Hi! Please forward this to everyone you know, including other
yahoo
groups. Also, call your local news stations. I called mine, and
received a call back from channel 4 in Detroit. They will be
investigating this story! Another idea is to print this out and
post it on the bulletin boards at your local health food stores such
as Whole Foods. Lastly, you should call or write to your state
representatives, congressman, and the president and vice president.
Sometimes it seems like things like this our out of our hands, but
if everyone reading this truly takes action, something can be done.
Let's try it this time and see if we truly can prevent this from
happening.

READ BELOW:


Subject: Banning Sales of Food Supplements Worldwide

If we don't act now, we have no right to complain afterwards. Act
now!

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 standards for all countries in
the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and will override 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 food supplements. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and
finalized "Step 8 (the final stage)" to begin implementation in
June '05.

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 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg, vitamin B6 above 4 mg
-all are banned over-the-counter as drugs. No essential amino acids
(arginine, lysine (used effectively for fever blisters), carnitine,
L-Tryptophan (used effectively for eliminating depression), GABA
(used effectively for eliminating anxiety), etc., 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 (see web sites below), 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. Inform yourselves :
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, etc.


(4) Express your wishes to the President, Senators and
Representatives (They got us into this!) ASAP.

(5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get
their members to inform the government.

(6) Contact the British Alliance for Natural Health (see web site
above).
It has succeeded in challenging the CODEX directives in World Court
and will appear in court again later this month or next. They need
help
financially, having carried the fight effectively for everyone. CODEX
and
the FDA wish to "protect" us by controlling supplements in the same
way they do prescription drugs. A study of the latter by three
medical
scientists was reported in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, April 15, 1998 -Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200: "Incidence of
Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR's) was found to be extremely high."
Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found that in the U.S. an
average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year (290 per day!!)
DIE from ADR's and 2,200,000 need more hospitalization for recovery!
These were FDA approved drugs, properly administered by competent
professionals in hospitals--none were considered malpractice. This
is the number four cause of death in the U.S. When combined,
these account for 7% of all hospitalized patients. This is equivalent
to a 9-11 attack every ten days. There are very few fatalities from
supplements or the news would be on every front page. There is no
need for more FDA control of supplements than is already in place,
which is substantial. Instead of drastically restricting supplements,
why doesn't the FDA better control, restrict the extremely
dangerous pharmaceutical drugs and require double-blind studies
of multiple Px interactions which are now killing us at the rate of
a major airline crash per day?

Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.
1145 Marine Drive
Bellingham, WA 98225

Do a LYCOS search for "codex alimentarius" and read all you
can...This thing is REAL BAD !


"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the
stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,
while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage
of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute
force." [Ayn Rand, The Nature of Government]

For Liberty in Our Lifetime,
R.J. Tavel, J.D., Founder




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