Originally published June 25 2005
Outlawing nutrition: U.S. delegation to Rome to support global ban on many nutritional supplements
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
In her column for the Magic City Morning Star, Dr. Carolyn Dean reports that the U.S. Delegation to Codex (a United Nations, World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization joint venture) will stand with the international organization in its policies for dietary supplements, which will subsequently slowly reduce America's supply of these supplements to zero.
The U.S. Delegation to Codex has just issued a formal written statement to the Codex Alimentarius Commission that the United States, during the July 4-9, 2005, meeting in Rome, will support compulsory rules created by this international organization directly overruling U.S. law regarding access to vitamins.
The U.S. law that is about to be vanquished is the Dietary Supplement, Health and Education Act of 1994.
Codex is a joint venture between the United Nation's World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has already stated that it will enforce Codex "guidelines" as the world standard for trade in dietary supplements.
For those not familiar with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, it was passed because 2.5 million ordinary citizens wanted to make sure dietary supplements such as herbs, vitamins, minerals and other food-based supplements could stay on the over-the-counter market.
Movement to create this law, known as DSHEA, started when a 1992 FDA task force published a report announcing the FDA's desire to remove these products from the shelves as they represented a "disincentive for patented drug research."
Immediately following this announcement, millions of Americans learned about how famed vitamin doctor, Jonathan Wright's patient-filled medical office was raided the same month by nearly two-dozen gun-toting, flak-jacketed FDA agents in the name of regulating supplements.
As the story developed, it turned out that this Gestapo-style raid was standard operating procedure for the FDA and as the general public became aware of just how many doctors' offices, manufacturing companies, distributors and health food stores had been assaulted by similar raids, the horror of all this forged a mighty health freedom army that resulted in unanimous passage of DSHEA.
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