insomniafatigue
02-25-2001, 07:41 PM
The FDA has been trying to put vitamins in the category of a drug, making it only available by prescription for over a decade now. Four steps have already been taken in the Codex process over the past few years, and recent developments calls for action.
These four steps are:
1. No dietary supplement can be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use;*
2. No dietary supplement sold as a food can exceed potency (dosage) levels set by the commission. Dietary supplements of higher potency will be sold as drugs and sold by the pharmaceutical or phytopharmaceutical companies. Supplements without an RDA*
(e.g. Coenzyme Q10) would be illegal to sell because they would all become drugs;*
3. Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (the GATT escape*
clause would be eliminated);*
4. All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through extensive Codex testing and approval.
The Codex 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.**
Do not let that happen here!
Please check out the following links http://garynull.com/issues/Codex/PrintedPetition.htm
http://www.laleva.cc/petizione/english/intro_eng.html
it takes awhile to download.
Another good link is http://www.drrath.com/menue/brochures/usa/codex/stop_codex.htm
[This message has been edited by moderator3 (edited 02-25-2001).]
These four steps are:
1. No dietary supplement can be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use;*
2. No dietary supplement sold as a food can exceed potency (dosage) levels set by the commission. Dietary supplements of higher potency will be sold as drugs and sold by the pharmaceutical or phytopharmaceutical companies. Supplements without an RDA*
(e.g. Coenzyme Q10) would be illegal to sell because they would all become drugs;*
3. Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (the GATT escape*
clause would be eliminated);*
4. All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through extensive Codex testing and approval.
The Codex 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.**
Do not let that happen here!
Please check out the following links http://garynull.com/issues/Codex/PrintedPetition.htm
http://www.laleva.cc/petizione/english/intro_eng.html
it takes awhile to download.
Another good link is http://www.drrath.com/menue/brochures/usa/codex/stop_codex.htm
[This message has been edited by moderator3 (edited 02-25-2001).]