Re: Imminent Danger of Worldwide Supplement Ban (CODEX) [was: Norway/German/CODEX

From: Rene (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:30:49 -0800

(Sorry about the top post)
It is my understanding that we will no longer be able to grow our own herbs
if they are not on the "approved list". Do you know anything about this?

René

"Paul Antonik Wakfer" <tom@morelife.org> wrote in message
news:_yxMd.5244$Nn1.2864@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Anth wrote:
>
>> Quote :-
>>
>> 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.
>
> It is far, far worse than this small quote suggests, and most of those on
> this group do not seem to understand how imminent it is HERE in North
> America and *why* that is so. Here is the complete message from which the
> above is quoted. I urge everyone to read it in its entirety (including my
> comments at the end) and then to act STRONGLY and IMMEDIATELY.
>
> ------------ Important message begins --------------
>
> Subject: Banning of the sales of Vitamins .. worldwide ...
>
> 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 override 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 overruled 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
>
> http://www.ahha.org, http://www.iahf.com, and
> http://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% 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?
>
> Wallace G. Heath, Ph.D.
>
> 1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225
>
> -------------------------------
>
> Comment by Paul Wakfer:
>
> If this takes place, not only all supplement stores, but all supplement
> suppliers will be out of business. All of us who are taking large doses of
> supplements will have nothing left but food, caloric restriction and
> exercise for disease prevention and life extension, plus those few things
> we will be able to buy "underground". However, just as with proscribed
> narcotic drugs, these underground sources will be expensive, of
> questionable purity and many may even be operated by violent criminal
> types. Is this the environment of fear and uncertainty within which you
> want to purchase your supplements?
>
> While many readers of the MoreLife Yahoo group and the Morelife.org and
> SelfSIP.org websites will realize that it is not normally my and Kitty's
> method to have any "truck" with government as long as we can avoid it, in
> this case we are fighting for our very lives! If CODEX is implemented as
> designed and is adhered to by all major countries, then the entire
> supplement supply industry as it is currently practiced, particularly in
> North America, will be instantly gone and our chance for a continued
> healthy existence into old age and beyond will be drastically reduced
> (practically to zero). This CODEX nonsense MUST BE STOPPED from invading
> any more countries and I most strongly urge everyone to do whatever s/he
> can to stop it from happening. This is not the time to shrug and say
> "someone else will stop it, why should I bother myself". If you wish to
> have any chance to maximize your lifetime happiness, you must act NOW.
>
>
> --Paul Wakfer
>
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