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URGENT ALERT- EU VITAMIN DIRECTIVE VOTE TUESDAY- ACTION NEEDED NOW- MORE SIGNATURES NEEDED
- forward widely & ACT NOW!
IAHF List: Joseph Hasslberger from La Leva di Archimede alerts vitamin consumers world
wide to please urge as many people as humanly possible to sign the health freedom petition
at http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/intro_eng.html between now and Tuesday, because
on Tuesday the European Parliament will vote on the dangerous vitamin directive that
threatens to destroy consumer access to dietary supplements all over Europe, forcing all
15 EU countries to walk in lockstep with Germany where access to vitamins is heavily
restricted. People outside the EU must not ignore this due to harmonization.
After the vote on Tuesday, if the EU Parliament agrees by simple majority to accept the
Vitamin Directive, the language would then go to the European Council of Ministers where
the reps from each EU government can either accept the Directive as written, or make
changes. If they make changes, it goes back again to the EU Parliament, but there is a
very real danger right now that the Directive will be accepted as currently written by the
EU Parliament, and that the Council of Ministers will also accept it as written.
It gives the Pharma Cartel everything they want, so it very well might go right on through
despite our efforts on getting signatures on the La Leva petition, because the MEPs and
Council of Ministers is under no obligation whatsoever to pay attention to that petition,
especially when over half of the signatures are from Americans, and many more come from
countries outside the EU.
Only Denmark and Sweden have gotten any appreciable number of signatures on the
petition,and they are just 2 out of the 15 EU countries. So if MEPs from Denmark,
Sweden, England, Portugal and Holland all spoke against the Directive when they go to
vote on it, it would still pass on Tuesday because they would simply be outvoted by the
rest of the EU.
So frankly, it does not look good for our friends overseas, and as a person with a genetic
need for vitamins, whose health would be seriously impaired if I lost access, I feel
immense pain right now, not only for our friends in Europe, but also because of the very
real threat that our American dietary supplement laws could be harmonized to the EU unless
far more Americans wake up to this reality.
Does it make sense for Americans and other vitamin consumers world wide to keep signing
the petition at http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/intro_eng.html between now and
tuesday and after tuesday as well? Yes.Its the ONLY CHANCE we have of POSSIBLY stopping
what is going on.
Americans are being set up like bowling pins, and far too many arrogantly assume that
nothing could ever overturn DSHEA. These people need to pull their heads out of the sand
and take a very close look at what is happening with harmonization, with entities such as
the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue, the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, and the WTO's
Dispute Settlement Body. They need to take a very close look at the CRN press release
below where the writing is very clearly on the wall, and they need to sign the petition
above as well as the petitition calling for proper oversight at http://www.garynull.com
because otherwise we could be whitewashed in the Codex Oversight hearing fast approaching
on February 28th,and the possibility is very strong that unless we actively get involved
and educate our Congressmen, all of our witnesses could be excluded from presenting oral
testimony at the hearing.
Is this a bad situation? Yes. Is it hopeless? No, its not, but it could BECOME hopeless if
people keep ignoring what is going on.
There has been immense spin control world wide to try to hide the stealth
pharmaceuticaltakeover of the natural products industry. They've been making use of
controlled opposition groups, plants, double agents, bribery, pay offs, control of the
mass media, but we can't pretend they're not coming for our vitamins when they make no
bones about it. Look at the CRN press release below. Closely. Then look at the US News and
World Report cover story which slams the dietary supplement industry at
http://www.usnews.com
Proof that the USA is being SET UP:
U.S. and European Leaders Agree on Principles to Harmonize Dietary Supplement Regulations
http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html Monday, November 20, 2000 Contact: Mike Greene
202/263-1002 [email protected]
URGENT ALERT- EU VITAMIN DIRECTIVE VOTE TUESDAY- ACTION NEEDED NOW- MORE SIGNATURES NEEDED
- forward widely & ACT NOW!
IAHF List: Joseph Hasslberger from La Leva di Archimede alerts vitamin consumers world
wide to please urge as many people as humanly possible to sign the health freedom petition
at http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/intro_eng.html between now and Tuesday, because
on Tuesday the European Parliament will vote on the dangerous vitamin directive that
threatens to destroy consumer access to dietary supplements all over Europe, forcing all
15 EU countries to walk in lockstep with Germany where access to vitamins is heavily
restricted. People outside the EU must not ignore this due to harmonization.
After the vote on Tuesday, if the EU Parliament agrees by simple majority to accept the
Vitamin Directive, the language would then go to the European Council of Ministers where
the reps from each EU government can either accept the Directive as written, or make
changes. If they make changes, it goes back again to the EU Parliament, but there is a
very real danger right now that the Directive will be accepted as currently written by the
EU Parliament, and that the Council of Ministers will also accept it as written.
It gives the Pharma Cartel everything they want, so it very well might go right on through
despite our efforts on getting signatures on the La Leva petition, because the MEPs and
Council of Ministers is under no obligation whatsoever to pay attention to that petition,
especially when over half of the signatures are from Americans, and many more come from
countries outside the EU.
Only Denmark and Sweden have gotten any appreciable number of signatures on the
petition,and they are just 2 out of the 15 EU countries. So if MEPs from Denmark,
Sweden, England, Portugal and Holland all spoke against the Directive when they go to
vote on it, it would still pass on Tuesday because they would simply be outvoted by the
rest of the EU.
So frankly, it does not look good for our friends overseas, and as a person with a genetic
need for vitamins, whose health would be seriously impaired if I lost access, I feel
immense pain right now, not only for our friends in Europe, but also because of the very
real threat that our American dietary supplement laws could be harmonized to the EU unless
far more Americans wake up to this reality.
Does it make sense for Americans and other vitamin consumers world wide to keep signing
the petition at http://www.laleva.org/petizione/english/intro_eng.html between now and
tuesday and after tuesday as well? Yes.Its the ONLY CHANCE we have of POSSIBLY stopping
what is going on.
Americans are being set up like bowling pins, and far too many arrogantly assume that
nothing could ever overturn DSHEA. These people need to pull their heads out of the sand
and take a very close look at what is happening with harmonization, with entities such as
the Trans Atlantic Business Dialogue, the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, and the WTO's
Dispute Settlement Body. They need to take a very close look at the CRN press release
below where the writing is very clearly on the wall, and they need to sign the petition
above as well as the petitition calling for proper oversight at http://www.garynull.com
because otherwise we could be whitewashed in the Codex Oversight hearing fast approaching
on February 28th,and the possibility is very strong that unless we actively get involved
and educate our Congressmen, all of our witnesses could be excluded from presenting oral
testimony at the hearing.
Is this a bad situation? Yes. Is it hopeless? No, its not, but it could BECOME hopeless if
people keep ignoring what is going on.
There has been immense spin control world wide to try to hide the stealth
pharmaceuticaltakeover of the natural products industry. They've been making use of
controlled opposition groups, plants, double agents, bribery, pay offs, control of the
mass media, but we can't pretend they're not coming for our vitamins when they make no
bones about it. Look at the CRN press release below. Closely. Then look at the US News and
World Report cover story which slams the dietary supplement industry at
http://www.usnews.com
Proof that the USA is being SET UP:
U.S. and European Leaders Agree on Principles to Harmonize Dietary Supplement Regulations
http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html Monday, November 20, 2000 Contact: Mike Greene
202/263-1002 [email protected]
