FW: UK Members- Urgent action needed this weekend/ANH

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Hi All

 

I'm forwarding this message from ANH - *please*, please can all UK members

take a moment to read and take the action requested.

 

This IS really - VERY - important.

 

If you are on any other groups - or know people who would be affected -

please pass this mail on.

 

Thanks

 

Love

 

Liz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Liz,

 

URGENT - ACTION NEEDED THIS WEEKEND BY UK CITIZENS

Please pass on this message to your friends - distribute as widely as you

can to UK contacts

 

We are sending this message to seek your urgent assistance with the campaign

to stop the EU Food Supplements Directive's proposed ban on 75% of vitamin

and mineral forms, found in some 5000 products currently sold in UK health

stores and via practitioners.

 

We will be in the European Court in Luxembourg on 25 January defending our

landmark case to overturn the ban.

 

On the same evening of our case, this coming Tuesday, to coincide with the

legal action being taken in Luxembourg, Conservative MP Chris Grayling and

Labour MP Kate Hoey will lead a cross-Party effort to force the Government

to renegotiate the Directive and end the threat to most bioavailable forms

of vitamins and minerals in the UK.

 

The Opposition have given up half a day of the time allocated to them for

this debate, and it will provide an opportunity for MPs to vote against the

Directive and to instruct the Government to go back to Brussels and

renegotiate its provisions.

 

We need your help. We need to put as much pressure on MPs as possible to

vote with us on Tuesday. Please can you send an email to your own MP at

Westminster over the weekend or before Tuesday lunchtime urging them to back

the motion and to oppose the Directive.

 

The email address for MPs works in the following way: the surname and the

initial followed by @parliament.uk. So John Reid, the Health Secretary's

email address would be reidj and the Junior Minister involved,

Melanie Johnson's would be <johnsonm

johnsonm.

 

You might like to send an email to both of them as well.

 

If you don't know who your MP is, please go to:

<http://www.locata.co.uk/commons/> http://www.locata.co.uk/commons/and type

in your postcode.

 

Please give us your help. The Alliance for Natural Health, and its

collaborating organisations in Europe and around the world, are in the

last-chance saloon for leading-edge food (dietary) supplements. We have to

get the UK Government - who are opposing our case in teh European Court -to

listen.

 

And if they won't, we need to let them know how angry we are.

 

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

 

Dr Robert Verkerk

executive director

Alliance for Natural Health

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[Guest guest]

All members not in UK should write and call

and in general badger their representatives on

this topic.

 

If things continue as they are pretty soon we

will only have access to herbs we are growing ourselves, and even that is not

guaranteed.

 

I can think of some very good herbs that are

illegal to grow.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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[Guest guest]

Ien,

 

You are a hoot! And my dear you are so right on with this...yes, we can

grow the

herbs, but under the regs they want to impose upon us, it will be

ILLEGAL for us

to sell or give to anyone! Isn't that just a wonderful thing?????

 

Basically, as herbalists (and homeopaths) in the US, we cannot

prescribe or offer

remedies unless the person asking is knowledgeable themselves. I

 

Sandi

BlackkatHerbs

http://www.blackkatherbs.com

 

 

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