At http://NaturalHealthSupply.com we are affected directly by CODEX, the new rules and regulations covering natural products, food products, vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplements. Some EU countries can no longer accept some very basic products via the post. Just a few weeks ago a shipment of common vitamin supplements including a one pound tub of Vitamin C was confiscated and destroyed by German customs due to CODEX. They didn’t post the product back as stated in the customs forms. CODEX now seizes and destroys all product without the new custom forms. Vendor and/or customer lose all money, product, and choice. CODEX has been in the works since the early 60’s, and is now coming to the USA. Big Pharma, FDA, and the US government want to control your health choices, and call it safety to sell you the idea. As issues arise, I plan to post the stories here so US citizens can see what the future holds if we do not stop CODEX in the USA. Check out the news item below from Dr. Rima Laibow and the Natural Solutions Foundation:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3142
SENATE VOTES CLOTURE, PASSES BILL
Now it’s up to the Senate/House Conference
Waxman’s FTC Clause Still Threatens to Kill Dietary Supplements Through Hostile Regulation. TENS OF THOUSANDS of Emails Have Gone Out - Now We Need Millions!
The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173), adopted by the House of Representatives has been initially approved by the Senate as S.3217. Sen. Scott Brown was the 60th vote for cloture. The bill appears to include language giving more power to the Federal Trade Commission to make general rules for interstate commerce that could be used to restrict truthful information about dietary supplements, by requiring expensive, “drug company” level clinical trials before vitamin companies could make claims about their products. This “reform” could hand-over the natural products industry to Big Pharma, which, over the past few years, has bought up most of the larger vitamin companies. The new rules could become a “barrier against entry” driving many smaller companies out of business.
We need to redouble our efforts to have the Senate/House Conference Committee write in protective language for dietary supplements and natural remedies.
We address this issue in an Action Item telling Congress to provide protective language for natural products which do not need the same level of substantiation (called “significant scientific agreement”) that drugs should require for public safety. The existing commercial standard of “competent and reliable scientific evidence” allows natural product marketers to rely on published literature and small-scale clinical studies appropriate for food products. As we have been warning, the attacks on Natural Solutions will continue and will escalate. BUT, YOUR CONTINUED PUSH BACK WILL PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO ACCESS NATURAL SOLUTIONS!
Action Item:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3142
