My sister forwarded this to me and I believe it is something on which we
should act.

Ned

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From: "sara crew" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Ned Benton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Fw: A note from Dr Wolfe May 16 2005


> Ned, you might need to read this and act on it. I will. It would be awful
> if
> this bill passed and we had to get nutrients by perscription only. The
> Wolfe
> Clinic in British Colombia is where I get the structured water and other
> nutrients. He sends a news letter every month. Read it and let me know if
> it
> make you mad.
>    Sara
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr Darrell L Wolfe" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "sara crew" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 5:30 PM
> Subject: A note from Dr Wolfe May 16 2005
>
>
> Dr. Darrell L Wolfe, Ac. Ph.D.
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> 1-800-592-9653
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> May 16 2005
>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> A couple of months ago I wrote a note about the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (food
> code) and about how your life could be severely affected if this law
> passes.
>
> Now, I want to give you some updated information, especially on a recent
> legal ruling in Europe.  First, though, if you are as angry and concerned
> as
> I am about this please read the following carefully and then make sure to
> contact everyone you know to prevent this attack on our freedom of choice.
> I
> encourage you to forward this important message to everyone on your
> contact
> list. As well, you should telephone, mail or email your elected
> representatives!
>
> Write your government officials and tell them your opinion on this
> matter -
> NOW. http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/
>
> In Canada write your M.P. <http://canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html>
>
>
> Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral, herb and other supplements may
> end before the end of this year (2005).  The large Drug Companies would
> prefer that you were oblivious to this fact and kept like a mushroom. (In
> the dark and fed Sh_t)
>
> If these laws come into effect all supplements and Vitamins will need a
> prescription. They will also be produced and supplied only by the Drug
> Companies. This means that a low quality bottle of Vitamin E (90 caps) may
> soon cost you a doctors visit and well over eight hundred dollars. The
> pharmaceutical companies even include baking soda and table salt on their
> list of, soon to be called, "drugs" that they wish to sell and control.
>
> The following is a compilation of information I have received from a large
> number of sources:
>
>
> After July, North American supplements will be defined and controlled by
> the
> World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
>
> It is called the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (food code) and it is setting the
> supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. CODEX met secretly in
> November, 2004 and finalized 'Step 8 (the final stage)'to begin
> implementation in July, 2005, severely restricting the use and
> availability
> of numerous vitamins, minerals and other supplements.
>
> In the US, the President and Congress agreed to the takeover when the WTO
> treaty was signed, therefore these supplement standards WILL BE ENFORCED
> BY
> THE WTO AND WILL OVERRIDE US LAWS. CODEX violations are/will be punished
> by
> WTO trade sanctions.
>
> CODEX Includes:
>
> No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.  (Obviously
> they know nothing of Vitamin C preventing and curing scurvy, Vitamin D
> preventing and curing rickets and osteoporosis, or vitamin B curing and
> preventing anemia. It also ignores the mountain of evidence showing our
> diets are chronically deficient in essential nutrients because of
> factory-style farming practices).
>
> Any potency higher than RDA (recommended daily allowance, aka minimal
> (strength) is a 'drug' requiring a prescription and must be produced by
> drug
> companies.
>
> Over 5000 safe items now in health stores will be banned, terminating
> health
> stores as we now know them. CODEX regulations become binding
> internationally. New supplements are banned unless given very expensive
> CODEX testing and approval.
>
> CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among others, where:
> Zinc tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52.
>
> Echinacea (an ancient immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153.
> Both examples above are now allowed by prescription only. They are now
> 'drugs'.
>
> Vitamin C above 200mg is banned for over-the-counter and sold as a
> prescription drug only.
>
> Niacin above 32 mg is banned for over-the-counter and sold as a
> prescription
> drug only.
>
> Vitamin B6 above 4 mg is banned for over-the-counter and sold as a
> prescription drug only.
>
> Same for Amino Acids like arginine, lysine, carnitine, etc.
>
> Same for the Omega Essential Fatty Acids and many more supplements
> including
> DMEA, DHEA,CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc.
>
> The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They were made by a few
> people meeting in secret; not necessarily scientists.
>
> In 1993 the FDA and drug companies tried to put all supplements under
> restriction and prescription, but over 4 million Americans told congress
> and
> the president to protect their freedom of choice on health supplements.
> The
> DSHEA law was passed in 1994 which does so, but this will be overruled by
> CODEX and the WTO.
>
> Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What the drug
> corporations
> have failed to do through congress, they have gotten by sneak attack
> through
> CODEX with the help of a silent media. I'm sure most Crack dealers are
> more
> honest.
>
>
> Canadian Author Helke Ferrie, has a clear, concise explanation of the
> dangers of "Codex."  Read this, and get worried:
>
> LIFE UNDER CODEX
>
> In the mid-1990s my mother, then in her 80s, had a stroke. She lived in
> Germany. When she left hospital, I was ready with a nutritional plan that
> included high-dose vitamins: C, E, and B - especially Inositol, as well as
> Co-enzyme Q 10. I went to the pharmacy, whose owner was a family friend
> for
> some 25 years, and handed him my list.
> He handed me a small packet with a price sticker of DM 200 (then about
> $200)
> containing vitamin E capsules manufactured by one of Germany's largest
> pharmaceutical companies. The source was synthetic, not the "mixed"
> version
> from living plant sources I wanted which contains the whole E spectrum.
> The
> package contained a total of 10,000 international units of E, the
> equivalent
> of a mere 25 capsules of 400 IU each that we are used to buying (I take
> that
> many in 3 days). Our bottles contain 90 capsules and cost about $20. If
> Codex rules in Canada, we will likely pay $800 for a bottle of 90 capsules
> of low-quality vitamin E - if Health Canada lets us buy that many at once,
> and if you can find a doctor willing to prescribe it.
> He then handed me a tube-shaped metal container with vitamin C
> effervescent
> tablets. Each tablet, when dissolved in water, would release 10 mg of
> vitamin C in a refined sugar solution. Thus, this ridiculously low amount,
> was to be taken in a toxic medium that would neutralize the vitamin
> without
> it doing anything at all. The cost: about $10 for 12 tablets.
> Then he asked me, "What's Co-enzyme Q 10? Are you allowed to buy all this
> in
> Canada in such dangerous dosages?" When I told him what I take daily, his
> eyes popped. Then I asked, "Why can't I buy these supplements here?" He
> replied, "Well, Germany is a Codex country." Oddly, Germany has several
> government-run hospitals where environmental illness is treated with
> nutrients only, intravenous vitamin C etc. Life is full of paradoxes and
> few
> more follow below.
>
> CODEX AND THE EU
>
> Dr. Carolyn Dean, a medical doctor and naturopath well known to Toronto
> readers, is currently the president of "Friends of Freedom International"
> in
> which capacity she attended the Codex meeting in Bonn last November. She
> describes Codex as "the ultimate Big Brother marching backwards into the
> future."
> Effective 1 August, all vitamin and mineral supplements on the so-called
> "positive list", including everything from Beta Carotene to Zinc, will
> only
> be available in the 25 EU countries if they comply with specific rules set
> out in the 10 June 2002, EU Directive Relating to Food Supplements. All
> products must show maximum safe levels "as established by science."
> Those nutrients found in the mythic "balanced diet" are to be subtracted
> from the final values, and Article 6 (2) decrees that labels shall "not
> attribute to food supplements the property of preventing, treating or
> curing
> a human disease, or refer to such properties."
> So, the Directive's "science" knows nothing of Vitamin C preventing and
> curing scurvy, Vitamin D preventing and curing rickets and osteoporosis,
> or
> vitamin B curing and preventing anemia. It also ignores the mountain of
> evidence showing our diets are chronically deficient in essential
> nutrients
> because of factory-style farming practices.
> To "ensure a high level of protection for consumers and facilitate their
> choice", they even included baking soda and table salt. We must assume
> they
> will be unavailable as of 1 August anywhere in Europe - with interesting
> consequences for the tourist industry in the baked goods paradises
> Austria,
> Switzerland and France.
> Now, there is also a "negative list" covering essential fatty acids,
> phytonutrients, all the enzymes and more. Those cannot be marketed at all,
> until the EU scientific committee in charge has made a final decision. So,
> forget omega-3 and omega-6 fats, cod liver oil, and much more.
> The effect of this directive will be that thousands of products and
> businesses will be gone this year. In the UK alone some 21 million people
> will suddenly have no access to any supplement vitamins, minerals,
> enzymes,
> fatty acids and more. Since the onus is on businesses to produce the
> scientific information on safety, they can't produce or sell anything -
> not
> even to physicians who have the power to prescribe any toxic drug as well
> as
> any essential nutrient. Obviously, there will be ludicrous enforcement
> issues: Picture basement-concocted vitamins sold in dark alleys alongside
> crack and Ecstasy.
>
>
> Here is a fact. Contrary to pharmaceutical drugs, there are few fatalities
> from supplements. Can you just imagine the news coverage if vitamins and
> supplements created the amount of death that drugs do?
>
> There is no need for more control of supplements than is already in place,
> which is substantial. Instead of drastically restricting supplements, why
> don't they better control and restrict the extremely dangerous
> pharmaceutical drugs which are now killing us at the rate of a major
> airline
> crash per day?
>
> Behind the Codex Alimentarius Commission is the United Nations and the
> World
> Health Organization working in conjunction with the multinational
> pharmaceutical cartel and international banks.  Its initial efforts in the
> US with the FDA were defeated, so it found another ally in the FTC. Now
> Codex, with the FTC and the pharmaceutical cartel behind it, it threatens
> to
> become a trade issue,
>
> Codex began simply enough when the U.N. authorized the World Health
> Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization to develop a
> universal food code.  Their purpose was to 'harmonize' regulations for
> dietary supplements worldwide and set international safety standards for
> the
> purposes of increased trade. Standardize labeling and regulatory
> requirements between countries to facilitate increased international
> trade.
>
> Pharmaceutical interests stepped in and began exerting their influence.
> Instead of focusing on food safety, Codex is using its power to promote
> worldwide restrictions on vitamins and food supplements, severely limiting
> their availability and dosages.
>
> 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 domestic laws without the
> people's voice or vote in the matter.
>
>
> 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
> 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 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.
>
>
> There is some hope.
>
>
> A couple of days ago there was tremendous news for the millions of people
> in
> Europe who choose to use food supplements. Following a landmark challenge
> in
> the European Courts of Justice (ECJ) brought by the Alliance for Natural
> Health and Nutri-Link Ltd to the contentious Food Supplements Directive,
> which effectively proposed to ban 75% of vitamin and mineral forms,
> Advocate
> General Geelhoed, the senior adviser to the ECJ, gave his Opinion in
> favour
> of the Alliance's case.
>
> What does this mean? That the chances of consumers being able to continue
> using the natural food supplements they believe are beneficial to their
> health are now greatly increased. There has been uproar about the proposed
> EU ban, and maybe, against the odds, the consumer is going to come out on
> top in what is a remarkable modern day case of David and Goliath.
>
> In a statement released in Luxembourg today at 0830 GMT, the Advocate
> General concluded that:
>
> The Food Supplements Directive infringes the principle of proportionality
> because basic principles of Community law, such as the requirements of
> legal
> protection, of legal certainty and of sound administration have not
> properly
> been taken into account.
>
> It is therefore invalid under EU law.
> It should be stressed that the Advocate General's pronouncement is not a
> ruling. That will come from the ECJ judges, later - probably around June.
> But typically, in the vast majority of cases, the Court Judgment follows
> the
> recommendations of the Advocate General.
>
> If the Advocate General's recommendations are adopted, in effect, the ban
> on
> vitamin and mineral forms not included on the EU's 'Positive list,' due to
> come into effect on 1 August 2005, will be declared illegal.  In essence,
> the positive list of allowable nutrient forms will be deemed to be too
> narrow, too restrictive, and based on flawed science.
>
> This would avoid the totally irrational situations that the Food
> Supplements
> Directive would otherwise create. For example, synthetically produced
> selenium would have been allowed on the positive list, while the natural
> source found in Brazil nuts would not; synthetic forms of Vitamin E (often
> used in 'adverse' vitamin studies reported in the media) would be allowed,
> but the natural, most beneficial food forms would not.
>
>
>
> I should note that this ruling in no way effect the upcoming
> implementation
> of Codex laws in North America. The news is encouraging but the fight is
> far
> from over and we need to do everything we can to persuade our politicians
> to
> listen to us and not heed the words of the scummy drug corporations and
> blindly follow their grandiose plans for world domination.
>
> So, what can be done at this late hour?
>
> Don't be a mushroom! Get out of the dark. Spread the word as much as
> possible and inform yourselves fully.
>
>
>
> God Bless,
>
> Dr. Darrell L Wolfe, Ac. Ph.D.
> <http://www.thewolfeclinic.com>
>
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