Anyone know anything about this? It just came in an e-mail from a friend--and I apologize if the topic has already been covered here. It wouldn't affect my house much. My wife takes 500 mg of niacin daily, and I take turmeric capsules. But if this e-mail is on the up and up, it looks like one more greedy move by multinational conglomerates with their fists on the levers of power.
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> Subject: Fwd: The most serious threat to our Supplement Use freedom
> ever!
>
>> Have you heard about this?
>>
>
>> Read this very important health message below and contact everyone.
>> Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may
>> end in June of this year (2005). After that U.S. supplements will be
>> defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the
>> World Health Organization (WHO).
>>
>> *The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code) is setting the supplement
>> standards for all countries in the WTO. They will be enforced by the
>> WTO and will over ride U.S. laws. The U.S. President and Congress
>> agreed to this take-over when the WTO Treaty was signed. *Violations
>> are punished by WTO trade sanctions.
>>
>> CODEX drastically restricts vitamins, minerals, herbs and other
>> supplements. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and finalized "Step
>> 8 (the final stage)" to begin implementation in June, 2005.
>>
>> The CODE includes:
>> (1) No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.
>> (2) Any potency higher than RDA (minimal strength) is a "drug"
>> requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies. Over
>> 5000 safe items now in health stores will be banned, terminating
>> health stores as we now know them.
>> (3) CODEX regulations become binding internationally.
>> (4) New supplements are banned unless given very expensive CODEX
>> testing *and approval.
>>
>> CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among others, where zinc
>> tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52. Echinacea (an ancient
>> immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153 (both examples are now
>> allowed by prescription only). *They are now *"drugs". Vitamin C
>> above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg-all are
>> banned over-the-counter as drugs. No amino acids (arginine, lysine,
>> carnitine, etc. = essential amino acids!), essential fatty acids
>> (omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.), or other essentialsupplements such as DMEA,
>> DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc. are allowed.
>> *
>> The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They are made by a
>> few people meeting in secret (see web sites below), not necessarily
>> scientists.
>>
>
>> In 1993 the *FDA and drug corporations tried to put all supplements
>> under restriction and *prescription. But over 4 million Americans
>> told Congress and the President to protect their freedom of choice on
>> health supplements. *The DSHEA Law was passed in 1994, *which does
>> so. *But this will be over ruled by CODEX and the World Trade
>> Organization.
>>
>
>> Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What the drug
>> corporations have failed to do through Congress they have gotten by
>> sneak attack *through CODEX with the help of a silent media. What can
>> be done at this late hour?
>>
>> (1) Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves fully at
>>
>> * *
www.ahha.org,
www.iahf.com , and
www.alliance-natural-health.org.
>>
>> (2) Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX
>> restrictions with U.S. laws, changing the DSHEA law.
>>
>> (3) Support H. R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the
>> U.S. Constitution over *CODEX, etc.
>>
>> (4) Express your wishes to the President, Senators and
>> Representatives (They got us into this!) ASAP.
>>
>> (5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their
>> members to inform the *government.
>>
>> (6) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for
>> Natural Health (see web site above). It has succeeded in challenging
>> the CODEX directives in World Court later this month or next. They
>> need help financially, having carried the fight effectively for
>> everyone. CODEX and the FDA wish to protect us by controlling
>> supplements in the *same way they do prescription drugs.
>>
>> A study of the latter 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% of all hospitalized
>> patients. This is equivalent to a 9-11 attack every ten days.
>>
>> There are very few fatalities from supplements or 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 crash
>> per day?
>>
>> Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.
>> 1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225
>>
www.pulseplus@earthlink.net
>>
>>
>
>> VITAMIN CONSUMERS BEWARE! Your Freedom of Choice is on the Brink of
>> Extinction
>> AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HAMMELL Founder, International Advocates for
>> Health Freedom (IAHF)
>> *
>> John Hammell is an internationally renowned advocate for health
>> freedom. *In this *interview, he will expose the current draconian
>> international effort, masterminded
>> by the pharmaceutical cartel, to restrict our freedom of *choice of
>> dietary *supplements and vitamins. *
>> *
>> The centerpiece of this effort is called CODEX, which is a United
>> Nations program *to impose global trade standards in this area. The
>> European Union (EU) is the most *influential power block in the CODEX
>> scheme, and the most pressing issue *right now is the Food
>> Supplements Directive passed by the EU, which is being challenged in
>> a *British Court on January 25 by the Alliance for Natural Health
>> (ANH). *If this domino *falls, America is not far behind.
>> *
>> We cannot stress enough the URGENCY of this matter! Our inherent
>> right to *choose what natural substances we put into our bodies is at
>> stake. *Don't miss this *Tele-seminar! *IAHF and ANH *also need your
>> help right away. Go to
www.iahf.com and
>>
www.alliance-natural-health.org and find out what you can do to help
>> now! *
>> *
>> For Health Freedom,
>>
>> John C. Hammell, President
>> International Advocates for Health Freedom
>> 556 Boundary Bay Road
>> Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
>>
http://www.iahf.com
>>
>> *jham@iahf.com
>> 800-333-2553 N.America
>> 360-945-0352 World
>>
>>
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