CODEX DISASTER

UPDATE: June 17, 2005

Meeting in Rome, Italy on July 4-9 to vote into international law total compliance amoung the World Trade Organization (WTO) 165 member nations, of which the USA is one, will become mandatory. 75% of the natural substanced currently available in health food stores will become illegal, banned.

Time is short. Consumers are asked to send letters voicing their opinion and/or objection now. Send letters and faxes to your U.S. Senator or House of Representative person immediately. You can find email and fax numbers at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org.

"Codex Alimentarius is meeting in Germany to remove our worldwide rights on vitamins, all natural supplements, and natural health care. The drug companies want to take control of it all, thus either eliminating products altogether or making them very expensive and only available through a prescription, and pharmaceutically made with synthetics (this has already happened in Germany). Please go to this website and send your protest and get this to as many people as you possibly can. It only takes a minute and is very easy to do - the protest letters go directly to this committee. There are over 40 million letters so far. The website is http://www.vitamins-for-all.org."

Vitamins by prescription only? Undemocratic Codex is at it again. Unfortunately, most countries are bound by what this UN organization decides, so this is important.

Now that medical evidence shows vitamin supplement effectiveness, you may not get a chance to use it. An international pharmaceutical trade-group cartel known as CODEX is preparing to limit dietary supplements to RDA-quantities only, and make any supplement over the RDA a prescription-only item. This has already been done in a number of European countries.

Our government's response? Well, the US Food and Drug Administration has a history of seeking drastic regulations to limit your access to vitamins and other nutritional supplements. Make no mistake about it: FDA regulations have already resulted in at least six supplement products being pulled off the market, and one of these is, of all things, a brand of calcium powder. Another is the essential amino acid Tryptophan, discussed in the last newsletter. So FDA will be on CODEX's side.

The pharmaceutical cartel and the FDA rely on you doing nothing, so Congress will do nothing, and free access to safe, cost-effective supplements will be no more. The whole CODEX issue has been kept behind closed doors and off TV. We've had public hearings on tobacco. We've had assault weapons and crime hearings. We've had how-do-people-dimple- ballots-in-Florida hearings. Seen any CODEX hearings lately?

Every time FDA comes out and so sweetly says, "CODEX is not going to take ANYBODY'S vitamins away," you can tell them that we've heard it all before. It took the Proxmire Amendment to stop the FDA from making supplements prescription in 1976. It took the Dietary Supplement Education Act to stop FDA from making supplements prescription in 1994.

Now, it will take you to stop CODEX from doing FDA's dirty work for it. Will you write to your representative, your senator, and your local newspaper?

What would it be like to live in a country where it would be easier to buy a handgun than a bottle of vitamin C? CODEX's prescription for your vitamins will let you find out.

"Dirtiest Politics in the World"

The Honourable Eugene Whelan, recently retired Canadian Senator and former Minister of Agriculture, attended recent meetings of Codex (the international food regulating body), and described Codex as the "phoniest organization in the world." Codex representatives were not scientists. Most had no background in agriculture or food, and were heavily lobbied by industry. He described how the USA manipulated the proceedings as the "dirtiest politics in the world."
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