Guest guest Posted June 25, 2005 Report Share Posted June 25, 2005 A well documented article by Paul Taylor, discussing DSHEA, the US law on food supplements passed in 1994, and how this law may be influenced by the Codex Alimentarius guidelines on supplements, about to be passed in a Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting of 4-9 July 2005 in Rome. Kind regards Sepp Sat, 25 Jun 2005 07:59:02 +0100 The Growing Threats to DSHEA " P.Taylor " <paulandpolly My article re. the above is now up on the Dr. Rath Health Foundation's website at <http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/dshea.htm>http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org\ /dshea.htm Paul The Growing Threats to DSHEA The passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in the United States in 1994 was arguably the single most important legislative development in the history of health freedom. (1). Since 1994, interest in natural healthcare therapies has grown dramatically in the United States, to the point where it is now estimated that 70 percent of the US population use dietary supplements at least occasionally, and 40 percent use them on a regular basis. (2). Nevertheless, and as this article will demonstrate, there are now numerous threats to DSHEA from a wide variety of sources. Can supplements be banned under DSHEA? Under DSHEA, the FDA has the power to seize any dietary supplement that it considers poses an " unreasonable or significant risk of illness or injury. " (3). Given therefore that what constitutes an " unreasonable or significant risk of illness or injury " is not actually defined in DSHEA it can easily be seen that this phrase is potentially open to a wide variety of different interpretations. Moreover, DSHEA also allows the FDA to prescribe, via the issuing of regulations, good manufacturing practices for dietary supplements, and to remove from the market any dietary supplements that it considers do not meet these. (4). In this respect it should be noted that on March 7, 2003 the FDA issued a proposed rule, " Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Dietary Ingredients and Dietary Supplements " (5) , the " standards " outlined in which are so severe as to actually exceed those imposed upon the pharmaceutical industry. Were these proposals to be passed into law then many smaller companies could potentially find the requirements to be so prohibitively expensive that they may be forced to cease business. Clearly therefore the FDA already has more power under DSHEA than is commonly realized. Moreover, all it needs in order to wield this power is sufficient excuse. Indeed, and as we shall examine next, this 'excuse' may shortly be about to present itself, in the form of the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements... Read whole article here: <http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/dshea.htm>http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org\ /dshea.htm -- The individual is supreme and finds its way through intuition. Sepp Hasslberger My page on physics, new energy, economy: http://www.hasslberger.com/ Critical perspective on Health: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/ Antiprohibition and cannabis: http://www.unsaccodicanapa.com/ Communication Agents: http://www.communicationagents.com/ Freedom of choice - La Leva di Archimede: http://www.laleva.cc/ La Leva's news: http://www.laleva.org/ Robin Good - http://www.masternewmedia.org/ Trash Your Television! http://www.tvturnoff.org/ http://www.tvnewslies.org/ Not satisfied with news from the tube and other controlled media? Search the net! There are thousands of information sources out there. Start with http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ http://www.truthout.org/ http://buzzflash.com/ http://www.joevialls.co.uk/ http://www.Rense.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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