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ANH eBlast: ANH moves into top gear

 

 

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Issue No. 38 Friday 26th March 2010

ANH eBlast: ANH moves into top gear

 

Hard on the heels of ANH-USA’s stunning success in blocking

Senator John McCain’s poorly conceived Dietary Supplements Safety Act in the

United States, ANH International, across the other side of the Atlantic,

delivers a series of major punches.

 

Punch No. 1: Debate on Codex with FAO

 

A group of leading academics in the northern English University of

Lancaster invited ANH executive director, Dr Robert Verkerk, to debate Codex

Alimentarius, the controversial international guidelines that provide the rules

for the global food trade. Dr Verkerk's opposite number in the debate was none

other than the head of food quality for the United Nations’ Food and

Agriculture Organization, Dr Ezzeddine Boutrif. Find out what happened in our

news story below.

 

Punch No. 2: ANH announces new legal challenge on herbs

 

Many of you will be aware of the huge crisis facing some of the

world's longest established medical traditions, such as those of either Ayurveda

and Unani from the Indian subcontinent, as well as those of China, often

referred to as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

 

A European directive designed to regulate these kinds of products,

passed into law in 2004 and is due to bite fully as of April 2011. The

legislation is so badly conceived it is almost impossible for significant

numbers of classical herbal products from these traditions to be licensed under

this regime. It is also likely that a considerable number of products from

European and western traditions could be impacted by this directive.

 

Therefore, following a two-day conference in Hungary last week,

sponsored by the Indian government, the ANH announced its intent to challenge

the law in the courts. We've done it before and we will do it again. The ANH

urgently needs support from parties who are likely to be influenced by the

directive.

 

Please contact us if you are interested in supporting this

challenge, financially or otherwise. We greatly value hearing also from parties

from outside of Europe who believe they will be adversely impacted by the

directive in 2011 and after.

 

Punch No. 3: ANH published new risk analysis study in leading

scientific journal

 

Moving from law to science, today we have announced the publication

of a second study critiquing the proposed EU approach to restricting maximum

vitamin and mineral doses for supplements throughout the Europe’s 27 member

states.

 

Our press release has gone out today. We ask concerned Europeans to

sign our petition and write to your MEP, expressing your concerns. Please find

an example of a letter that you can use as a basis for your own letter.

 

You can find out how to find your MEP here as well as his or her

e-mail address and other contact details. If you can manage to meet with your

MEP face-to-face, even better.

 

We need your help (and you need ours!)

 

All of this work involves a huge amount of effort on the part of ANH

International’s small team. Our work on EU issues is for the benefit of people

around the world. The EU regime is being looked at by regulators all over the

world as a key template – and recent events show us just what a threat

Euro-style laws might be to the hard-won liberal system of the USA.

 

Our legal expenses will be high this year as we move towards the

legal challenge to help protect non-European herbal traditions in particular,

but also those of western herbalism that rely on manufactured, polyherbal

products.

 

All of our funding comes from donations. If you feel that our work

is important, please consider making a donation. Monthly donations, however,

small, are invaluable. We urgently need your help to undertake this

extraordinarily time-sensitive work that we believe is of great importance, not

only for so many of us today, but also for so many more in the future.

 

Our lead stories…

 

Please read about our recent activities below:

 

 

ANH Press Release: New ANH study says EU vitamin laws must change

track

 

Urgent scientific call for risk/benefit analysis Read More

ANH Press Release: ANH set to challenge EU herb law

 

Alliance for Natural Health International announces its intention

to initiate a legal challenge to the European directive on traditional herbal

medicines Read More

FAO and ANH go head to head on Codex

 

ANH’s Robert Verkerk and FAO’s Dr Ezzeddine Boutrif debate on

Codex Alimentarius at Lancaster University Read More

 

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