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[iAHF] TABD Announces Plan to Harmonize EU-US Vitamin Regs.

TABD/CODEX to SCREW Vitamin CONSUMERS WORLDWIDE?

International Advocates for Health Freedom - http://www.iahf.com

IAHF Webmaster: Put this under Breaking News, Genocide, American

Constitution on the Bonfire, Anti Globalization, and make a new section for

TABD and put this in it.

All Webmasters: Please post.

IAHF List: US and EU leaders (minus any consumer input) have agreed on

principles to " harm-onize " global dietary supplement regulations.

See the Press Release Below from CRN about the recent Trans Atlantic

Business Dialogue ( " TABD " ) Meeting in Cincinnati Ohio USA. We vitamin

consumers are being totally disenfranchised, and must complain bitterly to

Congress and other elected officials world wide as the multinationals

continue to hijack the planet and take us all for a very dangerous ride.

Please take a moment to forward this alert to your Congressmen and Members

of Parliament immediately, and demand to know why your voice is being

excluded. Please forward this alert to more vitamin consumers world wide.

Anyone can be on the IAHF list, sign up at http://www.iahf.com at the

listbot menu.

In order for you to contact your Congressinal Representative and Senators

about this issue

click on the Citizens for Health Website www.citizens.org Click on INSTANT

ACTIVIST

this will take you to a menu of Bills in Congress. Click on the first

one(which deals with Flouridation, but it does not matter) Then put in your

zip code and click search. Tell your Congressional Representatives that you

are deeply concerned about the Food & Drug Administrations violation of the

explicit directions of Congress NOT TO HARMONIZE our drug and supplement

regulation in the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act(FDAMA).

This also will violate the Dietary Supplement Healt Education Act(DSHEA)

which generated more constituent mail on capitol hill than any issue since

watergate.

Tony Juniper of Friends Of the Earth Intl

said:http://www.igc.org/trac/corner/worldnews/other/509.html

" The TABD is little more than a secretive attempt by the world's

biggest businesses to carve up the future of the world's trading system.

Their agenda will dominate much of the discussion at the WTO

talks. They stand for unregulated free trade, with their companies released

from environmental and social obligations.

A World Trade Organisation dominated by the smooth corporate

suits of the TABD is literally not worth having. Before the world's

governments decide to extend the WTO's remit even further,

perhaps they should stop and consider the damage that the planet will suffer

if their friends in the multi-nationals get their way. "

The Council for Responsible Nutrition, the alleged " vitamin trade

association " which is dominated by pharmaceutical interests

(see their membership page at http://www.crnusa.org/2members.html) has the

following press release on their website about the recent TABD effort to

" harmonize " US and EU vitamin regulations: I have queried Cordaro of

CRN and Heer of Roche about these proceedings from which consumers

are obviously being disenfranchised. I have also queried Loren Israelson of

the LDI Group who is representing GNC in the TABD talks, wishing to know

why consumers are being excluded.

I suspect none of these people will respond, and note that Hoffman La Roche

was fined a record $500,000,000 in 1999 by the US Dept of Justice for

engaging in illegal price fixing in the sale of vitamin raw materials. You

don't suppose they'd use the TABD and CODEX to achieve the same objective

to screw consumers do you? Read on..... and arm yourself to the teeth.

Start taking daily target practice. The only thing safeguarding Americans

rights anymore is our right to bear arms, and our globalist masters are

pulling out all the stops to take THAT away from us so there won't be ANY

impediment to forcing us into serfdom on their hoped for prison planet.

Read " Blueprint for a Prison Planet- The Plan to Microchip Humanity and Why

You Won't Believe It " free online book at

http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/blueprint.htm

Read: MASS CONTROL: Engineering Human Conciousness by Jim

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1881532208/custom

er

-reviews/ref=pm_dp_ln_b_7/104-9422464-4422354

See the Recommended Reading section at http://www.iahf.com for more books

for your personal library as you seek to live free in an unfree world.

See CRN's Press Release Below About the TABD Plans to Screw Us

http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html

Monday, November 20, 2000

Contact: Mike Greene

202/263-1003

mgreene@...

U.S. and European Leaders Agree on

Principles to Harmonize Dietary Supplement

Regulations

WASHINGTON, DC -- The dietary supplements

sector-working group of the

TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) agreed on

several key elements to harmonize

the regulatory framework for vitamin and mineral

food supplements on both sides of the

Atlantic. These major breakthroughs were forged at

the Sixth TABD CEO Conference in

Cincinnati, Ohio, from November 16-18.

The working group approved the principles and

components on definition, safety, and

GMPs. The working group also agreed to continue its

dialogue and that its next steps

would be to:

1.Define types of claims and appropriate labeling

for food supplements and develop

criteria for transatlantic acceptance of

credible scientific evidence to substantiate

these claims; evaluate mechanisms for

authorizing/approving claims; and assess

conditions for exclusivity to encourage

research and development.

2.Encourage the scientific bodies responsible for

the evaluation of the safety of total

intakes of vitamins and minerals (EU Scientific

Committee on Food and US Food

and Nutrition Board) to cooperate closely to

harmonize setting upper safe levels for

vitamins and minerals.

3.Define and recommend methodologies for setting

maximum levels for vitamin

and/or mineral food supplements on the basis of

upper safe levels of total intake for

these nutrients and intakes from other sources.

The responsible regulatory bodies

are encouraged to cooperate and establish one

set of figures for maximum levels for

vitamins and minerals in food supplements on

both sides of the Atlantic.

4.Seek urgently, in light of the imminent proposed

US rule on GMPs, transatlantic

harmony for implementing common GMPs and

quality standards. The working

group also agreed to develop practical

procedures to support GMP details; and seek

acceptance, implementation, and appropriate

enforcement.

Progress toward transatlantic harmonization of

dietary supplements was led by a team of

supplement CEO's that included: Gale Bensussen,

Leiner Health Products Inc.;

Van Dyke, B & D Nutritional Ingredients, Inc.;

Johannes Burges, Hermes Arzneimittel;

and Sonnich Fryland, Ferrosan. They were among the

more than 120 industry leaders

from the U.S. and the European Union who called on

their governments to adopt a list of

progressive trade liberalization measures at this

TABD CEO Conference.

The CEO's, meeting with senior officials form the

U.S. Administration, the European

Commission, the U.S. Congress, and the European

Parliament, made recommendations

on how best to boost transatlantic and global trade

and investment. They focused on

specific mechanisms for resolving trade disputes and

expanding the U.S.-EU commercial

marketplace, which at $1 billion per day in two-way

trade, is the world's largest trading

relationship.

" The recommendations we have developed at this

meeting will, if adopted by the

governments, expand trade and investment

opportunities for large, medium, and small

companies by removing obstacles and inefficiencies

in the U.S. and European regulatory

regimes, " said , chairman and CEO of

United Technologies Corporation

and US TABD chair for 2000. " Adoption of these

recommendations will create jobs,

raise living standards, lower costs and improve

access to goods-that is, provide concrete

benefits for business, for labor, and for consumers. "

The TABD is a results-oriented forum that seeks to

increase transatlantic trade and

investment opportunities through the removal of

costly inefficiencies from excessive

regulation, duplication and differences in the EU

and U.S. regulatory systems and

procedures in a manner consistent with sustainable

development.

For details about the dietary supplement sector

working group progress and future plans,

contact either Issues Manager Cordaro-USA

jcordaro@... or

Heer-Europe peter.heer@....

International Advocates for Health Freedom

<http://www.iahf.com>http://www.iahf.com, email: jham@...

Tel. Within N.America 800-333-2553, Overseas 540-745-6534

Fax 540-745-6535 Donations Needed: IAHF POB 625 Floyd, VA 24091 USA

The Cartel " Boils the Frog Slowly " Hoping We Won't Notice We're Being

Boiled AliveTil Its Too Late To Jump Out of the Pot. Codex Vitamin Issue

Was Rolled Back from Step 4 to Step 3 in Berlin 2000, But Should Have

Been Withdrawn Completely. Neither the German, or the American

Proposals Are Acceptable And Must Still Be STOPPED! Meanwhile,

Codex Harmonization Continues World Wide. When the Cartel Has

a Setback in One Place, it Redoubles its Efforts Somewhere Else.

They're Pushing Very Hard for Restrictive EU Guidelines for Supplements,

in Canada HPB is Holding Public Meetings This Summer (where they

typically ignore consumer input), While in the USA Media Attacks on

DSHEA are Mounting. If Democrats regain 6 Seats in the House

Dingle and Waxman will be back in power: Both have vowed to

Repeal DSHEA. To Beat Codex The German People Must Rebel En Masse

By Educating Parliament. Grossklaus Must Be Removed as

Codex Chairman. The Reformhauses Must Flaunt German Law

By Selling Vitamins at More Than 3x RDA and Band Together

for a Legal Battle. IAHF Seeks More Contacts Inside Germany

We Must Show a Video Documentary re American Health Food

Stores, and the Codex Battle Narrated in German, to German Consumers

and Reformhaus Owners, Along With Information on How to

Mount a Successful Grassroots Lobby for Health Freedom.

IAHF salutes Dr.Rath's Efforts to Trigger a German Revolution.

See his website at http://www.rath.nl

The FDA Has Broken US Law At Codex by ignoring

the intent of Congress re paragraph ©(5) of Section 803 (the

FDA Modernization Act) part of the FD & C Act. FDA has no

legal right under FDAMA to build consensus at CODEX

towards passage of a restrictive vitamin standard. All FDA

can legally do under US law is call for a complete cessation

of deliberations on the Codex Vitamin Issue. The Matter

Should Best Be Left to National Authorities to Decide.

FDA is trying to set the USA up to lose in a trade dispute.

FDA is trying to undermine Proxmire and DSHEA.

CRN & NNFA are Helping FDA due to the influence

of multinational pharmaceutical companies within them.

Consumers Must Band Together in Defense of Rights

Which the Vitamin Trade Associations Can't Be Trusted

to Protect IAHF is reaching out to establish reciprocal links

to more allied groups with websites and we have a banner

you can put on your site to advertise ours. The price of freedom

is eternal vigilance.http://www.iahf.com for more info.

______________________________________________________________________

To unsubscribe, write to IAHF-unsubscribe@...

[Guest guest]

[iAHF] TABD Announces Plan to Harmonize EU-US Vitamin Regs.

TABD/CODEX to SCREW Vitamin CONSUMERS WORLDWIDE?

International Advocates for Health Freedom - http://www.iahf.com

IAHF Webmaster: Put this under Breaking News, Genocide, American

Constitution on the Bonfire, Anti Globalization, and make a new section for

TABD and put this in it.

All Webmasters: Please post.

IAHF List: US and EU leaders (minus any consumer input) have agreed on

principles to " harm-onize " global dietary supplement regulations.

See the Press Release Below from CRN about the recent Trans Atlantic

Business Dialogue ( " TABD " ) Meeting in Cincinnati Ohio USA. We vitamin

consumers are being totally disenfranchised, and must complain bitterly to

Congress and other elected officials world wide as the multinationals

continue to hijack the planet and take us all for a very dangerous ride.

Please take a moment to forward this alert to your Congressmen and Members

of Parliament immediately, and demand to know why your voice is being

excluded. Please forward this alert to more vitamin consumers world wide.

Anyone can be on the IAHF list, sign up at http://www.iahf.com at the

listbot menu.

In order for you to contact your Congressinal Representative and Senators

about this issue

click on the Citizens for Health Website www.citizens.org Click on INSTANT

ACTIVIST

this will take you to a menu of Bills in Congress. Click on the first

one(which deals with Flouridation, but it does not matter) Then put in your

zip code and click search. Tell your Congressional Representatives that you

are deeply concerned about the Food & Drug Administrations violation of the

explicit directions of Congress NOT TO HARMONIZE our drug and supplement

regulation in the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act(FDAMA).

This also will violate the Dietary Supplement Healt Education Act(DSHEA)

which generated more constituent mail on capitol hill than any issue since

watergate.

Tony Juniper of Friends Of the Earth Intl

said:http://www.igc.org/trac/corner/worldnews/other/509.html

" The TABD is little more than a secretive attempt by the world's

biggest businesses to carve up the future of the world's trading system.

Their agenda will dominate much of the discussion at the WTO

talks. They stand for unregulated free trade, with their companies released

from environmental and social obligations.

A World Trade Organisation dominated by the smooth corporate

suits of the TABD is literally not worth having. Before the world's

governments decide to extend the WTO's remit even further,

perhaps they should stop and consider the damage that the planet will suffer

if their friends in the multi-nationals get their way. "

The Council for Responsible Nutrition, the alleged " vitamin trade

association " which is dominated by pharmaceutical interests

(see their membership page at http://www.crnusa.org/2members.html) has the

following press release on their website about the recent TABD effort to

" harmonize " US and EU vitamin regulations: I have queried Cordaro of

CRN and Heer of Roche about these proceedings from which consumers

are obviously being disenfranchised. I have also queried Loren Israelson of

the LDI Group who is representing GNC in the TABD talks, wishing to know

why consumers are being excluded.

I suspect none of these people will respond, and note that Hoffman La Roche

was fined a record $500,000,000 in 1999 by the US Dept of Justice for

engaging in illegal price fixing in the sale of vitamin raw materials. You

don't suppose they'd use the TABD and CODEX to achieve the same objective

to screw consumers do you? Read on..... and arm yourself to the teeth.

Start taking daily target practice. The only thing safeguarding Americans

rights anymore is our right to bear arms, and our globalist masters are

pulling out all the stops to take THAT away from us so there won't be ANY

impediment to forcing us into serfdom on their hoped for prison planet.

Read " Blueprint for a Prison Planet- The Plan to Microchip Humanity and Why

You Won't Believe It " free online book at

http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/blueprint.htm

Read: MASS CONTROL: Engineering Human Conciousness by Jim

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1881532208/custom

er

-reviews/ref=pm_dp_ln_b_7/104-9422464-4422354

See the Recommended Reading section at http://www.iahf.com for more books

for your personal library as you seek to live free in an unfree world.

See CRN's Press Release Below About the TABD Plans to Screw Us

http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html

Monday, November 20, 2000

Contact: Mike Greene

202/263-1003

mgreene@...

U.S. and European Leaders Agree on

Principles to Harmonize Dietary Supplement

Regulations

WASHINGTON, DC -- The dietary supplements

sector-working group of the

TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) agreed on

several key elements to harmonize

the regulatory framework for vitamin and mineral

food supplements on both sides of the

Atlantic. These major breakthroughs were forged at

the Sixth TABD CEO Conference in

Cincinnati, Ohio, from November 16-18.

The working group approved the principles and

components on definition, safety, and

GMPs. The working group also agreed to continue its

dialogue and that its next steps

would be to:

1.Define types of claims and appropriate labeling

for food supplements and develop

criteria for transatlantic acceptance of

credible scientific evidence to substantiate

these claims; evaluate mechanisms for

authorizing/approving claims; and assess

conditions for exclusivity to encourage

research and development.

2.Encourage the scientific bodies responsible for

the evaluation of the safety of total

intakes of vitamins and minerals (EU Scientific

Committee on Food and US Food

and Nutrition Board) to cooperate closely to

harmonize setting upper safe levels for

vitamins and minerals.

3.Define and recommend methodologies for setting

maximum levels for vitamin

and/or mineral food supplements on the basis of

upper safe levels of total intake for

these nutrients and intakes from other sources.

The responsible regulatory bodies

are encouraged to cooperate and establish one

set of figures for maximum levels for

vitamins and minerals in food supplements on

both sides of the Atlantic.

4.Seek urgently, in light of the imminent proposed

US rule on GMPs, transatlantic

harmony for implementing common GMPs and

quality standards. The working

group also agreed to develop practical

procedures to support GMP details; and seek

acceptance, implementation, and appropriate

enforcement.

Progress toward transatlantic harmonization of

dietary supplements was led by a team of

supplement CEO's that included: Gale Bensussen,

Leiner Health Products Inc.;

Van Dyke, B & D Nutritional Ingredients, Inc.;

Johannes Burges, Hermes Arzneimittel;

and Sonnich Fryland, Ferrosan. They were among the

more than 120 industry leaders

from the U.S. and the European Union who called on

their governments to adopt a list of

progressive trade liberalization measures at this

TABD CEO Conference.

The CEO's, meeting with senior officials form the

U.S. Administration, the European

Commission, the U.S. Congress, and the European

Parliament, made recommendations

on how best to boost transatlantic and global trade

and investment. They focused on

specific mechanisms for resolving trade disputes and

expanding the U.S.-EU commercial

marketplace, which at $1 billion per day in two-way

trade, is the world's largest trading

relationship.

" The recommendations we have developed at this

meeting will, if adopted by the

governments, expand trade and investment

opportunities for large, medium, and small

companies by removing obstacles and inefficiencies

in the U.S. and European regulatory

regimes, " said , chairman and CEO of

United Technologies Corporation

and US TABD chair for 2000. " Adoption of these

recommendations will create jobs,

raise living standards, lower costs and improve

access to goods-that is, provide concrete

benefits for business, for labor, and for consumers. "

The TABD is a results-oriented forum that seeks to

increase transatlantic trade and

investment opportunities through the removal of

costly inefficiencies from excessive

regulation, duplication and differences in the EU

and U.S. regulatory systems and

procedures in a manner consistent with sustainable

development.

For details about the dietary supplement sector

working group progress and future plans,

contact either Issues Manager Cordaro-USA

jcordaro@... or

Heer-Europe peter.heer@....

International Advocates for Health Freedom

<http://www.iahf.com>http://www.iahf.com, email: jham@...

Tel. Within N.America 800-333-2553, Overseas 540-745-6534

Fax 540-745-6535 Donations Needed: IAHF POB 625 Floyd, VA 24091 USA

The Cartel " Boils the Frog Slowly " Hoping We Won't Notice We're Being

Boiled AliveTil Its Too Late To Jump Out of the Pot. Codex Vitamin Issue

Was Rolled Back from Step 4 to Step 3 in Berlin 2000, But Should Have

Been Withdrawn Completely. Neither the German, or the American

Proposals Are Acceptable And Must Still Be STOPPED! Meanwhile,

Codex Harmonization Continues World Wide. When the Cartel Has

a Setback in One Place, it Redoubles its Efforts Somewhere Else.

They're Pushing Very Hard for Restrictive EU Guidelines for Supplements,

in Canada HPB is Holding Public Meetings This Summer (where they

typically ignore consumer input), While in the USA Media Attacks on

DSHEA are Mounting. If Democrats regain 6 Seats in the House

Dingle and Waxman will be back in power: Both have vowed to

Repeal DSHEA. To Beat Codex The German People Must Rebel En Masse

By Educating Parliament. Grossklaus Must Be Removed as

Codex Chairman. The Reformhauses Must Flaunt German Law

By Selling Vitamins at More Than 3x RDA and Band Together

for a Legal Battle. IAHF Seeks More Contacts Inside Germany

We Must Show a Video Documentary re American Health Food

Stores, and the Codex Battle Narrated in German, to German Consumers

and Reformhaus Owners, Along With Information on How to

Mount a Successful Grassroots Lobby for Health Freedom.

IAHF salutes Dr.Rath's Efforts to Trigger a German Revolution.

See his website at http://www.rath.nl

The FDA Has Broken US Law At Codex by ignoring

the intent of Congress re paragraph ©(5) of Section 803 (the

FDA Modernization Act) part of the FD & C Act. FDA has no

legal right under FDAMA to build consensus at CODEX

towards passage of a restrictive vitamin standard. All FDA

can legally do under US law is call for a complete cessation

of deliberations on the Codex Vitamin Issue. The Matter

Should Best Be Left to National Authorities to Decide.

FDA is trying to set the USA up to lose in a trade dispute.

FDA is trying to undermine Proxmire and DSHEA.

CRN & NNFA are Helping FDA due to the influence

of multinational pharmaceutical companies within them.

Consumers Must Band Together in Defense of Rights

Which the Vitamin Trade Associations Can't Be Trusted

to Protect IAHF is reaching out to establish reciprocal links

to more allied groups with websites and we have a banner

you can put on your site to advertise ours. The price of freedom

is eternal vigilance.http://www.iahf.com for more info.

______________________________________________________________________

To unsubscribe, write to IAHF-unsubscribe@...