Thank you, Emmanual.

Know that your letter to this group made a difference. It caused
me to write to the FDA. I plan to send it to few politicians as
well. I hope you will do that, too or have you done it already?
I hope your letter cause others to write as well.

Below my email is a letter I wrote to the FDA on their website.

I hope everyone writes something to express that the action
planned by the FDA is NOT WANTED. It is not good enough
to just send a few emails around hoping others will do some-
thing. We need to write personal hand-written letters and
send them by snail mail or at the very least fax them to the
FDA and to our Congressman and Senators and whoever we
can think of.

Many of you do not realize how important it is do this. Many
do not realize what happens to a person's health without
adequate nutrition. Even if one is not affected now, they will
be sooner or later. Then it will not be pretty AND IT WILL BE
TOO LATE because the nutrients you need to get well will not
be there if the drug companies have their way. You must fight
for your rights. Supplements have never hurt us unless we
overdosed and even then the symptoms would be mild and
would disappear when the excess is stopped. The argument
of people overdosing is ridiculous. You can even overdose
on water. Does that mean we should have the FDA regulate
the amount of water we get daily?

Don't think for a minute that the pharmaceutical companies are
not behind all this nonsense.

Here's my letter to the FDA; I hope it might be useful to help you
write your letter to the FDA although you should try to choose
your own words.

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To FDA

No change to so-called CAM products regulation is needed. Firstly, most, if
not all, of these products are not medicine at all but food or food supplements
so please stop calling them medicine. These food supplements have been used for
many years without ill effects so why do they need regulation?

Our foodstuffs such as produce, vegetables, etc are so polluted with chemicals
and so depleted of the nutrients God intended us to have, supplementation is
necessary to counteract the harm done to us by chemicals and to add nutrients to
make up for those lost due to bad farming practices and long delivery processes,
etc, etc, etc.

The FDA tells us to consume 5 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
There is not enough produce to do that. Adequate supplementation is necessary.

I have read the articles in the newspaper that say studies show that these
supplements particularly in larger doses MAY be harmful to our health. It is
interesting that the name of the study or where it might be found is not even
mentioned in the article. The studies, when they do exist, are weak and
manipulated; even a lay person could pick out these weaknesses. The news
articles are just the propaganda of the pharmaceutical companies. It is the
only way they know to play the game. That is why they are using the FDA to get
what they want.

I have been consuming large mega doses of many vitamins, as well as herbs and
other food supplements over the last 35 years. I have suffered NO ILL EFFECTS
of any kind. On the contrary, I can tell you story after story of miraculous
turn-arounds in my health IN SPITE OF smoking 2 - 3 packs of cigarettes per day
FOR OVER 40 YEARS. Others who took my advice and supplemented with various
vitamins, herbs and other supplements had similar results although not all
smoked. I believe that I would not be here today if it were not for food
supplements in the often higher doses I took.

It is medical drugs that are 'medicine' and it is these medical drugs that are
killing OVER 160,000 people each year in the USA and I hate to think what it is
world-wide. On the contrary, I challenge the FDA or any organization or
researcher to find even one SURE case of where someone died or was 'killed' from
taking supplements even in mega doses.

The FDA should be raiding big pharma companies rather than little family
operations trying to make an HONEST dollar.

I AM ASKING THE FDA AND THE US GOVERNMENT TO STOP TRYING TO REGULATE FOOD
SUPPLEMENTS, VITAMINS, MINERALS AND SO-CALLED CAM PRODUCTS, ETC, anymore than
they are now being regulated. THE ALTERNATIVE HEALTH PRACTITIONERS AND THE
HEALTH FOOD INDUSTRY and the ALTERNATIVE INDUSTRY HAVE DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF
POLICING THEMSELVES THUS FAR. It may not be perfect but it has not killed
people, unlike the drug companies who have killed thousands with various drugs
in the previous year alone.

Yes, I live in Canada and it is why I am writing this 'comment' because what
happens in the USA invariably happens in Canada or vice versa. I buy many of my
supplements in the USA. I want to be free to purchase supplements of any kind in
any country.

The drug companies know that supplements help to keep us healthy. Why else
would they be bothered to be so aggressively trying to get rid of them or to get
control of them through lobbying and CODEX and many other means. They do this
to keep the dosages in any supplements so low and inferior so as to be useless
to the consumer. No, of course, they do not want us to die; they JUST WANT US
TO BE SICK AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.

Please understand; I do not mind that there are drug companies or that they
even sell their highly toxic potions and pills. I believe in freedom of choice
and the drug companies have a place for those people who want their drugs. What
I, and a lot of others, want is to have the right to continue to purchase and/or
sell supplements freely just as others are free to buy drugs. OR IS THE USA NO
LONGER A FREE COUNTRY.

H Elias



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