[CO-CURE] ACT: Alliance for Natural Health - CONFUSION OVER CODEX

[Guest guest]

I am fully aware I have posted this to a few groups which do not allow health

politics. I apologize for breaking this rule; especially if this has offended

anyone, as that is not my intention. I would not have done this if I could

have thought of another way of reaching all the members. I do however feel that

this information is pertinent to many people's peace of mind and well-being. I

feel that people come before rules, I guess. If the moderators don't agree -

I guess that is their decision. But if this isn't stopped, if we ALL don't

participate; do you honestly think that alternative therepies won't follow soon?

                  Blessings

                        Shan

[For what it's worth, this is the latest E-mail from the Alliance for

Natural Health on the " Codex issue " (regarding the availability of

supplements e.g. at high doses, without a prescription from a doctor, etc).

  Tom K.]

I am aware from the volume of incoming emails that there is a large amount of

confusion regarding the Codex issue. We are receiving emails from people

saying everything from " I have just read a US website that says all our

supplements will be banned within months, and if so, my life won't be worth

living " to

" Major trade organisations are telling us that there is nothing to worry

about " .

All of this contributes to understandable confusion, and we appreciate that

it is making many people feel despondent.

The reality is that all of this means different things to different people.

What can be said for sure, however, is that Codex won't cause all

supplements to be banned in a matter of months. Codex will however have very

serious impacts in the longer-term, especially if the risk assessment system

that it proposes to use to establish maximum allowed dosages is not changed

over the coming months.

However, please don't feel despondent. Not all is lost by any means, despite

the acceptance of Codex texts in Rome at the meeting of the Codex Alimentarius

Commission last Monday

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=175 .

There is still latitude to move things forward in the interests of consumer

freedom of choice, particularly with regard to the precise nature of the

'scientific risk assessment' methods to be used within Codex. This is the

area that we at ANH are focusing a lot of our attention on. The next Codex

meeting in Bonn, Germany this November, will be critical to determining the

final outcome and of course central to new information on this issue is the

independent risk assessment project being undertake by the Netherlands-based HAN

Foundation, commissioned by the ANH on 27 June

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=news & ID=174

All the other projects being undertaken by the ANH will also help greatly to

protect consumer freedom of choice, should they be successfully

accomplished. But without your support, we cannot succeed. Critical to us

right now is funding

http://www.alliance-naturalhealth.org/index.cfm?action=donate.default

for:

Website and server fees to cover additional bandwidth usage caused by

unprecedented visits to the ANH website and viewings of the

" We Become Silent " documentary by (viewable from the banner at

the top of the ANH homepage

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/

Please view this documentary and make a donation.

- Legal fees for our proposed new legal challenge to the EU Human Medicinal

Products (Pharmaceuticals) Directive, which also incorporates a challenge to

the Traditional Medicinal Products Directive

- Ground-breaking technical, scientific and legal work on risk assessment

science and other global legislative threats

- Professional Public Affairs (lobbying) and Public Relations campaigns

Very modest costs of administration, required to run our global campaign

organisation

PLEASE DONATE NOW!

- For a summary of the issues are they relate to consumers, please follow

this link:

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/index.cfm?action=consumers

I hope this goes some way to clarifying the confusion.

Many thanks for your support and interest in this complex but vital field,

which centres on the protection of medical freedom of choice and the ability

to access natural health approaches.

And please, never give up - we certainly won't!

Kind regards

Isobel Bradley

Campaign Administrator

Alliance for Natural Health

Tel:      +44 (0) 1252 371275

E-mail: info@...

www.alliance-natural-health.org

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