IAHF on Codex
I need your urgent assistance in reaching out to more alternative medical
groups, organizations, clinics, vitamin companies, and consumers.
Some of you may have valuable contacts in these groups that I don't have. We're
all in the same boat, and I can't do this work without your help. We're in a
race against the clock.
We must get the lawsuit filed no later than the middle of August and have
sufficient funds in our warchest to not only file the lawsuit, but to sustain it
which will cost upwards of $600,000. or more.
I spent a lot of time yesterday and last night re-appealing to
http://www.thenhf.com/ National Health
Federation- via Scott Tips
Scott@rivieramail.com Tips lives in France. Also via
contact-us@thenhf.com
http://www.apma.net/ American Association of
Health Freedom via Candace Campbell
candace@healthfreedom.net
http://www.ahha.org/ American Holistic
Health Assn via Suzan Walter at info@ahha.org
http://www.citizens.org Citizens for
Health via Ana Micka amicka@citizens.org
and via Jim Turner Jim@swankinturner.com
http://www.alternativemedicine.com/ Alternative Medicine Magazine via
Burton Goldburg
bg@alternativemedicine.com
http://www.garynull.com Gary Null Radio
Show c/o pderienzo@garynull.com
All of these groups have been contacted in the past, but appear to be in denial
about what is going on. Go ahead and contact them yourselves. Maybe if they hear
urgent appeals from a lot of people then it might dawn on them that this is
actually a real issue.
The problem I have here in the USA is that you can get anything you want in an
American health food store, so its hard for people to see the threat, but these
groups have no excuse, and I am damn sick and tired of approaching them on my
own, over and over to no avail.
Maybe if they hear from all of you they'll pay attention.
I also emailed a slew of alternative cancer hospitals in Mexico, and I emailed
contacts within such groups as People Against Cancer and others who are friends
of mine requesting that they also contact these clinics with their OWN messages
since they know these people far better than I do.
We need the same kind of help contacting vitamin companies. Although Rob and
David from ANH made a very good presenation recently before the joint
International Committee of NNFA and AHPA at the NNFA Marketplace vitamin trade
show recently in Nevada, we could still use help from anyone who may have an
inside track on anyone in a leadership position at any of these vitamin
companies.
The other side is trying to wear us down so we will just give up and stop
fighting, but we can't become complacent like that. One person on this list
emailed me that he was busy "stocking up" and he said that he thinks we're going
to lose. Wrong attitude. No one ever won ANY fight by thinking like that, and I
won't tolerate that kind of wimpy attitude on this list.
We ARE going to win, and the REASON we're going to win, is because all of us are
going to try our absolute HARDEST to get word of the ANH lawsuit out to more
people ASAP. Don't expect us to win if you leave all the work up to Rob Verkerk
and I, we're just two very mortal people, we're NOT superhuman, we're being beat
into the ground like tent pegs from stress, but every day we pull our tired
bodies out of the ground, and we keep on pluggin' because we MUST!
Please let me know what you are doing, I've asked this and very few of you got
back to me, so that makes me wonder how many of you are actually taking action.
You can go on a search engine and find alternative clinics, vitamin companies,
and health food stores just as easily as I can, and I need you to help me get
this message out quickly even if you duplicate some of my work. Here is what to
send out:
Alternative Cancer Hospitals and other interested parties: URGENT HEALTH FREEDOM
ALERT!!
We have a deadline of the middle of August to file the lawsuit to overturn the
EU Food Supplement Directive. This has huge global implications for people
everywhere who require access to dietary supplements- see my article
http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html also
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2003/2003_preprint_eu_01.html Generating
sufficient donations to sustain this lawsuit is doable if enough people pitch
in.
Please Listen to Audio Archive- I was Just on the Jeff Rense Show With Rob
Verkerk from Alliance for Natural Health List of Talking Points for Radio
Show--
I need a chance to get exposure on more websites and to go on the air to alert
more people. If you have a website please post this. If you have an email
distribution list please forward this. We are trying to put together a warchest
of $600,000. to overturn the EU Food Supplements Directive in order to protect
the health of people world wide who need dietary supplements- the situation has
huge global ramifications due to ongoing global harmonization pressure for
nations to conform to an unfolding international vitamin standard. Donations can
be made via
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org We have the seed money necessary to
file it, but it will take a lot more than we have so far to sustain it. At stake
is the health of vitamin consumers world wide due to how the EU Food Supplements
Directive threatens to impact creation of a finalized Codex vitamin standard.
The FDA has set the USA up for harmonization to a grossly restrictive
international standard, which forces us to help our internaitonal allies
including the Alliance for Natural Health with lawsuits such as this which can
thwart the pharmaceutical industries takeover plans.
Here is the email I just sent out to my distribution list. Within it is the url
where you can hear the audio file from the Jeff Rense show that I was on last
night, July 10th. Listening to it will help you understand what is going on and
what you can do to help stop the Pharma Cartel. People can sign onto the IAHF
email distribution list at http://www.iahf.com
scroll down for sign up menu.
Below this email which I sent to my list today are the bio + talking points that
I sent to Jeff Rense which he used for this show.
Please post on your website and if you have a radio show, or know someone who
does, Rob Verkerk and I need more air time to get this information out. Please
forward this widely and urge everyone to do the same..... we're trying to defuse
a ticking bomb and are in a race against the clock.
Subject: Hear Audio Archive of Rense Show, What to Do Next to Help Stop the
Cartel
IAHF Webmaster: Please post under breaking news, whats new, all countries, what
to do
IAHF List:
We're down to "crunch" time. The lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement
Directive which has huge global implications, will cost upwards of $600,000. or
more. It will be filed by the middle of August, but unless all of you help me to
reach out to more people to generate the necessary donations, we could get
caught short after the suit has been filed, and we have a deadline of the middle
of August to do that.
Last night Rob Verkerk of the UK's Alliance for Natural Health and I were on the
Jeff Rense Radio show which could also be heard over the web. Jeff did his usual
great job of interviewing, Rob did a great job even though it was 3 am in
England when he came on the air, and I also felt sharp so it will be well worth
your while to hear what we had to say, it will help you to explain whats going
on to more people, quickly, and we badly need that!
I am sure many of you missed the show because you were too busy to hear it or
because you were asleep. It is extremely important that you listen to the audio
archive of this show which is at
http://www.soundwaves2000.com/rense/ [See July 10 show]
Please strongly encourage everyone you know, especially health food store owners
and vitamin company owners to listen to it- we have a deadline of the middle of
August to get the suit filed, and we can't afford to not break our butts to wake
more people up.
Talking points that I used in the show can be downloaded from
http://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive.php?jham
WHAT TO DO:
Make a list in a notebook of every health food store near your house that you
can take the time to drive to. Write down the name, address, and phone numbers
of these stores. Leave space to write in the names of the owner and managers.
Go to these stores and give them copies of my article from
http://www.iahf.com/anh_lawsuit.html Show them the taking points from this
show. Urge them to listen to the audio archive, and explain to them that unless
more people donate to the ANH lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement
Directive, that we won't be able to stop the globalization process in the
future.
Keep in mind that many of these stores belong to NNFA which has only just
started to wake up. Inform these stores that Rob Verkerk and David Hinde just
spoke before the joint international committee of NNFA and AHPA at the NNFA
Vitamin Trade show in Las Vegas. Inform the stores that this committee is
finally grasping what I have been trying to get across for years: that IADSA
can't be trusted. For info on that, they can look at
http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com
ANH's lawsuit needs and deserves support from vitamin companies, health food
stores, alternative practitioners, and consumers world wide, but Rob and I are
just two people. No one can reasonably expect he and I to do all the work here.
It is not reasonable or realistic for any of you who receive it to take the
attitude that you're "too busy" to do your share.
You wouldn't be on this email list if you didn't value your access to dietary
supplements, but if you REALLY want to protect your access, you will take grass
roots action: you WILL forward this to the attention of everyone you know who
might also help. You WILL make a donation or more than one, and you WILL very
STRONGLY and EMPHATICALLY urge more people to take action because its going to
take a team effort to BEAT THE ODDS.
Will we pull off a miracle and overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive, kill
the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive, kill the Pharmaceuticals
Directive,and stop the finalization of a vitamin standard at CODEX? Will we keep
the USA from being forced via a WTO trade dispute (which FDA has set us up to
lose and which congress has done nothing to stop) to harmonize our liberal food
based supplement regs to a horrible unfolding international standard?
Don't leave it up to Rob Verkerk and I to make this happen---- we're trying our
absolute hardest. Rob got up at 3 am UK time to go on the air on the Jeff Rense
show which is broadcast out of California, and I was up til midnight being on
the show. So we're working our butts off- putting in insane hours, but we REALLY
CAN'T win this battle without help from a LOT more people than have been
pitching in so far.
We're forced to redouble our effort to reach people because its the summer time
when so many are away on vacation.
So please listen to the audio file of the Jeff Rense show last night, and please
urge others to listen as well, and please help us reach out to vitamin
companies- they've all been lied to about this.
We need to keep the ball rolling on the excellent presentation that Rob Verkerk
did at the NNFA Vitamin Trade show recently in Las Vegas. Some companies are
waking up, but many more need to wake up or we just won't beat the odds.
We have the numbers- there are millions of us world wide who use supplements,
but the wool has been pulled over people's eyes. Massive spin has been done
against my message over the years.
Please let me know what you have been doing and what you will still do from now
on to help us get this message out- I need to hear back from you on this. My
email address is jham@iahf.com
Thank you,
International Advocates for Health Freedom
POB 10632 Blacksburg VA 24062 USA
http://www.iahf.com;
http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com
800-333-2553 N.America
540-961-0476 World
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name
John Hammell
title
President, International Advocates for Health Freedom
website
http://www.iahf.com
phone number
540-961-0476
brief bio/cv
John Hammell is the President of International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF),
a consulting firm to the dietary supplement industry on legislative issues. IAHF
also interfaces heavily with the grass roots, world wide, in a catalytic
networking capacity assisting allied health freedom organizations world wide.
John's career as a health freedom lobbyist began in 1989, and many of his
articles on legislative matters impacting the supplement industry have been
published over the years in Life Extension Magazine and other publications. John
recovered from a life threatening illness over 20 years ago via a suppressed
alternative treatment mode involving the use of dietary supplements for which he
has a strong genetic need. Information about his recovery from schizophrenia via
orthomolecular medicine is available on his website. He views the struggle we
are in to defend consumer access to supplements as a personal matter of life or
death, as do many world wide who are assisting him.
IAHF endeavors to monitor the Pharmaceutical Industry's ongoing effort to take
over the dietary supplement industry, warning that they are organized at the
international level via an umbrella group which coordinates the world's FDA's
called ICDRA (International Conference of Drug Regulating Authorities) so to
thwart their efforts, vitamin consumers, health food stores and supplement
manufacturers must also be organized at the international level.
IAHF was formed for that purpose in 1996 as an outgrowth of John's experience as
a member of the US Delegation to the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission's
Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use- where he observed
numerous violations of US law by Dr.Beth Yetley of the FDA who has been setting
us up to lose in a future WTO Trade Dispute via which American dietary
supplement laws could be forcibly harmonized to a grossly restrictive emerging
international standard.
John warns the dietary supplement industry world wide that they must awaken to
the fact that they are being led to the cliff by IADSA (International Alliance
of Dietary Supplement Associations) a controlled opposition group which is
chaired by an employee of Pfizer Pharmaceutical company. He alerts us to the
fact that we now have a smoking gun which exposes IADSA as a controlled
opposition group- and that this can be seen at
http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com
John's purpose in coming on the show tonight will be to help us to connect the
dots on the global threat to consumer access to dietary supplements so that we
can see the threat, and understand the extreme importance of making
contributions to the Alliance for Natural Health's lawsuit to overturn the
European Union's Food Supplement Directive. John will be helping us to
understand the connection between the EU Food Supplement Directive, and the UN
Codex Alimentarius Commission's effort to create a really draconian vitamin
standard via which the USA would be threatened due to membership in the World
Trade Organization which has already forced several American laws to be
overturned and changed. John warns that we must make immediate donations to the
ANH lawsuit, because they have a deadline of the middle of August to file it and
it will be very expensive. He insists that we can WIN the lawsuit because ANH
has retained one of the best law firms in England, one of the few that have EVER
overturned an EU Directive.
a brief item list of things to discuss
CONNECTING THE DOTS: SEEING PHARMA'S GAMEPLAN TO TAKE OVER THE DIETARY
SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY WORLD WIDE
Overview:
**** In April, the TGA (Australia's equivalent to our FDA), conducted a nuclear
strike against the dietary supplement industry by yanking 1600 dietary
supplements off the shelves under false pretenses. They didn't have a single
product assay to prove that any of the products they banned were contaminated.
This move triggered a huge media circus against the dietary supplement industry
intended to alienate consumers against the use of dietary supplements, to try to
get them to stop using them and to return to only using Rx drugs.
**** Massive pressure is being put on tiny New Zealand to harmonize their very
liberal food based regs to Australia's very stringent pharmaceuticalized regs.
**** On June 18th, Canada gazetted new regulations which harmonize Canada to
Australia. These regulations are being challenged via 4 lawsuits, and via bill
C-420 which is moving in the Canadian Parliament and which could overturn them.
So a pitched battle is ensuing on our northern flank. Due to NAFTA and due to
pressure to establish the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas, intended to be
an EU clone in our hemisphere) Americans can't afford to ignore what is
happening on our northern border, but must Americans aren't paying attention, in
part because these events are unfolding during the summer when many people are
on vacation.
**** In August the USA FDA will come out with new Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
regs for vitamins. The law only allows them to come out with food based GMP regs,
but they're trying to bury the industry under an avalanche of red tape and they
will be coming out with illegal regulations even more stringent than
pharmaceutical GMPs in a naked effort to crush the industry by moving us more in
the Direction of Australia, Canada and the EU. A lawsuit against the FDA to get
an injunction to stop this is already planned by attorney Jonathan Emord.
**** The middle of August is the deadline for the Alliance for Natural Health to
file a lawsuit to overturn the EU Food Supplement Directive, a draconian measure
that bans consumer access to all innovative and high potency vitamin and mineral
products, and which must be stopped in order to arrest the Cartel's momentum, so
as to have a CHANCE to also stop the Traditional Herbal Medicines Directive and
the Pharmaceuticals Directive which also must be killed in the EU Paraliament.
***** The EU is going to expand by 10 new countries in 2004, all of which will
adopt the FSD unless we overturn it in court. Unless we overturn it, the Cartel
won't be able to be stopped from pushing a very restrictive vitamin standard
through at Codex.
**** The FDA has already set the USA up to lose in a WTO trade dispute by
creating false definitions of vitamin safety with help from the pharmaceutically
dominated National Academy of Sciences. They've been creating bogus safety
monographs for all the top selling dietary supplements including Melatonin, Saw
Palmetto Extract, Glucosamine, Chapparel, Shark Cartilage and Chromium
Picolinate. Because Congress whitewashed the March 20, 2001 Oversight Hearing on
Codex, FDA is getting away with this, and FDA got away with illegally putting a
paper on the table at Codex, over Congressional objection, which is totally
unscientific. That paper is titled "A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing
Safe Upper Levels for Nutrients."
**** Because the fix is in, and Congress has not provided us with the oversight
we need, we have no choice but to play an international game now. The only way
Americans can defend their access to dietary supplements in the face of this
current threat is to get behind the ANH lawsuit in large numbers. Even small
donations of just $5. or $10. dollars can really help, but they need to come
from lots of people because it will be very expensive to fight this legal battle
and carry on with our lobbying. Donations can be made via credit card at
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org and at
http://www.iahf.com Checks can also be sent to IAHF POB 10632 Blacksburg VA
24062 USA
1. The world's FDA's are coordinated via a UN umbrella group called ICDRA
(International Conference of Drug Regulating Authorities) ICDRA plays a role in
the harmonization of food and drug laws world wide. Harmony in music is a
beautiful thing, but its a bad idea to make the laws the same world wide because
what is happening via the WTO is that the people of the world are being
disenfranchised, and everything is being subordinated to the bottom line of the
multinational corporation's greed driven interests.
2. The WTO was created via the Uruguay Round of GATT which gave the WTO "teeth"
via the creation of a new International Court: The Dispute Settlement Body of
the WTO. The DSB poses a serious threat to the interests of American dietary
supplement consumers because they do not follow US rules of evidence, and no
private person, no matter how well qualified, has standing to appear before
them. The only people who have standing to appear before them are national reps
of WTO member nations, and in the case of dietary supplements, they would be
people such as Dr.Beth Yetley of the FDA, and her international counterparts, in
other words, the very same people who are working to develop a very restrictive
international vitamin standard at Codex meetings in Germany, so the fox is
guarding the henhouse- we're being set up badly.
3. On March 20, 2001 an Oversight Hearing on the Codex Vitamin Issue that John
worked for 5 years to try to get was whitewashed and the truth did not come out.
John and all of his witnesses were not allowed to testify. The only person who
was allowed to testify had been misled into believing that Codex posed no threat
by an employee of a pharmaceutical company who he had made the mistake to trust.
Just two weeks after he testified that Codex posed "no threat" to US domestic
laws, his co chair on the National Nutritional Food Association's International
Committee (the employee of a pharmaceutical company), chaired an IADSA meeting
in Capetown, South Africa titled "Toward a Global Regulatory Model" Today, this
person is an employee of Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company. He
is the ceo of Capsugel, a subsidiary of Pfizer, the company which sells about
70% of the gelatin capsules used in the manufacture of dietary supplements.
IADSA has NGO status at Codex, and was allegedly created to "protect" the
dietary supplement industry and consumer access to vitamins. The sad reality
though is that IADSA is a controlled opposition group which has proven
themselves to be untrustworthy- they've demonstrated via their actions that
they're in fact doing the diametric opposite of what they CLAIM to be doing.
4. The presence of the Chair of IADSA, Randy Dennin of Pfizer, on the
International Committee of the National Nutritional Foods Association's
International Committee is a gross conflit of interest, and all the health food
stores and small manufacturers that belong to NNFA should demand his removal,
and should demand that NNFA enforce article 14.3 in their bylaws (Conflict of
Interest Disclosure) NNFA should not allow pharmaceutical companies or employees
of pharmaceutical companies to be members of their vitamin trade association.
John warns that all over the world pharmaceutical interests have their tentacles
deeply into the vitamin trade associations, which he warns are being controlled
from the top-down by these interests who are actively manipulating the rank and
file members, keeping them in the dark, while making moves that insure the
supplement industry moves progressively toward the cliff--- while all the while
they PRETEND to be "protecting" the industry's interests.
5. SMOKING GUN WHICH EXPOSES IADSA: (International Alliance of Dietary
Supplement Companies) See
http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com
NNFA New Zealand was a member of IADSA til they were thrown out. The reason they
were thrown out is that they started asking hard questions about conflicts of
interest and because they objected to IADSA's unwillingness to help defend New
Zealand from massive political pressure coming from Australia for New Zealand to
harmonize their very liberal food based dietary supplement regulations to
Australia's much harsher pharmaceuticalized regulations. IADSA had reneged on an
agreement to allow for a rotating chairmanship of the S. Pacific IADSA region on
the IADSA Board. Australia had been holding this position, but New Zealand
argued that due to the conflict between Australia and New Zealand, the
chairmanship should rotate every year and that last year New Zealand should have
had their chance to chair the region.
IADSA agreed to this verbally and in writing, but then reneged on their promise
when the Australian vitamin trade association threatened to quit IADSA if New
Zealand were allowed to chair the region. IADSA then stood behind Australia.
IADSA also refused to allow the executive director of NNFA New Zealand to make a
presentation at the IADSA annual meeting in Vancouver last spring about the huge
threat of trans Tasman harmonization being faced by the New Zealand industry in
the face of this massive Australian pressure. NNFA New Zealand was also angry
that IADSA's lobbyist in Brussels, Simon Pettman, had refused to issue a press
release under IADSA's auspices defending Kava when it came under media attack.
Pettman refused to do this despite having been asked repeatedly by NNFA New
Zealand's exec dir Ron Law who went to the trouble of furnishing him with expert
risk analysis material to use in the press release. So the Board of NNFA New
Zealand put these grievances in writing to the IADSA Board, and rather than
invite them to a meeting to discuss everything properly in order to resolve
these problems, IADSA just sent them a very brief letter of expulsion. In the
process, IADSA showed their true colors. They demonstrated that they were doing
the diametric opposite of what they'd been leading members of NNFA and other
vitamin trade associations world wide into THINKING they were doing.
(I attended a meeting at an NNFA Trade show in '99 at which IADSA was introduced
to members of NNFA. This meeting was held in a hospitality suite at the hotel
where the trade show took place. Warner Lambert, which owned Dennin's Capsugel
at the time, paid for an expensive catered dinner with a lot of fancy imported
wine, beer, and cheese and while people were eating, we were shown a very simple
slide presentation in which the USA was marked "GREEN" indicating that consumers
had a proper degree of vitamin access due to passage of DSHEA. Several countries
were STRIPED indicating less than idea access, but better than many other
countries- they included Australia, New Zealand, Canada, England, Ireland,
Holland, and Sweden. The rest of the world was marked RED, indicating that major
work had to be done to harmonize those nations to DSHEA.
Then, with a grandiose sweep of his arm across his chest, Karl Riedel, Dennin's
co chair on the NNFA International Committee swept his arm across his chest and
as if by MAGIC, all the STRIPED and RED nations turned GREEN.
No explanation was ever made as to how they intended to bring about this
transformation, NNFA members were expected to just accept at face value that
this was the ACTUAL goal of IADSA. From that point in, the wool had been pulled
over NNFA members eyes until just recently, because at the NNFA Trade show that
just took place in Las Vegas, Rob Verkerk and David Hinde of the Alliance for
Natural Health made a presentation to the joint International Committee of NNFA
and the American Herbal Products Assn (AHPA) at which these companies finally
began to grasp that they could not trust IADSA, which had done NOTHING to try to
stop the FSD from going through the EU Parliament, and which in fact isn't doing
ANYTHING to stop a really bad vitamin standard from being rammed through at
CODEX.
Verkerk and Hinde were able to help them connect the dots and grasp the DIRE
NEED to get behind their lawsuit to overturn the EU FSD.
So, what remains to be seen now is whether enough vitamin companies will come on
board this very expensive legal effort for them to be able to sustain this
lawsuit and see it through to a successful conclusion. ANH and IAHF also need
ongoing funds for lobbying, in Brussels, Washington DC and other nations
capitals including Ottawa Canada.
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List of people and groups I sent this to (aside from my own much larger email
list):
cancercontrol@cox.net,
getwell@healthtours.com,
info@PeopleAgainstCancer.com,
frank@peopleagainstcancer.com,
nexus@GMBH-Online.de,
info@canceractionplan.com,
ccf@cancure.org,
pc_medium_cool@yahoo.com,
pc_medium_cool@yahoo.com,betaniawest@hotmail.com,
bri@americanbiologics.com,
amirubioyfry@aol.com,
biomedics@pacnet.com.mx,
info@chipsa.com,
cacsct@aol.com,
informationcenter@issels.com,
hilery@letstalkhealth.com,
drd@donsbach.com,
info@santamonica.se,
drcnb@js-net.com,
delrio@telnor.net,
bajanor@telnor.net,
drtony@hope4cancer.com,
eldoc@cetys.net,
webhost@iptq.com,
newhope@newhopeclinic.com,
mail@gerson.org,
info@natural-care.com,
vgammill@san.rr.com,
info@ralphmoss.com,
resource-guide@nationalassociation.org,
pderienzo@garynull.com,
candace@healthfreedom.net,
jim@swankin-turner.com,
amicka@citizens.org,
info@citizens.org,
bonnie@citizens.org,mail@ahha.org
International Advocates for Health Freedom
POB 10632 Blacksburg VA 24062 USA
http://www.iahf.com;
http://iadsa-exposed.tripod.com
800-333-2553 N.America
540-961-0476 World
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