--- Begin Message ---Okay folks, CODEX is out of the closet and running amuck. If you value your freedom to choose just what supplements and vitamins and how much then lets light a fire. This is terrible when you consider that we voted these dummies in. Oh well, maybe this is just what we all deserve when we don't guard our liberty with the same passion as we do such important things as gay rights and goals 2000 and outcome based education. Who would have believed that Sereivo (sp) would be in shambles not many years after the Winter Olympics. If that is our lot, then so be it. At least let us go down fighting the good fight rather than rolling over and playing dead dog.Jack The following is information regarding the FDA Reform Act and CODEX, a group consisting largely of multi-national corporations with the vested interest of controlling nutritional supplements through the pharmaceutical companies of the world. This is basically about vitamins. If you use vitamins and other health supplements, you should read as much of this as you can and then contact your congressman. This is really serious stuff here. I have been somewhat following this CODEX thing, but it's very hard to get up to date info. Basically what's happening is another attempt is being made to regulate, via doctors and pharmacists, who can take vitamins and how much your allowed to take, etc., etc. So, if you have a headache, let's say, or you need to take enzymes to help digest some food--anything like that at all--and you want to take a supplement, you would have to get a prescription first from a doctor, and then the doctor might not even give it to you, or might give you a fraction of what you need. In other words, if this thing goes through, you would have to go see your doctor and he would be able to dictate how much of a given supplement you could take or even whether you're allowed to take it. Vitamins would no longer be available except via pharmacies. (Is it any coincidence, then, that 90% of the group of people pushing this CODEX thing are made up of pharmeceutical company people?) Anyone who has ever talked to an MD about vitamins probably has seen how unworkable that would be. As part of their training, they have been given the idea that vitamins are not nearly as important as chemicals like aspirin, Tylenol, codeine or other prescription drugs. This requires pretty immediate action, like right now when you're done reading this. Here's what I would suggest you do: 1. Read as much of this data below as you feel you can. It's long but you don't have to read it all. Just understand enough so you know what to say when you call your congressman. 2. Don't assume that someone else is going to oppose this for you. If you're opposed to it, take a stand and do something. This could all be over in a couple of days and then it would be very, very hard to reverse. 3. Call your congressman and tell your congressman to sponsor an amendment to the House Companion Bill to S. 830 (FDA Reform Bill) Tell him/her the "harmonization" language MUST BE AMENDED. (See below for more data). Minimally say "I'm opposed to S. 830 (FDA Reform Bill). If you're not sure who your congressman is, go to this link: http://clerkweb.house.gov/mbrcmtee/members/mbrsstate/uolmfram.htm 4. Pass this e-mail on to as many people as you can, particularly those who you are pretty sure would find this information important. If they use supplements of any kind, they would. Let me know if you have any questions. Hans PS: If you've never called your congressman's office, it's VERY easy and they are very happy to receive your opinions. So even if you're the shy type, they're practically expecting calls from their voters. -----READ THIS INFORMATION NOW IF YOU TAKE VITAMINS OR NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS ------ YOU MAY LOOSE THE RIGHT TO YOUR VITAMINS IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!!! October 7th, 1997 In less than 10 days this is coming in front of the House of Representatives.It had ALREADY PASSED THE SENATE by a vote of 96 to 2. It's a Bill related to the CODEX LAW which is short for CODEX ALIMENTARIUS. It's a nutrition code to set worldwide standeards for foods, drugs, pesticides and their trade. The latest German proposal that is being voted on in the House for CODEX is that: 1. No vitamin, mineral, herb or food supplement can be sold for preventative or therapeutic use. 2. None sold as a food can exceed dosage levels set by the Commission can exceed dosage levels set by the Commission. Eg. 50 mg of vitamin C is the top dosage in Germany today. 3. CODEX regulations for dietary supplements would become legally binding in the USA through the GATT Treaty, which would involve enormous fines in America if we didn't comply. 4. All new dietary supplements will be banned unless they pass the CODEX approval process. The wording in the Congressional Bill uses the term "harmonization" which means that most senators and congresspersons will not likely be aware of the implications. The delegates that make up and decide on the CODEX mandates are made up of 90% of the giant Multi-national Pharmaceutical corporations. The drug companies want to monopolize and create pharmaceutical versions of the Natural healthfood and nutrient business throughout the world. An example of the consequences is that possession of DHEA is now a felony in Canada with the same penalty as that for possession of drugs. You have LESS THAN 10 DAYS to save your vitamins! Call your local congressperson and the below listed key congresspersons at these capital switchboard lines and leave messages. DO NOT ask them to respond to you or tell them what state you're from - it's irrelevant. (800) 972-3524 (800) 522-6721 Helen Chenoweth / Idaho Joe Scarborough / Florida Jack Metcalffe / Washington Lon Paul / Texas James Trafficant / New Mexico President Clinton's Spokesperson (he has veto power) - Senator Bob Graham / Florida This Bill is called "Section 202 of Senate 830" Write to: Dr. Robert Moore FDA Office of Special Nutritionals HFS 456 200c St. S.W. Washington D.C. 20204 EXPRESS YOUR OBJECTIONS TO THE CODEX PROPOSAL! PLEASE COPY THIS AND GET IT TO OTHER PEOPLE. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA - THIS IS VERY REAL AND VERY SERIOUS! October 9th, 1997 NEW DEVELOPMENT: This Bill was already snuck through House and Senate in less than a few days and now the House and Senate are voting on a 3rd merged version. (The House Companion Bill) Ask your congressperson to sponsor an amendment to the House Companion Bill to S. 830 (FDA Reform Bill) The "harmonization" language MUST BE AMENDED. Tell them you Want a public comments period concerning the harmonization agreements. CODEX: What does it mean? Although written by a prominent Canadian M.D., the article below, one of the BEST we have read on the topic, was distributed by a U.S. group seeking to stop the CODEX in the U.S. The CODEX affects the U.S., Canada, and all member nations of the U.N. We URGE you to read it and decide if maybe, just maybe, it's finally time for you to use the democractic process TODAY to preserve the future of you and your family TOMORROW. We have reported on this a number of times already. Some of you have sent us messages indicating that you understand the importance. Some of you may be too cynical -- or perhaps too healthy..? -- to care. But that may change. You have to appreciate how close to collapse our current medical paradigm is. New bugs are appearing every day, many of which are resistant to conventional medicine. In fact, as of last week, there is only one true broad-spectrum antibiotic left in the entire arsenal of modern medicine, and new bugs which it cannot kill are already appearing! [Have doubts? Check with your own doctor!] A study JUST released in Canada last week tested hundreds of pre-schoolers (children in day-care centers) and found that 1 in every 3 (33.3%) were on some form of antibiotic at any given point in time! Further research found that 1 in 4 had at least ONE FORM OF BACTERIA PRESENT IN NASAL TISSUE that was 100% drug-resistant. [Source: CBC TV]. This data can safely (there's a misnomer!!...) be extrapolated to ANY COUNTRY in the western world. And hostpitals in the US and Canada are now routinely enforcing VOLUNTARY QUARANTINES to deal with outbreaks of drug resistant bugs that thrive ONLY IN HOSPITALS. One top US virologist recently suggested that MORE DRUG RESISTANT BUGS HAVE APPEARED IN THE LAST 24 MONTHS THAN IN THE LAST TWO DECADES. Taking this as a mathematical progression, it doesn't look good for us. Or our children. What does this have to do with the UN CODEX -- which, BY THE WAY, IS ALREADY IN FORCE IN GERMANY AND NORWAY? Simply this -- as medical paradigms collapse (and they ARE collapsing), the greatest defense you have against these bugs is a HEIGHTENED IMMUNE SYSTEM. A good trick in these toxic times. Many of the vitamins that the Codex wants to ban are the ONLY way we see to keep your immune system up in the times ahead. And, another reminder, the OLDER you get, the MORE problems you are likely to have. If you value freedom of choice in health care, it may still not be too late for you to help stop the pending world wide suppression of Complementary Medicine. If the Codex Alimentarius (Nutrition Code) Commission has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex is to shift all remedies under the prescription category that would be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. This scenario, predictably, has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) and the Health Protection Branch (HPB or Hocus Pocus Bunch). Do not for one second believe these people. Let me explain: No, Codex is not a new sanitary napkin. Nor is it a benign group of boring bureaucrats. It is officially known as the United Nations/World Health Organization (WHO) Codex Alimentarius (Nutrition Code) Commission. It meets every 2 years, usually in Rome, and very little has appeared about it in the media. Nevertheless, documentation supports the possibility that Codex is the greatest threat to health freedom in the world today. Most of the information we have on this secretive group can be found on the Internet. Codex is empowered by governments to set standards of operation for the health industry. Over 90% of the international organizations allowed to send delegates to the meetings represent giant multinational pharmaceutical corporations. The only consumer organization is the International Organization of Consumer Unions. Neither the natural health care industry nor the general public has any representation at Codex meetings.</B></FONT></P> In October, 1996, Codex met in Bonn, Germany to make radical changes in the rules governing dietary supplements for member nations. The proposals of greatest concern were those made by the German delegation (Proposed Draft Guidelines for Dietary Supplements) and is being sponsored by Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. These are the three drug companies formed when the Nurenberg War Trials disbanded IG Farben, manufacturer of the poison gas used in Nazi concentration camps. This is not the first time that the U.N. has been linked closely with Nazi war criminals. Ostensibly, their purpose is "....create a set of international standards to guide the world's growing food industry and to protect the health of consumers." If you really believe that, I have some ocean front property for you at half price in Saskatoon The drug company backed proposals call for the following: No vitamin, mineral, herb, etc., can be sold for prophylactic (preventative) or therapeutic reasons. Natural remedies can be sold as food but they must not exceed the potency (dosage) levels set by the commission. This means that consumer access to dietary supplements will be limited to the RDA dosage as a maximum limit for vitamins (vitamin C - 60 mg, vitamin E - 15 mg, etc.). Supplements without an RDA (e.g. coenzyme Q10) would be illegal to sell because they would all become drugs. Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding, eliminating the escape clause within the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that allows a nation to set its own standards. This applies to all member countries of the U.N. Any nation that does not accept and apply these new standards will be heavily fined by the World Trade Organization (WTO) creating the potential of crippling entire sectors of that nation's economy. All new supplements would be banned unless they go through the Codex approval process. Five steps have already been taken in the Codex process over the past few years. Remember Canadian Bill C-7 which was passed eventually in Canada as C-8? The similarity of the process, the secrecy and the wording between the Codex proposals and the Canadian laws is uncanny. Voting in favour of adopting the German proposal has been overwhelming (16 for and 2 against in the most recent vote). The Codex process is now at Step Five- formalization and debate concerning the specific features. In two years, Codex could jump from step 5 to step 8 to finalize these restrictions. The Codex proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, Vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an echinacea tincture which is being sold there as an OTC drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores, or pharmacies. According to Dr. Matthias Rath, researcher and author who discovered a correlation between vitamin C deficiency and heart disease, the three Nazi-linked drug companies pushing so hard for the German proposal, Hoechst, Bayer and BASF, are also manufacturers of heart drugs. Obviously, with the vitamin competition gone, nothing will stop their profits.</B></FONT></P> Yes, very much so. According to John C. Hammell, legal advocate for the U.S. based Life Extension Foundation, the Nazi-linked proposals have the backing of Canadian and French Codex commission representatives. In June of 1996, the Codex Executive committee will be creating an expert panel on herbs which is likely to generate a negative list to prevent public access to certain herbs internationally (see the list below). The formation of this expert panel was advocated by none other than the Canadian representatives. Why then are the HPB and the CHFA denying that the Codex proposals will have no impact on the availability of nutritional supplements in Canada? Either spokespersons for these two groups are ignorant about the proposals or they are lying to the public in order to protect drug company profits. After all, several voting members of the CHFA are owned by or are subsidiaries of major drug manufacturers or pharmaceutical chains. Neither group can be trusted to give the public straight answers about the Codex scam. They are in a clear conflict of interest since they stand to gain financially when the supplement prices are boosted out the roof. Further evidence of Canadian involvement is the HPB (Hocus Pocus Bunch) position on what is or is not a food or a drug. This bunch is either cleverly devious about their support of pharmaceutical concerns or just plain dumb. For example, garlic, ginger, licorice and peppermint are considered to be foods when sold as spices. If a grocery store manager makes claims for their therapeutic effects, they then become drugs via a hocus pocus mechanism which remains to be defined. As it now stands in Canada (and this changes on a regular basis given the current mood, blood sugar level or whims of officials at the HPB) the following list of currently available health food store nutritional supplements are considered nebulously to be either a drug a drug even in the absence of claims or a new drug with claims Aloe vera Astragalus Bilberry Capsicum Cascara sagrada Cat's claw Chamomile Dong Quai Echinacea augustifolia Echinacea purpurea Ephedra (Ma huang) Feverfew Garlic Ginger Ginkgo biloba Ginseng Golden Seal Gotu Kola Hawthorne Kava Kava Licorice Milk Thistle Pau D'arco (Taheebo) Peppermint Psyllium Sarsaparilla Saw palmetto Yohimbe This list is likely to expand over the next two years. If the Codex and the HPB have their way, your favorite supplements will be replaced by expensive, patented, over-the-counter or prescription drugs. Just look what has already happened to amino acids like tryptophan. Once available for under $20 for a bottle of 100 tablets of 500 mgs. at your local health food store, the same tablet is now only available by prescription at a cost of over $120 at your pharmacy. On top of that, in order to get a prescription for tryptophan, you will have to convince your doctor to give you one. This is easier said than done simply because most medical doctors have no clue what tryptophan does or believe it to be toxic. Project this shallow thinking on to the herbs listed above and it becomes quite clear that public access to natural remedies will be a thing of the past. For more information, documentation and a plan of action to fight the Codex proposals, contact: John Hammell, Legislative Advocate, The Life Extension Foundation 2411 Monroe St. #2 Hollywood, FL 33020 USA Telephone: 800-333-2553, 954-929-2905 Fax: 954-929-0507 E-mail: [email protected] Internet web site: http://www/lef.org/lef/index.html Natural Health and Longevity Home Page Complete Index of Health Articles Natural Health and Longevity Resource Center Internet web site: http://www.all-natural.com<<attachment: vcard.vcf>>
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