US Codex delegation poised to betray the will of the American people

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US Codex delegation poised to betray the will of the American

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US Codex delegation poised to betray the will of the American people

By Dr. Carolyn Dean

web posted June 20, 2005

 

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.

 

Dr. Carolyn Dean is a medical doctor, naturopathic doctor, herbalist,

acupuncturist, nutritionist, as well as a powerful health activist

fighting for health freedom as president of Friends of Freedom

International. Dr. Dean is the author of over a dozen health books, the

latest of which is Death By Modern Medicine.

 

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