Guest guest Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Hi. http://www.healthfr eedom.net/ index.php? option=com_ content & task=view & id=956 & Itemid=1 Ban on Certain Vitamins and Minerals Violates E.U. Law Nutraingredients highlights a warning by Alliance for Natural Health UK (ANH-UK) that the British Food Standards Agency’s proposal to ban certain vitamins and minerals in 2010 violates European Union law. ANH-UK argues that the agency’s new list of approved minerals and vitamins — which adds 69 to the current roster of 112 approved products —is inadequate and may even be illegal. By outlawing hundreds of products that for years have been sold legally in the United Kingdom and elsewhere within the European Union, the Food Standards Agency would reduce consumer choice. In particular, ANH-UK addresses the threat to vanadium. There is no evidence that certain forms of the element pose any risk at commonly recommended dosages. The blanket ban on vanadium not only makes little scientific sense but conflicts with the ruling on the ANH-UK case in the European Court of Justice in 2005. Paragraph 73 of the ruling states that a substance may not be banned unless scientific assessment has proven it poses a genuine risk to public health. Rob Verkerk, Ph.D., executive and scientific director of ANH-UK, writes: “Member States need to review their decisions to implement the Commission’s proposed draft Regulation in the light of existing European case law, including that relating to our case that was ruled on in 2005. The industry needs to get serious about submitting further dossiers including safety and bioavailability data for many of the ingredients that will be lost as of January next year. We also need to see much more transparency and a level playing field in the evaluation process used by EFSA, as well as the way in which opinions are interpreted by the European Commission and Member States.† --------------                       ----------------------                     -----------------------            --------- http://www.healthpe titions.com. au/stop-the- tga-classifying- our-food- as-drugs This is the Petition available at Alliance for Health Freedom Australia (AHFA)   1/4 of Australians supplement their diet with nutritional food concentrates in capsulated form. This is over 5 million people. Is the TGA testing the waters for a bloody revolution ?  Yes, it would even see the removal of the Salt/C availablity as the main treatment for Lyme disease.  Hopefully, the outcome will be similar to the Jab or Jail offer being proposed by the Australian Health Minister, were it was broadcast on ABC National Radio that those that don't receive the Swine Flu vaccination will be placed in detention camps for 2 weeks. Silly Government would have to jail and feed 17 million people as the entire country was closed down for two weeks. By God has our Government lost the plot?    Dear MP Roxon, MP Butler and The TGA Project Officer, Hippocrates said " let food be thy medicine " . This did not mean that our food should be regulated as dangerous drugs that need to be treated as potentially life threatening!  Hundreds of years later the observation of Hippocrates still stands, yet the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) want to go one step further and class our food as a hazardous medicine similar to dangerous synthetic pharmaceutical drugs? The TGA wants to do this by changing legislation that makes our food in capsule or tablet form a drug!   http://www.tga. gov.au/docs/ html/cmec/ section7. htm http://www.tga. gov.au/cm/ consult/cons- s7declaration. pdf   Does this mean that Kellogg's Special-K in a capsule could soon be a drug or shredded wheat cereals?  The TGA states:  " In Australia, it has long been recognised that there is a legislative ‘interface’, or overlap, between foods and medicines for human oral consumption. As the food and complementary medicine sectors have evolved over recent years, a ‘grey area’ has unintentionally developed at this food-medicine interface. The confusion is due to certain areas of food legislation and therapeutic goods legislation overlapping in such a way that makes it difficult to determine which legislation should be applied in many cases. "   The real reason for this over lap is that the TGA regulates health supplements as medicines. Health supplements should be regulated in a third category of their own, just as they are now or soon to be in New Zealand. If this happened then foods would not be regulated as drugs or medicines. This " confusion " is the fault of the TGA's regulation and not the fault of the health supplement industry!   We use natural health products as foods and not medicine. Yes good food keeps us healthy but it is not a drug! We do not find the existing laws misleading or confusing as the TGA has insisted . In fact, changing the law as the TGA is suggesting makes the new laws even more confusing.  We as consumers understand the difference between foods and medicines and we do not need the TGA to define this for us. We are intelligent human beings, we read the labels, we educate ourselves. It may be confusing to the TGA but it is not confusing to the public!  This law benefits the bigger health companies of which are mostly owned or majority controlled by drug companies. This proposal by the TGA will raise the costs of entry point into the health food market for small business, leaving a monopoly for larger companies.  Turning such food products into medicines is misleading on the TGA's behalf and serves also the financial interests of the TGA, as it generates more income with regards to annual audits and listing on the TGA Therapeutic Register of a health product. These costs will then be passed on to consumers.  For example, such products as Chlorella, Wheat grass, Barley grass and Spirulina, under the TGA's proposed plans, will become a drug and a medicine. These products will then become more expensive to purchase. This is outrageous! People prefer these foods in a capsule form during travel, or because the taste may not be desirable to the palate, or just simply as it is easier to monitor how much of the food they have ingested, this does not make them a therapeutic good (drug).   Does this mean that the TGA will also categorise products, available from food retail, such as sodium saccharin tablets as a drug? This is the same sodium saccharin which has been linked to cancer (but still available to the public). Or will the TGA make exemptions for dangerous products like sodium saccharin to be freely available as a food?  Over the years the TGA and its officers seem to have forgotten about their original charter, and now we are seeing what is commonly called " regulatory creep " .  The whole primary raison d'être for the TGA is to keep us safe from dangerous drugs, which the TGA is not doing such a good job of. Remember Vioxx? The TGA did nothing! Merck Sharp & Dohme eventually pulled the Vioxx off the market voluntarily after it had already killed 50,000 people (http://www.theage. com.au/articles/ 2004/10/27/ 1098667790205. html)  The TGA should keep its hands off our foods! Food is a food and drugs are potentially dangerous products produced by drug companies! There is a large difference and we do not find the definition confusing, nor should the TGA! The amendments to Section 7 of the Therapeutics Goods Act should not be implemented in any form.  We call on the Federal Minister for Health and the TGA to withdraw this proposal. Ken Uzzell http://heal- me.com.au HealMe Foundation  ----------------                      ------------------------             --------------------------           http://www.diplomat ie.be/fr/ travel/countryde tail.asp? COUNTRYID= 37 Conseils aux voyageurs UKRAINE Toujours valable au 21 novembre 2009 Cliquez sur la carte pour l’agrandir 1. SAFE SITUATION The Ministry for Health announces that nine areas of l' West of l' Ukraine, namely Lvov, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Zakarpatskij, Tjernovitskij, Rovenskij, Chmelnitskij, Vinnitysia and Volynskij, were quarantined for one undetermined period and this following the fast propagation virus H1N1. Any displacement in these areas is practically impossible and is highly disadvised.An email exchange (US) from another list concerning the downplay of the seriousness of the Ukraine situation and lack of travel restrictions:  Dear Mr. Garofalo, Chair, North Port City, FL Commission,   It is with great interest I read your reply to Mr. Ray Stoner (his original correspondence and yours copied immediately below for your convenience) .  Mr. Stoner wrote emotionally about his deep concerns of the significant Ukrainian outbreak of H1N1 and/or pneumonic plague :  1,540,514 Influenza/ARI infected 88,744 hospitalized 354 deaths http://www.moz. gov.ua/ua/ main/press/ ?docID=14150  which has spread to other countries :  14 countries report high pandemic (H1N1) 2009 activity -- During the period 5 to 12 November 2009, high or very high pandemic activity has been reported in countries in Scandinavia, eastern Europe and south-eastern Europe. Very high pandemic activity was reported in Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova for the first time. Continuing very high pandemic activity was also reported in Iceland, Ireland and the Russian Federation (Urals and far eastern regions). High pandemic activity was reported in Belarus, Finland, Kazakhstan, Poland, the Russian Federation (Siberian, Volga, north-western and central regions), Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland only). http://www.euro. who.int/influenz a/AH1N1/20091114 _1  and is apparently mutating : Public health significance of virus mutation detected in Norway --Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 briefing note 17 http://www.thefluca se.com/index. php?option= com_content & view=article & id=2014%3Awho- talks-up- alleged-qfatal- casesq-of- norways-mutated- virus-in- press-briefing & catid=1%3Alatest- news & Itemid=64 & lang=en  and, according to Dr. Niman who is tracking the outbreaks, " two shoes have now dropped " :  Many had asked why the WHO was dragging its feet on Ukraine and I had said they had two major problems. One was " mutation " and the other was Tamiflu resistance and both were happening when deaths were climbing and vaccine was is short supply. Therefore, they would try to keep those two shoes from dropping for as long as possible. Now both shoes have dropped. The D225G in Ukraine was disclosed, followed by Norway, so the " mutation " shoe has dropped, and now the clsuters of Tamiflu resistance in the UK and NC have come out, so the other shoe has dropped. Most of the world is as lost as ever. Media hasn't yet figured out that the same " mutation " is in Ukraine and Norway (and worldwide), and they also haven't figured out that the cat was out of the bag on Tamiflu resistance. In both cases, agencies are still trying to spin " spontaneous mutation " and lack of spread, but those dogs won't hunt. A vaccine panic is next, followed by real panic. http://fluboard. rhizalabs. com/forum/ viewtopic. php?f=5 & t=3206 & start=0   Mr. Stoner was NOT singling out one group of citizens over another; in fact, his concerns are for ALL (as are mine).  The sound of silence from the mainstream press on this crucial issue is deafening. It is no wonder that the Department of Health or Attorney General have not issued a travel warning.  I am sure the Ukrainians in your community as well as any other citizen would greatly appreciate hearing a warning of some sort from their local government since it is readily apparent the state and federal government have not yet come to bat, and especially in light of the fact that this is now not just a Ukrainian problem. It is spreading. And fast. You would do well to remember that, Mr. Garofalo, when it hits the United States. Step up to the plate, Mr. Garofalo, before it is too late.  Sincerely,  Kimberly Dawley David Garofalo wrote: Mr Stoner I will have someone from the City post an “Informationalâ€� type piece on our City Website, regarding safety precautions while traveling to other countries in general..  I can assure you that I will not support an “alertâ€� that singles out one group of citizens over another.  If this was an International Problem Specific to the Ukraine I am certain that the DOH or Attorney General would have issued a “warningâ€�  I am very proud of our Ukranian Community and the fact that we have the largest concentration of Ukranians in the United States living in and around North Port, and I am not about to make them feel like 2nd class citizens.  Thanks for your Email,  David J Garofalo Sr. Chair-North Port City Commission dgarofalo@cityofnor thport.com www.cityofnorthport .com City of North Port 4970 City Hall Blvd. North Port, Fl. 34286 E-mail messages sent or received by City of North Port officials and employees in connection with official City business are public records subject to disclosure under the Florida Public Records Act. ***  RHHannaHH (AT) aol (DOT) com [RHHannaHH@ aol.com] Friday, November 20, 2009 10:46 AM lorraines@sun- herald.com; SGeorge778 (AT) aol (DOT) com; northportchat@ chip4health. org; DOHH1N1Comms@ doh.state. fl.us; Vanessa Carusone; James Blucher; Steven Crowell; Michael Treubert; David Garofalo; Tom Jones Cc: clg_news (AT) legitgov (DOT) org; HallahanFL@LaurenRe port.com; hollandsimms@ bellsouth. net; Dragos2112 (AT) hot (DOT) mail.com; wpowell6 (AT) cfl (DOT) rr.com; vern.buchanan@ houseenews. net; Jeff.Kottkamp@ MyFlorida. com; Charlie.Crist@ MyFlorida. com; bill (AT) billnelson (DOT) senate.gov; bmudge@venicegondol ier.com; kimberly.dawley@ comcast.net; john.davis@heraldtr ibune.com  In view of the unknown disease ravaging the Ukraine--in view of all the conflicting data being presented by any and all regarding the H1N1 vaccine-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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