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To defend against CODEX HARM-ONIZATION I am flying to Washington DC on Tuesday
June 7th in an effort to kill CAFTA (The Central American Free Trade Agreement)
which is expected to have a MARKUP VOTE in the Senate on June 14th & STILL NEED
EMERGENCY DONATIONS for this urgent lobbying trip!!

See paypal button at http://www.iahf.com (on top of scrollbar inside site) or
please send your donation to: IAHF 556 Boundary Bay Rd., Point Roberts, WA 98281

WHAT YOU CAN DO & WHY YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED:

URGENT ALERT: ACT WEEK OF JUNE 6th AND WEEK of JUNE 13th

Vitamin consumers: Two Important Legislative Actions You Must Take This Week
and Next to Defend Your Access to Dietary Supplements !!

1. H J Res 27 which gets us out of the WTO will go to the House Floor on
Tuesday, June 6th. Congressman Paul urges vitamin consumer's support for this bill.
The form letter below explains why. Please call your congressman via the US
Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask to be connected to your congressman's
office. If you aren't sure of his or her name, give the operator your zipcode
and they'll tell you, then connect you.

When you are connected, urge your congressman to COSPONSOR House Joint
Resolution 27 which would get us out of the WTO. Also tell them to oppose CAFTA and
the FTAA

Tell them you're concerned about the threat the WTO, and CAFTA pose to US
sovereignty, to the worsening trade deficit, and to your access to dietary
supplements. Ask for your congressman's fax number or email address and fax or email the
form letter (SEE BELOW) in to them. Add your own comments if you want. For
additional information, please read the article below the form letter.

2. A "Markup" Hearing will be held on CAFTA (Central American Free Trade
Agreement) in the Senate Finance Committee http://finance.senate.gov/ on June 14th.
CAFTA & the Free Trade Area of the Americas threaten our sovereignty, including
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act which provides us access to
dietary supplements. CAFTA + FTAA threaten harmonization of DSHEA to restrictive
international Codex regulations.

First a bill is voted on in committee, then if it passes in committee, it goes
to the floor of the Senate (or House). A bill must pass both the senate and
house before it goes to the President to be signed into law (or vetoed). Bush is
"testing the waters" on CAFTA on June 14th in this markup vote. Its very
important we sent Congress a strong message in defense of our sovereignty and against
CAFTA/FTAA.

Each member of the Senate Finance Committee has a website via which you can
send email.
Please email the form letter to them via these sites: and also lob your message
in by calling them via the Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121

If you are from their state, be especially sure to tell them that and please
alert your friends and family!!

REPUBLICANS
Senator Grassley, Iowa, Chair of Committee http://www.senate.gov/%7Egrassley/
Senator Hatch, Utah http://hatch.senate.gov/
Senator Lott, Mississippi http://lott.senate.gov/
Senator Snowe, Maine http://snowe.senate.gov/
Senator Kyl, Arizona http://kyl.senate.gov/
Senator Thomas, Wyoming http://www.senate.gov/%7Ethomas/
Senator Santorum, Pennsylvania http://santorum.senate.gov/public/
Senator Frist, Tennessee http://frist.senate.gov/
Senator Smith, Oregon http://www.senate.gov/%7Egsmith/
Senator Bunning, Kentucky http://bunning.senate.gov/
Senator Crapo, Idaho http://www.senate.gov/%7Ecrapo/

DEMOCRATS
Senator Baucus, Montana http://www.senate.gov/~baucus/
Senator Rockefeller, W.Virginia http://www.senate.gov/~rockefeller/
Senator Conrad, N.Dakota http://www.senate.gov/~conrad/
Senator Jeffords, Vermont http://www.senate.gov/~jeffords/
Senator Bingaman, New Mexico http://bingaman.senate.gov/
Senator Kerry, Massachusetts http://kerry.senate.gov/
Senator Lincoln, Arkansas http://lincoln.senate.gov/
Senator Wyden, Oregon http://wyden.senate.gov/
Senator Schumer, New York http://www.senate.gov/%7Eschumer/



NO TO CAFTA/FTAA/WTO!!­YES to H J Res 27
US Dietary Supplement Laws Threatened By Globalization!!

To: Senators____________________________
And Congressman ______________________________

The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA trade agreements all contain the SPS (Sanitary
Phytosanitary Measures) agreement. Article 3 of SPS states:
“To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as
possible, Members SHALL base their food safety measures on international standards,
guidelines or recommendations.”

This makes the supposedly “voluntary” Codex Alimentarius standard for
vitamins and minerals MANDATORY for all WTO member nations.

Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen the scope of the
SPS agreement, forcing harmonization of not only our dietary supplement laws to
mindless international standards, but it would lead to the creation of a
supranational body similar to the EU in our hemisphere, and we oppose this clear
threat to US sovereignty.

When the draft text of CAFTA was first made available on January
28th, 2004 the Governors of all 50 States discovered that they were bound by the
2,400 page agreement- being specifically listed in chapter 9. A third have since
rescinded their support of CAFTA.

Last fall, a WTO tribunal outlawed Utah’s ban on gambling, opening
the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with
anti-gambling restrictions. Antigua had charged that Utah’s ban on gambling violated
America’s obligation not to discriminate against foreigners providing “recreational
services.”

CAFTA includes hundreds of pages of grants of vague authority to
foreign tribunals. It wouldn’t take long for an activist foreign judge to read his
own interpretation into language such as the SPS agreement and force changes to
US laws including the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.

In addition to these concerns, NAFTA never lived up to the numerous
promises made about it, and our Trade Deficit is worse now than ever, contributing
to the weakening of the dollar. There is no reason to expect CAFTA or FTAA do
anything more than to FURTHER this negative trend, and lead to the destruction
of our nation, and our economy.

WTO tribunals have ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48 cases, many
of which were very costly to our economy. I therefore ask you to vote NO on
CAFTA and on FTAA, and YES on H J Res 27 which removes the US from the WTO.

Signed________________________________
Address____________________________________________________
City_________________________________State____Zip____________




SAVE OUR SUPPLEMENTS!! NO TO CAFTA/FTAA!!
US Dietary Supplement Laws Threatened By Globalization!!
By John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom


I remember when NAFTA was rammed at high speed through Congress in 1993. The
Hill was crawling with multinational corporate lobbyists who covered it like ants
devouring a lump of sugar. They poured out of chauffer driven limos wearing
their Gucci shoes, Rolex watches and Brooks Brothers Suits and were ushered
directly in to the inner sanctum of Senator’s offices. Simultaneously, lobbyists
representing the grass roots (myself included) had to wait a half hour just to get
5 minutes with a congressional aide whose job is to be polite and to pretend to
care about what WE want.

At the time numerous press reports documented deals -- many unrelated to NAFTA
-- that the Clinton Administration had made with individual Members of Congress
and groups of Members to obtain their votes to pass NAFTA.

The legacy of broken promises on NAFTA performance: NAFTA threatened the safety
of the nation's food supply, undermined the nation's environmental regulations,
and subverted American democracy while it cost the U.S. good jobs.

Twelve years after passage of NAFTA, the world’s ruling elite are attempting to
pull ANOTHER FAST ONE ON US as they seek to expand NAFTA to Central American
via CAFTA, and throughout our whole hemisphere via FTAA (Free Trade Area of the
Americas.)



VITAMIN/HERB CONSUMERS MUST HELP STOP CAFTA & FTAA---HERE IS WHY


CAFTA will have a FAST TRACK vote in either May or June of this year. It is
ESSENTIAL that vitamin consumers take the action recommended in the form letter at
the end of this article, and to get copies of both to every health food store
in your area so that more people can take action!

NAFTA contains language called the SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures)
Agreement. This agreement is found verbatim in both the WTO trade agreement and in
NAFTA, which CAFTA and FTAA threaten to expand hemisphere wide, thus broadening
and deepening its scope.

Through the SPS agreement, every nation on earth is required to “harm-onize”
its dietary supplement laws to the mindlessly restrictive international trade
standard which (barring a miracle) will be ratified between July 4-9th at the 28th
General Session of the UN’s Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome.

(Harmony is a beautiful thing when it comes to music, but its NOT a good thing
to make all the laws the same all over the world and to have these laws made by
unelected bureaucrats who are accountable to no one except the multinational
corporations that control them.)

WHY YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT THIS THREAT


IN YOUR LOCAL HEALTH FOOD STORE


Many of you are probably stunned to read this article. Many remember the drive
to pass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 when we flooded
Congress with the largest volume of mail in the HISTORY of Congress to protect
our access to dietary supplements, and to allow health claims to be made about
them, so I’m sure you must wonder why the health food stores aren’t telling you
to spring into action again. The reason why is that they belong to a trade
association (NNFA) which has actively pulled the wool over their eyes on this issue
by telling them what they want to hear (that it’s a non issue, and don’t worry,
“we’re handling it.”)



LED TO THE CLIFF FROM WITHIN


All of the vitamin trade associations worldwide are being controlled from the
top-down by pharmaceutical interests, including NNFA. The larger companies are
dominating the trade associations, and all they care about is grabbing increased
market share (even if this comes at the expense of consumers because they have
to water down what they’re allowed to sell.)

These companies take the view that they’re big enough to weather any storm, and
they don’t care what they’re allowed to sell, as long as they drive their
smaller competitors under in order to please investors.

Through a slick disinformation campaign, they’ve been conning their members
into believing that Codex “only threatens to impact our international sales, not
US (or Canadian) domestic law.”

They would have their member companies and health food stores totally ignore
the awful reality of globalization as is undeniably occurring via the effort to
ram CAFTA and the FTAA down our throats.

What they want is “approved once, approved everywhere” so that they don’t have
to manufacture different products to suit different countries regulatory
requirements. They want to have one product line with one set of labels that can be
sold in any country on earth (even if this severely limits what consumers are
allowed to buy.)

CRN (Council for Responsible Nutrition) is a vitamin trade association that has
numerous pharmaceutical members including Monsanto, Bayer, BASF, Pfizer, Wyeth,
and Cargill (among others). Numerous network marketing vitamin companies
including Mannatech, Shaklee, Herbalife, GNLD, and Nuskin are also members. How these
vitamin companies in CRN could not consider it to be a gross conflict of
interest that these multinational drug companies belong to their trade association is
almost beyond belief.

CRN would have its members believe that a great “victory” was won at Codex
because a move to base allowable potency levels at RDA’s was scrapped in favor of
(so called) “scientific risk assessment.” While this sounds great on the
surface, the devil is in the details. CRN members are being told that the “end point”
of this “risk assessment” are numbers called “safe upper levels” which don’t
look much different from currently allowable potency levels in the USA.

What they’re not telling us is that these “SULs” are only a STARTING POINT for
the full risk assessment, and once they subtract junk science derived “nutrient
risk factors”, and junk science derived numbers from some mythical “average
diet” they arrive at a set of numbers which in some cases are even LOWER than
RDAs. Only the German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment has done the full math
required in the fine print:
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

As you can see, Codex is moving in the direction of the following allowable
“Maximum Safe Permitted Levels” B-1: 1.3 mg, B-2: 4.5 mg, B-6: 5.4 mg, Vitamin E:
15 mg, B-3 (Niacin) 17 mg, Vitamin C: 250 mg. This is ALL we’ll be allowed to
have access to unless we DEFEND AMERICA by STOPPING CAFTA & FTAA.




WHAT HAPPENED IN THE UK WILL HAPPEN IN THE US…
UNLESS WE FIGHT BACK!!

In the UK, when over a million vitamin consumers signed petitions opposing the
harmonization of their liberal vitamin laws to a mindlessly restrictive EU Food
Supplement Directive, the ruling Labor Party told them to “get lost.” Their
attitude was that the UK is a member of the EU, and they were bound and determined
to harmonize to EU law REGARDLESS of what anyone wanted (!!!)

Currently a pitched battle is waging on the European health freedom front as
the Alliance for Natural Health http://www.alliance-natural-health.org awaits the
outcome of a lawsuit that could set things right for consumers in the EU if the
European Court of Justice’s decision goes their way in June.

Meanwhile, CODEX looms large…IN JULY… and what happens in the EU could
determine the future course of things at Codex which has an intentionally incremental
agenda that’s designed to be very challenging to stop because its being phased
in very gradually in the hope of not provoking a public backlash…



IAHF FIRST TO ALERT THE WORLD TO THIS THREAT IN 1996


I first called the Codex vitamin issue to global attention in 1996 via an
article in Life Extension Magazine. From the word go, the FDA and the pharma
dominated vitamin trade associations have been doing massive spin against my message,
and now, against the message of all of our allies in the hope of sneaking their
genocide agenda past sleeping people.

Sadly, unless far more people spring into action, they will succeed, but I am
optimistic that we CAN KILL CAFTA and FTAA and protect our access to dietary
supplements!!

PLEASE: Take the simple action called for in the attached INFO SHEET, and pass
it on!
For additional information please see the following article and call it to the
attention of your local health food stores along with this one:

WHO SAYS WHATEVER HAPPENS AT CODEX DOES NOT AFFECT US LAW AND WHY DO THEY SAY
IT? http://www.thelawloft.com/Freedom/050125_us_law.htm


CAFTA is in political trouble. It CAN be killed, and the FTAA along with it.
Killing CAFTA and the FTAA is the best way to stop US dietary supplement laws
from being harmonized to international Codex standards. We MUST kill CAFTA/FTAA to
protect the USA from being forced in to a global totalitarian state run by
collectivists who think they have the right to dictate what we can and cannot
ingest into OUR BODIES!!

Along with sending the form letter below, please also urge congressional
support for
H J Res 27 which would get us out of the WTO. Call your members of congress on
both issues via the US Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT & DONATE TO IAHF TO HELP WITH OUR LOBBYING EFFORT!!
---address below---



For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
[e-mail]
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World