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This is such an important issue, I can't urge our members enough

about writing to your elected representatives. If you only write

one letter this year, please make it this one! If you have never

written to your Congressmen before, please step outside of your

comfort zone and write this time! It takes literally seconds to

send this email, but the impact could be the difference between

literally life or death, health that is attainable, and the

preservation of our freedoms in America.

Don't allow government to take away our ability to buy health

supplements that are vital to our recovery. We are so close to this

tragedy!

Please visit this link:

http://www.healthactioncenter.org/action/index.asp?step=2 & item=26227

and sign the petition.

Please.

> They think that by reducing the minimum vitamin

> requirements, they can signficantly reduce world

> hunger! HUH???

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> You gotta read this . . . We're in big, big trouble if

> the U.S. adopts this!

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> When vitamins must be prescribed by physicians, and

> are covered by insurance, can you imagine how much

> insurance is going to go up???

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> Rogene

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> Note: forwarded message attached.

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> Codex Commission Executive Committee Endorses Restrictive Vitamin-

Mineral Guidelines

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> by S. , Esq., Board Chair, Citizens for Health who is

attending the Codex Committee meeting in Rome as a member of the

official U.S. Delegation.

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> July 3, 2005. Dr. Ed Scarbrough, US Codex Office administrator

and administrative leader of the US Delegation to the 28th session

of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, today told the delegation at

its pre-meeting session that the Codex Commission Executive

Committee had endorsed the vitamin and mineral guidelines

recommended to it for adoption by its Committee on Nutrition and

Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU). The endorsed guidelines

call for upper intake limits based on toxic chemical risk

assessment, prohibit health claims for foods, and urge consumers to

restrict their intake of nutrients to the foods they eat. The

endorsement of the guidelines by the Executive Committee virtually

ensures their adoption by the full Commission at its July 4 meeting.

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> Dr. Scarbrough commented on Chinese and other Asian country

desires to have greater flexibility, based on unique dietary habits,

to add other categories than vitamins and minerals to the

guidelines, and Australia's " perennial " desire to restrict the

guidelines to countries that treat vitamins and minerals only as

foods. These arguments, he reported, did not move the Codex

Executive Committee away from endorsing the guidelines. Nor did

Canada's lack of support for the guidelines. Canada argued

that " given the differences in diets, food supplies, attitudes, and

consumption patterns around the world, such guidelines were best

left to national governments. " This argument failed to move the

Executive Committee to recommend delay or rejection of the

guidelines.

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> >>read more http://www.healthactioncenter.com/ctt.asp?

u=3899623 & l=98825

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> S. , partner in Swankin and , a 32 year old

Washington DC law firm is a Private Sector Advisor to the US Codex

Delegation on behalf of Citizens for Health and Citizens for Health

supporter NOW Foods.

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