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 CT> From: C.W. Tazewell 
 CT> Subject: Codex Alimentarius - Threat to Health Freedom!!
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 CT> Organization: InfiNet Message-ID:
 CT>  
 CT> Please! Urgent! Note Meeting This Thursday/Friday!
 CT> If you value your right to choose and use vitamins, herbs and other
 CT> nutritional supplements, check the International Advocates for Health
 CT> Freedom Page:
 CT> http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/hammell/index.html
 CT> And - read this:     
 CT> Please help out by getting my form letter out to more people and
 CT> please email, fax, and phone this info in to Fisher, and your Senators
 CT> and Congressman. Lotsa folks are helping with this, and together we are
 CT> going to win, because we're on the side of the Creator of the
 CT> herbs..... God!  
 CT> Please forward my form letter to more people. The Commission was
 CT> mandated by Congress to do one thing, and one thing only: to develop a
 CT> way by which consumers could have more truthful health info re dietary
 CT> supplements via health claims on the label. The FDA destroyed the lives
 CT> of over 7000 kids who were born in the US during the 2 years that they
 CT> dragged their feet while deliberating whether or not to approve a claim
 CT> that folic acid helps prevent neural tube defects in pregnant women. 
 CT> NTDs can cause kids to be born with crippling deformaties such as
 CT> spina bifida. The US Public Health Service approved the claim on folic
 CT> acid in the prevention of NTDs 2 years before FDA did. Supplement
 CT> manufacturers should have been allowed to say this on their labels. FDA
 CT> is hardly a repository of truth. What happened to our first amendment
 CT> rights??? The Commission utterly failed to discharge their duty under
 CT> the law. Moreover, they have gone beyond their statutory mandate, way
 CT> beyond! They are advocating creation of an OTC drug category for herbs.
 CT> We CAN'T allow this! It would constitute Codex harmonization! No Way!
 CT> Please forward this note and my form letter to more people, and urge
 CT> them to ACT TODAY! The meeting we are trying to influence is this
 CT> thursday and friday! 
 CT> PUBLIC TESTIMONY MUST BE ALLOWED TO BE HEARD AT FINAL MEETING OF
 CT> COMMISSION ON DIETARY SUPPLEMENT LABELS 8/14-8/15
 CT> Kenneth D. Fisher, Ph.D. Executive Director
 CT> Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels
 CT> Tel. 202-401-5811, Fax 202-205-0463, email cdsl@birchdavis.com
 CT> Dr. Fisher: 
 CT> A caller to your office was told by Sandy Saunders that public
 CT> testimony would be disallowed by the Commission at its last meeting to
 CT> be held at the Hyatt Regency Reston, Reston Town Center, 1800
 CT> Presidents Street, Reston, Virginia from 8:30 am- 4:30 August 14, and
 CT> from 8:30- 3PM August 15th. I feel that it would be a GROSS INJUSTICE
 CT> to disallow public testimony in this all important closing meeting,
 CT> ESPECIALLY due to the ENORMOUS CONTROVERSY that your draft report has
 CT> already caused, and is CERTAIN to continue to cause unless massively
 CT> re-written so as to be in compliance with the law, and to PROPERLY
 CT> carry out the mandate given to you by Congress! 
 CT> Of the 123 comments received by your Commission by 8/5, at least 82
 CT> (2/3rds) called for an extension on the comments period- wanting it to
 CT> be extended until the end of OCTOBER to give the public sufficient time
 CT> to procure your 77 page draft report, to read it, and to draft
 CT> comments. (Congress is not in session and lots of people are on
 CT> vacation. This is a SCAM!)
 CT> I am aware that Emord and Associates has stated in comments submitted
 CT> to your Commission that under 21 U.S.C. § 321 et.seq. 1994 (The Dietary
 CT> Supplement Health and Education Act), the Commission possesses no
 CT> power or authority other than defined by statute. I am aware that the
 CT> Commission has failed to discharge its duties. I am angered that the
 CT> commission has made no effort to evaluate FDA's prior restraint of
 CT> truthful health claims from reaching consumers via dietary supplement
 CT> labels and labelling. I am aware that the FDA has made no effort to
 CT> define "significant scientific agreement", and that your commission
 CT> utterly fails to evaluate any alternatives for providing truthful and
 CT> non misleading health information to consumers on labels and in
 CT> labeling. I am aware that the Commission exceeded its statutory
 CT> authority by issuing recommendations regarding OTC products. I demand
 CT> that all ultra vires recommendations be removed from your final report:
 CT> recommendations concerning safety of dietary supplements, the format of
 CT> letters of notification for statements of nutritional support, the
 CT> maintenance of files substantiating those claims, OTC regulations of
 CT> botanicals, and funding and incentive for scientific research. STICK to
 CT> the task AT HAND. You have FAILED in your MANDATE! 
 CT> Moreover, I demand that the Commission not assist the
 CT> European-American Phytomedicines Coalition to infiltrate the American
 CT> market in herbal products. I strongly suggest that the Commission not
 CT> cater to the interests of multinational trade associations such as
 CT> EAPC, and I advise that the Commission not issue a final report without
 CT> VERY CAREFULLY reading the comments submitted by Suzanne Harris, JD of
 CT> the Law Loft on behalf of the Life Extension Foundation, and National
 CT> Health Federation which analyze the extreme importance of not blurring
 CT> the lines between food and drugs in order to protect US business
 CT> interests, as well as consumer rights considering emerging
 CT> international law!  Signed:
 CT> 
 CT> Address                          City:
 CT> State:          Zip                       
 CT> (Form Letter Provided by International Advocates for Health Freedom
 CT> 800-333-2553
 CT> 2411 Monroe St. Hollywood, Florida
 CT> http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/hammell/index.html)
 CT> ******************************************
 CT> Donations Needed- Am One Person Working Alone
 CT> International Advocates for Health Freedom
 CT> John C. Hammell, Legislative Advocate
 CT> 2411 Monroe St.#2 Hollywood, FL 33020 USA
 CT> 800-333-2553, 954-929-2905, FAX 954-929-0507, 
 CT> FAX ON DEMAND 954-927-8795,jham@concentric.net
 CT> http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/hammell/index.html
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