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2005/02/08, 02:19 PM
Guys the government is getting serious its time to fight back fax your concerns to your senators!!!!
From the January 2005 Idaho Observer:
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HEALTH FREEDOM ALERT
While Americans are preoccupied with stories and images of wars and tsunamis abroad, largely unreported is a cataclysmic domestic event that may hit home by August, 2005.
by Wallace Heath, Ph.D.
Your right to choose what vitamins, minerals and other supplements you want to take may end in August, 2005. After August, U.S. supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Codex Alimentarius (stringent food/ supplement regulations) is setting the food and nutritional supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. Codex standards are to be enforced by the WTO and will supercede U.S. law. The U.S. president and Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO treaty was signed. Violators of Codex and other WTO-sponsored international laws will be punished by WTO trade sanctions.
Codex drastically restricts our free access to vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements. The International Codex Commission met secretly in November, 2004, and finalized "Step 8 (the final stage)" which is scheduled for implementation seven months from now. Under Codex, no supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use; any potency higher than RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance - minimal strength) is a "drug" requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies (over 5,000 safe items now in health food stores will be banned, terminating health food stores as we now know them); Codex regulations enforced in the U.S. will be internationally binding; new supplements will be banned unless the developer is willing to endure a very rigorous and expensive Codex approval process.
Codex standards, as currently enforced in Norway and Germany, caused the price of zinc tablets to rise from $4 per bottle to $52; echinacea, an herb used for immune system enhancement, rose from $14 per bottle of 100 capsules to $153. Both zinc and echinacea are only available by prescription since they are now classified as "drugs." Vitamin C above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg are only available by prescription. Essential amino acids such as arginine, lysine, proline, and carnitine; essential fatty acids (such as omegas 3, 6 and 9) and other essential supplements such as DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, will NOT be available for purchase unless prescribed by a licensed physician. These Codex rules are not based on real science. They are regulations influenced by pharmaceutical giants who have used the Codex model to take control of vitamins and supplements in order to protect the lucrative pharmaceutical drug industry.
In 1993 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and drug corporations tried to put all supplements under restriction and prescription, but over four million outraged Americans demanded that Congress and the President protect their freedom to purchase essential health supplements without a prescription. As a result, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was passed in 1994. But unless health-conscious consumers worldwide get involved, DSHEA will be trumped by Codex and the World Trade Organization.
What can be done at this late hour? (1) Spread the word as much as possible by making copies of this article and sharing with others on talk radio shows, (2) Go to the following websites, become fully informed and contribute what you can to this life saving cause: www.iahf.com, www.alliance-natural-health.org , www.ahha.org (3) Contact your legislators, telling them to oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws harmonizing with them, in effect repealing DSHEA. (4) Support H. R.1146, The American Sovereignty Restoration Act that repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and other specified related laws so that WTO sanctions and CODEX will not apply to the U.S. (6) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can mobilize their significant numbers to inform their representatives in government. (7) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (ANH - see web site above). It has succeeded in challenging many Codex directives in World Court. The ANH challenge in the European Court of Justice is due to be heard on January 25, 2005. ANH is also leading initiatives to offset proposed limits on dosages and health claims through Codex legislation.
These critical events in Europe are ever more likely to lead to restrictions in the U.S. and elsewhere, as there is considerable political and commercial pressure for trade harmonization and regulation at a global level.
Decide NOW what it’s worth to protect your right to natural healthcare.
Codex and the FDA are attempting to "protect" us by controlling supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs. With the latest Vioxx scandal, a drug that was FDA approved, do you trust their approval methods? A study of prescription drugs by three medical scientists was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998—Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200: "…Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR’s) was found to be extremely high." Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found that in the U.S. an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year (290 per day) die from ADR’s and 2,200,000 need more hospitalization for recovery. These were FDA approved drugs, properly administered by competent professionals in hospitals—none were considered malpractice. This is the number four cause of death in the U.S. When combined, these account for 7 percent of all hospitalized patients. This is equivalent to the deaths on 9-11 occurring every 10 days.
Due to the pharmaceutical/government controlled media, if a death occurred due to consumption of an over-the-counter nutritional supplement, the news would be on every front page. There is no need for more FDA control of supplements than is already in place, which is substantial. Instead of drastically restricting supplements, why doesn’t the FDA better control and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs which are now killing us at the rate of a major airline crashing a 757 every day?
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Keith Hardy CFO
Serious Nutrition Solutions LLC
keith@seriousnutritionsolutions.com
www.seriousnutritionsolutions.com
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2005/02/08, 03:54 PM
That sounds pretty scary, whats the reality of it actually happening?
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2005/02/08, 06:39 PM
June 2005 is when they are gonna atempt to push this legislation through. They already have quite a bit of opposition because it will involve alot of major supp companies.
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Keith Hardy CFO
Serious Nutrition Solutions LLC
keith@seriousnutritionsolutions.com
www.seriousnutritionsolutions.com
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2005/02/08, 07:10 PM
Yep, been trying to get folks to write their congressmen, etc. So many don't do it, and then when things happen, they want to cry about it. Too late to close the barn door after the horse is out. I had a post up for places to go to, they would write the emails for you and everything, all you had to do was tell who you wanted them sent to(state of residence, tv stations, etc.) and I think it got 2-3 replies. People, this stuff is not a joke.:(
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything....
bb1fit@freetrainers.com
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2005/02/08, 08:54 PM
So are you saying it's too late?....Is June 2005 when the vote is to take place? I would like to try help in some way, is a donation the only way or are they still wrinting in letters..sorry this is the first I heard on this law...does not sound good for us..is it me or they making it harder for people who live the healthy life style.. $52 bucks for a bottle zinc that ridiculus i'd hate to see what the cost for a bottle of ZMA is or if you can legally buy it anymore.....scary stuff
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2005/02/09, 10:09 AM
Its not too late I will post a link that will help.
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Keith Hardy CFO
Serious Nutrition Solutions LLC
keith@seriousnutritionsolutions.com
www.seriousnutritionsolutions.com
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2005/02/09, 10:13 AM
Can Canadians help? Or would it be just a waste?
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Still trying to find out how to do the Hollywood Free Press.
Ivan
carivan@freetrainers.com
Montreal Canada
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2005/02/09, 12:14 PM
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/
For those living overseas, this is a good site for you. England, Australia, etc.
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/2001/cneuharmonizingsupplements12mar01.shtml
And this is great reading to get more educated.
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If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything....
bb1fit@freetrainers.com
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2005/02/16, 11:56 PM
bump
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2005/02/17, 02:38 PM
It is as easy as they say it is to send the letters so everyone DO IT!!!
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2005/02/18, 01:46 PM
ive sent a couple pre-wrote letters i printed off the net and signed an online potision but it doesn't look like enough people are, so im going to stock up on supplements in june just incase.
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2005/05/16, 06:46 PM
I was wanting to know if anything new has come up, if the bill will pass in august or if it was removed, because august is just around the corner and i want to know if i need to stock up on anything.
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2005/05/16, 07:03 PM
here's a question. if this legislation passes, do you think people will start to eat healthier diets instead of using suppliments or vice versa?
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2005/05/17, 01:55 PM
not really, but i do think the government is going to loose a whole lot of tax revenue because people will quit buying supplements, it becomes too much of a hastle to have to have a physician fill out a prescription for flaxseed oil every time i run out. And there is no telling if they even would fill it out, and they will get too damn expensive.
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2005/05/18, 01:49 PM
Doing a little searching around on this and the August '05 deadline is for Europe
as found here: http://www.westonaprice.org/federalupdate/aa2005/infoalert_042205.html
and here:
http://ahha.org/CodexWalter2005.htm
As well this isn't being launched by Codex but by the European Union Food Supplements Directive...at least for this August '05 date. Everything I've read doesn't give any information or scheduled date for the US to adopt this Codex policy.
From what I can find this is where the problems lies. Codex typically adopts policy from, the EU (European Union), and US FDA Policy states the below:
"The United States Federal Register, October 11, 1995, FDA Policy on Standards, states that "where a relevant international standard exists, or completion is imminent, it will generally be used in preference to a domestic standard...." If this is still the FDA policy, once the Codex Guidelines are finalized this summer, will we find the FDA working to use this against the DSHEA? "
So essentially the concern is a chain reaction affect from EU guidlines. Is that correct?
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2005/05/30, 11:31 PM
BUMP
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