detail on each of the Action Steps may be found following their

>

> initial presentation, but it is not necessary to know all of this detail in

>

> order to send your mssg to congress.)

> ** Note: Beware of groups that would have you believe you can " stop Codex "

> by sending petitions to the US Codex Manager Dr.Ed Scarbrough. He is an

> unelected bureaucrat from the USDA and we have no leverage over him. He

> ignores all

> petitions. Also beware of groups that would have you believe we can stop

> Codex AT Codex. We can't.

> We have no political leverage over the unelected bureaucrats from the

> world's FDA's who make the decisions at Codex. Beware of groups that would

> have you

> believe that if a country adopts model legislation patterned after DSHEA

> that they're " exempt " from an adverse WTO ruling against them. They're

> not. The

> groups that are telling you these things intend to DISTRACT you from the

> ONLY

> things you can do to stop CODEX: HERE THEY ARE:

> 1. GET OVERSIGHT ON _FDA's Trilateral Cooperation Charter with Canada &

> Mexico_ (http://www.fda.gov/oia/charter.html) .

> (A) _CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION AGAINST TRILATERAL COOPERATION CHARTER_

> (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232) (Petition goes to

> Congressman Joe Barton, Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee

> which

> conducts oversight hearings on the FDA)

> (B) _CLICK HERE TO SEND MSSG TO YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN & SENATORS _

> (http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=220) & THE MEDIA about

> FDA's

> Trilateral Cooperation Charter) (additional detail below all listed steps)

> Why these steps are necessary: FDA is engaged in conferencing with

> Canada/Mexico for the purpose of creating one set of harmonized food anddrug

> regulations for all 3 countries (with zero input from the citizens of the

> 3

> countries.) This is a naked assault on US Sovereignty, an effort to scuttle

> America

> and to force us into a planned N.American Union. More details on the

> petition

> at (A).

> 2. GET OVERSIGHT ON _The Trans Texas Corridor_

> (http://www.newswithviews.com/Spivey/phyllis3.htm)

> _CLICK HERE TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS & THE MEDIA_

> (http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=221) (additional detail

> below all listed

> steps)

> 3. KILL THE NORTH AMERICAN COOPERATIVE SECURITY ACT: _CLICK HERE TO SEND

> YOUR MSSG TO CONGRESS & THE MEDIA_

> (http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=112) (additional details

> below all listed steps)

> 4. PASS THE HEALTH FREEDOM PROTECTION ACT: _CLICK HERE TO SEND YOUR MSSG

> TO

> CONGRESS & GET MORE INFO_

> (http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/mar2006_awsi_01.htm) (additional

> details listed below)

> ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON WHY STEPS 1-4 ARE NECESSARY---------->>>>>

> 1. WHY WE NEED CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT ON THE FDA's TRILATERAL COOPERATION

> CHARTER WITH CANADA & MEXICO

> The FDA is violating the _Administrative Procedures Act_ (http://usgovi

> nfo.about.com/library/bills/blapa.htm) , and the _Federal Advisory

> Committees Act_

> (http://www.epic.org/open_gov/faca.html) by engaging in conferencing with

> their regulatory counterparts in Canada & Mexico to draft one set of food &

>

> drug regulations to cover all three countries bypassing the will of the

> PEOPLE

> in these countries(!!) This is how the FDA intends to force CODEX on the

> American, Canadian, and Mexican people!

> This is part of a systematic plan to erase the nations of Canada, the USA &

>

> Mexico in order to force us into a planned _NORTH AMERICAN UNION_

> (

> http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html)

>

> (patterned after the EU).

> Look at what FDA is saying under _SCOPE OF WORK_

> (http://www.fda.gov/oia/charter.html#scope) (Trilateral Cooperation

> Charter):

> SCOPE OF WORK

> " The Trilateral Cooperation serves the mutual interests of all three

> countries and provides a forum for participants to discuss effective means

> for

> achieving its mission. Joint problem-solving techniques and consensual

> decision-making processes are used in reaching resolution of issues in a

> way that

> advances public health and gives consideration to the economic impact of

> health

> fraud. To avoid duplication and overlap, the Trilateral Cooperation should

> not

> deal with issues that are being discussed in other fora unless requested to

> do

> so as a means of solving a specific problem affecting the three countries

> or

> unless directed to do so by the Heads of Delegation. The Committee

> recognizes that the work under the Trilateral Cooperation is not a

> substitute for

> bilateral cooperation, nor does it impose obligations on its counterparts.

> Countries should use existing and new fora to discuss bilateral issues. "

> HOW IS THIS A THREAT?

> We must never forget how the FDA and their international counterparts

> define

> " health fraud. "

> The world's FDA's function as trade associations for pharmaceutical

> companies. They are paid millions of dollars in fees from the

> pharmaceutical

> companies to put Rx drugs thru their less than scientific " approval

> process. "

> Furthermore, there is a revolving door between the drug companies and the

> FDA as

> many leave the FDA to go to work for the drug companies.

> The FDA's defines " health fraud " to encompass any health claim made about

> any non patentable natural substance, regardless of how true it is, if it

> cuts

> into the sale of Rx drugs. They also consider health fraud to include any

> non

> mainstream, alternative medical approach (any approach not involving the

> use

> of patented prescription or OTC drugs that have been thru their so called

> " approval " process.

> Read _ " Why is the FDA Picking on Cherries? " _

> (http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/mar2006_cover_cherries_01.htm) andyou'll

see the the FDA is currently

> attacking the Cherry Industry, threatening to start raiding cherry

> orchards,

> unless the industry stops making health claims about the therapeutic

> effects

> of Cherries that are endorsed by the US Department of Agriculture.

> " The FDA does not want the cherry industry to tell people that recent

> studies show that cherries contain substances that are potentially 10 times

>

> stronger than aspirin or ibuprofen for relieving pain. It does not want the

> public

> to know that substances in cherries may kill cancer cells and prevent

> cancer.

> It makes no difference whether these statements are true. What's important

> is

> that the public not be told that a natural substance (cherries) has been

> shown to work as well as or better than an unnatural one (ibuprofen). "

> " Only drugs, according to the FDA's legal doctrine, can prevent, treat,

> mitigate, or cure disease. If something does those things, it's a drug.

> And if

> it's a drug, it has to be tested for its ability to do those things. In

> this

> double-speak world, no natural substance can do anything significant

> against

> disease-that is, unless it undergoes testing as a drug. Attempts at slaying

> this

> many-headed monster of convoluted truths have only made it grow new heads. "

>

> The FDA is claiming that statements made by the Cherry Industry on their

> websites are an extension of the labelling of their products, and they're

> pressuring the Cherry industry to stop making these claims. The Cherry

> Industry is

> fighting back in the courts claiming that the FDA is violating their First

> Amendment Right to free speech. Efforts are underway to get a bill through

> congress called the _Health Freedom Protection Act_

> (http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/mar2006_awsi_01.htm) to stop this FDA

> censorship.

> The pharmaceutical industry and the FDA's of Canada, the USA and Mexico

> have

> no USE for national laws that " interfere " with Pharma's efforts to block

> the

> use of natural products. They have no USE for the US Constitution and its

> First Amendment. They have no use for laws like DSHEA, or the HealthFreedom

> Protection Act so they're all in FAVOR of ABOLISHING AMERICA and forcing

> all 3

> countries together into the planned NORTH AMERICAN UNION, where we'd have

> much less input into the legislative process than we do now and everything

> would

> be dictated to us.

> This is why IAHF needs your help to pressure congress into holding

> OVERSIGHT

> HEARINGS for the purpose of STOPPING the FDA from continuing to violate

> the

> law.

> CLICK_ HERE TO SEND YOUR MSSG TO CONGRESS & THE MEDIA WITH ONE MOUSE CLICK_

>

> (http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=220)

> 2. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT NEEDED ON TRANS TEXAS CORRIDOR

> This superhighway/ rail system/ oil pipeline/ water pipeline is analogous

> to

> the " chunnel " which connects England with the continent of Europe by

> enabling

> people to travel by car and rail underneath the English Channel. Just as

> the Chunnel made the EU possible, the TTC is intended to shove the _North

> American Union_

> (

> http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html)

> down our throats. The North American Union is an intended

> prelude to an even larger dictatorship: the _Free Trade Area of the

> Americas_

> (http://www.stoptheftaa.org/)

> While the people of Texas have gotten up in arms against this monstrosity

> which was shoved unaimously through their very corrupt state legislature,

> IAHF

> and allies hope to spawn national opposition to it. We want congressional

> oversight, and we would like to see additional websites opposing it to be

> created in all the states the TTC is scheduled to pass through. The TTC

> isn't even

> being built by American labor- they've imported construction workers from

> SPAIN to build it!!

> Read: _The Internationalizing of US Roads_

> (http://www.newswithviews.com/Spivey/phyllis3.htm) by Phyllis Spivey.

> See: _Corridor Watch Website_ (http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc/index.htm)

>

> and _The Texas Toll Party Website_

> (http://www.texastollparty.com/ttp_trans_texas.php)

> _CLICK HERE TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS & THE MEDIA_

> (http://www.usalone.com/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?pnum=221)

> 3. KILL THE NORTH AMERICAN COOPERATIVE SECURITY ACT

> The North American Security Act, S. 853 in the Senate, H.R. 2672, is

> ostensibly being created to " enhance our protection against terrorists " by

> creating

> a common security perimeter- essentially by erasing our borders with Canada

> &

> Mexico to create " THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION " . It must be seen in the context

>

> of the (so called) _Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America_

> (http://www.spp.gov/) . (The SPP was signed by Martin, Bush, and Fox of

> Canada,

> the USA and Mexico with zero input from the citizens of these 3 nations.)

>

> The North American Cooperative Security Act is an intended prelude to

> forcing the USA into first, a North American Union, then into the _FTAA_

> (http://www.stoptheftaa.org/) (Free Trade Area of the Americas). It poses

> as much of a

> threat to US sovereignty and to all of our laws as the European Union

> Dictatorship poses to the laws and traditions of the UK and all of its

> other member

> nations.

>

> Lou Dobbs did a program about this threat on June 9th: " Good evening,

> everybody. Tonight, an astonishing proposal to expand our borders to

> incorporate M

> exico and Canada and simultaneously further diminish U.S. sovereignty.

> Have

> our political elites gone mad? " … _Lou Dobbs June 9, 2005_

> (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/09/ldt.01.html)

>

> Aside from the fact that both Mexico and Canada are hotbeds of terrorism,

> and it makes zero sense whatsoever to open our borders with these

> countries,

> this pending legislation is blatantly unconstitutional and it threatens

> all of

> our existing laws, including the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act

> of

> 1994 with harmonization to international dictates such as highly draconian

> CODEX vitamin standards under " development " at the UN's Codex

> Alimentarious

> Commission- where we have zero ability to influence the decisionmaking. We

> can

> only stop Codex from being forced on us if we can preserve our

> sovereignty.

> 4. PASS THE HEALTH FREEDOM PROTECTION ACT

> Read _ " The Growing Threats to DSHEA " _

> (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/us/index.html) by Paul Anthony Taylor.

> By passing this bill, we can stop the

> FDA from blocking the making of truthful health claims on foods anddietary

> supplements. We can also make it harder for Congress to cave in to

> pressures to

> harmonize our dietary supplement laws to restrictive codex standards.

> (http://www.citymaker.com/?domain=413915)

>

>