If You Use Herbs and Supplements, You've Been Betrayed by Lawmakers. A HIGHLY URGENT Message...

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If You Use Herbs and Supplements, You've Been Betrayed by Lawmakers. A HIGHLY

URGENT Message...

Posted By Dr. Mercola

<http://articles.mercola.com/members/Dr.-Mercola/default.aspx> | October 26

2010

herbal supplements

In less than a year, virtually all medicinal herbs will be illegal in the

European Union.

In their take-no-prisoners strategy to wipe out every penny of competition and

gain complete control of the health of the people,

Big Pharma and Agribusiness have scored a major win in Europe. Similar,

potentially devastating battles are also underway in the

U.S.

How can this be happening?

The secret weapon used by drug companies is trade law. According to Gaia Health:

" Rather than treating food and traditional medicines as human rights issues,

they have been treated as trade issues. That makes the

desires of large corporations the focus of food and herbal law, rather than the

needs and desires of people.

It's this twisting that has resulted in the FDA's making outrageously absurd

statements, such as claiming that Cheerios and walnuts

quite literally become drugs simply because of health claims made for them. "

Sources:

<http://gaia-health.com/articles301/000301-big-pharma-scores-big-win-medicinal-h\

erbs-disappear-eu.shtml> Gaia Health September

12, 2010

… And once the EU enacts this law, I can strongly assure you the United States

will not be far behind.

… In essence, this Directive creates new rules and regulations for herbal

products and nutritional supplements that were previously

traded freely. Any supplier within the EU who wants to sell their product to

another European country will need to get a license for

each and every supplement they sell.

In fact, under this Directive, all supplements and herbal preparations must go

through the same licensing procedure as

pharmaceutical drugs.

In TCM and Ayurvedic formulas that contain a number of herbs, each herb would

have to be licensed separately.

…

You Can Take Action Now!

If you value your access to herbs, vitamins and other nutritional supplements,

please do not remain on the sidelines.

Take action!

The Alliance for Natural Health <http://www.anhinternational.org/>

International (ANH-I) and the European <http://www.benefyt.eu/>

Benefyt Foundation (EBF) are actively fighting to stop the implementation of the

EU Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive

(THMPD).

You can download their joint

<http://www.anh-europe.org/files/100831-ANH-Benefyt-THMPD-position-paper.pdf>

position paper here.

The following Action

<http://gaia-health.com/articles301/000301-big-pharma-scores-big-win-medicinal-h\

erbs-disappear-eu.shtml> Steps

were provided by Gaia Health:

1. If you live in Europe, please send a letter or call your Member of

the European Parliament.

You can determine who your MEP is, and get his or her contact information here

<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch.do;jsessionid=50F6E51D02\

75A7C2377045FF0081B2F7.node1> .

Tell your MEP that you support the ANH and want the implementation of THMPD

suspended. Ask your representative to take a stand in

support of your right to choose herbal treatments and your right to buy

nutritional supplements.

To make it faster and easier for you, the ANH via Gaia Health offers this

prewritten

<http://gaia-health.com/articles301/000301-sampleletter.rtf> sample letter,

which you can modify and individualize to your own

liking. There is also a Spanish

<http://gaia-health.com/articles301/000301-sampleletterspanish.rtf> version,

provided by Denice

Delay for Gaia Health.

2. For further information, you may contact:

o The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-I) Sophie

Middleton (campaign administrator), tel +44(0)1306

646 600 or email info@...

o The European Benefyt Foundation (EBF) Dhaenens or

Harrie Sandhövel, Tel +31 320 251 313 or email:

info@...

Unfortunately, I do not have any action items for my American readers, other

than to stay vigilant and become involved in any and

all legislation that pertains to your right to supplements and natural

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/02/Monsantos-Dream-B\

ill--HR-875.aspx> organic food in the US.

Ditto for all of you who

<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/19/vitamin-c-about-t\

o-be-made-illegal-in-canada.aspx> live in Canada.

Hopefully, the EU will stop this assault on our freedom to choose, which will

make it more difficult to enact similar types of

legislation here in the US.