Additional information on the CODEX international treaty to regulate
    dietary supplements.
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 DW> From: Dennis Watson 
 DW> Subject: Urgent: Senate is Voting on Bill to Ban all Herbs!
 DW> Reply-To: thstone@intergate.bc.ca
 DW> Newsgroups: alt.health
 DW> It is a Harmonization Act with the FDA to make our laws the same as
 DW> the European Union. A bill has been passed through the house and
 DW> senate and is being merged between the two. The wording is:
 DW> 1) No vitamin, mineral, herb, or food supplement can be sold for
 DW> preventative or therapeutic use.
 DW> 2) None sold as food can exceed dosage levels set by the
 DW> commission.
 DW> (For example, 50 mg of Vitamin C is the top dosage sold in Germany
 DW> today.)
 DW> 3) CODEX regulations for dietary supplements would become legally
 DW> binding in the US through the GATT treaty. This will involve
 DW> enormous fines to America if we do not comply.
 DW> 4) All new dietary supplements will be banned, unless they pass the
 DW> CODEX approval process.
 DW> Delegates who make up the CODEX mandate are made up of 90%
 DW> multinational pharmaceutical companies who want to create
 DW> pharmaceutical versions of the natural health food and nutrient
 DW> business throughout the world. As an example, in Canada, the same
 DW> penalty exists now for possessing DHEA in your home as that for
 DW> possession of drugs.
 DW> The house and senate are NOW voting on a third merged version on
 DW> the CODEX bill.
 DW> Here's what you can do:
 DW> CALL 1-800-972-3524. This is a switchboard. Ask for the names of
 DW> your Representative and your Senators. Call back again to leave a
 DW> message for each one of them.
 DW> Ask that the language for the Harmonization Act and the FDA reform
 DW> bill be amended when it goes to conference committee.
 DW> State you oppose the CODEX bill and any attempt to regulate
 DW> nutritional supplements as drugs.
 DW> Request a public comments period this week concerning for the
 DW> Harmonization Act.
 DW> Telephone, fax, and e-mail everyone that you know.
 DW> Also you can call John Hamil at 1-800-333-2553
 DW> According to those involved, we have just 10 DAYS ONLY!!!
 DW> Anyone in health and nutrition fields need to urgently move on
 DW> this.  It really can mean the end of our businesses, as well
 DW> as our freedom as consumers to take our health into our own
 DW> hands and purchase the supplements and herbs for our preventative
 DW> health care.
 DW> The mass-medical mill is designed to give you drugs after you are
 DW> SICK.    What about our freedom to create vibrant health through
 DW> disease prevention? It's only a call for each of us, and the
 DW> MAJORITY of health care dollars are now spent on alternative
 DW> health, not AMA health care. We make up the majority and we need
 DW> congress to know that.
 DW> Dennis Watson
 DW> http://www.abctec.com/~thunderstone
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