"Want to make an appointment with a doctor to get nutritional supplements?

The European Union Food Supplements Directive (FSD) is scheduled to go into effect in August 2005. This EU law will control supplement sales in 25 EU countries.

Under the new law, only supplements at low dose, i.e. one to three times the RDA will be available without prescription. This means for example that you will need a prescription from a doctor to get vitamin C 1000mg. Many popular bioavailable supplements such as mixed tocopherols vitamin E, selenomethionine and chromium picolinate will be outlawed. Individual amino acids like tyrosine and 5-hydroxytryptophan will also be outlawed. Herbs, such as garlic, ginger and curcumin will be reclassified as drugs and stringently regulated.

Australia recently removed 1,600 supplement products (80% of those available) from health food stores. This was done under the Therapeutic Goods Act, which will regulate supplements like drugs."

.... "In November 2000, the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) issued a press release regarding dietary supplements. A working group of the TABD had just agreed to “Encourage the scientific bodies responsible for the evaluation of the safety of total intakes of vitamins and minerals to cooperate closely to harmonize setting upper safe levels for vitamins and minerals.” The press release also stated: “The TABD …seeks…the removal of …differences in the EU and U.S. regulatory systems.”

The TABD has 120 members, mostly pharmaceutical-type vitamin companies. Many U.S. vitamin companies are now owned by, or partnered with, pharmaceutical drug companies. The world drug industry wishes to remove consumer’s ability to maintain their health or fight disease through nutritional supplements, thereby forcing them back into the much more lucrative toximolecular pharmaceutical drug market."







I think I remeber that time... it was when much of the chemist's .. supermarket ...healthfood stores had most of their shelves denuded of most vitamins and herb suppliments... using potential risks of toxic batches eg Pan Pharmaceuticals etc....

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/29/1051381951152.html

http://www.smh.com.au/specials/panrecall/index.html



...and the resulting backlash that scared many off using vitamins and natural therapies for a while.....

Was it preplanned????

A FDA scam to take control???????

http://www.natural-health-information-cent...imentarius.html

"REAL GOALS OF CODEX
This is to bring about international 'harmonization.' While global harmony sounds benign, is that the real purpose of this plan? While the stated goal of Codex is to establish unilateral regulations for dietary supplements in every country, the actual goal is to outlaw health products and information on vitamins and dietary supplements, except those under their direct control. These regulations would supersede United States domestic laws without the American people's voice or vote in the matter.

HOW CAN IT BE POSSIBLE?
Americans gasp at the thought. It goes against everything America stands for. Many believe this can't be possible. The truth is, it's not only possible, it's required by the Codex Alimentarius agreement.

In fact, under the terms of the Uruguay Round of GATT, which created the World Trade Organization, the United States agreed to harmonize its domestic laws to the international standards. This includes standards for dietary supplements being developed by the United Nation's Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use.

The Uruguay Round Agreements carry explicit language clearly indicating that the U.S. must harmonize to international standards:

"Members are fully responsible under this Agreement for the observance of all provisions.... members shall formulate and implement positive measures and mechanisms in support of the observance of the provisions.... by other than central government bodies." [WTO TBT Agreement at Article 3.5]"

In other words, the federal government must NOT ONLY CHANGE FEDERAL LAW, but must ALSO require state and local governments to change their laws as well to be in accordance with international law.

Not only that, but Codex Alimentarius is now enforceable through the World Trade Organization (WTO). If a country disagrees with or refuses to follow Codex standards, the WTO applies pressure by withdrawing trade privileges and imposing crippling trade sanctions. Congress has already bowed to this pressure several times and so have the governments of many countries.

While the exemption clause (USC 3512(a)(1) and (a)(2) was created to supposedly protect our laws from harmonization to international standards, it has proven to be totally ineffective. The United States has already lost seven trade disputes despite the exemption clause. Due to the enormous pressures put on them by lobbyists from multinational corporations (who contribute millions to congressional campaigns), Congress bowed to pressure and changed U.S. laws.

It appears our government (as well as al others) is being manipulated one way or another to serve the goals of the UN, the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization. Food control equals people control -- and population control. Is this beginning to sound like world government and one-world order? Could this be the real goal behind Codex Alimentarius?

The United States, Canada, the Europeans, Japan, most of Asia, and South America have already signed agreements pledging total harmonization of their laws including food and drug laws to these international standards in the future.

WHAT CODEX WILL BRING
What can we expect under Codex? To give you an idea, here are some important points:

* Dietary supplements could not be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use.
* Potencies would be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the drug companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies would have the right to produce and sell the higher potency products (at inflated prices).
* Prescriptions would be required for anything above the extremely low doses allowed (such as 35 mg. on niacin).
* Common foods such as garlic and peppermint would be classified as drugs or a third category (neither food nor drugs) that only big pharmaceutical companies could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water.
* Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (escape clauses would be eliminated).
* All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through Codex testing and approval.
* Genetically altered food would be sold worldwide without labeling.

According to John Hammell, a legislative advocate and the founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF), here is what we have to look forward to:

"If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex Alimentarius is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. Predictably, this scenario has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association and the Health Protection Branch of Canada (HPB).

The Codex Alimentarius proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an Echinacea tincture, which is being sold there as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores or pharmacies."

It is now a criminal offence in parts of Europe to sell herbs as foods. An agreement called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to selling other illegal drugs. Action is being taken to accelerate other European countries into 'harmonization' as well.

Paul Hellyer in his book, "The Evil Empire," states: "Codex Alimentarius is supported by international banks and multinational corporations including some in Canada, and is in reality a bill of rights for these banks and the corporations they control. It will hand over our sovereign rights concerning who may or may not invest in our countries to an unelected world organization run by big business. The treaty would make it impossible for Canadian legislators either federal or provincial to alter or improve environmental standards for fear of being sued by multinational corporations whether operating in Canada or not.

This will create a world without borders ruled by a virtual dictatorship of the world's most powerful central banks and multinational companies. This world is an absolute certainty if we all sit on our hands and do nothing."

This is the future the FDA and FTC are striving to bring us via Codex harmonization. Is this a future we are going to willingly accept or prevent?

WHY TARGET THE INTERNET?
It is no accident that the FDA and FTC are targeting Internet health sites through Operation Cure-All. We are standing in the doorway of an unprecedented revolution -- the information revolution brought about by the Internet.

Now all people everywhere have the ability to learn about anything that interests them with just a few clicks. History has shown that informed, educated people change civilizations -- they change the flow of thought and they change the flow of money. They can even change the direction of a country. When similar transitions have happened in the past, the powers that existed did not give up willingly. The Catholic Church fiercely protected its practice of selling 'indulgences' as a forgiveness of sin. When the practice was abolished, the Catholic Church lost a great deal of power and money.

When the printing press was invented, books were banned and printers were imprisoned by the authorities, who feared an educated public could not be governed. In the same way, the medical monopoly (and the UN) now fears that a public educated in health and privy to the shortcomings of modern medicine could not be controlled. Loss of control means loss of revenue and loss of power. And they are doing everything they can to stop progress so they can contain their losses and strengthen their power."

I wonder what they would do to people who grow their own lemons, (for the vitamin C), and garlic, I grow my own. I guess the question is "How are they going to regulate backyard gardens, world wide?"

Don't you just love the governments power to do whatever they want? 1984 folks, 1984.

It seems like we can't do anything nowadays off our own backs . They think we are all stupid obviously, the thing is if they regulate our intakes, what are they putting in stuff that they are allowing us to eat??

The greatest example of that is Aspartame... they even put it in medicine for kids!!!

http://www.wnho.net/the_ecologist_aspartame_report.htm

SPRING 1967
Searle begins safety tests, necessary for FDA approval.

AUTUMN 1967
GD Searle approaches eminent biochemist Dr Harry Waisman, director of the University of Wisconsin's Joseph P Kennedy Jr Memorial Laboratory of Mental Retardation Research and a respected expert in the toxicity of phenylalanine (which comprises 50 per cent of the aspartame formula), to conduct a study of the effects of aspartame on primates. Of seven monkeys fed aspartame mixed with milk, one dies and five others have grand mal epileptic seizures.

SPRING 1971
Dr John Olney, professor of neuropathology and psychiatry at Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, whose research into the neurotoxic food additive monosodium glutamate (MSG, a chemical cousin of aspartame) was responsible for having it removed from baby foods, informs Searle that his studies show that aspartic acid, one of the main constituents of aspartame, causes holes in the brains of infant mice. One of Searle's researchers, Ann Reynolds, confirms Olney's findings in a similar study.

FEBRUARY 1973
Searle applies for FDA approval and submits over 100 studies it claims support aspartame's safety. Neither the dead monkeys nor the mice with holes in their brains are included in the submission."

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/


http://www.sweetpoison.com/

Excellent topic/posts cyrstal sage.....I do believe that because so much of modern medicine.... drugs and procedures... are formulated on the fear, pain, suffering and death of animals...that from a philosophical standpoint modern medicine is polluted by evil. If it is polluted by evil then its capacity for healing is dramatically reduced..even nullified.



Don't know how this one will pan out...what a disgrace these proposals/plans are!

Bee xx

everyone who reads this article should print it out and take it down to their local health food store

then tell the owner to make 3000 copies and leave stacks of them on the counter for people take
with them.


Get active NOW.

FDA censorship, suppression of its own scientists is routine, survey reveals

http://www.newstarget.com/005032.html

"Here's information you're not supposed to know about the FDA. It was uncovered through a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request that uncovered a 2002 Human and Health Services survey asking FDA scientists questions about the agency. Their answers reveal an astonishing lack of confidence at the Fraud and Drug Administration, not to mention the bullying of scientists by FDA bureaucrats to get drugs approved even though they were dangerous. Let's take a closer look at the results of this survey.

The survey involved 846 FDA scientists with a near-50% participation rate. Of those who responded, 66% said they lacked confidence in the agency's ability to "adequately monitor the safety of prescription drugs once they are on the market." That's two-thirds of the scientists. This is interesting because Dr. David Graham, who is the most outspoken FDA scientist, had been singled out by the FDA as being a loose cannon, a sort of rogue scientist whose views were not widely accepted. But, as we see from the study, the vast majority of scientists within the agency heartily agree with Dr. David Graham.

Similarly, only 12% of the scientists surveyed were completely confident that the FDA labeling decisions adequately address safety concerns. That's only one out of 10 scientists. Similarly, only 13% of the scientists were confident that the FDA's final decisions adequately assess the safety of a drug. Why might this be the case? Nearly 60% of the scientists said they don't believe the FDA has enough time to conduct in depth science-based reviews of new drugs, and 48% said the FDA does not do enough to monitor and improve its drug assessment process. So what's really going on behind closed doors, it seems, is that FDA bureaucrats are rubber-stamping the approvals of dangerous drugs, silencing their own scientists and then failing to adequately monitor those drugs once they're released to the market. And this isn't something that outside critics are saying, it's something that even the FDA's own scientists are saying! But the picture gets even worse.

Nearly 1 in 5 scientists, 18%, said that they have "been pressured to approve or recommend approval" for drugs that they thought weren't proven safe. This means the FDA bureaucrats have been leaning on scientists to approve dangerous drugs. And that's why we are seeing scandals in the marketplace like COX-2 inhibitors, antidepressant drugs, statin drugs and all sorts of other drugs that are now known to cause dangerous -- even deadly -- side effects, and yet have been promoted and defended by the FDA for years. And when those drugs are found to be a chemical catastrophe, killing literally hundreds of thousands of American citizens, the FDA just holds a rigged hearing where so-called "neutral" panel members (who actually have strong financial ties to drug companies) quickly vote the dangerous drugs back onto the marketplace. It's all a charade.

What all this shows is that the FDA has gone out of its way to protect the financial interests of drug companies. It has gone out of its way to silence its own scientists who are critical of the agency's drug safety review process. It has gone out of its way to bury evidence proving that these drugs are dangerous and yet at the same time discredit nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, vitamins and other natural strategies for preventing chronic disease and boosting health. In fact, the whole environment at the Fraud and Drug Administration is that of oppression... and suppression of scientific evidence. 21% of the scientists surveyed felt that the work environment at the FDA offered little or no room for dissent. Half of those surveyed said that scientific dissent was allowed only "to some extent." And a whopping 83% of the scientists surveyed felt the agency does not have adequate procedures in place to address scientific disagreements to a great extent.

Well, of course they don't! Because when the agency works to censor scientists, shut them up and discredit them when they go public, that is certainly not an environment that's conducive to scientists telling the truth about dangerous drugs. If you worked at the FDA, would you? How long would you zip your lips just to keep your job? (Apparently, Dr. David Graham got tired of the game and decided to blow the whistle.)

What's the upshot of this survey finding? It's yet more evidence backing up my long-standing condemnations of the FDA as a mob-like drug racket agency that distorts the truth, lies to the public, defends dangerous prescription drugs, works to promote the financial interests of pharmaceutical companies and essentially ends up killing hundreds of thousands of Americans each year because of its unwillingness to perform its regulatory mission. This survey also reveals that it is not entirely accurate to speak of the FDA as one single-minded organization. In fact, there is a great rift at the FDA -- it is the scientists versus the FDA bureaucrats. The highly paid bureaucrats who have ties to the pharmaceutical industry and who have the political power to override the voices of the scientists are currently in charge. That's why when Dr. David Graham testified before the Senate and finally went public with the truth about the dangers of these prescription drugs, he was congratulated by his peers.

Meanwhile, other bureaucrats at the FDA threatened to discredit him; they even contacted a whistleblower group that was offering protection for Dr. David Graham and sought to discredit his reputation with that group. Now they're threatening to transfer Dr. Graham to another job role so that he can no longer conduct his work on drug safety.

Are these the actions of an organization that's protecting the public health? Absolutely not! Only a truly insane person could look at this situation and say the FDA is doing its job. More accurately, the FDA is behaving like a criminal organization, and that's why I've called for a criminal investigation of the top decision makers at this agency. Through their negligence and deceit they have cost the lives of countless Americans. They have plotted to promote dangerous drugs while discrediting disease prevention alternatives such as nutritional supplements. They have attempted to destroy alternative health doctors and pioneering researchers who are finding genuine cures and treatments for chronic diseases. .........cont.... "

A dangerous dose
2004-09-05, Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/20..._dangerous_dose

Marcia Angell [is] a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School [and one of the] former editors of The New England Journal of Medicine. Her new book, "The Truth About the Drug Companies," is a sober, clear-eyed attack on the excesses of drug company power. How does the drug industry deceive us? It plies attending physicians with expense-paid junkets to St. Croix and Key West, Fla., where they are given honoraria and consulting fees to listen to promotional presentations. It promotes new or little-known diseases such as "social anxiety disorder" and "premenstrual dysphoric disorder" as a way of selling the drugs that treat them. It sets up phony front groups disguised as "patient advocacy organizations." It hires ghostwriters to produce misleading scientific articles and then pays academic physicians to sign on as authors. It sends paid lackeys and shills out onto the academic lecture circuit to ''educate" doctors about a drug's unapproved uses. It hires multinational PR firms to trumpet dubious studies as scientific breakthroughs while burying the studies that are likely to harm sales. It buys up the results of publicly funded research. It maintains a political chokehold on the American public by donating more money to political campaigns than any other industry in the country. For many years the drug industry has reaped the highest profit margins of any industry in America. In 2002, the top 10 American drug companies had profit margins of 17 percent; Pfizer, the largest, had profit margins of 26 percent. So staggeringly profitable is the drug industry that in 2002 the combined profits for the top 10 drug companies in the Fortune 500 were greater than those of all the other 490 companies combined.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/truthaboutdrugcompanies

Indicting the Drug Industry's Practices
2004-09-06, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/06/books/06...p;en=1accf3fe...

Dr. Marcia Angell is a former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine and spent two decades on the staff of that publication. Her new book is a scorching indictment of drug companies and their research and business practices. "Despite all its excesses, this is an important industry that should be saved - mainly from itself," she writes. Dr. Angell's case is tough, persuasive and troubling. "The Truth About the Drug Companies" ... is devoted to assertions of shady, misleading corporate behavior. In the past, drug discoveries made through government research remained in the public domain. Beginning in 1980 those breakthroughs could be patented, even if their research was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. As a consequence, Dr. Angell says, patent shenanigans have reshaped the drug business, as have the recent government regulations that expedite direct-to-consumer drug advertising. "Once upon a time, drug companies promoted drugs to treat diseases," Dr. Angell writes. "Now it is often the opposite. They promote diseases to fit their drugs." Why all the advertising? "If prescription drugs are so good, why do they need to be pushed so hard?" she asks. Dr. Angell is now a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244
http://www.wanttoknow.info/newsarticles-0-10000

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005...ements_more.htm

"Remember Dr. Shiv Chopra? He was and is Health Canada’s most severe critic, having been employed by them for almost 40 years; he saved Canadians from having carcinogenic bovine growth hormone secretly added to our milk supply. In his view, Health Canada’s regulatory system routinely relies on what he refers to as “tobacco science” which industry hacks produce by manipulating the data in the interest of profits. For a magisterial overview of this world of deception we recommend The Truth About The Drug Companies (Random, 2004) by Marcia Angell, the former editor of the world’s most prestigious medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine."


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"Until we have a regulatory system that works, abides by the published and verifiable scientific evidence, is fully transparent and accountable to the public in its decisions, and cannot be intimidated by Big Pharma, it would be suicide to allow the products of our supplement industry to be “regulated” by that oxymoron known as Health Canada.

Everyone seems to agree that Bill C-420 is important because it would repeal sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the Food and Drugs Act. These sections prohibit telling the truth in informational and advertising as published by mainstream science about the effectiveness of food supplements in the treatments of a wide range of health conditions, all of which are the so-called Schedule A: it includes most known diseases. Schedule A is enforceable under criminal law, as happened to the Strauss Herbal Company recently - Health Canada lost. The courts can understand medical evidence – Health Canada apparently can’t."

“It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” — Robert Houghwout Jackson, Chief Judge, War-Crimes Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945

If the following information was a horror movie, we could all sit back with our popcorn and enjoy it. Unfortunately, this is not fiction — and if we don’t do something about it, this nightmare will become waking reality in Canada sometime soon after August 1, 2005. Whatever happens, you will never forget Codex Alimentarius.

http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/node/310

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634

Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

.. could result in Billions of deaths!!! according to Dr. Rima Laibow MD



The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people to choose natural healing and alternative medicine and nutrition. Ratified by ... all » the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in 2009, the threat to health freedom has never been greater.

This is the first part of a series of talks by Dr. Rima Laibow MD, available on DVD from the Natural Solutions Foundation, an non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about how to stop Codex Alimentarius from taking away our right to freely choose nutritional health. «

Pharmaceuticals Rank as the most profitable industry yet again!!!

http://www.citizen.org/documents/fortune500_2002erport.PDF


"Sweet Misery"
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http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/rumsfeld.html

Rumsfeld's legacy

From mass vaccination to aspartame and back again
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20031113.htm

Brilliant post Crystal Sage, I was just about to post a new Codex string my self and decided to check to see if anyone else has posted this extremely important information regarding the mega pharmaceutical corporation's attempt to block the worlds access to true healing modalities. The pharmaceutical, insurance companies and most of the associations of medical doctors are trying to lock up for good their monopoly on health and healing in which would mean more pain and suffering for the world. These companies in the US (and EU) are corporations in which their main goal is to make money, all they can no matter what. You see, corporations are legal entities which are considered to be a person in all legal aspects, a person without a heart and no belief in God. Their God is money. When was the last time any drug company came up with a cure? Fifty years ago? Correct me if I am wrong how long its been since they came up with a "cure" for anything. All they want to do is treat you for the rest of your life, not cure. Because if they cure a disease it would cut into their profit. I believe with great certainly that most if not all diseases are caused by chemicals in our foods and water plus cosmetics. Additives in our foods, fertilizer that are chemical and of course pesticides that they "treat" our farms with. Its a multi billion dollar industry that has so much power it would spin your head. They pay off any and all, including our government officials who vote and initiate many of their programs like genetic engineered foods like plants and animals. Believe it or not there is a cost effective way to fertilize out food plants and help the animals we use as food and its based on certain salts that have all the correct minerals naturally in it, The salt it self can be taken out and the life giving natural minerals left intact. This is fact, it has already been done. Plants and animals flourish with these natural nutrient's in which they are heat resistant and freeze resistant plus insect resistant because they are extremely healthy and can overcome these problems. These foods that are ingested by humans and animals are very very healthy because of these natural nutrients are in these plants. Have you ever tasted an apple or a peach from a super market that tastes so bitter that you wont eat it? I believe its the chemicals they use in the production of these food staples and in fact causes many of the disease's we have now. Get the picture? We live healthy and the drug companies and insurance companies loose big money. They don't want this to happen no matter what. They will lie and cheat to get their way. Think about it. It is true!!!

and the scary thing is when you add Monsanto... and Searle to the equation...!!!