OT: Vitamins and Alternative medicine to become "prescription only"

This does NOT apply to the USA. It would take another act of congress to
have the DSHEA repealed and lose our rights to over the counter vitamin
supplements. This is not to say the drug companies won't try to do it, so
writing to your congressperson NOW would be prudent. But this is not going
to happen in the USA next week as the previous poster claimed. Write your
congressperson to head off the pharmaceutical companies off at the pass.

"
Codex Alimentarius Alert
Dr. Terry Grossman discussed this topic on Coast to Coast AM
with George Noory on July 13, 2005...

(http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/07/13.html)

On July 4th the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), which has been meeting
in Rome, adopted in final form their Guidelines for Vitamin, Mineral and
Food Supplements. These guidelines, if adopted in the United States, will
seriously undermine the ability of the public to purchase vitamins and other
nutritional supplements over-the-counter and at affordable prices.

Despite what you may have heard about Codex, there is no IMMEDIATE threat to
your ability to buy nutritional supplements in the U.S. The Dietary Safety
Health Education Act (DSHEA) passed by Congress in 1994 has been
safeguarding the rights of Americans to buy and use nutritional supplements
freely and at competitive prices. However, these new actions taken by the
CAC in Italy represent a serious threat to these freedoms in the near
future.

Without massive public outcry, most vitamins and supplements will become
prescription drugs and your freedom to purchase and use nutritional
supplements to ensure the health of yourself and your family will be
seriously eroded."

"SteveW" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:2005071621301743658%nomyemaillassie@lassiexcom...

Quoted message said:

Fight CAFTA Hidden Legislation Against Herbal Suplements

Basically, as we know the AMA and the Pharmacetical companies have
been trying to get rid of vitamins, herbs and everything else
holistic, and again and again we have defeated it. But now they have
figured out a way around it, and it is about to pass. In fact the FDA
has had a "Gag Order" on the media so that all of us are not aware of
it, and it is about to be passed next week!!

They are doing it under An International Treaty Law that will
supercede a country's own individual choices, and if it passes
everything that we believe in will become illegal, from herbs to
vitamins (unless the doctor perscribes them), massage, hypnotherapy,
or ANY ALTERNATIVE HEALTH THERAPY! This is already in place in Germany
and a 4 day supply of Vitamin E cost $80!

THEY PLAN TO PASS THIS NEXT WEEK!! So please act today, this minute
and send this out to every email on our list, with my letter, so that
hundreds of thousands will flood their offices in the next two or
days! It has already passed in the Senate and will come up any day on
the House calendar, and then we are all screwed!!

Below is a direct link to reach your House of Representatives person
in your area or State! I urge you to act now to reverse this chain of
catastrophic events!

Tricia White Dove McCannon
Urgent Press Release

National Health Federation Urgent Alert - CAFTA

July 2, 2005

URGENT ALERT
ACT NOW
YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED

CAFTA VOTE - 1 WEEK AWAY

WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OVERRIDE DSHEA

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require
the U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food
laws and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force
harmonization of our dietary supplements and regulations to
international standards, overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modelled after
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are
typical bureaucratic monstrosities of "managed" trade that masquerade
as free trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America
and then the rest of the Americas in an economic "union." True free
trade would take a few pages of written text to enact ("eliminate
these barriers to trade and these tariffs," etc.); all three of these
agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual
garbage sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and
special-interest benefits.

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all
its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS)
committee for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the
terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You
can find that text at the following website:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Se
ction_Index.html.

Quoted message said:

If

you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will read
the following words: "To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures
on as wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety
measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations."
(emphasis added) And as you all know by now, Codex sets the
international standards for food safety including vitamins & minerals.

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives
when they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which
health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by
treaty to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex
vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and
we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put a
knife in the back of our health freedoms.

*********************

~CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st,

2005.

Quoted message said:

~Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.
~IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill
1307 (click here to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on
without going to committee. It is on the House calendar and may be
brought up at any time.

*********************

ONLY ONE WEEK TO ACT. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO
VOTE AGAINST CAFTA NOW.

YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE VOTING IN THE HOUSE WILL BE
CLOSE. WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION
LETTERS.

PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Contact any member of the House of Representatives via
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
For persons who do not have Internet access you may contact the House
of Representatives switchboard at 1 (202) 224-3121.
This will direct you to your representative as long as you have your
full zip code, including the additional four digits that the post
office places on the end, which indicates the representative district.

Sample Petition Opposition Letter as follows:

CAFTA Letter

The Honorable (Congressperson Full Name)

Address

Address

Re: CAFTA VOTE - URGENT

Dear Representative (Last Name):

I am writing to urge you to vote against the Central
American Free Trade Act (CAFTA).

While you and your colleagues may believe that CAFTA will
promote regional trade, I do not support CAFTA because it contains (in
Section 6) stipulations that would require the United States, as a
member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to revise our food laws
and regulations, based on decisions made by another WTO tribunal, the
Codex Alimentarius (International Food Code) Commission, or Codex.
The WTO recognizes Codex standards as a source of international
regulation for WTO members. The WTO can and has sanctioned nations
for not following Codex guidelines.

The passage of CAFTA would force the "harmonization" of
our dietary-supplement laws and regulations to international
standards, as established by the supranational Codex Commission.
Doing so would drastically infringe on the quality of dietary
supplements and access to supplements that people like me are used to.
The passage of CAFTA could effectively override the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. CAFTA would
devastate our health freedom of choice, destroy thousands of small
businesses in the health foods and dietary supplement fields, and
negatively impact the 150 million regular consumers of dietary
supplements like myself.

Any treaty that leads to the banning of thousands of safe
products cannot be described as "free trade." There are better ways
to globalize. If this cannot be done without threatening my basic
right to have access to nutritional choices, then we should scrap
CAFTA and start over. I appreciate your consideration of my views and
look forward to knowing what your position is on this legislation.

Sincerely,

____________________________

P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 USA ~ 1 (626) 357-2181 ~ Fax 1 (626)

303-0642

Quoted message said:

Website: www.thenhf.com E-mail:

[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 USA ~ 1 (626) 357-2181 ~ Fax 1 (626)
303-0642

Website: www.thenhf.com E-mail:

[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

This is mainly talking about setting rates for taxes and tariffs to and from
these countries, to and from the US. Additionally, it is speaking of certain
food items in section #, look at the attached schedule, It is mostly
poultry.

--
Billy Gurley
Home PC Repair
Sanford, NC
FAX: 919-718-0381
[email hidden]
"SteveW" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:2005071621301743658%nomyemaillassie@lassiexcom...

Quoted message said:

Fight CAFTA Hidden Legislation Against Herbal Suplements

Basically, as we know the AMA and the Pharmacetical companies have been
trying to get rid of vitamins, herbs and everything else holistic, and
again and again we have defeated it. But now they have figured out a way
around it, and it is about to pass. In fact the FDA has had a "Gag Order"
on the media so that all of us are not aware of it, and it is about to be
passed next week!!

They are doing it under An International Treaty Law that will supercede a
country's own individual choices, and if it passes everything that we
believe in will become illegal, from herbs to vitamins (unless the doctor
perscribes them), massage, hypnotherapy, or ANY ALTERNATIVE HEALTH
THERAPY! This is already in place in Germany and a 4 day supply of
Vitamin E cost $80!

THEY PLAN TO PASS THIS NEXT WEEK!! So please act today, this minute and
send this out to every email on our list, with my letter, so that
hundreds of thousands will flood their offices in the next two or days!
It has already passed in the Senate and will come up any day on the House
calendar, and then we are all screwed!!

Below is a direct link to reach your House of Representatives person in
your area or State! I urge you to act now to reverse this chain of
catastrophic events!

Tricia White Dove McCannon
Urgent Press Release

National Health Federation Urgent Alert - CAFTA

July 2, 2005

URGENT ALERT
ACT NOW
YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED

CAFTA VOTE - 1 WEEK AWAY

WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OVERRIDE DSHEA

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require the
U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food laws
and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force harmonization
of our dietary supplements and regulations to international standards,
overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modelled after the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are typical
bureaucratic monstrosities of "managed" trade that masquerade as free
trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America and then
the rest of the Americas in an economic "union." True free trade would
take a few pages of written text to enact ("eliminate these barriers to
trade and these tariffs," etc.); all three of these agreements encompass
thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual garbage sprinkled liberally
with rules, regulations, and special-interest benefits.

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all
its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee
for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the
SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that
text at the following website:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html.

If
you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will read the
following words: "To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as
wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety measures
on international standards, guidelines or recommendations." (emphasis
added) And as you all know by now, Codex sets the international standards
for food safety including vitamins & minerals.

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives when
they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which
health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by treaty
to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex vitamin-and-mineral
standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and we at the NHF
completely oppose these two treaties that would put a knife in the back
of our health freedoms.

*********************

~CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st,
2005.
~Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.
~IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill
1307 (click here to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on without
going to committee. It is on the House calendar and may be brought up at
any time.

*********************

ONLY ONE WEEK TO ACT. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO VOTE
AGAINST CAFTA NOW.

YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE VOTING IN THE HOUSE WILL BE
CLOSE. WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION
LETTERS.

PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Contact any member of the House of Representatives via
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
For persons who do not have Internet access you may contact the House of
Representatives switchboard at 1 (202) 224-3121.
This will direct you to your representative as long as you have your full
zip code, including the additional four digits that the post office
places on the end, which indicates the representative district.

Sample Petition Opposition Letter as follows:

CAFTA Letter

The Honorable (Congressperson Full Name)

Address

Address

Re: CAFTA VOTE - URGENT

Dear Representative (Last Name):

I am writing to urge you to vote against the Central American
Free Trade Act (CAFTA).

While you and your colleagues may believe that CAFTA will
promote regional trade, I do not support CAFTA because it contains (in
Section 6) stipulations that would require the United States, as a member
of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to revise our food laws and
regulations, based on decisions made by another WTO tribunal, the Codex
Alimentarius (International Food Code) Commission, or Codex. The WTO
recognizes Codex standards as a source of international regulation for
WTO members. The WTO can and has sanctioned nations for not following
Codex guidelines.

The passage of CAFTA would force the "harmonization" of our
dietary-supplement laws and regulations to international standards, as
established by the supranational Codex Commission. Doing so would
drastically infringe on the quality of dietary supplements and access to
supplements that people like me are used to. The passage of CAFTA could
effectively override the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
(DSHEA) of 1994. CAFTA would devastate our health freedom of choice,
destroy thousands of small businesses in the health foods and dietary
supplement fields, and negatively impact the 150 million regular consumers
of dietary supplements like myself.

Any treaty that leads to the banning of thousands of safe
products cannot be described as "free trade." There are better ways to
globalize. If this cannot be done without threatening my basic right to
have access to nutritional choices, then we should scrap CAFTA and start
over. I appreciate your consideration of my views and look forward to
knowing what your position is on this legislation.

Sincerely,

____________________________

P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 USA ~ 1 (626) 357-2181 ~ Fax 1 (626)
303-0642

Website: www.thenhf.com E-mail:
[email hidden]

P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 USA ~ 1 (626) 357-2181 ~ Fax 1 (626)
303-0642

Website: www.thenhf.com E-mail:
[email hidden]

Section 6, including the section on the US, is just naming the
organizations in charge of grading, sanitization, and acceptance of the
foods traded.

--
Billy Gurley
Home PC Repair
Sanford, NC
FAX: 919-718-0381
[email hidden]
"BILLY GURLEY" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

This is mainly talking about setting rates for taxes and tariffs to and
from these countries, to and from the US. Additionally, it is speaking of
certain food items in section #, look at the attached schedule, It is
mostly poultry.

--
Billy Gurley
Home PC Repair
Sanford, NC
FAX: 919-718-0381
[email hidden]
"SteveW" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:2005071621301743658%nomyemaillassie@lassiexcom...

Quoted message said:

Fight CAFTA Hidden Legislation Against Herbal Suplements

Basically, as we know the AMA and the Pharmacetical companies have been
trying to get rid of vitamins, herbs and everything else holistic, and
again and again we have defeated it. But now they have figured out a way
around it, and it is about to pass. In fact the FDA has had a "Gag
Order" on the media so that all of us are not aware of it, and it is
about to be passed next week!!

They are doing it under An International Treaty Law that will supercede
a country's own individual choices, and if it passes everything that we
believe in will become illegal, from herbs to vitamins (unless the
doctor perscribes them), massage, hypnotherapy, or ANY ALTERNATIVE
HEALTH THERAPY! This is already in place in Germany and a 4 day supply
of Vitamin E cost $80!

THEY PLAN TO PASS THIS NEXT WEEK!! So please act today, this minute and
send this out to every email on our list, with my letter, so that
hundreds of thousands will flood their offices in the next two or days!
It has already passed in the Senate and will come up any day on the
House calendar, and then we are all screwed!!

Below is a direct link to reach your House of Representatives person in
your area or State! I urge you to act now to reverse this chain of
catastrophic events!

Tricia White Dove McCannon
Urgent Press Release

National Health Federation Urgent Alert - CAFTA

July 2, 2005

URGENT ALERT
ACT NOW
YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED

CAFTA VOTE - 1 WEEK AWAY

WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OVERRIDE DSHEA

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require
the U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food
laws and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force
harmonization of our dietary supplements and regulations to
international standards, overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modelled after the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are
typical bureaucratic monstrosities of "managed" trade that masquerade as
free trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America and
then the rest of the Americas in an economic "union." True free trade
would take a few pages of written text to enact ("eliminate these
barriers to trade and these tariffs," etc.); all three of these
agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual garbage
sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and special-interest
benefits.

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all
its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee
for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the
SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that
text at the following website:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html.

If
you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will read the
following words: "To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as
wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety measures
on international standards, guidelines or recommendations." (emphasis
added) And as you all know by now, Codex sets the international
standards for food safety including vitamins & minerals.

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives when
they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which
health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by
treaty to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex vitamin-and-mineral
standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and we at the NHF
completely oppose these two treaties that would put a knife in the back
of our health freedoms.

*********************

~CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st,
2005.
~Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.
~IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill
1307 (click here to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on without
going to committee. It is on the House calendar and may be brought up at
any time.

*********************

ONLY ONE WEEK TO ACT. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO VOTE
AGAINST CAFTA NOW.

YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE VOTING IN THE HOUSE WILL BE
CLOSE. WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION
LETTERS.

PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Contact any member of the House of Representatives via
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
For persons who do not have Internet access you may contact the House of
Representatives switchboard at 1 (202) 224-3121.
This will direct you to your representative as long as you have your
full zip code, including the additional four digits that the post office
places on the end, which indicates the representative district.

Sample Petition Opposition Letter as follows:

CAFTA Letter

The Honorable (Congressperson Full Name)

Address

Address

Re: CAFTA VOTE - URGENT

Dear Representative (Last Name):

I am writing to urge you to vote against the Central American
Free Trade Act (CAFTA).

While you and your colleagues may believe that CAFTA will
promote regional trade, I do not support CAFTA because it contains (in
Section 6) stipulations that would require the United States, as a
member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to revise our food laws
and regulations, based on decisions made by another WTO tribunal, the
Codex Alimentarius (International Food Code) Commission, or Codex. The
WTO recognizes Codex standards as a source of international regulation
for WTO members. The WTO can and has sanctioned nations for not
following Codex guidelines.

The passage of CAFTA would force the "harmonization" of our
dietary-supplement laws and regulations to international standards, as
established by the supranational Codex Commission. Doing so would
drastically infringe on the quality of dietary supplements and access to
supplements that people like me are used to. The passage of CAFTA could
effectively override the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
(DSHEA) of 1994. CAFTA would devastate our health freedom of choice,
destroy thousands of small businesses in the health foods and dietary
supplement fields, and negatively impact the 150 million regular
consumers of dietary supplements like myself.

Any treaty that leads to the banning of thousands of safe
products cannot be described as "free trade." There are better ways to
globalize. If this cannot be done without threatening my basic right to
have access to nutritional choices, then we should scrap CAFTA and start
over. I appreciate your consideration of my views and look forward to
knowing what your position is on this legislation.

Sincerely,

____________________________

P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 USA ~ 1 (626) 357-2181 ~ Fax 1 (626)
303-0642

Website: www.thenhf.com E-mail:
[email hidden]

P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017 USA ~ 1 (626) 357-2181 ~ Fax 1 (626)
303-0642

Website: www.thenhf.com E-mail:
[email hidden]

In article <2005071621301743658%nomyemaillassie@lassiexcom>,

SteveW said:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Sect
ion_Index.html

I don't see anything there that indicates undue restrictions on vitamins
and nutritional supplements. In fact, I think its high time the feds
placed some requirements on those who manufacture and distribute such
supplements. More regulation is needed in terms of monitoring the claims
some companies make about their nutritional supplements. More care is
also needed in recommending nutritional supplements since some
nutritional supplements can have bad side effects when combined with
some over the counter and prescription medicines. For example, those
infomercials I see for penis lengthening supplements are just screaming
for independent oversight. Just because a nutritional supplement is all
natural, does not mean its danger free.

In the case of the article you posted, I think the article is just the
writings of a paranoid individual. CAFTA requires a lot of careful
thought before the United States ratifies it for other reasons and I
think passage of this treaty is probably not in the United States' best
interest for lots of reasons. Unfortunately, I suspect CAFTA will be
passed without due diligence by our congress because our congress
critters are now owned mostly by big business and/or far right wing
Christian evangelicals.

"Stan Horwitz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

In article <2005071621301743658%nomyemaillassie@lassiexcom>,

SteveW said:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Se
ct

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

ion_Index.html

I don't see anything there that indicates undue restrictions on vitamins
and nutritional supplements. In fact, I think its high time the feds
placed some requirements on those who manufacture and distribute such
supplements. More regulation is needed in terms of monitoring the claims
some companies make about their nutritional supplements. More care is
also needed in recommending nutritional supplements since some
nutritional supplements can have bad side effects when combined with
some over the counter and prescription medicines. For example, those
infomercials I see for penis lengthening supplements are just screaming
for independent oversight. Just because a nutritional supplement is all
natural, does not mean its danger free.

In the case of the article you posted, I think the article is just the
writings of a paranoid individual. CAFTA requires a lot of careful
thought before the United States ratifies it for other reasons and I
think passage of this treaty is probably not in the United States' best
interest for lots of reasons. Unfortunately, I suspect CAFTA will be
passed without due diligence by our congress because our congress
critters are now owned mostly by big business and/or far right wing
Christian evangelicals.

You can bet it's in the pharmaceutical companies' interest to be able to
market nutritional supplements we get for cheap these days. If they're
regulated then we will pay a LOT more for them and we'll continue to be
dependent on proprietary drugs prescribed by doctors and made by said
compani. Pharmaceutical companies. Vitamins and nutritional supplements
threaten to give us way too much control over our health.

I agree with you that we are a ways away from having Codex in the USA, but
it's never too soon to learn more about what it means.

http://www.redflagsdaily.com/forums/2005_apr28.html

Quoted message said:

"Stan Horwitz" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

SteveW <[email hidden] wrote:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html

Quoted message said:

I don't see anything there that indicates undue restrictions on vitamins
and nutritional supplements. In fact, I think its high time the feds
placed some requirements on those who manufacture and distribute such
supplements.

You can bet it's in the pharmaceutical companies' interest to be able to
market nutritional supplements we get for cheap these days.

"Regulation" doesn't mean turning all production over to
pharmaceutical companies. Any company that's willing to prove their
products do indeed contain specific amounts of specific substances,
that they are produced under sanitary conditions, and that they
probably won't kill you can keep on selling them. Good grief -- *food*
has to be labeled and inspected, and the pharmaceutical industry
hasn't begun selling orange juice for $50/quart.

In fact, regulation should *increase* the sales of supplements that
even doctors might recommend if they could be sure patients would
actually be getting the correct amount, and that they were
manufactured safely.