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To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:31 PM
Subject: Contact House of Representatives to stop CODEX (CAFTA)
Dietary Supplement Freedom Fighters, wherever you are, there is only one week
to oppose CODEX in the House of Representatives....
While everyone is distracted on a Holiday weekend, and away on vacations, and
while vitamin supplement advocates are monitoring events in Rome (CODEX
meeting), legislation pending before Congress (CAFTA) would essentially make
CODEX restrictions on vitamin and mineral supplements binding as US law via the
CAFTA trade agreement. The Senate has already passed CAFTA, so you must
contact the US House of Representatives to oppose CAFTA, in order to stop
CODEX..... the National Health Federation has the right information........
NATIONAL
HEALTH
FEDERATION
A NOT-FOR-PROFIT HEALTH ORGANIZATION
July 2, 2005
URGENT ALERT
ACT NOW
YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED
CAFTA VOTE - 1 WEEK AWAY
WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OVERRIDE DSHEA
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require the U.S.,
a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food laws and
regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force harmonization of our
dietary supplements and regulations to international standards, overriding the
DSHEA Act of 1994.
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader Free
Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modelled after the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are typical
bureaucratic monstrosities of "managed" trade that masquerade as free trade and
would expand NAFTA to include first Central America and then the rest of the
Americas in an economic "union." True free trade would take a few pages of
written text to enact ("eliminate these barriers to trade and these tariffs,"
etc.); all three of these agreements encompass thousands of pages of
bureaucratic textual garbage sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and
special-interest benefits.
Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all its
members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee for the
purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement
in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that text at the following
website:
http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html.
If you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will read the
following words: "To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a
basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety measures on
international standards, guidelines or recommendations." (emphasis added) And
as you all know by now, Codex sets the international standards for food safety
including vitamins & minerals.
So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives when they
reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which health-freedom
haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
and obligate the United States and Canada by treaty to harmonize to the harshly
restrictive Codex vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to
succeed, and we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put
a knife in the back of our health freedoms.
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~CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st, 2005.
~Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.
~IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill 1307
(click here to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on without going to
committee. It is on the House calendar and may be brought up at any time.
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ONLY ONE WEEK TO ACT. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO VOTE AGAINST
CAFTA NOW.
YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE VOTING IN THE HOUSE WILL BE CLOSE.
WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION LETTERS.
PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.
Contact any member of the House of Representatives via
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Click here for Petition Opposition Letter.
P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 USA ~ 1 (626) 357-2181 ~ Fax 1 (626) 303-0642
Website: www.thenhf.com E-mail: [email protected]
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