By Dr. Carolyn Dean

June 19, 2005

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”.

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, 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.

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!

ACT NOW! http://www.friendsoffreedominternational.org/

Related Article:

Codex Alimentaris Ends US Supplements in June 2005



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