KISS YOUR VITAMINS GOODBYE!
by Dr. Carolyn Dean, NewsWithViews.com
The
U.S. Delegation to Codex has just issued a formal written statement to
the Codex Alimentarius Commission that the United States, during the
July 4-9, 2005, meeting in Rome, will
support compulsory rules created by this international organization
directly overruling U.S. law regarding access to vitamins.
The U.S.
law that is about to be vanquished is the Dietary Supplement, Health
and Education Act of 1994. Codex is a joint venture between the United
Nation’s World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture
Organization. (WHO/FAO) The World Trade Organization (WTO) has already
stated that it will enforce Codex “guidelines” as the world standard
for trade in dietary supplements. This will mean that gradually,
pill-by-pill, our access to the dietary supplements we depend on will
disappear.
For
those not familiar with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
of 1994, it was passed because 2.5 million ordinary citizens wanted to
make sure dietary supplements such as herbs, vitamins, minerals and
other food-based supplements could stay on the over-the-counter market.
Movement to create this law, known as DSHEA, started when a 1992 FDA
task force published a report announcing the FDA’s desire to remove
these products from the shelves as they represented a “disincentive for patented drug research”.
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Immediately
following this announcement, millions of Americans learned about how
famed vitamin doctor, Jonathan Wright’s patient-filled medical office
was raided the same month by nearly two-dozen gun-toting, flak-jacketed
FDA agents in the name of regulating supplements. Battering down an
unlocked office door, these agents, backed by burly sheriff’s
department deputies, lined up staff and patients against the wall,
pulled IVs from patients arms in middle of treatments, confiscated
patient records, and took the hard drive from the office computer – all
because Dr. Jonathan Wright was using nutritional supplements to heal
very sick people who could not get help from standard allopathic
medical care.
As the
story developed, it turned out that this Gestapo-style raid was
standard operating procedure for the FDA and as the general public
became aware of just how many doctors’ offices, manufacturing
companies, distributors and health food stores had been assaulted by
similar raids, the horror of all this forged a mighty health freedom
army that resulted in unanimous passage of DSHEA. [And props go to our own Senator Harkin for leading that battle to victory.]
The idea of the law was two-fold:
1. DSHEA
was to make a clear distinction between FOOD, which is considered
generally safe and did not need to have permission from the FDA to be
allowed on the market and DRUGS, which are generally toxic, potentially
deadly and in need of lengthy evaluation before they were available to
the public under prescription from a doctor.
2. DSHEA
provides the FDA with plenty of legal authority to remove herbs or
dietary supplements from the market providing the agency has plenty of
REAL evidence of REAL harm to the public. The FDA also has the
authority to limit the amount of a supplement to low levels IF the
agency has plenty of REAL evidence to prove higher levels ARE ACTUALLY
dangerous.
The
FDA and its Big Pharma backers have never liked DSHEA because these
products and the related natural healing arts services often related to
them are putting the allopathic drug/surgical/chemical medical industry
to shame.
In my
book, Death by Modern Medicine, using the allopathic medical industry’s
own official reports, I document how 784,000 people die every year in
the American medical system while following doctors’ orders in a
highly-regulated allopathic system. The proof that dietary supplements
and the practitioners who promote them are safe and work as expected is
evidenced everywhere. Studies conducted all over the world have shown
that supplements are actually safer than food and there is simply no
hard evidence to show there is ANY risk factor worthy of discussion,
much less needing universal “risk assessment”.
Yet, the
U.S. Delegation, along with its Big Pharma backers are bound and
determined that Codex force “risk analysis assessments” upon the
American dietary supplement industry so they can bypass the expressed
will of the American people.
The REAL
reason for promotion of “risk assessment” is based on two agendas.
First, to be able to strip the over-the-counter marketplace of
everything but low quality, low dose-level products that won’t do much
to support or improve health. Second, to set up the framework to allow
Big Pharma to take over the supplement market as a new form of drugs
where prices can be jacked up outrageously and doled out by doctors for
a fee.
UNDERSTAND
THIS: If you do not ACT NOW, you and everyone you love, will be
condemned to living under an international law that denies your basic
right to maintain your health. WITHOUT HEALTH, YOU HAVE NO FREEDOM!
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Click through on the homepage and you'll find contact information to write Bush and our U.S. Senators and Representatives. Tell them you DO NOT want your FREEDOM of choice taken away by these
international organizations!
Related Article:
Codex Alimentaris Ends US Supplements in June 2005
Submitted by Larry Hanus of Waterloo
Blog For Iowa 
Thanks for sharing this Linda.
One more example of the pharmaceutical companies, under the guise of the FDA, monopolizing the market via elimination of the competition! I am very concerned and I plan on making a lot of noise about it!
Caroline
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