June 23, 2005 / Important Message from Rima E. Laibow, MD, to All Health Conscious Americans:

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
- Thomas Jefferson

Important Message from Rima E. Laibow, MD, to All Health Conscious Americans:

Wonderful Window of Opportunity Just Opened to
Change U.S. CODEX Policy!

Urgent Action Required!

Dear Health Conscious American,

Sometimes, in the middle of an intense battle, an opportunity crops up unexpectedly, where seizing it can turn the tide of events. A phenomenal opportunity has arisen in the battle to prevent ratification of the pro-illness CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Vitamin and Mineral Guideline!

I will first explain to you what that opportunity is, and then I invite you to join me in taking action to take advantage of this opportunity.

U.S. CODEX Office Policy on CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is Illegal

As I've explained in my blog, the U.S. has declared its intent to support the restrictive, illness-promoting CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) at the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS meeting in Rome next month, despite the fact that this position is illegal under U.S. law. Title 19 USC 3512 prohibits America from harmonizing with any international standard that violates U.S. laws. The CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guideline would violate DSHEA (the 1994 law which treats supplements as foods).

As a result of DSHEA, no upper limit can be set for nutrients in the US and thus CODEX would violate this law (because CODEX would set upper limits for nutrients).

The U.S. Government was notified by our Citizen's Petition, which the Natural Solutions Foundation submitted on June 1, 2005, that it is illegal for the U.S. Codex Office to support ratification of the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG).

A Citizen's Petition is not a conventional petition. It is a powerful legal tool to compel action on the part of the U.S. Government to follow its own laws and to lay the groundwork for further legal action if the Government does not change course.

Despite our Emergency Citizen's Petition, which so far as not been answered, Dr. Ed Scarbrough, head of the U.S. CODEX Office, unfortunately announced that the U.S. CODEX Office has chosen to stand firm on its illegal pro-illness, pro-CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guideline position, scheduled for ratification in Rome, Italy, July 4-9, 2005.

Natural Solutions Foundation Will Take the U.S. CODEX Office to Court

Regardless of whether the U.S. CODEX Office chooses to heed the legal warning of our Citizen's Petition, the petition itself has been filed and now allows a serious legal suit to be unleashed upon the U.S. CODEX Office, should they actually proceed to push to ratify the tyrannical and, in the U.S., illegal, CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guideline.

But something incredible just happened this past week that makes it easier for us to protect health freedom (on behalf of the American people) against the illegal policy of the U.S. CODEX Office.

The CODEX Vitamins and Minerals Guideline Could be Delayed by One Year Due to CODEX's Own Bureaucracy!

Out of the blue, three countries, China, Australia and Venezuela, have suddenly announced that they will be pushing for small, bureaucratic changes in the VMG before its ratification next month in Rome, even though they are not opposing the VGM.

The changes they are requesting are single words here and there, and it seems that they are serious about the changes going through.

Here's the incredible part of this sudden event: the pressure by China, Australia, and Venezuela to make changes to the wording of the CODEX documentation could send the VMG back to committee for further revision! This could delay the ratification of the destructive CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guideline by up to (or even more than) one year!

That could buy us in the health freedom movement at least a year (or more) before the next meeting for ratification by the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission!

Such a period of time will make it much easier for us to prevent the United States of America from pursuing or implementing its current illegal policy of support for the CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guideline!

This is good news folks.

Your Action is Vital

You play a vital role in helping to change the illegal U.S. policy of support for the dangerous VMG, which, if ratified, could end natural health options here in the U.S. You can take action by simply asking Congress to change U.S. CODEX policy from the current illegal position of supporting the VMG, to pushing for it to go back to committee (and thus putting it up for authentic review by serious scientists and lawyers, who with more time, will no doubt make it impossible for the U.S. to support the VGM, simply because the VGM is unscientific and goes against the laws of our country).

We must get Congress on our side. Many of them are not even aware of the illegal policy of the U.S. CODEX Office, and many would no doubt be outraged if they found out.

If enough Americans like you take action and make Congress aware of the illegal intentions of the U.S. CODEX Office (I will tell you shortly what to do), and the CODEX VMG is pushed back one year, you can be sure that we at Natural Solutions Foundation will make very, very, very good use of that year!

Tell Congress to Compel the U.S. CODEX Office to Obey U.S. Law

http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/congress-stop-codex

Click on the link above to send an email notifying your Congressional Delegation (our online tool will automatically find your local delegate) that you want them to act on your behalf, and NOT on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry who are quite certainly party to pushing for CODEX to be illegally implemented in the U.S., and who are pushing for CODEX to go through for the sake of their own massive profiteering from disease, with zero regard for your health.

The quick and easy letter you'll send will very clearly tell Congress to make sure that the U.S. CODEX policy is consistent with U.S. law. When Congress hears from constituents (the ones who vote and put Congress men and women into office), they are compelled to act on behalf of those voters. When they don't hear from you and me, they assume that what they are doing is just fine with us.

Voter silence gives politicians permission to do whatever they please.

Let us not be silent!

Let us not allow this golden opportunity slip away! Let us add the weight of Congress (which is ultimately responsible for the actions taken by the U.S. CODEX Office) to our own ever-growing, pro-health freedom voices! Our mailing list at HealthFreedomUSA.org is growing by leaps and bounds. But we need Congress on our side so the U.S. CODEX Office has no room to continue making illegal decisions against the best interests of the health of Americans!

There is very little time so you must act now - click on the link below for an easy and quick form to fill out (that's all that you're asked to do):

http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/congress-stop-codex

Reminder About What CODEX REALLY Is

Here are four quick reminders about CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, just in case you forgot how destructive it would be if it was allowed to be implemented in the U.S. (and across the World):

CODEX would reduce and ultimately eliminate your access to nutritional supplements, traditional remedies and clean, unadulterated foods.

CODEX has nothing whatsoever to do with consumer protection (regardless of the disinformation) - CODEX has everything to do with boosting the profits of massive multi-national interests, especially the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.

CODEX is based on the Napoleonic legal code which forbids anything that is not explicitly permitted, which means that government would have a blank check to dictate everything you put in your mouth.

CODEX applies the science of "Risk Assessment" - which is used to analyze toxins such as mercury, arsenic, pesticides and other poisons - to nutrients! The science of Risk Assessment as applied to nutrients is junk science, because nutrients are not toxins. The real science of nutrients is biochemistry, but CODEX dismisses the principles of biochemistry in favor of Risk Assessment. Why? Because treating nutrients as toxins allows CODEX to dictate upper limits for nutrients, and thus, limit their availability in the marketplace (which would be a boon for the pharmaceutical industry). CODEX ALIMENTARIUS is based on improper science - it is indeed junk science when one treats essential, non-toxic nutrients such as Vitamin C just as one would treat mercury, arsenic and other killer poisons.

Congress Will Listen If Enough of Us Take Action

In the weird algebra of politics, your email counts as the opinion of 13,000 other constituents. Congress figures that 12,999 other people who feel the same way you do never get around to making their opinions known.

Take action right now so we don't miss this opportunity to keep the illegal CODEX Vitamin and Mineral Guidelines from being ratified this July:

http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/congress-stop-codex

This Is a Golden Opportunity - Let Us Act On It!

This kind of incredibly timely opportunity, where a few countries may derail CODEX for a year or more because of some small disagreements over single words makes me wonder if there isn't an invisible hand at play here.

What has happened is wonderful! Countries which are fully on board with CODEX are offering us a chance to gain the time we need to block it and protect our health freedoms!

On that thought I leave you, because I know that you will click on the link below and do your part:

http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org/congress-stop-codex

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
HealthFreedomUSA.org

P.S. Do you feel that we at Natural Solutions Foundation are doing a good job of informing you about CODEX? If yes, please click below and donate to support us in working to protect your health freedom - your donations are our only source of funding:

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May 5th, 2005 / Codex Breaks its Own Rules ! 

NHF Press Release

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the active arm of the United Nations Food Standards Programme, is currently in the process of completing a controversial global guideline on the manufacture and sale of nutritional supplements. However, the drafting of this text, the Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements, has not been carried out in accordance with the rules set out in the Codex Procedural Manual (14th edition), and the Guidelines are therefore defective.

Drafted by the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), the Draft Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements advocate similar restrictions on the sale of nutrients to those contained in the EU Food Supplements Directive, which itself was recently rejected as invalid by Advocate General Geelhoed of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

Specifically, paragraph (b) (page 57) of the Codex  Procedural Manual, dealing with DRAWING UP OF CODEX STANDARDS (under  GUIDELINES ON THE CONDUCT OF MEETINGS OF CODEX COMMITTEES AND AD HOC  INTERGOVERNMENTAL TASK FORCES), states that:

This requirement was established at the 19th Session of the Codex Committee on General Principles, held in Paris between 17-21 November 2003, and then adopted at the 27th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, held in Geneva between 28th June and 2nd July 2004 . The CCNFSDU subsequently met in Bonn from 1-5 November 2004 (26th Session), but did not take proper account of this requirement when considering the guidelines, as evidenced by both the text of the guidelines and the CCNFSDU’s report of its 26th session:

Neither the Preamble nor the Scope of the Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements contain any statement to indicate the purpose(s) of the text.  Given therefore that Codex texts have been used by the World Trade Organization as the benchmark in international trade disputes, and moreover that it is expected that they will be used increasingly in this regard, it is therefore of crucial legal importance that the question “What is the purpose of the guidelines?” should have a clear, easily understandable answer, and moreover that this should be provided in the text.

The CCNFSDU’s Report of its 26th Session gives no indication that the requirement for the preface to contain a description of the purpose of the text was even considered, despite the fact that the matter was raised at this session by the delegations of South Africa , Tanzania , and the National Health Federation.

With the above in mind, it is now clear that the 28th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission that will be meeting in Rome from 4-9 July 2005 has no option but to refer the Guidelines  for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements back to the CCNFSDU, in accordance  with the GUIDE TO THE CONSIDERATION OF STANDARDS AT STEP 8 OF THE PROCEDURE  FOR THE ELABORATION OF CODEX STANDARDS INCLUDING CONSIDERATION OF ANY  STATEMENTS RELATING TO ECONOMIC IMPACT, as described on pages 26-27 of the  Codex Procedural Manual (14th edition).  As such, until such time as the CCNFSDU’s written comments regarding this matter have been received and considered by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements should not, and indeed, cannot, be advanced beyond Step 8 of the Procedure.  To act otherwise would be for the Commission to violate its own rules of procedure.

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Saturday, May 7th, 2005 / Codex Alimentarius: 

Big Pharma's Attempt to Subjugate Planet Earth... 

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen

timbolen@northamericanconsumersagainsthealthfraud.org

Tim Bolan Writes:

Last week I went to a "Codex" conference in Washington DC. There a large and, so far, loosely knit coalition was formed to exchange information. We began to coordinate the battle to stop the Big Pharma controlled European Union from inflicting "Codex Alimentarious" health standards on the rest of the world.

It will take me some time to absorb all of the information I heard, and read, but for now, let me make something clear - "Codex Alimentarious" is a plot to inflict "the German Model" of health care on all of Planet Earth. The primary targets are Europe (almost completed), Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.

The plot was hatched in Germany, I believe, and frankly, reeks more of a "world domination" scheme than a movement towards standardizing health care on Planet Earth.

The group formed in Washington will focus on crushing the attempt to harmonize North American laws with "Codex," thereby preventing "the German Model" of health care from becoming the law of the North American continent. 

Did I actually say "World Domination?"
Yes, I did. For good reason.
  

To read the whole article, click on the URL below...
 
http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/codexwash.htm
 
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IF CODEX WINS this is what you will pay for your supplements. When you can get them !!

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 above are now allowed by prescription only. They are now ‘drugs’.

Vitamin C above 200mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.

Niacin above 32 mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.

Vitamin B6 above 4 mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.

Same for Amino Acids like arginine, lysine, carnitine, etc.

Same for the Omega Essential Fatty Acids and many more supplements including DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc.

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NEW GERMAN REPORT CLAIMS THAT FOOD SUPPLEMENTS ARE UNSAFE

Dear friends:

As I have pointed out before in this venue, the Germans are engaged in a "take no prisoners war" against people's right to maintain their health.

The debate around CODEX is fundamentally an attempt by BIG PHARMA, directed by the German industry, to preclude the availability of adequate amounts of nutrients capable of keeping people healthy.

Collective health is the economical enemy of BIG PHARMA.
If they win we all loose!    Support the ANH law suit

A newly established German institution, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), released yesterday a 341-page report [1] on risk assessment of nutrients used in food supplements. The report makes recommendations for maximum levels that are well below those that are commonly present in vitamin and mineral supplements sold in health stores in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, other EU countries, the USA and elsewhere. Many people might, understandably, assume, as a result of this report, that commonly availablefood supplements are unsafe.

The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), a pan-European body of interests in the natural healthcare field, strongly contests the science used by the German institute. Good science and good law underpin all of the ANH's work, and the scientific reports produced by the ANH are endorsed by many of the world's leading doctors and scientists working in the field of nutritional medicine.

The report, for example, recommends a maximum level of vitamin C of 225 mg in food supplements, when many health stores sell 1000 mg tablets, and significant numbers of people consume 2000 mg or more per day. Maximum recommended dosages for vitamin B6 have been set at 5.4 mg, against 25 mg or more commonly found in UK and USsupplements, while vitamin B12 has been set at an astonishing 9 mcg, compared with over 300 mcg in many supplements.

Many European countries have for years considered multiples of
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for nutrients as a means of assessing safety, but this approach has been found to be scientifically unjustifiable as RDAs are minimum levels that guard against the development of deficiency diseases that are uncommon in modern, western societies, such as scurvy, beri-beri, pellagra and rickets. Scientific risk assessment is the recently acclaimed approach that will replace RDAs for evaluation of safety, having been endorsed both by the European Union in its Food Supplements Directive, set to come into force in August this year, and the United Nation's Codex Alimentarius, which develops global guidelines for food safety.

Dr Robert Verkerk, executive director of the ANH says:

"The maximum levels for vitamins and minerals proposed by BfR are in many cases far lower than those required for optimum health. They have used what is purportedly a scientific method, to produce data that is meaningless for the majority of the population.

"The problem is that the poor science used in this report will be viewed seriously by EFSA - the European Food Safety Authority - that is developing maximum levels for use in food supplements across in Europe, and Codex Alimentarius, which is setting global guidelines on vitamins and minerals. In the worse case scenario, the science could be adopted by EFSA lock stock and barrel and that would be catastrophic for the leading edge of the natural products industry in Europe, as well as US innovative suppliers, practitioners and consumers of these products."

In December 2004, the ANH submitted a ground-breaking critique [2] of risk assessment methods to the FAO/WHO of the United Nations in response to a consultation on the subject. The ANH report demonstrated the flawed nature of existing scientific risk assessment methods used by the EU's Scientific Committee on Food, in turn used as the baseline for upper levels by BfR. BfR have gone on, as proposed in the EU's Food Supplements Directive, to reduce further the already unnecessarily low 'upper safe levels' by taking into account dietary intakes and susceptible population groups, and ended up with meaningless, unreasonably low maximum recommended levels for food supplements.

The ANH's landmark case against the EU's proposed ban on 75% of vitamin and mineral forms currently on the UK market is due to be heard in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg on 25 January.

[1] Download BfR report by Click Here

[2] Download ANH consultation response to FAO/WHO Click Here

For further information:
Alliance for Natural Health
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

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Health Freedom Takes a Double Hit at Codex

This year's Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses started with a nasty shock, something that we were all expecting, but not this year.

November 4, 2004

THIS YEAR’S CODEX COMMITTEE MEETING ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES STARTED WITH A NASTY SHOCK, SOMETHING THAT WE ALL WERE EXPECTING BUT NOT THIS YEAR. DR. CHRISTINE TAYLOR OF THE FDA, NOW ON ASSIGNMENT TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN GENEVA, ANNOUNCED THE FORMAL OPENING OF A NEW JOINT FAO/WHO PROJECT. THE JOINT FAO/WHO DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION TO CREATE A FRAMEWORK FOR RISK ASSESSMENT OF NUTRIENTS AND RELATED SUBSTANCES. BEHIND THIS FANCY TITLE LURKS AN OMINOUS PROJECT – THE CREATION OF A FRAMEWORK RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL TO GOVERN THE ASSIGNMENT OF UPPER LIMITS (ULs) TO VITAMINS AND MINERALS AND PRESUMABLY OTHER NUTRIENTS AS WELL. SOUND LIKE PROGRESS? IT IS NOT! BASED ON THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION SO FAR, THE CURRENT PROPOSAL ENVISIONS:

• going forth to set ULs on vitamins and minerals using expanded uncertainty factors, a fan name for guesswork even where the data is unclear,

• setting levels based on intakes calculated on the basis of both maximum supplementation and food source consumption of nutrients and then setting the Upper Limits low enough for the general population to protect even the most sensitive (sensitive to over exposure to nutrients) within the generally applied upper intake levels.

This is bad, bad news indeed and probably much worse than the general health freedom oriented observer at Codex realized since a little-known wrinkle within the Sanitary Phytosanitary Agreement allows the WTO to pick the international organization that sets these standards. In other words, it could be this joint FAO/WHO committee without reference back to Codex.

Or, equally bad, it could be this joint FAO/WHO Committee then referring back its framework to another entity within the Codex immediate parent, the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, that entity then acting in concert with Codex in the final stages of risk management under the guideline finalized at CCNFSDU this week (to be adopted by the full Codex Commission next summer.) Yes, it’s confusing, but international bureaucracies often are! The point is whether they take path A or path B, the news seems equally grim and equally imminent. This is true in part because on Tuesday of this week, the USA caved in on disputed language in part 3.2.2 of the proposed draft guideline for vitamin and mineral food supplements. As now agreed, the guideline’s part 3 on contents of vitamins and minerals, maximum amounts now contains three dangerous pegs:

• first, the statement that safe upper levels per daily portion shall be based on scientific risk assessment. That is a seemingly innocuous statement until you realize that that risk assessment is going to be set within the framework of the new FAO/WHO joint project described above.

• second, that daily intake of vitamins and minerals (maximum values) shall also be set by taking into account daily intake from ‘other dietary sources.’ That phrase hides another EU victory, namely, that in setting upper levels, both nutrients consumed from standard food sources and nutrients consumed from estimated high end dietary supplement consumption will be counted together in order to suppress general upper levels to protect the sensitive consumer.

• and third, that when maximum values are set, regulators may use relatively low levels established in population reference values as part of the UL setting process. While the FDA claims this latter is acceptable compromise language, don´t you believe it!

While only the third peg is new as of this meeting, the changed meaning of the first two ’scientific risk assessment’ and ‘other dietary sources’ is new, too, thanks to the unveiling of the new joint FAO/WHO project discussed above. Could it possibly get any worse? Yes, and it will unless intelligent concerted action is taken now.

Date: 04-Nov-04

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We're going to defeat the PHARMA Cartel the old fashioned way, ANY WAY WE CAN!

Excerpts from John C.Hammell's recent communication on codex

Those of you who sent donations to IAHF via Paypal- I don't have all of your street addresses, because paypal didn't supply them unless you're registered with them. Please send your street addresses and in the subject line put- "My Street Address Per Your Request" I am sending special packages out to people who donated which include some special reports, magazine articles, as well as IAHF Bumper Stickers to help rally more people to our grass roots battle.

Thanks to your generous donations, we've got enough to send one of the two key people to the Codex meeting in Bonn, but we're still struggling to get enough to send the second and also to get me to the Emergency anti Codex meeting at ACAM on November 19th.

To do my share, I am entering the "Kiniski's Reef Tavern Idol" Karaoke Contest where I fully expect to win a thousand bucks to help us cover expenses on getting our second key person to the Codex meeting in Bonn, but in case for some reason maybe I get laryngitis or a sore throat (even though I use slippery elm tablets), please keep your donations flowing to IAHF 556 Boundary Bay Rd., Point Roberts, WA 98281 USA and via paypal at http://www.iahf.com see paypal button on the top of the scrollbar once you enter the site.

STRATEGIC UPDATE

Very soon I will have something NEW on the Emergency Codex Section at http://www.iahf.com I'm hard at work on editing a special letter that we intend to have you guys send to every Codex delegate from all participating countries in opposition to finalizing the outrageous Codex vitamin standard on November 1.

Once we have this letter together, you'll be able to send it to all delegates world wide with just one click!!

We've been having very gratifying success in awakening some key big guns in the supplement industry and amongst the alternative practitioners, and we're by no means down for the count! I thought you all would be gratified to know that our hard work IS paying off, and we ARE being successful in rolling this boulder uphill TOGETHER!!

John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom

Stop Codex! / NOW...

The Multi-Trillion Dollar ‘Business With Disease’ Is Based on ‘Pharma-Fraud’ And ‘Pharma-Terror’

New York City, September 11, 2001. Almost 3,000 innocent people died in this tragedy. The same number of people die every ten days from side effects of prescription drugs (Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, April 15, 1998). More than one million Americans die each year from preventable diseases because the Pharma-Cartel deliberately denies them access to life-saving information on natural health.

Did you know the facts that:

The influence of the health freedom movement and the work of the South African delegation to Codex have brought about a number of victories for natural health freedom this year. At the same time, while some completely absurd ideas, such as using RDA levels as upper limits have finally been removed, this year’s Codex meeting has accelerated the move toward overall proposals that may have a very damaging effect on the availability of essential vitamins and minerals worldwide in the future.

It is, therefore, of paramount importance that all those interested in preventing free access to these vital substances from being compromised remain vigilant and engaged in the fight. The Dr. Rath Health Foundation is leading the continued resistance to Codex plans and calls for a united effort in pursuing the goal of vitamin freedom for all.

We have won some skirmishes, but the main battle goes on!

For the entire article click here

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The Brits Are mounting A Defense Against the German Codex Blitz

This is the latest report on the war against our supplements:

	In 2003 approximately 80 % of the supplements were lifted from the shelves of Australian health food stores. This was done in spite of tremendous public opposition.
	http://joevialls.altermedia.info/subliminalsuggestion/vitamins.html
	Last year Canada harmonized its supplement laws with Australia’s. Canadians are now forced to go through an avalanche of red tape. This will result in the smaller and more creative manufacturing companies being forced out of business. The Canadians are rebelling, but you can imagine how difficult it is to do so after the fact! http://www.friendsoffreedom.org/action.php?op=ActionLetter1
	New Zealand is next on the slaughter list. Their Minister of Health: “has been convinced” to harmonize with Australia’s restrictive supplement regulations. Currently New Zealand’s consumers are going through hell in trying to prevent ratification of the Joint Therapeutic Treaty with Australia (JTA). http://www.healthcharter.org.nz/
	The European Congress (EU) is totally in the hands of the Pharmaceutical Cartel and has been reducing the number of supplements available and wants to go even further. This in effect will preclude the ability of Orthomolecular Physicians to use natural medicine instead of drugs.
	As you know what goes on in Europe goes on in America since we have signed the Global Agreement on Trade and Tariff (“GATT”) and its enforcement arm the World Trade Organization (“WTO”).
	The maneuver of the Pharmaceutical Cartel is to shut down everybody around us, (see Australia, Canada and New Zealand) and then take us in one swift scoop. see http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/article-0104-ban.shtml

My dear friends,

The time has come to realize we live in a global village and it is much better to join force with our friends abroad and avoid slaughter in our soil. 

It took Woodrow Wilson a great deal of convincing to make America join the European allies in the First World War and it took Pearl Harbor to allow Roosevelt to finally join the Brits in Europe to fight Hitler.

History seems to repeat itself. The belligerent German war machine, via their pharmaceutical cartel, is again leading the way to take control of the natural field of medicine. They kill first and then set their rules and prices. 

Germany is the host country of the UN Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses which could finalize a global trade standard for vitamins and minerals in November 2004. The USA has already been set up to lose in a future WTO Trade Dispute on the Codex vitamin issue via a whitewashed congressional oversight hearing on March 20, 2001.

It was not too long ago when the German Jews refused to see their life at risk in Nazi Germany! We are now all at risk.

The alternative medical Pearl Harbor has already taken place. (See Australia, Canada, New Zealand)

I strongly recommend we again join force with the Brits. (Alliance for Natural Health) www.alliance-natural-health.org and let them fight for us.  While 50% of you have visited their web site only 2% have thus far made donations.

I believe one reason is the confusion created by so many issues.
You might have been asked to focus on the Durbin proposed legislation
That is a waste of human resources. The Durbin Bill is going no where (only 4 cosponsors, most recent was 7 months ago) and in fact his multiple attempts to find more cosponsors have failed. There are only 100 members in our Senate and they are well aware of the fact that there are over I39 million of us that use supplements.

We can therefore put this issue to rest and focus on the immediate danger, that of the passage by the European congress of the very restrictive supplements regulations, which unless overturned in court will be transposed into the Global Trade Standard at Codex.

Let’s make a wise use of our money by joining our allies in the imminent fight in the European courts.

The ANH (www.alliance-natural-health.org) is very effectively working in this arena.

Let’s have our D-DAY there rather than here.

For more detail, read the other CODEX