Re: Good news on CODEX in Berlin

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Great News, Thanks Saul!

> From: " Saul Pressman " <saul@...>

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> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:59:30 -0700

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> Subject: Good news on CODEX in Berlin

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> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:29 PM

> Subject: Good news on CODEX in Berlin

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> Dear friends of the Dr. Rath World Health Net

> Ladies and Gentlemen,

>

> The plans of the Pharmaceutical Cartel to limit access to vitamins and other

> natural therapies world-wide by abusing the Codex Alimentarius Commission

> have failed. The proposal pushed by the German Codex delegation and their

> chairman Rolf Grossklaus were not acceptable to the conference participants.

>

> As many as fifteen members of the Codex Alimentarius Commission had prepared

> their own alternatives to the restrictive German proposals for the

> " Guidelines from vitamins and mineral supplements " (topic 5 of the

> Conference). Further members of the commissioners from countries as far away

> as Tanzania and Uruguay took the floor during the oral dispute. Because of

> the multitude of opinions it soon became clear that no consensus could be

> achieved for restricting vitamins and other essential nutrients on a global

> scale.

>

> Despite this clear opinion, Rolf Grossklaus, the German chairman of the

> Codex Alimentarius Commission and head of the so-called " Federal Agency of

> Consumer Health Protection " was trying to the very end to have the plans of

> the Pharma-Cartel pushed through. But he had underestimated the opinion of

> the world. " Grossklaus was closely watched by many members, " said one Codex

> delegate.

>

> The codex plans for restricting health information on vitamins and other

> natural therapies and for establishing arbitrarily low " upper limits " for

> essential nutrients were pushed back from stage 4 of the deliberation to

> stage 3. This relates to an 8-step process of the Codex procedures in which

> stage 4 is the level of consensus and stage 3 is the level of further

> deliberation.

>

> This means that no restrictions to vitamins and other essential nutrients

> nor to the dissemination of their health benefits could be established at

> this Codex meeting. The next meeting of Codex Alimentarius takes place in 2

> years and until then the Pharma-Cartel's plans to ban vitamin therapies

> worldwide are put on ice.

>

> In light of this defeat the German of the Codex Alimentarius commission,

> Grossklaus canceled the press conference scheduled for Friday the 23rd of

> June.

>

> This is a great success for the Dr. Rath World Health Net. Months before the

> Codex meeting we started to encourage our consultants and everyone

> interested to write letters of protest via e-mail to the members of the

> Codex Alimentarius Commission. Within the last three months alone more than

> 300,000 protest e-mails have reached the members of the Codex Alimentarius

> Commission in five continents.

>

> No member of Codex Alimentarius Commission could ignore this flood of

> protest e-mails. They realized that the restriction of vitamins is a

> sensitive issue and they should have their own position prepared on this

> important and highly political issue. As a result, almost half of the member

> countries of the Codex Commission came with proposals that were in conflict

> with the position of the German group and with the

> Pharma-Cartel.

>

> Last weekend almost two thousand people participated in our conference

> " Health for the 21st Century " in Berlin. More than one thousand people met

> on Monday in front of the meeting place of the Codex Alimentarius Commission

> in Berlin Marienfelde. At this rally, contributions by Dr. Rath,

> international guests and patients, underlined the significance of the

> decisions taken at this conference for every human being on planet earth.

>

> Even Codex participants such as the New Zealand delegate Gene Oden and the

> Norwegian delegate Dag Poleszynski left the conference to address the people

> gathered outside the building. They expressed their

> support for our manifestation and their dissent with the plans of the German

> Codex plans.

>

> Codex member Gene Oden said about the representation of Germany inside the

> Codex Alimentarius Commission: " Not the bureaucrats inside but the people

> here at this manifestation present the true interests of the German

> population! "

>

> Particularly encouraging was the participation of international guests at

> this manifestation. They came from Great Britain, Spain, France, Sweden, the

> United States and many other countries. These international

> guests made the voice their people heard at this conference.

>

> A human chain, which was more than one kilometer long, signaled to the

> members of the Codex conference inside the building that there is broad

> support for vitamin freedom. Many participants of the Codex

> conference came outside the building to get a first hand impression of just

> who the protesters outside where. They saw with their own eyes that this

> protest did not come from the fringes of society but from mothers, fathers,

> many of them patients -- in short, people like you and me.

>

> The participants of this manifestation demanded that Dr. Rath be allowed to

> enter the heavily guarded meeting complex. Inside he met the chairman of the

> Codex Alimentarius Commission, Rolf Grossklaus and

> accused him of instigating a witch hunt against vitamins in order to push

> through the Codex agenda of the Pharma-Cartel.

>

> Mr. Grossklaus was shaking in his boots like a lttle boy caught with his

> fingers in the cookie jar. The only thing left to him during this

> conversation was to threaten Dr. Rath that in the evening a national TV

> report would air with a personal attack on Dr. Rath. The question was, of

> course, how did Rolf Grossklaus know in advance that there would be a TV

> report about Dr. Rath, and how did he know what the contents of this report

> were? The only plausible answer for that is that both Mr. Grossklaus and the

> German National TV station (ARD), were controlled by the same interest

> group - the Pharma-Cartel.

>

> The protests from viewers against the German ARD station and its journalists

> Flettner and von Keudell have flooded the TV station since. " We, the people

> of the world, have won an historic victory here in Berlin. The Codex plans

> of the Pharma-Cartel were postponed for at least two years. After the

> victories in US 1994, at the last Codex conference 1998, and against MLX249

> in Great Britain in 1999, this is now the 4th historic victory where the

> health interests of the people prevail against the " business with disease "

> by the pharmaceutical industry. Every single participant last weekend in

> Berlin was part of this great success, " said Dr. Rath.

>

> Now it is time to co-ordinate the next steps:

> 1. We need to spread this historic victory to the local press and by

> doing so unmask the background of t

> the witch hunt against our work in the media. You can find further

> information on our web-site.

> 2. We need to talk to our political representatives and members of

> parliament with the goal to make free access to vitamins and other

> natural therapies a right guaranteed by law in England, France, Spain,

> Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the US and Canada.

>

> We celebrate this historic victory with all of you who have contributed

> towards its achievement . This victory puts us in the best position to win

> the battles ahead of us.

>

> Sincerely yours,

> The team of Dr. Rath

>

> Matthias Rath B.V. info.service@...

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> Forwarded by Dr. Saul Pressman, DCh

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