Health Freedom Is Under Global Stealth Attack
By John C. Hammell
In Europe, The EU (European Union) Vitamin Directive threatens to destroy consumer access to therapeutic doses of vitamins & minerals, except by prescription.
In the U.S., Americans who write to Congress to demand an Oversight Hearing on Codex are being told that a Federal Statute already protects their rights. This is misleading.
urrent pressure to set arbitrary "safety standards" for vitamins (UL's or Upper Levels) in the US could set the stage for harmonization. It has begun...
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"Health Freedom is Under Global Stealth Attack"
by John C. Hammell, President, International Advocates for Health Freedom
Vitamin Consumers World Wide, Especially Americans:
Multinational Pharmaceutical Interests are currently engaged in a global stealth attack on the dietary supplement industry and it won't be stopped without immediate massive grass roots action, especially in the USA and in the European Union. Currently in the European Union, vitamin consumers are under direct attack and there is a need for vitamin consumers world wide to go to www.laleva.org to sign the Anti-EU Vitamin Directive Petition. The EU Vitamin Directive threatens to destroy consumer access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range, except by prescription, all over Europe, to force all EU nations to walk in lockstep with Germany and France where dietary supplements are heavily restricted. Unless stopped, all 15 EU nations will harmonize with Germany going into the next Codex vitamin meeting in November of 2001, and this could drive it through to completion.
This would set up the USA and the rest of the world for harmonization, in the same way all the EU countries are currently threatened. Consumers world wide must protest en masse, in the EU to your MEPs, elsewhere to your MPs and in America by demanding an oversight hearing which has been denied us since 1996 due to pressure from pharmaceutical interests.
For the past 5 years, members of Congress have told American vitamin consumers that an Oversight Hearing on Codex is a non issue because a Federal Statute protects our laws, including the Proxmire Vitamin Act, and the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, from harmonization to a restrictive international standard.
People receiving this response from Congress are being misled, and Congress is being scripted on how to respond by the FDA, which is acting in the best interests of the multinational pharmaceutical industry, instead of representing the best interests of American vitamin consumers.
If the Federal Statute in question (19 U.S.C. 3512(a)(1) and also (a)(2) in FACT protected our laws from harmonization to international standards which are usurping our sovereignty, it would not have been necessary for Congressman Ron Paul to introduce the American Sovereignty Restoration Act HR1146. "(ASRA")
Paul felt compelled to introduce ASRA because it is apparent to him, and to Jeanne Grimmett of the Congressional Research Service, that our domestic laws are not in fact protected by the aforementioned Federal Statute, due to the threat of trade sanctions being imposed by the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body whenever we try refusing to harmonize our laws to an international standard. There are many examples in which Congress has in fact caved to this threat of trade sanctions. They are shown at www.iahf.com "US Laws Not Safe" section.
Proof that we're being set up for harmonization to the highly restrictive EU and Codex standards can be found at www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html in an article titled "U.S. and European Leaders Agree on Principles to Harmonize Dietary Supplement Regulations" The American people seem to have been cut out of the loop as the pharmaceutically dominated working group on dietary supplements of the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue has flat out stated their intention to harmonize our laws, whether we like it or not!!! The FDA is in bed with these multinational pharmaceutical companies, and all of this would come out in an Oversight Hearing.
This Codex Vitamin Issue is proof positive that we must pass the American Sovereignty Restoration Act, because none of our domestic laws are safe from harmonization, and this issue proves it. Oversight is, therefore, sorely needed.
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"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship... To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."--Dr Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence
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