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Pharmaceutical attacks against dietary supplements are heating up once again, and the US General Accounting Office (GAO) has issued a 47 page report on July 11, 2000. It falsely concludes that federal law and agencies provide limited assurance of the safety of functional foods and dietary supplements, and strongly encourages unnecessary regulation to "reign in" our industry. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/rc00156.pdf This GAO Report has been heavily influenced by a long time critic of the supplement industry: Center for Science in the Public Interest, who are staunch supporters of the FDA and pharmaceutical interests. International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF) warns LEF members that GAO reports of this type always lead to legislative attacks against the industry, and that if the Democrats should regain just 6 seats in the House, it would give them a majority in Congress. This would put arch enemies of the supplement industry Congressmen John Dingle of Michigan, and Henry Waxman of California back in control of the House Commerce Committee and of the Health and Environment Subcommittee, and both have vowed to repeal DSHEA- legislation that has protected our access to supplements since 1994. Neither the German or American proposals to regulate vitamins currently on the table before the UN's Codex Alimentarius Committee can be accepted by consumers, as both severely threaten our access. In order to learn how you can help fight CODEX, be sure to read John Hammell's latest Codex article about his recent trip to the Codex meeting in Germany at: http://iahf.com/codex/20000726.html IAHF (http://www.iahf.com) are consultants to LEF on health freedom issues. LEF encourages members to join the IAHF email distribution list in order to keep abreast of health freedom issues. This is easily done by sending email to iahf-subscr...@listbot.com with the word "subscribe" in the subject line, or through the listbot menu on the iahf website. [Disclaimer: IAHF is not a department of LEF, it is a seperate business entity, and interfaces with LEF and its members in the capacity of a consulting firm on health freedom issues. LEF does not necessarily agree with or subscribe to all views, information, and opinions expressed by IAHF, John Hammell, or by groups or persons allied to IAHF, nor does LEF editorially censor the views of IAHF. It is as easy to unsubscribe from the IAHF email list as it is to subscribe, with instructions provided in each email. LEF appreciates John Hammell's expertise as a health freedom lobbyist, and Foundation members can learn much from him.] ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to lifeextension1-unsubscr...@listbot.com ñ Michael Lee Finney michael.fin...@acm.org michael.fin...@computer.org -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
