In a matter directly related to the Codex International Threat to
Health Freedom, on December 4th, an alarming press release came
to my attention titled: "New Technology, Global Initiative to Bring
Herbal Medicines into Modern Medical Science Announced by World
Health Organization Today."
In the press release, the World Health Organization's Collaborating
Centre for Drug Monitoring announced a new technology called
"PharmaPrinting", which... "produces pharmaceutical versions
of
herbal medicines that previously could not be standardized,
patented, clinically tested, approved by government agencies,
prescribed by doctors, nor reimbursed by governments or insurance
companies."
In other words, the World Health Organization, and PharmaPrint,
Inc. of Irvine, CA have announced to the world in stark, Godlike
fashion that they have just... "improved"... upon the natural
herbs
which billions of people have used for thousands of years with
fantastic results. Read on for the gory details of how this scam is
being perpetrated, and learn what must be done to fight back!
Merry Christmas, From The Medical Industrial Complex:
"We've Just Patented Mistletoe"
I first became aware of "PharmaPrint Inc." just before Christmas
when they announced the first patent ever issued for successfully
"bioprinting" and accurately replicating a mistle-toe based
compound called T4GEN. In this press release it was announced that
"mistletoe is already used on an unregulated basis" in the
treatment of some cancer and AIDS patients in Europe, but
"previously could not be pursued as a pharmaceutical because it
could not be patented, standardized, precisely dosed, and
clinically tested as a pharmaceutical for FDA approval."
The press release went on to say that "until this patent, no
multiple molecule herbal medicine has ever been successfully
patented as a pharmaceutical." Furthermore, the press release
stated that "Consumer Reports magazine estimates that herbal
medicines now being sold on an unregulated basis through U.S.
retail stores represent a $1.5 billion market growing at more than
15 percent annually."
What Is So Called "PharmaPrinting"?
According to an industry trade report called the F-D-C Tan Sheet
(December 2, 1996), "PharmaPrinting uses separation technologies
such as HPLC, gas chromatography, electrophoresis and two
dimensional SDS PAGE and integrates these technologies with in
vitro bioactivity models such as L1210 cell inhibition." The
article goes on to say that the process takes "nine months to
complete."
So, "PharmaPrinting" is used to identify and precisely measure
the
quantity of bioactivity of each active compound in a botanically-
derived medicine, and at the risk of sounding like a neo-luddite,
I question whether this knowledge is really necessary for anyone to
benefit from the healing properties of herbs?
The F-D-C Tan Sheet (December 2, 1996) announced a joint venture
between PharmaPrint, Inc. and the University of Miami to use so
called "PharmaPrinting" to develop a pharmaceutical version of
a
natural medicine derived from saw palmetto berry extracts currently
"being used on an unregulated basis to treat benign prostate
enlargement," the company noted. PharmaPrint has also announced
their intention to go after echinacea (for cold and flu symptoms),
ginkgo (for reducing memory loss), St.John's Wort (for treatment of
depression) valerian (as a sedative), and tgugu lipid gum (for
lowering cholesterol.)
I wonder how our Creator feels about these ambitious commercial
plans to wring every last ounce of profit from the herbs of the
world while the high cost of health care is breaking the backs of
the people of the earth?
Perhaps the owners and stockholders of so called "PharmaPrint,
Inc." will discover exactly how after they shuffle off this
immortal coil.
Traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange as PPRT, in a November 11th
analysts report, M.H. Myerson proclaimed PharmaPrint to be a
"strong buy" and predicted that by the year 2000, the company
would
be generating revenues of "$104 millon." Furthermore, the report
stated that PharmaPrinting a botanical drug costs approximately
$500,000. and can be performed in six months, including validating
manufacturing under Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines and
filing for patent protection. Phase I/II clinical trials cost an
additional $1.5 million, and take an additional 18 months to
complete, while Phase III trials cost an estimated $5- $20 million,
and require an estimated 2-3 years to complete.
The question, of course, is at who's expense will this be done, and
what does this portend for consumers of natural herbal products and
the natural products industry? After the medical industrial complex
spends billions to patent the herbs of the world, won't they want
to PROTECT their "investment" and drive all natural products out
of
the marketplace? As reported by Ron Birckhead in the April 1996
issue of Life Extension Magazine ("Update on the Codex Threat,"
p.32) this has ALREADY been happening in the Nordic countries of
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland, due to the fact that these
nations have been harmonizing their domestic law with the World
Health Organization's Guidelines for Dietary Supplements, (which
Birckhead states are very similar to the German and Canadian Codex
proposals which are currently at step 5 of an 8 step finalization
process. (Download M.H. Myerson's stock report from
http://www.mhmyerson.com)
W.H.O. Announces Global Campaign, L.E.F Announces Resistance
At a briefing in Washington D.C. on December 4th, the WHO group
announced a world wide effort to standardize information about
herbal medicines working with the University of Exeter, U.K., and
the Royal Botanic Gardens (known popularly as Kew Gardens).
Professor Ivor Ralph Edwards, Director of Drug Monitoring for the
Collaborating Centre, said, "About 80 percent of all therapies in
use in many countries are made from herbs according to tradition
and experience, and most of these are multi-molecule herbal
medicines that previously could not be standardized into
pharmaceutical versions. As a result, it was previously impossible
to clinically establish whether or not they perform as intended and
some may even cause harm if used incorrectly."
This announcement by WHO dovetails nicely with the Canadian
proposal for herbs which I reported on in my Codex Report From
Bonn, and in "Report From the Battlefield" which appeared in the
January and February issues of Life Extension Magazine.
(http://www.lef.org) It comes as no surprise to me that the
Canadian Research Council (CNRC) in Montreal has an agreement with
PharmaPrint, Inc. for developing standard operating procedures for
each of the manufacturing methods and validating each of the
processes used in bioprinting.
All of this is entirely consistent with the recent pattern of the
Canadian "Health Protection Branch" to require "DIN"
or "Drug
Identification Numbers" on any herb or dietary supplement on which
even a shread of a claim is made. In an article titled "Identity
Crisis- The Growing Controversy Over Herbs in Canada" by Mary Fran
McQuade (Health Naturally, October/November 1996), an epic battle
over the control of herbs is brewing north of the border.
"Its shaping up to be an epic battle, a clash of conflicting world
views: scientific reductionism (taking a thing apart and studying
its individual parts) versus herbal holism- the view that "if it
works, regulate it" versus the view that "if it works, lets use
it."
Joel Thuna, of Ontario based Global Botanicals reported in Health
Naturally that "its illegal to bring in almost anything"- yohimbe,
horsetail, goldenseal, and pau d'arco are just a few of the
examples he cites.
In an article published in the October/November issue of Health
Naturally titled "Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors" by
Gorge
Profonde, he states that the HPB "claims to have sole authority to
classify ANY substance as a drug. It doesn't matter if that
substance is safe, effective and honestly promoted. It doesn't
matter that it may have been used by millions of people for
thousands of years. It does not matter that the HPB cannot produce
a shread of evidence that anyone has ever been harmed by it. If the
HPB decides that ANY food extract or herb is a drug, consumers
lose. That product is either completely removed from the market, or
slowly regulated to death." (Gorge Profonde is a pseudonym- the
author fears retaliation from the HPB.)
(For more information on Canadian regulation contact Marie LeMaire,
Special Advisor on Complementary Medicines FAX 613-954-6511. For
online information from The Drug Directorate:
http://hpb1.hwc:ca:8300/T126.xxx.html)
CHENEY AND YETLEY TEAM UP TO RIP-OFF CONSUMERS
AT CODEX MEETING
In my previous articles I reported that in early October of 1996,
at the Bonn meeting of the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for
Special Dietary Use of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Dr. Mary
Cheney of Canada initially stated that Canada was backing off from
a proposal made two years previously at a Codex meeting in
Vancouver, and was no longer recommending that a negative list be
formed of herbal products to ban their international sale, but she
later reversed her position.
Cheney stated that Canada was backing off from this position due to
a "large volume of consumer complaints received in Ottawa from
Canadian citizens." Cheney went on to reverse her position two days
later (the meeting lasted 5 days) when she stated: "This committee
lacks the time and expertise necessary to properly address the
issue of a negative list for herbs, therefor I propose the
formation of a panel of experts from WHO/FAO who can go on to
address this issue if the Codex Executive Committee approves
funding for the expert panel when they meet in June." Given the
fact that Cheney failed to return any of my phone calls prior to
the Bonn meeting when I sought information on her position, I was
not surprised to observe this sort of duplicity.
Despite the fact that the American delegation was supposed to be a
working group in which our government rep was supposedly interested
in our views, the first person to raise a hand to second Dr.Cheney
was none other than Dr.Yetley of the FDA. Yetley's hand shot up
there without asking ANY of the other American delegates, including
me, what we thought of the Canadian proposal. Are we all being
railroaded?
(For information on the 20th Session of the Codex Committee on
Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use see ALINORM 97/26-
FAO/WHO joint office Rome, Italy, FAX 6-5225-4593, Tel. 52251. Next
comments period deadline April 30, 1997.)
DON'T GET MAD! GET EVEN! HERE'S HOW:
Several things must be done to stop the sinister plans of the
medical industrial complex:
1. You must join and or contribute money to the Life Extension
Foundation. Reason: We are the only organization in the world
working to spearhead the formation of an international coalition to
monkeywrench the German and Canadian Codex Proposals.
We are actively alerting the dietary supplement industry and
consumers all over the world and have already catalyzed the
formation of an umbrella group in Canada to spearhead opposition to
the HPB.
We are working tirelessly to bring a public health message to the
world via radio, TV, the World Wide Web, and actual visits to
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This is expensive, time consuming, and draining. Without your help,
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Currently, I have been operating a one man Political Office here,
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copy and reprint this article and spread it far and wide.
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Contact
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Please urge your local health food store and favorite vitamin or
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we don't hang together, we will soon be hanging separately.
Beware of spin control, lies, and the misinformed- for they are
everywhere as people and companies sell out to the medical
industrial complex. Many lack the vision necessary to see this
threat. Show them this article, and help me wake everyone up.
In Canada, along with joining LEF, join the Canadian Coalition for
Health Freedom, Robert McMaster, Ste. 937- 6021 Yonge St., North
York, Ontario, M2M 3W2, Tel. 416-207-0727, email: rpm@ican.net
Contact Gord Coleman, Editor, Free World News, #1010 5334 Yonge
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416-590-9641, http://www.FreeWorldNews.com,
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me at john@lef.org
2. Please send and personally give this article to your elected
officials. They are in office to serve YOU, not to genuflect to the
medical industrial complex. If they fail to do as you wish, vote
them out of office.
Tell Senators, Congressmen, and Members of Parliament that you want
your nation to pull OUT of the United Nations, and that you DO NOT
approve of the actions of the so called "World Health Organization"
relative to this issue. Get on the radio, write op-ed pieces to
your local newspaper, set up booths at all the health food stores
and hand out this article, get on the internet and help me sound
the alarm to the people of the world.
Pray, if you believe in God as I do. If you don't believe in God,
please meditate on this and seek guidance from deep within
yourself- ask yourself if you think we deserve this gross
mistreatment from the medical industrial complex?
3. Deluge the FDA, HPB, TGA, and their various regulatory
counterparts world wide with complaints about this! Go to our
website, find out who your countries Codex Representative is, and
express your feelings about this to that person. Be polite, but
firm. Get their fax number and email address, then swamp them with
billions of faxes and email messages in order to shut them down.
Remember: we outnumber them and can easily shut them down. LEF has
been doing this to the FDA for years with great success.
4. Organize demonstrations in front of their buildings, and alert
the media via press releases to publicize your outrage. Reprint
this article in your magazine or newsletter. Send it to your
friends and family. Give copies out on the street, and in front of
your local health food store. Get your health food store keeper to
photocopy it and hand it out to each and every customer. Alert
other activists from other causes: Don't get mad, get even!
5. In the United States, (or from any country) let Dr. Beth Yetley
of the American FDA know precisely how you feel about the fact that
she seconded Cheney's proposal without asking anyone on the
American delegation if they thought this was a good idea. She can
be reached at:
Dr.Elizabeth Yetley
US Codex Rep, Director,
Office of Special Nutritionals
HFS-45, US Food and Drug Administration
200 C St. S.W., Washington, DC 20204
Tel. 202-205-4168
FAX 202-205-5295
6. In Canada, (or from any country) let Dr.Mary Cheney of the
Canadian HPB know exactly how you feel about her proposal to create
a negative list of herbs to ban them from international sale. Let
her know that she has been caught lying to the Canadian people and
to the people of the world. She can be reached at:
Dr.Mary Cheney, Canadian Codex Rep.
Chief, Nutrition Evaluation Division
Food Directorate, Health Protection Branch
Tunney's Pasture, Postal Locator: 2203A, Ottawa, Ontario, K1AOL2,
Tel. 613-957-0352, FAX 613-941-6636
Send copies of any correspondence to these people to your elected
officials, to the media, and to me. Send a fax a day, make a phone
call a day. If everyone did this, we'd shut them down in no time
flat!
To express your views to PharmaPrint Inc.:
4 Park Plaza, Ste. 1900
Irvine, CA, 92614 USA
Traded NASDAQ: PPRT
James Burgess, Vice President Public Relations
714-224-2555
At the Financial Relations Board:
Moira Conlon
Investor/Analyst Contact
310-442-0599
Steve Seiler, Media Contact
310-442-0599
Remember One Key Thing:
THEY MAY HAVE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS... BUT WE OUTNUMBER THEM!!! REPRINT THIS
AND HELP SPREAD THE WORD!
(Article by John Hamell who grants
permission to reprint and circulate widely- time is of the essence! Please
forward this and repost in usenet. If you post in usenet, please let me
know where. If you publish it, please send me a copy of your publication
so I'll know where people are reading my message... John Hamell)
I have been networking with a number of key Canadians who are frantically
trying to galvanize the health movement there before Codex harmonization
reaches the point where consumers will have lost access to affordable, natural,
dietary supplements.
This problem was discussed in the February 4, 1997 issue of the Calgary
Herald in an article titled "Ottawa Gets Tough on Diet Aids."
The article states "Health Canada is shaping tough new controls on
health food stores and other businesses selling popular dietary supplements-
including proposed restrictions on more than 60 herbs and plants. "Any
business that makes, packages, or imports supplements must now pay licensing
and drug-licensing fees under new federal laws, said Jim Sloboda, drug
inspection supervisor for Health Canada's Health Protection Branch."
The article goes on to quote Joy Baxter, spokeswoman for the Calgary branch
of the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom who imports supplements for
her alternative health clinic: "It will put us out of business."
Members of the newly formed national group fighting the changes correctly
state that the government is out to destroy the supplement business and
consumer's right to chose the health products they want.
The Canadian Health Protection Branch (HPB) is about to begin instituting
a "cost recovery" program where they will be forcing vitamin manufacturers
to pay HUGE FEES for periodic HPB "inspections" of their plants.
These costs will drive a lot of manufacturers under, allowing companies
such as Quest, which is a division of Boehringer Ingleheim, one of the largest
pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world, to dominate the Canadian market,
much as companies like Nature's Way (affiliated with Madaus AG of Cologne,
Germany) appear poised to sweep their American competition off a cliff.)
Quest's affiliation with Boehringer Ingleheim is listed on their letterhead.
Nature's Way's affiliation with Madaus AG is discussed in their website.
Reports from Canada indicate greatly increased efforts by Nature's Way (a
powerful American company) to enter the Canadian market. According to my
confidential source, Nature's Way's presence was greatly felt at the fall
CFHA tradeshow in Toronto, at which the powerful American company helped
underwrite the cost of the name tags used at the show and had their name
stamped on them for advertising purposes as part of a major bid to enter
the Canadian market where supplements are being regulated as DRUGS. Would
Quest, Nature's Way, and other large supplement companies which have affiliations
with pharmaceutical companies like to dominate the market world wide at
the expense of consumers and of the public health? Read on:
In Canada, DIN (Drug Identification Numbers are being forced on any dietary
supplement on which even a SHREAD of a claim is made, and Americans had
better wake up- because via "harmonization" they pharmaceutical
industry will attempt the same thing here. DIN numbers cost up to $720.
apiece, and up to $500./ year to keep current. (If this process were exported
to the US, you can be certain that these DIN fees would be MUCH higher due
to the much larger size of the vitamin market here. The HPB is deliberately
not assigning HPB numbers to many products that they want to ban access
to! Forced registration fees for DIN numbers will make it very hard for
many small Canadian vitamin companies to remain in business, and some have
already been driven under. The HPB states that any food can be classified
as a "drug" if it meets one or more of the following very
loose criteria:
(1) It has a claimed health benefit.
(2) It is packaged in tablets or capsules.
(3) It has a medicinal effect on the body.
As an example, the HPB can say that an orange becomes a drug the moment
you make the claim that eating oranges prevents scurvy. Cayenne pepper becomes
a drug the moment you put it into capsules. Prunes have an obvious medicinal
effect. The HPB has just banned DHEA.
A year ago they banned melatonin and chromium picolinate. Now they are going
after herbs on a grand scale. Despite REPEATED calls from my office, the
HPB REFUSES to send ANY documentation to back up these bans (!!!) Moreover,
they hypocritically tell Canadians that these natural products are dangerous,
then allow them to import them "for their own use" from the United
States! HPB's agenda is CLEAR. They are NOT performing their mandate to
protect public health under the Canadian Charter. They are acting as a TRADE
ASSOCIATION for big drug companies which want to TAKE OVER the supplement
market so they can jack the costs up by 500% PharmaPrint, Inc. of Irvine
California announced the world's first patent on a complex herbal molecule
just before Christmas. (US PATENT # 5,547,674. Date of Patent August 20,1996.
PharmaPrint, Inc. intends to go right down the list of the most popular
herbs, patent them, run them through very expensive controlled clinical
trials, then sweep the natural products off the shelves to make way for
a MONOPOLY. They intend to LICENSE other pharmaceutical companies to use
their TECHNOLOGY. (See attached file with PharmaPrint article, there isn't
a moment to lose!)
Following is a PARTIAL list of products banned in Canada, and this
are only just beginning- while most Paracelsus list readers and other consumers
are blissfully unaware:
(1) l-arginine (amino acid) supports the cardiovascular system.
(2) l-carnitine (amino acid) combats heart disease
(3) Chaparral (herb) antioxidant and anti-inflammatory
(4) chromium picolinate (mineral compound)- improves glucose tolerance.
(5) Cramp bark (herb)- relieves menstrual cramps.
(6) EPA (fish oil extract)- improves circulation
(7) eyebright (herb) soothes irritated eyes.
(8) Germanium (trace element)- improves immunity.
(9) Glucomannan (vegetable fibre)- for treating obesity
(10) Goldenseal (herb) treats cold and flu symptoms.
(11) Gotu Kola (herb) promotes relaxation, improves memory.
(12) Hawthorne berries (herb) a heart tonic (also makes a tasty jam)
(13) Horsetail (herb) a source of silica.
(14) Melatonin (hormone) for insomnia and jet lag.
(15) Octasanol (extract of wheat)- counteracts fatigue.
(16) Pau d'arco (herb) has antifungal properties.
(17) DL- phenylalanine (amino acid) a natural painkiller.
(18) St.John's Wort (herb) a mild tranquilizer.
(19) l-tyrosine (amino acid)- a natural antidepressant.
(20) Yellow dock root (herb and salad green) an astringent
I emphasize EMPHATICALLY to Paracelsus readers and others on my mailing
list that this PARTIAL list of banned products in Canada represents ongoing
CODEX HARMONIZATION- Canada and South Africa are HARMONIZING their laws
with the Nordic countries, while Australia and New Zealand are HARMONIZING
their laws with Canada's. There is a need for CONSUMERS in Canada to unite
and file a LAWSUIT against the Health Protection Branch for engaging in
ILLEGAL RESTRAINT OF TRADE.
The United States is going to become ISOLATED, and the grand plan of the
multinational pharmaceutical industry is to HARMONIZE our laws with the
rest of the world. Is this happening? Please: I implore everyone: Take a
look at what is happening RIGHT NOW in the United States with the Presedentially
Appointed Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels. They are trying to create
a NEW REGULATORY CATEGORY for HERBS. They will be coming out with a REPORT
in April for this purpose. They are taking us all down a very slippery slope
here. They are trying to rig the system against the small supplement and
herbal product manufacturers enabling the BIG players in the game to build
MONOPOLIES as the expense of consumers. Quest Vitamins, the biggest vitamin
company in Canada is a division of German Drug Giant Boehringer Ingleheim.
Nature's Way, one of the biggest vitamin companies in the United States
is a division of German Drug Giant Madaus AG of Cologne, Germany.
They are working hand in glove with the HPB in Canada, and the FDA in the
US to sweep the rest of the industry off a CLIFF, and this will be to the
DETRIMENT of consumers. It will KILL PEOPLE. Now you understand the REASON
why I am sometimes ANGRY and why there is a HEAVY BAG hanging from a TREE
in my yard. Canadians wishing to preserve health freedom should call:
A) Your Codex Delegate (Because She Is a Devious Liar): Dr. Mary Cheney,
Chief, Nutrition Evaluation Division, Food Directorate, Health Protection
Branch, Tunney's Pasture, Postal Locator:2203A, Ottawa, Ontario, K1AOL2,
Tel. 613-957-0352.FAX 613-941-6636. At the meeting in Bonn, Cheney first
claimed to be backing away from the Canadian proposal to create a negative
list for herbs to ban their sale from international commerce. She claimed
to be backing off from this proposal which was originally proposed 2 years
ago at a Codex meeting in Vancouver of North America and the Southwest Pacific.
She claimed to be backing off from the negative list proposal due to "A
LARGE VOLUME OF CALLS RECEIVED IN OTTAWA FROM CONCERNED CANADIANS."
At the 5 day meeting, towards the end, she REVERSED her position on this
issue, calling for an "Expert Panel" to be formed amongst FAO/WHO
for the purpose of creating this negative list for herbs. This is part of
a shellgame in progress...
B) The American Codex Delegate: (Because she is a devious liar working hand
in glove with Cheney of the HPB) Dr. Elizabeth Yetley, Director, Office
of Special Nutritionals, HFS-45, US Food and Drug Administration, 200 C
St. S.W., Washington, DC 20204, 202-205-4168, FAX 202-205-5295. WHAT SHE
DID: Allegedly the US delegation was a "working group." Allegedly
Yetley, (our only voting delegate), was supposed to be concerned with the
views of the people on the delegation. However, she never asked ANYONE if
she should SECOND Dr.Cheney's proposal to create a negative list for herbs.
Consumers worldwide are being SET UP and RAILROADED!
1) Life Extension Foundation- PEOPLE WORLDWIDE MUST JOIN:
800-841-LIFE, 954-766-8433, FAX 954-761-9199, email lef@lef.org http://www.lef.org
reach me john@lef.org LEF is spearheading
the campaign to create an international coalition to monkey wrench the German
and Canadian Codex proposals. LEF first generated an awareness of the Codex
problem to Canadians via assistance from Alive Magazine, and we've been
assisting all Canadian health freedom groups to become better organized
in the face of this threat. Everyone in Canada, and all over the world should
join us to assist us in this work. We have contacts and members all over
the world, but will need more if we are to succeed in our efforts to defend
health freedom. FREE copies of Life Extension Magazine with my Codex articles
to anyone requesting them. If enough of you join me, I can get a full time
helper.
Be sure to visit our website at http://www.lef.org and download my Codex
Report from Bonn to learn what the Medical Industrial Complex has in mind
for North America, and the rest of the world...
2) Marilyn Nelson: Freedom of Choice in Healthcare: 416-282-6496, FAX 416-282-2434
3) Rob McMaster: Citizens for Choice in Healthcare: 905-826-9384
4) Health Action Network Society: 604-435-0512 FAX: 604-435-1561
5) Del Anderson: Added Dimensions (distributes sports nutrition products)
403-253-3099, FAX 3431 Calgary Chapter CCHF
6) Natural Health Products Report: Karin Schultz 905-639-8332 FAX: 905-639-6971,
email AN641@Freenet.toronto.on.ca
7) Alive Magazine- Jason Sebeslev 604-435-1919, FAX 604-435-4888, email
bkimball@alive.com 8) Health Naturally
Magazine- Zoltan Rona,MD- 905-940-0200, FAX 905-940-0204.
Canadians must make their voice heard on this issue. The only way to stop
an out of control bureaucrat is to appeal to a higher power. Write or phone
your MP to make him/her aware of this situation and how you feel about it.
If you don't know who your MP is call 800-363-1363 (in Quebec), 800-282-8060
(in Manitoba), or 800-667-3355 everywhere else in Canada. No postage is
necessary to send mail to MPs while parliament is in session. You voted
them INTO OFFICE, YOU CAN VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE!!!
Also be sure to express your views to David Dingwall, Minister of Health,
Health Canada, Brooke Claxson Bldg. Rm 091-6A, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa
K1A 0K9. Do it NOW! Unless people all over the world who care about health
freedom unite, we will see its complete destruction.
I must emphasize strongly that the EXACT SAME PATTERN which has ALREADY
OCCURRED in NORWAY and the other NORDIC countries WILL REPEAT in CANADA
unless WE stop it!! The Codex Commission is being used as a vehicle to try
to control the world's food supply for population control purposes. This
isn't just an effort by the pharmaceutical companies to control the dietary
supplement industry, although thats bad enough by itself! Are you prepared
to live under New World Order tyranny? Are you prepared to be a SLAVE on
the GLOBAL PLANTATION ruled by the multinational corporations? I'm not.
I spit in their faces.
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These questions are long overdue."
You can get this book from Life Extension Foundation: lef@lef.org, or 800-841-LIFE.
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If you have not yet joined the Life Extension Foundation to SUPPORT our
efforts to catalyze the formation of an INTERNATIONAL COALITION to SAVE
HEALTH FREEDOM in the face of the CODEX INTERNATIONAL THREAT TO HEALTH FREEDOM,
please email your street address to lef@lef.org and request free copies
of our magazine with my Codex articles, as well as complete information
on how you can join us. You can also call us at 800-841-LIFE (number can
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call our main office at 954-766-8433, or fax our main office at 954-761-9199.
Its very important for you all to realize that the only way we can STOP
the German Codex proposal, which threatens to DESTROY health freedom is
if we all band together NOW! I need donations in order to carry this public
health message to the world. On an immediate basis, I need donations in
order to travel to some Canadian cities in order to work with health freedom
activists there. I will also need to travel to several other countries and
its expensive.
Unless enough people join due to the Codex issue, my employer won't allow
me to have the full time assistant that I need, and I am snowed from overwork
in my efforts to get this message to the world. If you can send a donation
to help with our work, please send your most generous check or money order
made out to Life Extension Foundation to LEF- c/o Kim, PO Box 229120 Hollywood,
Florida Republic, 33022-9120 America. Thanking you in advance for your help
and generosity. We must hang together-- or we shall hang seperately.
For Freedom, John Hammell
We have reported on this a number of times already. Some of you have
sent us messages indicating that you understand the importance. Some of
you may be too cynical -- or perhaps too healthy..? -- to care. But that
may change. You have to appreciate how close to collapse our current medical
paradigm is. New "bugs" are appearing every day, many of which
are resistant to conventional medicine. In fact, as of last week, there
is only one true broad-spectrum antibiotic left in the entire arsenal of
modern medicine, and new bugs which it cannot kill are already appearing!
[Have doubts? Check with your own doctor!]
A study JUST released in Canada last week tested hundreds of pre-schoolers
(children in day-care centers) and found that 1 in every 3 (33.3%) were
on some form of antibiotic at any given point in time! Further research
found that 1 in 4 had at least ONE FORM OF BACTERIA PRESENT IN NASAL TISSUE
that was 100% drug-resistant. [Source: CBC TV]. This data can safely (there's
a misnomer!!...) be extrapolated to ANY COUNTRY in the western world. And
hostpitals in the US and Canada are now routinely enforcing VOLUNTARY QUARANTINES
to deal with outbreaks of drug resistant bugs that thrive ONLY IN HOSPITALS.
One top US virologist recently suggested that MORE DRUG RESISTANT BUGS HAVE
APPEARED IN THE LAST 24 MONTHS THAN IN THE LAST TWO DECADES. Taking this
as a mathematical progression, it doesn't look good for us. Or our children.
What does this have to do with the UN CODEX -- which, BY THE WAY, IS ALREADY
IN FORCE IN GERMANY AND NORWAY? Simply this -- as medical paradigms collapse
(and they ARE collapsing), the greatest defence you have against these bugs
is a HEIGHTENED IMMUNE SYSTEM. A good trick in these "toxic times."
Many of the vitamins that the Codex wants to ban are the ONLY way we see
to keep your immune system up in the times ahead. And, another reminder,
the OLDER you get, the MORE problems you are likely to have...
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Although written by a prominent Canadian M.D., the article below, one of
the BEST we have read on the topic, was distributed by a U.S. group seeking
to stop the CODEX in the U.S. The CODEX affects the U.S., Canada, and all
member nations of the U.N. We URGE you to read it and decide if maybe, just
maybe, it's finally time for you to use the democractic process TODAY to
preserve the future of you and your family TOMORROW. ------ BY Zoltan P.
Rona, M.D., M.Sc.
If you value freedom of choice in health care, it may still not be too late
for you to help stop the pending world wide suppression of Complementary
Medicine. If the Codex Alimentarious (Nutrition Code) Commission 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 under the
prescription category that would be controlled exclusively by the medical
monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. This scenario,
predictably, has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association
(CHFA) and the Health Protection Branch (HPB or Hocus Pocus Bunch). Do not
for one second believe these people.
Let me explain. WHAT IS CODEX? No, Codex is not a new sanitary napkin. Nor
is it a benign group of boring bureaucrats. It is officially known as the
United Nations/World Health Organization (WHO) Codex Alimentarious (Nutrition
Code) Commission. It meets every 2 years, usually in Rome, and very little
has appeared about it in the media. Nevertheless, documentation supports
the possibility that Codex is the greatest threat to health freedom in the
world today. Most of the information we have on this secretive group can
be found on the Internet. Codex is empowered by governments to set standards
of operation for the health industry. Over 90% of the international organizations
"allowed" to send delegates to the meetings represent giant multinational
pharmaceutical corporations.
The only "consumer" organization is the "International Organization
of Consumer Unions". Neither the natural health care industry nor the
general public has any representation at Codex meetings. THE CODEX PLAN
OF ACTION In October, 1996, Codex met in Bonn, Germany to make radical changes
in the rules governing dietary supplements for member nations. The proposals
of greatest concern were those made by the German delegation ("Proposed
Draft Guidelines for Dietary Supplements") and is being sponsored by
Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. These are the three drug companies formed when
the Nurenberg War Trials disbanded IG Farben, manufacturer of the poison
gas used in Nazi concentration camps.
This is not the first time that the U.N. has been linked closely with Nazi
war criminals. Ostensibly, their purpose is "....create a set of international
standards to guide the world's growing food industry and to protect the
health of consumers." If you really believe that, I have some ocean
front property for you at half price in Saskatoon. The drug company backed
proposals call for the following:
1. No vitamin, mineral, herb, etc., can be sold for prophylactic (preventative)
or therapeutic reasons. 2. Natural remedies can be sold as food but they
must not exceed the potency (dosage) levels set by the commission. This
means that consumer access to dietary supplements will be limited to the
RDA dosage as a maximum limit for vitamins (vitamin C - 60 mg, vitamin E
- 15 mg, etc.). 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, eliminating
the escape clause within the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
that allows a nation to set its own standards. This applies to all member
countries of the U.N. Any nation that does not accept and apply these new
standards will be heavily fined by the World Trade Organization (WTO) creating
the potential of crippling entire sectors of that nation's economy.
4. All new supplements would be banned unless they go through the Codex
approval process. Five steps have already been taken in the Codex process
over the past few years. Remember Canadian Bill C-7 which was passed eventually
in Canada as C-8? The similarity of the process, the secrecy and the wording
between the Codex proposals and the Canadian laws is uncanny. Voting in
favour of adopting the German proposal has been overwhelming (16 for and
2 against in the most recent vote).
The Codex process is now at "Step Five"- formalization and debate
concerning the specific features. In two years, Codex could jump from step
5 to step 8 to finalize these restrictions. 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 OTC 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. According to Dr. Matthias Rath, researcher and author who
discovered a correlation between vitamin C deficiency and heart disease,
the three Nazi-linked drug companies pushing so hard for the German proposal,
Hoechst, Bayer and BASF, are also manufacturers of heart drugs.
Obviously, with the vitamin competition gone, nothing will stop their profits.
IS CANADA INVOLVED? Yes, very much so. According to John C. Hammell, legal
advocate for the U.S. based Life Extension Foundation, the Nazi-linked proposals
have the backing of Canadian and French Codex commission representatives.
In June of 1996, the Codex Executive committee will be creating an "expert
panel" on herbs which is likely to generate a "negative list"
to prevent public access to certain herbs internationally (see the list
below). The formation of this "expert panel" was advocated by
none other than the Canadian representatives.
Why then are the HPB and the CHFA denying that the Codex proposals will
have no impact on the availability of nutritional supplements in Canada?
Either spokespersons for these two groups are ignorant about the proposals
or they are lying to the public in order to protect drug company profits.
After all, several voting members of the CHFA are owned by or are subsidiaries
of major drug manufacturers or pharmaceutical chains. Neither group can
be trusted to give the public straight answers about the Codex scam. They
are in a clear conflict of interest since they stand to gain financially
when the supplement prices are boosted out the roof. Further evidence of
Canadian involvement is the HPB (Hocus Pocus Bunch) position on what is
or is not a food or a drug.
This bunch is either cleverly devious about their support of pharmaceutical
concerns or just plain dumb. For example, garlic, ginger, licorice and peppermint
are considered to be foods when sold as spices. If a grocery store manager
makes claims for their therapeutic effects, they then become drugs via a
hocus pocus mechanism which remains to be defined.
As it now stands in Canada (and this changes on a regular basis given the
current mood, blood sugar level or whims of officials at the HPB) the following
list of currently available health food store nutritional supplements are
considered nebulously to be either "a drug", "a drug even
in the absence of claims" or "a new drug with claims":
Aloe vera Astragalus Bilberry Capsicum Cascara sagrada Cat's claw Chamomile
Dong Quai Echinacea Augustifolia and Purpurea Ephedra Feverfew Garlic Ginger
Ginkgo biloba Ginseng Golden Seal Gotu Kola Hawthorne Java Java Licorice
Milk Thistle Pau D'arco (Taheebo) Peppermint Psyllium Sarsaparilla Saw palmetto
Yohimbe
This list is likely to expand over the next two years.
If the Codex and the HPB have their way, your favourite supplements will
be replaced by expensive, patented, over-the-counter or prescription drugs.
Just look what has already happened to amino acids like tryptophan. Once
available for under $20 for a bottle of 100 tablets of 500 mgs. at your
local health food store, the same tablet is now only available by prescription
at a cost of over $120 at your pharmacy. On top of that, in order to get
a prescription for tryptophan, you will have to convince your doctor to
give you one. This is easier said than done simply because most medical
doctors have no clue what tryptophan does or believe it to be toxic.
Project this shallow thinking on to the herbs listed above and it becomes
quite clear that public access to natural remedies will be a thing of the
past. For more information, documentation and a plan of action that you
can take to fight the Codex proposals, contact: John Hammell Legislative
Advocate The Life Extension Foundation, 2411 Monroe St. #2, Hollywood, FL
33020 USA 800-333-2553 954-929-2905 fax: 954-929-0507 e-mail: John@lef.org
Internet: http://www/lef.org/lef/index.html
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