From: "International Advocates for Health Freedom" <jham@iahf.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 19:03:19 -0400
Subject: [IAHF] Dr.Rath Finally Wakes Up: Launches Anti EU Vitamin Directive
Campaign
International Advocates for Health Freedom - http://www.iahf.com
IAHF Webmaster: Breaking News, EU
All Webmasters: Please link to Dr.Rath's Site at
http://www.drrath.com
to encourage more people to send his form letter below to all members of the European Parliament and European Commission against the EU Vitamin Directive
IAHF List:
For the past several months I experienced severe frustration from
making numerous attempts to awaken Dr.Matthias Rath
http://www.drrath.com to the European Union's campaign to ban
consumer access to vitamins. I sent email to his office, made phone calls to his offices in both Holland and California, to no avail until just now when finally Dr.Rath, who did such a good job of leading anti Codex demonstrations in Berlin in '98 and last June, has FINALLY launched a new major campaign in a last ditch effort to stop the EU Vitamin Directive which threatens to ban consumer access to vitamins all over Europe.
Given that the EU Directive has already gone through the corrupt EU Parliament, and is now on its way to the EU Commission, an unelected body that could easily just ignore the will of vitamin consumers all over the EU and the world, I only hope Dr.Rath is not too late in finally getting reinvolved with the battle.
On his website at http://www.drrath.com please download his most recent materials, including an email program that allows you to send his form letter from your computer to all members of the European Parliament, and to add your own comments at the beginning of your message.
Here is Dr.Rath's Warning and Open Letter: Please join me in sending it to Congressman Dan Burton via
beth.clay@mail.house.gov
with a cc to your own Congressman) with the request that they provide this information to the Congressional Research Service (in addition to the questions I submitted previously- see
http://www.iahf.com
breaking news- with the assertion that American dietary supplement laws are in "no jeopardy" of being harmonized to Codex or to EU standards." At his March 20 Oversight Hearing, Congressman Burton wrongly denied the grass roots witnesses any chance to testify, and the truth did not come out. The only chance Americans now have to prevent our dietary supplement laws from being harmonized to the EU and Codex is if the
Congressional Research Service advises Burton that the FDA lied to him, which they did. The only thing Burton did at his Oversight hearing on March 20 that could prevent a total whitewash of the Codex vitamin issue was to ask the Congressional Research Service to examine the FDA's allegation that nothing happening due to Codex could ever impact our domestic vitamin laws.
Following his Oversight Hearing on March 20, two of Burton's witnesses (Seckman, Israelson) went to Capetown South Africa for an IADSA conference that just took place Friday and Yesterday titled "Toward a Global Regulatory Model" The conference was chaired by Pfizer employee Randy Dennin, co chair of NNFA's International Committee. His co chair, Karl Riedel, lied under oath before Burton's Oversight Hearing, falsely claiming that Codex will not impact our domestic vitamin laws.
IADSA is a disgusting organization in that the rank and file
membership of NNFA (which belongs to it) have been falsely led to believe that IADSA is "protecting" their interests at Codex. In reality, the only interests IADSA is "protecting" are those of the large pharmaceutical companies working to take over the dietary supplement industry.
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http://www.drrath.com
Dear Web Site visitor!
During the first few months of this year one event
above all others has had
repercussions for our work: the European Commission
is planning to issue
a "Directive of the European Parliament and Council
for the harmonisation
of statutory provisions in member states governing
dietary supplements".
What lies behind this unwieldy sentence is nothing
other than an attempt
to force through a Europe-wide ban on vitamin
therapy. Work on this
directive is proceeding behind closed doors.
Dr. Matthias Rath is addressing this European
Parliament plan to sanction
a Europe-wide ban on vitamin therapy with an open
letter.
In this letter, Dr. Rath is addressing all the people of Europe and
calling on you to assist in resisting this directive
designed to restrict our freedoms across the whole of
Europe.
You can register your support for this open letter
with your signature, and in so doing contribute to bringing a
Europe-wide initiative into being.
Tell your friends and acquaintances about this open
letter.
Talk to colleagues at work and fellow club members. Publicise it.
Send this letter to members of national parliaments and
members of European governments,
to the members of the European Parliament
and to the members of the European Council!
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Say NO to a Europe-wide ban on vitamin therapies
which is in the interests of the multi-million dollar
pharmaceutical industry
- An open letter from Dr Matthias Rath -
To the members of the national parliaments and
governments of the European states,
To the members of the European Parliament,
To the members of the European Council
I am very concerned to learn that the European Parliament has passed
a law on first reading that will
ban vitamin therapies and other natural healing
methods for millions of people in Europe. In the interests
of a multi-million dollar market of
symptom-oriented pharmaceutical preparations, the rights of millions of
patients to access effective vitamin therapies
and natural healing methods as well as their basic right to
health and freedom from bodily harm will be
fundamentally violated.
As the scientist who instigated the global
breakthrough in vitamin therapy against heart attacks, I am
addressing you on behalf of millions of Europeans
for whom you bear political responsibility. Reject this
unethical law! The people of Europe must have
free access to vitamin therapies and other natural healing
methods!
A Europe-wide law muzzling freedom of speech in
the interests of the pharmaceutical
industry
The so-called "European Parliament and Council of
Europe Directive concerning the harmonisation of
the laws of the member states with reference to
dietary supplements" provides for the following:
A strict ban on health reports concerning
vitamins, minerals and other dietary supplements for
the prevention or treatment of illnesses.
Soon it may no longer be said that vitamin C stabilises
the arterial wall, thereby preventing heart
attacks and strokes. Yet this fact has been known for
250 years, since the discovery that a lack
of vitamins caused scurvy in sailors.
Only certain vitamins and dietary
supplements may be sold freely. Hundreds of natural
substances will be arbitrarily declared
medicines by this law and so will only be allowed on the
market through the pharmaceutical industry
and with inflated profit margins that will cause the
costs of health care in Europe to explode
still further.
An artificial upper limit for vitamins and
natural substances is also being arbitrarily set in law by
an ad hoc "Science Council". The members of
this committee have so far been in the dark with
respect to their potential connections with
the pharmaceutical industry.
It is planned to introduce this muzzling law
concerning natural healing methods compulsorily
across Europe. Member states will no longer
have the option to reject this unethical law..
Following pressure from the German members
of the European Commission, the originally
planned option for individual European
countries to opt out of this "directive" was abolished.
Pressure from the German pharmaceutical
industry, part of a Europe-wide pharmaceuticals cartel
has brought about, a law which gags the
people of Europe on an extremely important point - the
right to their own health.
The dominant pharmaceutical groups in
Germany are Bayer, BASF and Hoechst, who, as the
organisers of "IG Ausschwitz" and the forced
labour camps spread poverty and misery across
Europe in the last century. To escape from
such an unspeakable past, Hoechst recently
changed its name to "Aventis". The name may
change but corporate policy remains the same -
the willingness to sacrifice the health and
lives of millions of people in favour of corporate
interest.
Vitamin therapies: A breakthrough in the fight
against popular disease
This Europe-wide law muzzling the freedom of
speech in the interests of the pharmaceutical industry is
a law to artificially protect a multi-million
dollar market of superfluous pharmaceutical preparations.
Superfluous because of scientific breakthroughs
made in the field of vitamin therapies for the treatment
of almost all common diseases:
Hardening of the arteries, the cause of
heart attacks and strokes, is an early form of the sailors'
disease, scurvy. I myself developed the
world's first patented therapy for the natural reversal of
heart attacks and strokes (US patent no.
5,278,189).
High blood pressure, weak heart, and
circulatory disturbances in diabetics were identified as
diseases, the main cause of which is a lack
of vitamins, minerals and other bio-catalysts as part
of the cell replacement process in the heart
and circulatory system. The consistent use of these
discoveries, will mean that, for future
generations, these diseases will be reduced to just a
fraction of their current levels.
Our Internet site, www.dr-rath-research.org,
which extensively documents this scientific progress,
is one of the most frequently visited
sources for natural health world-wide. "Medline", the largest
library on the Internet, contains over
10,000 studies that provide evidence of the medical efficacy
of vitamins and natural healing methods.
The argument that this European muzzling law
provides consumer protection is a white lie in the
interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
The opposite is in fact the case. During the last 10
years, not one single person has died of an
"overdose" of vitamins whilst every year over 100,000
people in Europe die from the known, harmful
side effects of pharmaceutical preparations.
The fatal side effects of pharmaceutical
preparations have now assumed such proportions that
they have now risen to become the fourth
most frequent cause of death in Europe, topped only
by heart attacks, cancer and strokes.
The people of Europe need protection from the
harmful side effects of synthetic pharmaceutical
preparations - and not from the alleged side
effects of vitamins, which to date are simply in the
imagination of the pharmaceutical industry.
Background to the Europe-wide pharmaceutical
muzzling law: a multi-million dollar market
of symptom-oriented pharmaceutical preparations
collapses
The international pharmaceutical companies have
already had to suffer defeat with similar muzzling law
plans, with global effects.
The 1994 pharmaceutical muzzling law defeat
in the USA: As a direct reaction to my scientific
discovery that heart attacks are an early
form of the sailors' disease scurvy, the pharmaceutical
industry tried to have vitamins designated
as medicines through the health authorities in the
USA. Millions of Americans opposed this and
instead pushed through the "Law on vitamin
freedom", the "Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act (DSHEA)". From that moment on,
health reports on vitamin therapies and
natural healing methods were legally allowed. The
DSHEA went down in history as the biggest
defeat of the pharmaceutical industry. The DSHEA
text can be downloaded from
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dietsupp.html on the Internet.
Pharmaceutical muzzling law defeats in 1996,
1998, 2000 world-wide: Following their defeat in
the USA, the pharmaceutical companies tried
to abuse the so-called "Codex Alimentarius
Commission" of the UNO for their own
purposes. Using the same bogus arguments, such as
"consumer protection" and "international
standardisation", vitamin therapies and natural healing
methods were to be banned for all member
countries of the UNO - i.e. world-wide. In 1996, 1998
and 2000 these plans failed. At the last
Codex meeting in Berlin, thousands of people and
patients protested outside the conference
building and over half a million people sent their
protests directly by e-mail to the members
of the Codex Commission.
After all these failed attempts, the same
muzzling plans are now to be secretly and quietly forced on
the whole of Europe through the European
Parliament. Do the pharmaceutical managers and their
political henchmen think that the people of
Europe are so naïve that they can carry out their unethical
plans in Europe of all places?
The "wire-puller" and preparatory committee of
this latest pharmaceutical muzzling law farce is the
so-called "European Commission", a committee that
is elected by nobody! This "European
Commission" was only just recently completely
replaced because of corruption, bribery, and backhand
payments from international companies. Yet, the
new composition of this so-called "Commission" is
clearly pursuing old policy.
In the name of millions of people and
patients from across Europe, I ask
you, the politicians, who bear the
responsibility in this situation to:
Stop the "Directive of the European
Parliament and the Council of Europe
concerning the harmonisation of the
laws of the member states with reference
to dietary supplements" immediately.
Do this on all political levels and with all
the means available to you!
Lobby your parliament and government
to withdraw their support for this law
as far as the European Parliament and
European Council are concerned
immediately!
Bring the German members of the
"European Commission" to account! Ask
them in whose name these
"authorities" want to impose the laws of the
pharmaceutical cartel on the whole of
Europe. This is not in the name of the
85 million people of the United
Kingdom and is therefore contrary to any
democratic mandate!
Make sure that just like the "Law on
vitamin freedom" the "Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act"
in the USA a law is also passed in
Europe that expressly permits the
publication of health reports on vitamin
therapies and natural healing methods.
Promote scientifically-based natural
healing methods as an important part of
the health care in your countries!
Make it clear that the health
interests of millions of people are more important
than the share prices of a handful of
pharmaceutical shareholders!
Europe must not become the banana republic of the
pharmaceutical
cartel! Health must be a human right!
Yours sincerely
Dr Matthias Rath
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