Michael Mooney's Note: This is
a little bit off base. I do not expect supplements to be lost in December, 2009.
I do however, think that people should write their representatives to tell them
that they are aware of this
thrust to limit their use of dietary supplements and protect us from it.
Also see: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634
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Details about the ban on supplements that could come in December, 2009
Greetings Everyone,
From
Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.
Please forward this to everyone you
know, including other Yahoo groups. Also, call your local news stations. They
will
hopefully be investigating this story! Another idea is to print this out and
post it on the bulletin boards at your local health
food stores such as Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Trader Joes, etc. Lastly, you should
call or write to your state representatives,
congressman, and the president and vice president. Sometimes it seems like things
like this our out of our hands, but if
everyone reading this truly takes action, something can be done. Let's try it
this time and see if we truly can prevent this
from happening.
READ BELOW:
Subject: Banning Sales of Food Supplements Worldwide
If we don't act now, we have no right to complain afterwards. Please act now!!!
Please read the very important health message below and contact everyone you can think of.
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 supplem ent standards
for all countries in the WTO.
They will be enforced by the WTO and will override 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 food supplements. CODEX met secretly in November,
2004 and finalized "Step 8 (the final stage)"
to begin implementation in June '05.
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 essential amino acids (arginine, lysine (used effectively for fever
blisters), carnitine, L-Tryptophan (used effectively
for eliminating depression), GABA (used effectively for eliminating anxiety),
etc., Essential Fatty Acids (omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.),
or other essential supplements such as DMAE, DHEA , CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene,
etc. are not 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 :
http://www.ahha.org/
http://www.iahf.com/
http://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) Contact the British Alliance
for Natural Health (see Web site above). It has succeeded in challenging the
CODEX
directives in World Court and will appear in court again 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, restrict the extremely dangerous
pharmaceutical drugs and require
double-blind studies of multiple Px interactions 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
Do a LYCOS search for "codex
alimentarius" and read all you can . . . . This thing is REALLY, R E A
L L Y BAD !
http://ahha.org/codex.htm
http://www.garynull.com/Issues/Codex/Index.htm
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/health_movement_against_codex/
http://www.medical-library.net/sites/framer.html?/sites/_codex_alimentarius.html
http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/Who%20Is%20Behind%20Codex%20Alimentarius.htm
http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/node/view/310
http://www.healthchoice.org.uk/codex/default.aspx
http://www.garynull.com/Issues/Codex/AboutCodex.htm
http://proliberty.com/observer/20040106.htm
http://www.iahf.com/world/
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