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TAKE ACTION TODAY ON CODEX
Your Letter is Vital
June 28, 2005
You have heard about the international rulemaking process known as
Codex Alimentarius, or "Food Code" through previous Action
Alerts. This July, commissioners from all over the world will meet in
Rome to decide upon a set of guidelines for the international trade
of vitamins, minerals, and herbs.
Support world health. Support access to dietary supplements and herbs.
http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=26659
Codex's guidelines evaluate nutrients using the same model as that
for like toxic chemicals and, unlike U.S. law, recommend upper potency
limits. The upper safe limits model is based on norms and population
groups instead of biochemical individuality, and attempts to set one
value for all individuals rather than seeking an optimum nutrient intake
level for each individual.
Such guidelines might be good for pharmaceutical companies seeking
to eliminate a safe, cheap source of competition, but not to the natural
health consumer. We need to make sure that this rulemaking process benefits
citizens' health and expands health choice-not just corporate profits.
Click http://www.citizens.org/priorities/codex/index.cfm
here to learn more about Codex.
TAKE ACTION!
http://www.citizens.org/priorities/codex/index.cfm
Promote health choice worldwide. Tell the U.S. Codex delegation and
Congress to make our law, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act (DSHEA) the international standard for dietary supplement trade.
Any change in U.S. law requires an act of Congress. However, if flawed
Codex guidelines are accepted internationally, we will likely face pressure
from opponents of health choice here in the U.S. to conform to them.
Send a letter today to postpone acceptance of the Codex guidelines
until the following issues are revisited: the role of dietary supplements
in optimal health, worldwide hunger and nutrition, and the appropriate
science for nutrients.
Take action today to support DSHEA as the international standard for
the dietary supplement trade.
The U.S. Congress passed DSHEA by unanimous consent with the support
of millions of Americans in order to protect our health choice. DSHEA
is a safe and sound model that works. The U.S. Codex delegation has
a consumer and Congressional mandate to acknowledge and defend the basic
principles of DSHEA and should labor to ensure that no trade-related
barriers are erected between us and safe, innovative, and effective
dietary supplements.
It is critical that you send your letter today. The commissions will
be meeting on July 4th-make sure your voice is heard before then!
Send your letter today, and be sure to tell your friends about this
important issue!
http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=26659
Thank you again,
Jim Turner, general counsel to the Weston A. Price Foundation
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