HEALTH FREEDOM UNDER ATTACK!

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Health Freedom is Under Attack
Worldwide pharmaceutical interests have launched a secretive global
attack to limit access to information on health choices & restrict
the right to obtain dietary supplements.
Pharmaceutical interests would gain financially if supplements are
strictly controlled and so they are pushing for the US to adopt Codex
Alimentarius, an international code of standards that would force us
to "harmonize" with France & Germany's restrictive rules.
In Europe, The EU (European Union) Vitamin Directive threatens to
destroy consumer access to therapeutic doses of vitamins & minerals,
except by prescription.
In the U.S., Americans, who write to Congress to demand an Oversight
Hearing on Codex, are being told that a Federal Statute already
protects their rights. This is misleading.
Current pressure to set arbitrary "safety standards" for vitamins
(UL's or Upper Levels) in the US could set the stage for
harmonization. It has begun...

"Health Freedom is Under Global Stealth Attack"
by John C. Hammell, President, International Advocates for Health
Freedom

Vitamin Consumers World Wide, Especially Americans:
Multinational Pharmaceutical Interests are currently engaged in a
global stealth attack on the dietary supplement industry and it won't
be stopped without immediate massive grass roots action, especially
in the USA and in the European Union. Currently in the European
Union, vitamin consumers are under direct attack and there is a need
for vitamin consumers world wide to go to www.laleva.org to sign the
Anti-EU Vitamin Directive Petition. The EU Vitamin Directive
threatens to destroy consumer access to vitamins and minerals within
the therapeutic range, except by prescription, all over Europe, to
force all EU nations to walk in lockstep with Germany and France
where dietary supplements are heavily restricted. Unless stopped, all
15 EU nations will harmonize with Germany going into the next Codex
vitamin meeting in November of 2001, and this could drive it through
to completion.

This would set up the USA and the rest of the world for
harmonization, in the same way all the EU countries are currently
threatened. Consumers world wide must protest en masse, in the EU to
your MEPs, elsewhere to your MPs and in America by demanding an
oversight hearing which has been denied us since 1996 due to pressure
from pharmaceutical interests.

For the past 5 years, members of Congress have told American vitamin
consumers that an Oversight Hearing on Codex is a non issue because a
Federal Statute protects our laws, including the Proxmire Vitamin
Act, and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994,
from harmonization to a restrictive international standard.

People receiving this response from Congress are being misled, and
Congress is being scripted on how to respond by the FDA, which is
acting in the best interests of the multinational pharmaceutical
industry, instead of representing the best interests of American
vitamin consumers.

If the Federal Statute in question (19 U.S.C. 3512(a)(1) and also (a)
(2) in FACT protected our laws from harmonization to international
standards which are usurping our sovereignty, it would not have been
necessary for Congressman Ron Paul to introduce the American
Sovereignty Restoration Act HR1146. "(ASRA")

Paul felt compelled to introduce ASRA because it is apparent to him,
and to Jeanne Grimmett of the Congressional Research Service, that
our domestic laws are not in fact protected by the aforementioned
Federal Statute, due to the threat of trade sanctions being imposed
by the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body whenever we try refusing to
harmonize our laws to an international standard. There are many
examples in which Congress has in fact caved to this threat of trade
sanctions. They are shown at www.iahf.com "US Laws Not Safe" section.

Proof that we're being set up for harmonization to the highly
restrictive EU and Codex standards can be found at
www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html in an article titled "U.S. and
European Leaders Agree on Principles to Harmonize Dietary Supplement
Regulations" The American people seem to have been cut out of the
loop as the pharmaceutically dominated working group on dietary
supplements of the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue has flat out
stated their intention to harmonize our laws, whether we like it or
not!!! The FDA is in bed with these multinational pharmaceutical
companies, and all of this would come out in an Oversight Hearing.

This Codex Vitamin Issue is proof positive that we must pass the
American Sovereignty Restoration Act, because none of our domestic
laws are safe from harmonization, and this issue proves it. Oversight
is, therefore, sorely needed.

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will
come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship...
To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal
privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.
All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a
republic... The Constitution of this republic should make special
privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."--Dr
Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence