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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.
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- 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.
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- Please help by also signing the international petition
at the following website: http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/petitioneng.html"
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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. -----------------
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- PETITION
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- To: Congressman Dan Burton, Chairman 12/31/2000 House
Government Reform and Oversight Committee c/o Beth Clay beth.clay@mail.house.gov
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- 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)
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- Now, here is the body of the petition:
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- 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:
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- 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);
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- 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;
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- 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);
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- 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;
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- 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;
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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;
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- 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;
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- H) In support of these principles and requesting that
legislators and administrators take into account these demands, we hereby
sign:
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- 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)
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