fw: IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, EU, Codex Oversight
IAHF List: I inadvertantly forgot in my last email to include the list of email addresses to send the form letter to! Sorry! Here it is, and please take a minute to send this in, its vitally important! EU Food Supplement Directive In order to preserve the future availability of supplements in the USA, it is now vitally important for US citizens to fax or e-mail the following people requesting that the EU Food Supplement Directive be abandoned. If this directive is not stopped it will strongly influence the deliberations of the UN Codex Alimentarius committee, who advocate similar tight restrictions on the sale of supplements. The USA would then come under strong international pressure to implement these Codex recommendations because of its' having signed up to the NAFTA and GATT international trade agreements. Romano Prodi (President of the European Commission) [email protected] Fax number 011 32 2 295 8532 Robert Coleman (EU Director-General for Health and Consumer Protection) [email protected] Fax number 011 32 2 299 6298 David Byrne (EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection) [email protected] Fax number 011 32 2 298 1499 Basil Mathioudakis (whose job it is to steer the Directive through the European Parliament) [email protected] Fax number 011 32 2 296 0951 US Citizens should use the following as the basis for their faxes and e-mails: Dear Sir I am an American citizen and a consumer of food supplements, and have been following with great concern the progress of the EU Food Supplement Directive. Quite apart from the fact that the directive completely ignores both individual freedom of choice and individual nutritional need, I am disturbed to learn that should this restrictive directive be implemented it will influence the deliberations of the Codex Alimentarius committee. Thus, your legislation will therefore be having an influence not only on Europe but on world-wide trade, and in non European markets such as the USA. My own rights to buy the food supplements of my choice could therefore be directly affected by this directive. The Food Supplement Directive as it is currently proposed does not treat consumers and food supplements in a way that encourages good health; unlike the US DSHEA for example, where President Clinton himself attributed the move toward legislative and regulatory reform for dietary supplements to a growing interest on the part of the American public in the use of dietary supplements. In signing DSHEA into law, he stated: . . . in an era of greater consciousness among people about the impact of what they eat on how they live, indeed, how long they live, it is appropriate that we have finally reformed the way the Government treats consumers and these supplements in a way that encourages good health. President Clinton's statement, and the US DSHEA itself, are in stark contrast to the proposed EU legislation, which rather than protecting the rights of consumers to buy and consume the supplements of their choice will instead tightly restrict both the availability and dosages of all nutrient ingredients. This goes against all of the latest nutritional and scientific research, which shows clear and unequivocal benefits to human health and longevity from the consumption of high-dose food supplements. I therefore urge you to now abandon this directive, and consider the rights of consumers of nutritional supplements, who have not asked for, nor do they want, their individual freedom of choice in health-care to be restricted by this directive. Yours sincerely, ---------------------------------------------------------- -- 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: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
