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26taurus
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From: the stars
Registered: Jun 2004

posted February 09, 2005 12:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
(just passing this along....)

Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may end in June of this year (2005).

Pleaes note and SHARE so people can become aware before it is too late.

The content of this email explains, simply, the CODEX issue so that all may understand what is happening.

This is real. Please read and pass this on to others, particularly health food store owners, politicians, anyone and everyone. We can make a difference.

Many Thanks,


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, US supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

It is called the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (food code) and it is setting the supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and finalized ‘Step 8 (the final stage)’ to begin implementation in June, 2005, severely restricting the use and availability of numerous vitamins, minerals and other supplements.

The US president and congress agreed to the takeover when the WTO treaty was signed, therefore these supplement standards WILL BE ENFORCED BY THE WTO AND WILL OVERRIDE US LAWS. CODEX violations are/will be punished by WTO trade sanctions.

CODEX Includes:

No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.
Any potency higher than RDA (recommended daily allowance, aka 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.
CODEX regulations become binding internationally.
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 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.
Bitamin 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.
The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They were made by a few people meeting in secret (see web sites below); not necessarily scientists. In 1993 the FDA and drug companies 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 overruled by CODEX and the WTO.

Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What the drug corporations have failed to do through congress, they have gotten by sneak attachk through CODEX with the help of a silent media.

So…what can be done at this late hour?

Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves fully at www.ahha.org and www.iahf.com and www.illiance-natural-health.org.
Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with US laws, changing the DSHEA law.
Support H.R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the US Constitution over CODEX, etc.
Express your wishes ASAP to the president, senators and representatives (they got us into this!).
Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their members to inform the government.
Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (see website above). It has succeeded in challenging the CODEX directives in World Court later this month or next. They need help financially, having carried the fight effectively for everyone.
CODEX claims to wish to protect us the same way the FDA protects us from prescription drugs. To accomplish this, they used a study of prescription drugs (not supplements) by three medical scientists as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998-Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200, "…Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) was found to be extremely high." Covering 30 years from 1966 to 1996, it was found that in the US, an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year die from ADRs. That’s equivalent to 290 people per day. 2.2 MILLLION need more hospitalization for recovery. And these were FDA approved drugs, properly administered by competent professionals in hospitals…yet none were considered malpractice. ADRs represent the number four cause of death in the US. When combined, they account for 7% of all hospitalized patients. This is equivalent to a 9/11 attach every ten days.

Contrary to pharmaceutical drugs, there are few fatalities from supplements. Can you just imagine the news coverage if vitamins and supplements created the amount of death that drugs do?

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 and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs which are now killing us at the rate of a major airline crash per day?

Wallace G. Heath, PhD.

1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225

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tracysalome
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From: minneapolis minnesota USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted February 09, 2005 12:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for tracysalome     Edit/Delete Message
What the h*ll? How could this be happening? I tell ya the strange causes the government sometimes decides to spend money on baffles me. I guess too many people with too much to do paying too little attention. I'm with ya. What do they want people not to be healthy on their own, and instead pay copays, high medical bills for visits to the doctor and then to top it all off a nice chunk of change to even obtain the vitamins??? I guess drug dealers could start on a new conquest if all that happens - instead of crack dealers there will be more vitamin c dealers

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Yin
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posted February 09, 2005 08:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Yin     Edit/Delete Message
I'm in the land of unlimited... oh wait.. limited opportunities. There goes my American dream...

BTW What about herbs? Anyone?

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Philbird
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From: Douglas, AZ. USA
Registered: Jun 2004

posted February 09, 2005 09:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Philbird     Edit/Delete Message
"No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use."

OMG! I agree with what Tracey said. Not to mention organic foods are hard to get, thereby forcing us to eat chemicals, food preservatives, dyes etc, instead of the vitamins we need. Oh, yeah, and let's force farmers to sell their farmland to build houses that cost half a million dollars to house three people! I smell "Soylent Green." (sp)
$hit! Who needs an immune system anyway?

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Harpyr
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From: sleepy Rocky Mountain village
Registered: Dec 2002

posted February 09, 2005 11:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Harpyr     Edit/Delete Message
*sigh*
It's quite disturbing that Americans have allowed their sovereignty to be handed over private, unaccoutable tribunals by our scoundrel politcians with little more than a peep.

Well actually alot of people have been doing alot more than peeping about this....This is why people rioted in Seattle in 99. But the media sure didn't paint it that way... The media made the opposition to the WTO and "free trade" (a misnomer- as you can see the consequences of it are actually curbing freedom) look like a bunch of teenagers in black throwing temper tantrums when actually the people out in the street are only trying to protect us from this usurping of our freedoms and bring some accountability to those suits up in their fortresses who would undermine everything that this country stands for.

Sorry to be bringing politics into the health and healing forum but people need to start getting mad and realizing that the WTO and "free trade" are the antithesis of democracy and we must do everything we can to oppose this. The WTO can override U.S. democratically instated laws without any accoutability to the public.

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