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Dietary Supplements
Hello All, this can affect ANY/ALL of us who
either
take dietary supplements, or are in business
dealing
with them, and don't want to have to get a Dr.'s
prescription for EVERY little thing.
Passing this along to you all VERY worrisome for us
all in future, we are possibly being treated like
we are still
children who cannot make up their
own mind..
Doomsday For Dietary
Supplements?
February 2005 Editorial by Barbara J.
Andrews
If you take dietary supplements or are in a
business
dealing with them, you better get a cuppa coffee
and
settle in for a short read.
Received the following email, which prompted this
Editorial:
>Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and
other supplements may end
>in June of this year (2005). After that U.S.
supplements will be defined
>and controlled by the World Trade
Organization (WTO) and the World Health
>Organization (WHO). The CODEX
ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code) is setting the
>supplement standards for all
countries in the WTO. They will be enforced
>by the WTO and will over ride
U.S. laws. The U.S. President and Congress
>agreed to this take-over when
the WTO Treaty was signed. Violations are
>punished by WTO trade
sanctions. CODEX drastically restricts vitamins,
>minerals, herbs and
other supplements. CODEX met secretly in November,
>2004 and finalized
"Step 8 (the final stage)" to begin implementation in
>June,
2005.
>
> The CODE includes:
>
>(1) No supplement can be
sold for preventive or therapeutic use.
>
>(2) Any potency higher
than RDA (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.
>
>>(3) CODEX regulations become binding
internationally.
>
>(4) 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 are now allowed by prescription
> only). They
are now "drugs". Vitamin C above 200 mg, niacin above 32 mg,
> vitamin B6
above 4 mg-all are banned over-the-counter as drugs. No amino
> acids
(arginine, lysine, carnitine, etc. = essential amino acids!),
> essential
fatty acids (omegas 3, 6, 9, etc.), or other essential
>
supplements such as DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc.
>are allowed.
>
> The CODEX rules
are not based on real science. They are made by a few
>
people meeting in secret (see web sites below), not necessarily scientists.
>In 1993 the FDA and drug corporations
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 over
>ruled by CODEX and the World Trade
Organization.
>
> Virtually nothing about it has been in the media.
What the drug
> corporations have failed to do through Congress they
have gotten by sneak
> attack through CODEX with the help
of a silent media.
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>
> So okay, why then do you need to read
it? There is a lot of controversy
> about the World Trade Organization and
agreements. Some of the
> debunking of the "rumor" surrounding
the World Trade Organization (WTO)
> and the World Health Organization (WHO)
and the impending crisis
> CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code) is
pretty frightening if you read
> between the lines.
>
> From
Snopes.com, considered a credible debunker of urban legends: " Two
> bills
put before Congress in 2003 looked to regulate dietary nostrums by
>
imposing quality and safety standards on them, and giving the FDA the
>
ability to take them off the market before a great number of folks have
>
been harmed by them. In March 2003, Senator Richard Durbin introduced bill
> S. 722, the "Dietary Supplement Safety
Act of 2003" in the U.S. Senate. The
> purpose of this legislation was to
"protect consumers from dangerous
> dietary supplements such as
ephedra and other stimulants by requiring
> manufacturers to submit
proof that their product is safe prior to bringing it to
>
market."
>
> The assumption that ephedra is a "dangerous dietary
supplement" jumped
> from the page. Emphasis mine. In the minds of
many in the industry, that
> was never proven. True, there was a lot
of press about the healthy young
> athlete who suffered a heart
attack. Unknown is how much ephedra he
> took prior to the game, if any heart
defect was revealed, or any drug use or
> other stimulants, etc. Millions upon
millions of people in this country took
> ephedra in diet pills and other
form with no ill effects over decades.
>
> The bill would require
manufacturers of the most dangerous types of
> dietary supplements
(stimulants) to submit proof of their products' safety
> prior to bringing them to
market.
>
> The cost to prove supplements safe, natural stuff made
by God and
> therefore, not patentable, is out of the question. TCM
is but one example
> of herbal supplements that would be gone,
unavailable. Traditional Chinese
> Medicine has been practiced and used for
thousands of years by trillions
> of people. What would it take to
"prove" it save to the FDA?
>
> There's more in the bill but when a
wordsmith dissembles it, there is
> cause for concern if you are at
all informed about herbal and natural
> remedies.
>
> If > you are forced to trust
pharmaceuticals because the natural
> supplements, homeopathic and herbal
remedies that have survived
> centuries of "clinical trials" are also
taken away, how will you treat
> yourself and your pets? This is not
sensationalism, and it could take
> effect as early as
August 2005.
>
> Here's some statistics you can get your teeth
into. In the U.S. an average
> of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year
(290 per day) die from Adverse
> Drug Reactions and 2,200,000 need more
hospitalization for recovery. These
> were FDA approved drugs, properly
administered by competent professionals
> in hospitals--none were
considered malpractice. This is the number four cause
> of death in the
U.S. When combined, these account for 7% of all hospitalized
>
patients. This is equivalent to a 9-11 attack every ten days. There are
>
very few fatalities from supplements or the news would be on every front
page.
>
> 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?
>
> Did you go to the link we provided for ADR in animals? It
is even more
> shocking and far more go unreported because the owners
don't know what
> happened.
Check out what happened to MY OWN dog who had a
drug reaction:
>
> What can you do? Learn more
before pushing this unpleasant thought from
> your > mind. You can
start at http://www.ahha.org and
>
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/ and other such organizations.
>
> If you are politically
active, Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377 which
> support > the CODEX
restrictions with U.S. laws, changing the DSHEA
> law. And by all means support H. R.1146
which would restore the
> sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution over
CODEX, etc.
>
> Oh and as the writer suggests, let your President,
Senators and
> Representatives know how you feel about being sold out and
tricked into
> this because they got us into this!
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