Lobbying Issues - CODEX/EU Directive
CODEX/EU Directive
European Union (EU) Directive: "There is some fear that the EU Food Supplement Directive will impact the drafting of new Codex guidelines for all international trade of WTO (World Trade Organization) members. For this reason the EU Food Supplement Directive is being legally challenged in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (EU Supreme Court) by one consumer freedom group and 2 UK Trade Associations." Diane Miller, J.D., National Health Freedom Action
We currently do not know the impact the European Directive may have on selling product in Europe, if passed. Nature’s Sunshine continues to monitor national and international policies with regard to dietary supplements.
The European Union Directive and Selling Product in the United States: Our FDA attorney has advised us that, "this does not and would not affect our ability to sell product in the United States. We are governed by the FDA. Any change to this would literally take an act of congress."
You may want to make your feelings known by sending letters or emails to the U.S. Delegates to CODEX. Let them know that you are opposed to any international regulations that may impact the status of supplements as regulated by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA):
CODEX COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES
Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman, PhD
Director
Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
5100 Paint Branch Highway
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: (301) 436-2373
Fax: (301) 436-2636
Email: Barbara.Schneeman@cfsan.fda.gov
CODEX COMMITTEE ON FOOD ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS
Dr. Terry C. Troxell
Director, Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-300)
Food and Drug Administration
Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building
5100 Paint Branch Parkway
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: (301) 436-1700
Fax: (301) 436-2632
Email: Terry.Troxell@cfsan.fda.gov
CODEX COMMITTEE ON FOOD LABELING
Leslye Fraser, J.D.
Director
Office of Regulations and Policy
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
5100 Paint Branch Parkway (HFS-004)
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: (301) 436-2378
Fax: (301) 436-2637
Email: leslye.fraser@fda.hhs.gov
For more information, please download the following document:
A SUMMARY OF A FULL TEXT PAPER - by Diane M. Miller JD, Legal and Public Policy Director
Note: This document can only be viewed with Adobe Acrobat. Download the free viewer.
Information taken from NSP site. Nature's Sunshine Member's may login to read more on current lobby events taking place.
Alert - Please protect your rights!!!
Action Item--Your Right to Choose your Vitamin,Mineral and Other Supplements may End in June of This Year 2005
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 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. What can be done at this late hour?
(1) Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves fully at
www.ahha.org, www.iahf.com, and www.alliance-natural-health.org.
(2) Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws, changing the DSHEA law.
(3) Support H. R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution over
CODEX, etc.
(4) Express your wishes to the President, Senators and Representatives
(They got us into this!) ASAP.
(5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their members to inform the government.
(6) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (see web
site 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 and the FDA wish to protect us by controlling supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs. A study of the latter by three medical scientists was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998—Vol.279, No. 15, p. 1200 “…Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR’s) was found to
be extremely high.” Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found that in the U.S. an
average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year (290 per day) die from ADR’s 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% ofall 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?
Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.
1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225
VITAMIN CONSUMERS BEWARE!
Your Freedom of Choice is on the Brink of Extinction
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HAMMELL
Founder, International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF)
John Hammell is an internationally renowned advocate for health freedom. In this
interview, he will expose the current draconian international effort, masterminded
by the pharmaceutical cartel, to restrict our freedom of choice of dietary
supplements and vitamins.
The centerpiece of this effort is called CODEX, which is a United Nations program
to impose global trade standards in this area. The European Union (EU) is the most
influential power block in the CODEX scheme, and the most pressing issue right now
is the Food Supplements Directive passed by the EU, which is being challenged in a
British Court on January 25 by the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH). If this domino
falls, America is not far behind.
We cannot stress enough the URGENCY of this matter! Our inherent right to
choose what natural substances we put into our bodies is at stake. Don't miss this
Tele-seminar! IAHF and ANH also need your help right away. Go to www.iahf.com
and www.alliance-natural-health.org and find out what you can do to help now!
For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World
European Union (EU) Directive: "There is some fear that the EU Food Supplement Directive will impact the drafting of new Codex guidelines for all international trade of WTO (World Trade Organization) members. For this reason the EU Food Supplement Directive is being legally challenged in the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (EU Supreme Court) by one consumer freedom group and 2 UK Trade Associations." Diane Miller, J.D., National Health Freedom Action
We currently do not know the impact the European Directive may have on selling product in Europe, if passed. Nature’s Sunshine continues to monitor national and international policies with regard to dietary supplements.
The European Union Directive and Selling Product in the United States: Our FDA attorney has advised us that, "this does not and would not affect our ability to sell product in the United States. We are governed by the FDA. Any change to this would literally take an act of congress."
You may want to make your feelings known by sending letters or emails to the U.S. Delegates to CODEX. Let them know that you are opposed to any international regulations that may impact the status of supplements as regulated by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA):
CODEX COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES
Dr. Barbara O. Schneeman, PhD
Director
Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
5100 Paint Branch Highway
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: (301) 436-2373
Fax: (301) 436-2636
Email: Barbara.Schneeman@cfsan.fda.gov
CODEX COMMITTEE ON FOOD ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS
Dr. Terry C. Troxell
Director, Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-300)
Food and Drug Administration
Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building
5100 Paint Branch Parkway
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: (301) 436-1700
Fax: (301) 436-2632
Email: Terry.Troxell@cfsan.fda.gov
CODEX COMMITTEE ON FOOD LABELING
Leslye Fraser, J.D.
Director
Office of Regulations and Policy
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
5100 Paint Branch Parkway (HFS-004)
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: (301) 436-2378
Fax: (301) 436-2637
Email: leslye.fraser@fda.hhs.gov
For more information, please download the following document:
A SUMMARY OF A FULL TEXT PAPER - by Diane M. Miller JD, Legal and Public Policy Director
Note: This document can only be viewed with Adobe Acrobat. Download the free viewer.
Information taken from NSP site. Nature's Sunshine Member's may login to read more on current lobby events taking place.
Alert - Please protect your rights!!!
Action Item--Your Right to Choose your Vitamin,Mineral and Other Supplements may End in June of This Year 2005
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 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. What can be done at this late hour?
(1) Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves fully at
www.ahha.org, www.iahf.com, and www.alliance-natural-health.org.
(2) Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with U.S. laws, changing the DSHEA law.
(3) Support H. R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution over
CODEX, etc.
(4) Express your wishes to the President, Senators and Representatives
(They got us into this!) ASAP.
(5) Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their members to inform the government.
(6) Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (see web
site 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 and the FDA wish to protect us by controlling supplements in the same way they do prescription drugs. A study of the latter by three medical scientists was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998—Vol.279, No. 15, p. 1200 “…Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR’s) was found to
be extremely high.” Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found that in the U.S. an
average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year (290 per day) die from ADR’s 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% ofall 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?
Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.
1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225
VITAMIN CONSUMERS BEWARE!
Your Freedom of Choice is on the Brink of Extinction
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN HAMMELL
Founder, International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF)
John Hammell is an internationally renowned advocate for health freedom. In this
interview, he will expose the current draconian international effort, masterminded
by the pharmaceutical cartel, to restrict our freedom of choice of dietary
supplements and vitamins.
The centerpiece of this effort is called CODEX, which is a United Nations program
to impose global trade standards in this area. The European Union (EU) is the most
influential power block in the CODEX scheme, and the most pressing issue right now
is the Food Supplements Directive passed by the EU, which is being challenged in a
British Court on January 25 by the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH). If this domino
falls, America is not far behind.
We cannot stress enough the URGENCY of this matter! Our inherent right to
choose what natural substances we put into our bodies is at stake. Don't miss this
Tele-seminar! IAHF and ANH also need your help right away. Go to www.iahf.com
and www.alliance-natural-health.org and find out what you can do to help now!
For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World
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