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Public Apathy. This is what we will be living with. Archive in CODEX.

Friends,

We have no one to blame but ourselves for this when it happens. We are already held hostage by the pharmaceutical companies but they are infinitely greedy and want it ALL.

PLEASE wake up and wake up your neighbor too?

Comments? Walt

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From: "elijahnyc"
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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: [Alternative_Medicine_Forum] Huge Supplements Ban Coming To Europe

> Huge Supplements Ban Coming To Europe
> BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE COVER-UP
> http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtml
>
> An Interview with John Hammell of International
> Advocates For Health Freedom (IAHF)
> by Greg Ciola
>
> Crusador Newsletter DEC-JAN 2004, (ISSUE 16)
>
> In August 2005, everything in Europe is about to change. Over 300
> bioavailable nutrient forms present in over 5,000 safe vitamin and
> mineral products that include a large number of the safest, most
> readily absorbed and most effective, food-derived forms will be
> banned from the market. It stems from radical legislation passed in
> Europe by member State governments in June 2002 known as the EU Food
> Supplements Directive (FSD). The list of banned items includes
> natural vitamin forms such as mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E),
> carotenoids and methylcobalamin, all forms of sulphur, boron,
> vanadium, silicon and most trace elements, the most readily absorbed
> and safest forms of calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, chromium and
> molybdenum. It will severely limit the doses of vitamins and other
> nutrients allowed in products, removing all high-dose products from
> the market. It will include future restrictions on nutrient forms
> other than vitamins and minerals such as fatty acids, amino acids,
> enzymes, probiotics, phytonutrients, etc. It will dramatically limit
> future innovation in the dietary supplement industry, with consequent
> serious impacts on retail outlets, complementary practitioners and
> consumers who choose to take responsibility for their own health.
>
> In addition to denying most Europeans access to safe nutritional
> supplements, this draconian EU Directive is going to be used as the
> blueprint for establishing international dietary supplement laws at
> Codex of which the U.S. has agreed to adopt. If this happens, which
> is a very likely scenario in the next year or so, Codex will outlaw
> or severely restrict virtually everything millions of us have grown
> accustomed to using safely every day. We no longer live in a world
> where national borders mean much of anything. We are witnessing the
> rapid unification of the world into a new global government with
> Europe at the helm. When the World Trade Organization (WTO) was given
> teeth to enforce international trade laws in the early 1990s by
> establishing an international court known as the Dispute Settlement
> Body, all WTO member nations in principle agreed to harmonize their
> domestic trade laws to a new set of international laws so every
> nation operates by the same set of standards. Most supplement
> consumers were unaware at the time that in effect, this would
> eventually lead to an incremental attack on all of our food
> supplements here in America and around the world. Most supplement
> companies have simply gone along with the advice from their
> pharmaceutically dominated trade associations and know very little,
> if any, about what is taking shape across the Atlantic.
>
> The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), a consumer advocacy group
> based in Britain, was recently granted the green light to challenge
> the FSD at the last minute; however, very rarely has a EU Directive
> ever been overturned and in this case, it would be a historic event
> considering the pharmaceutical interests backing its implementation.
> Resources are very scarce and desperately needed to keep the lawsuit
> going to overturn the Directive before it's too late. They've hired a
> top staff of EU lawyers and together with its multidisciplinary team
> of experts they are prepared for a legal challenge in a EU Court.
> With the EU expanding by ten more nations in early 2004 to a combined
> total of twenty-five member nations, and with heavy pressure to
> finalize a Codex vitamin standard, we're at a critical juncture on
> this issue. If the FSD is not overturned, and with Europe's ever-
> expanding power, it's very possible that there will be enough
> countries onboard to overrule the U.S. at Codex where many parts of
> the FSD will be used when international vitamin laws are codified.
> Once a Codex vitamin law is finalized, it will supercede all U.S.
> supplement laws. The only way for America to truly protect its vital
> interest is to get out of the U.N. and the WTO entirely, which is
> something nobody realistically sees happening. If America is not
> vigilant to this threat, our supplement industry will be blindsided
> and knocked out without even putting up a valiant fight.
>
> In an effort to educate supplement consumers around the world to this
> dangerous threat to our health freedoms, CRUSADOR interviewed John
> Hammell of IAHF in a no holds barred discussion. Hammell has been
> sounding the alarm since 1996 that serious trouble is brewing for our
> industry. Unfortunately, John's pleas for help have mostly fallen on
> deaf ears as these international agreements continue to plod forward
> virtually unopposed and with complicity from high level U.S.
> delegates with pharmaceutical ties representing us at Codex. The time
> to muster the troops and kill this Directive and block a very
> restrictive Codex vitamin standard is now. Otherwise, it will be too
> late and America's supplement laws will be harmonized to a new set of
> draconian international vitamin laws.
>
>
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Thanks, Walt and Peter. I'm in complete agreement (nmsg)