[Imagine having to get a prescription for garlic, haldi and neem! India has already grovelled on patent rights, so that seems the next logical step towards a healthy India. Anyway, here's how the WHO operates in the mother country. - ZESTAlternative Desk]
CODEX Update Can you afford to pay $100/Month for each and every vitamin and mineral supplement you take? Read this very important health message below and contact everyone in the suggestions. Your right to choose your herbal, 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 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 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 essential supplements 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 protect our freedom of choice. 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 (Click the link to find yours.) 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 (ADRs) 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 ADRs 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 * * * Because America is part of the World Trade Organization, what happens in Europe, will happen here, and doesn't even require a vote in congress. How? The following is from the FDA's own web site: International Harmonization The harmonization of laws, regulations and standards between and among trading partners requires intense, complex, time-consuming negotiations by CFSAN officials. Harmonization must simultaneously facilitate international trade and promote mutual understanding, while protecting national interests and establish a basis to resolve food issues on sound scientific evidence in an objective atmosphere. Failure to reach a consistent, harmonized set of laws, regulations and standards within the freetrade agreements and the World Trade Organization Agreements can result in considerable economic repercussions. [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/int-laws.html] We are creating a page for updates on CODEX. The latest update will be at the top. Check often to see what you can do: CODEX (put it in your favorite places and check back often) Another good link is: www.healthfreedomUSA.org To see what CODEX is doing in Europe and how it WILL affect us, Click Here. NOW HEAR THIS Senator Durbin Sponsors Dietary Supplement Congressional Briefing Guess who he's meeting with to determine the "safety" of vitamins and supplements? The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (ASCPT), the American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), and the Society of Toxicology. All of these organizations profit from our being ill. They WANT us to be ill, so they can sell us their drugs. They make NOTHING if you are healthy. Remember Ephedra? No one died last year due to Ephedra. They died abusing Ephedrine, a highly concentrated form of Ephedra. One hundred people a year die from Tylenol. But they're not about to take it off the market. The purpose of the January 31st briefing entitled, "Botanical Dietary Supplements: Scientific Perspectives and Public Health Pitfalls." was to reexamine dietary supplements and the scientific, legal and regulatory frameworks surrounding this multi-billion dollar industry. The briefing's organizers have positions favoring strict regulation for dietary supplement and are heavily supported by pharmaceutical companies. Time to contact Senator Durbin and explain to him that we know that the pharmaceutical industry has him in their deep pockets. That we will not allow anyone to restrict our freedoms to care for ourselves and choose health over pharmaceutical illness. Write to him here: http://www.senate.gov/~durbin/sitepages/contact.cfm Call his offices and make sure he knows that we know that he is derelict in his duty by supporting the moneyed interests and not his constituents. Washington, DC 332 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-2152 (202) 228-0400 - fax Chicago 230 South Dearborn St. Suite 3892 Chicago, IL 60604 (312) 353-4952 (312) 353-0150 - fax Springfield 525 South 8th St. Springfield, IL 62703 (217 ) 492-4062 (217) 492-4382 - fax Marion 701 N. Court St. Marion, IL 62959 (618) 998-8812 (618) 997-0176 - fax Beyond Durbin; Beyond CODEX... Health freedom is still under attack in this country at this very moment and we're not going to stop telling you this till FREEDOM comes to America. As Edward R Murrow once said, "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." Anyone interested in Health Freedom must visit the Citizens For Health web site. Go to the Action Center and start writing letters. Write letters, get on the phone, make calls. When our Senators and Representatives introduce legislation or vote on legislation that restricts our choices, THEY ARE WORKING AGAINST THEIR CONSTITUENTS' INTERESTS. They are working FOR the Pharmaceutical Companies. In the end, it is we the people who determine who gets to serve us in Washington, and serve us they'd better. Ephedra was taken off the market to protect the Pharmaceutical Industry, not to protect you. If you take Ephedra correctly, it is safer than Tylenol®. There are more lobbyists for the Pharmaceutical Industry than there are representatives and senators. The Pharmaceutical Interests have very deep pockets, and they have nearly every one of the people we sent to Washington inside them. At latest count, there were 685 lobbiests for the phamaceutical industry, but only two for patient rights. Only 13% of Americans trust the Pharmaceutical Companies, but money talks and they still control legislation. If we don't do something quickly, we'll all be worse off for it. Visit Citizens For Health. Volunteers Wanted We would like to give each senator and representative (to include up and coming candidates for both positions) a report card on Health Care Freedom. We need people to investigate their senators and representatives from their states; look at their voting records; call their offices; ask some hard questions. If you are interested, please write to Yes I Want To Volunteer, and do it soon. We will disseminate this information to all health freedom sites so that those "servants" in Washington who are working against our best interests, working to restrict our freedoms are put on notice that they might soon be retired from office. Please help out. It is a lot harder to reverse a rotten law than it is to stop legislation from becoming a rotten law. _________________________________ "He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably." 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