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Codex Petition Here - The FDA
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Ha'aretz Service
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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 exercize, his or 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: beth.clay@mail.house.gov 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 beth.clay@mail.house.gov
 
 
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:
 
1) Monty J. Renov; Holistic Health Practitioner, Herbalist, Member of the American Association of Body Psychotherapists, Certified Biofeedback Technician, Certified Postural Integrator 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) 25) 26) 27) 28) 29) 30)



 
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