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Your FREE Access to Nutritional Supplements May be Soon Lost What if I told you the next time you walk into your health food store, it will be the last time you're able to buy vitamin C in 500 mg doses? Or what if I said the recommended daily allowances, as given by our government, had become the maximum amount you could buy? If you've read this newsletter for very long, you know both of these situations could happen. But the possibility has always been "years away." Well, this month I'm writing to tell you that those "years away" are now down to 18 months! That's right! I've written to you on several occasions through the years about the war our government is fighting against our beloved supplements. This war has now escalated to the point that you could lose your free access to vitamins in just a year and a half! How can this be? Thanks to certain trade agreements our government has made "on your behalf," it's quite possible the United States will be forced to declare high dosages of nutritional supplements as drugs - subject to prescription laws. Several years ago, you read in these pages about Codex Alimentarius, which means "food code" in Latin. It's the name of a United Nations commission that operates as part of the World Health Organization. The Commission's mandate is to set international standards for trade in all kinds of food products. Its concerns include raw- and processed-food standards, pesticide and other contaminant levels, nutritional content, and labeling. Nutritional supplements are considered food products. The Codex Alimentarius Commission has been establishing world guidelines that no dietary supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic purposes without a prescription. Second, the Codex Alimentarius Commission is limiting over-the-counter sales of dietary supplements to those of low or RDA dosage, the amounts required to prevent deficiency diseases but not chronic or degenerative diseases (such as cancer). Dietary supplements of higher potency - the dosages that work to fortify the immune system and stave off aging and chronic disease - would become pharmaceuticals. You would have to get them from a pharmacist. And that's after visiting and paying your doctor just to get the prescription. If you want to know what the Commission has in store for you, you just need to look at Europe where Codex rules are already in place. Vitamin C, for example, is limited to just 50 mg per dose in some countries, compared to our products of up to 1,000 mg or powders of several thousand mg per teaspoon. I was one who thought this horror would not reach our shores. However, what I'm finding out is that it very well could reach our shores in a year and a half through treaty law. Some officials are saying the treaties don't come into play here and others are saying they do. At this point, it looks to me like the treaties will force us to comply with international law. Article Continued In Next Column Your Health Freedom May Be At Risk! Check Our CODEX/Activism Section | Main Articles Page | |
You're well aware of
the FDA's move to ban ephedra. In the wake of the ephedra bill, I also told
you about two bills quietly moving through the U.S. Congress entitled "safety
and access" regarding supplements (S 722 - The Dietary Supplement Safety
Act and HR 3377 - The Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act). Once
passed, the FDA will be empowered to reel in any supplement it deems unsafe.
But these bills will mean nothing if the World Health Organization adopts the Commission's rules. Why? Once WHO adopts these rules, they become the standard for international trade, and enforcement will fall under the jurisdiction of the World Trade Organization. When the U.S. became a member of the WTO, it agreed to act in accordance with the rules of the multilateral body. What that means is that the United States is legally obligated to make sure our laws do not conflict with WTO laws. In other words, our government must agree to any "directives" the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body hands down. (If you don't believe me, our Congress has already changed American corporate tax law and other laws because of threats from the WTO.) The U.S. will have to adopt the new WTO rules, which are far more stringent than the current bills before Congress, or face trade sanctions from member nations. This is truly an outrage! Not only are we losing our vitamins, but we're also giving away our national sovereignty! All because Big Pharma can't stand to lose its profits. There is not much time to act. I have contacted editors of other newsletters, including Jonathan Wright and Julian Whitaker, and asked them to run similar warnings so that there can be a galvanized storm of opposition. Please take this article to your nutritional stores, or if you belong to a multi-level vitamin company, alert the leaders. Contact every person you know with copies of this article. You have my permission to make copies! However, even your congressman is powerless to fight Codex, so I implore you to help support the British "Alliance for Natural Health," which has filed suit to overturn the European Food Supplements Directive. In January 2004, the Alliance's attorneys (a firm which has successfully had another European Directive overturned) won the first round in the High Court of Justice in London; the appeal was referred to the European Court of Justice. Please visit the Alliance's website, http://www.alliance-natural-health.org, read about its case, and most importantly, make a donation to support its efforts to protect everyone's supplements, including yours. Even a few dollars will help! If we can help them overturn this food supplement dictatorship in Europe, it won't ever come here.
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