Subject: Fw: Codex Petition Here - The FDA Only Gives To 1-16-01 To File
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Please read this petition, sign it (if you're in agreement with it) and
forward it to anyone you know who wants to preserve, and continue to
exercise, his/her rights to take nutritional supplements in order to
maximize preventive and therapeutic benefits to health. Your right to take
nutritional supplements is being dangerously threatened by some regulations
which could be adopted by the government at the urging of the pharmaceutical
industry, if you don't make your voices heard.
To make a difference, also send a signed copy to: Congressman Dan Burton,
Chairman House Government Reform and Oversight Committee c/o Beth Clay at
the following e-mail address: [log in to unmask] or call (202)
225-3121 and ask for Congressman Dan Burton's office.
Please help by also signing the international petition at the following
website: http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/petitioneng.html"
This website is very important! Signing its petition gives us the chance to
have a positive effect on an international level. Just scroll down the page,
when you get there, until you see the icon "English" on the bottom right
side of the page and then press it. Then, on the page which follows, press
the word 'petition and, then, just press the English flag icon which shows
up and you'll have an English translation of the petition.
You can find more pertinent information on this issue at the following
websites: The website of health & wellness advocate Gary Null, Ph.D. -
http://www.garynull.com International Advocates for Health Freedom -
http://www.iahf.com
Whoever signs the 100th, 200th 300th, etc. place can send me a copy of their
petition as well, if they like. Then I'll forward those copies to the
Congressman as well. Feel free to also send signed petitions to your local
congressman. -----------------
PETITION
To: Congressman Dan Burton, Chairman 12/31/2000 House Government Reform and
Oversight Committee c/o Beth Clay [log in to unmask]
In a sly move, the FDA has designated January 16th as the last date by which
we consumers can protest the govenment's ratification of an international
agreement that promises to be quite detrimental to everyone's health. To
stop this agreement from being ratified, we would have to voice our opinion
by January 16th, even though the international meeting at which the final
decision will be made is still 11 months away! (November 2001)
Could this deliberate limiting, by the FDA, of allowable time in which to
let our voices be heard on this issue be anything other than a (transparent)
strategem of the FDA to keep as many of us as it can in the dark about this
issue, until it will be already too late for us to have an effect on the
outcome?
Acting in this manner, the FDA seems to be hoping it will be able to
sideline any potential consumer opposition to the agreement, which would
then become the new internationally adopted regulation after November.
The name of this diabolical agreement is the Codex Alimentarius. For those
of you who don't know, the Codex is an international treaty which is being
aggressively promoted by the international Pharmaceutical cartel and the
special interest groups who are their friends in the international business
community.
It is an agreement for which the pharmaceutical lobbies are working as hard
as they can to gain international passage because it will allow them to
force the passage of laws, in every country, severely limiting the scope and
effectiveness of nutritional supplements (which they want very much to do,
presumably, because healthy people do not buy their medicines as readily as
sick people do).
These new laws would have precedence over all national laws of any given
country, effectively usurping them and incapacitating concerned citizens
from being able to do anything about these repressive laws. Infractions
would be punished by economic sanctions against the country, in order to
"keep it in line". Citizens would effectively be blocked from taking action
because the Codex provides neither transparency about its motives & actions,
nor accountability to anyone but itself.
I guess if the Pharma Cartel is so desperate to have this treaty ratified,
it must be a powerful signal that our efforts to improve our health through
preventive nutrition have been succeeding so impressively and astoundingly
that less people are getting sick... which must be cutting so deeply into
the Pharma Cartel's profits (from selling their pharmaceutical drugs to sick
people) that they're now trying, at all costs, to make this repressive
treaty into an international law.
I'm not at all interested in having the right to manage my own health taken
away from me! I don't think you want to lose yours either... So why don't we
all get out there and do our best to prevent this draconian treaty, and the
greedy little men who conceived of it, from ruining our health... and our
world!
Now, here is the body of the petition:
1) We the undersigned, users of natural health products and food
supplements, ask legislators and administrators in the U.S.A., in all
European countries and delegates to Codex Alimentarius discussions world
wide to take into account the following:
2) Considering that international legislation on the subject of food
supplements is currently under discussion at both Codex Alimentarius and in
the European legislative system (Council of Europe and the European
Parliament);
3) Considering further that in both venues of discussion there are heavy
pressures brought to bear by pharmaceutical interests, to limit the
effectiveness and the availability of natural health products and food
supplements to the detriment of consumer choice and public health;
4) Considering that approved, regulated and properly prescribed
pharmaceutical medicines are causing hundreds of thousands of preventable
deaths each year, having become the fourth most common cause of death in
several countries (see statistics and article by Ron Law from New Zealand);
5) Considering that vitamin supplements and other natural health products
have a clean bill of health, having been used for decades by millions of
consumers world wide without more than a handful of confirmed lethal
outcomes;
6) Considering that the clearly visible pressures of pharmaceutical
interests to limit the effectiveness and availability of natural health
products are dictated by motives of monetary profit and and considerations
of market share, not by concern for the health of consumers;
7) Considering that true health preservation today is achieved through the
widespread use of natural health products and supplements (see recent
prevention references in Ron Law's article) and considering that consumers
should not be deprived of the health preserving and health promoting means
of their choice merely by reason of the distraction of legislators or the
greed for profits of the mentioned pharmaceutical interests, let it be said
then that the consumers of natural health products and food supplements,
both in Europe and internationally, demand that legislators and
administrators, in discussions concerning food supplements, take into
account the following:
A) Natural health products and food supplements, in the absence of specific
regulations in place internationally, have shown to possess an unsurpassed
safety record and to be of great benefit to health as evidenced by
scientific studies and by the personal experience of the undersigned users.
B) It does not therefore make any sense to limit the dosages of essential
nutrients in supplements except where consumption of such substances has
shown actual, health risks;
C) It does not therefore make any sense to limit the availability of
nutrients or other ingredient substances by socalled "positive lists" as
contemplated in current international legislative proposals;
D) It would seriously undermine programs for the promotion of public health
and the prevention of illness as well as the practice of non conventional
methods of therapy, to put limits on the availability of these products,
even if ostensibly "in the name of consumer protection" for these reasons,
we demand that:
E) ANY EUROPEAN OR INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION BE CAREFULLY STRUCTURED SO AS
TO GUARANTEE THE FREE ACCESS TO NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS AND FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
THAT HAVE PROVEN TO BE SAFE AND ARE IN DEMAND BY CONSUMERS, OR BE
INDEFINITELY SHELVED.
F) ANY SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL NOT CONTAIN PROVISIONS LIMITING THE DOSAGES OF
NUTRIENTS OR ACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN SUCH PRODUCTS EXCEPT WHERE ABSOLUTELY AND
CLEARLY NECESSARY TO AVERT PROVEN, NOT FICTITIOUS OR ASSUMED DANGERS TO THE
HEALTH OF CONSUMERS
G) ANY SUCH LEGISLATION SHALL NOT LIMIT THE SCOPE AND VARIETY OF NUTRITIVE
AND OTHERWISE HEALTH PROMOTING SUBSTANCES BY THE USE OF ANY KIND OF LISTS,
POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, EXCEPT WHERE SUCH SUBSTANCES CAN BE SHOWN TO HAVE
CAUSED DAMAGES SIMILAR TO THOSE EVIDENT TODAY IN THE PROPERLY APPROVED AND
REGULATED PHARMACEUTICALLY PRODUCED MEDICINES
H) In support of these principles and requesting that legislators and
administrators take into account these demands, we hereby sign:
Arline Brecher
Author of "Forty Something Forever - the
Consumer's Guide to Chelation Therapy"
http://arxc.com
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