Posted on 02/13/2005 5:47:40 PM PST by dvan
READ THIS VERY IMPORTANT HEALTH MESSAGE BELOW AND CONTACT EVERYONE.
Your right to choose your vitamin, 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 standard in all countries in the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and will over ride 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 200mg, niacin above 32mg, vitamin B6 above 4mg are banned over-the-counter. No amino acids (arginine, lysine, camitine 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 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 so. 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. Please look at these websites, and inform yourselves fully at - http://www.ahha.org - http://www.iahf.com - http://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.
4)- Express your wishes to the President, Senators and Representatives - A-S-A-P.
5)- Contact health marketing groups that can get their members to inform the government.
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Sincerely, Peter A. Peter Arnold, CLU, CFC // Founder Business Achievers Academy // Canada
Unfortunately, this is very true. The Health Food Industry has been mobilized to oppose this. It is being pushed by the Pharmacetical industry which has a lot to gain.
Vitamins supplements and the like are heavily regulated in Europe. When I lived in France, my parents sent me a care package of supplements every few months. They were unavailable.
I ask, contemplating the possibility that I might end up doing that, someday. When centralized government is strong enough, only the strongest (deepest pockets) will have government. We seem to be on an inevitable slide in that direction, able at best only to control the rate we slide down hill.
LoL..
Somebody's either pulling our legs or been drinking Kool-Aid.
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This is all the current posts.
I don't know about the rest of your "claims", but the one concerning Echinacea is patently FALSE!
You do NOT need a prescription to purchase this in Germany and the price ranges from 5 to 20 Euros (between about 6 and 25 dollars) depending on the dosage/amount.
At last. Algore's secret is out re: Rolling Stone cover.
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