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Action eAlert: Food Dictatorship Thanks to Codex, Harkin and McCain…

Monday, February 15th, 2010


Food Dictatorship, Courtesy of Codex, Harkin and McCain

What Do You Call 1.1 Million Emails
To Protect Our Supplements and Clean, Unadulterated Food?



A Good START!



QUICK! CLICK HERE NOW:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE GROWING ROAR OF FOOD FREEDOM!

Natural Solutions Foundation
Emergency Health Freedom Action eAlert
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4683

Tom Harkin’s fake “Food Safety” bill, S 510 and John McCain’s fake “Supplement Safety” bill S 3002 are dangerous to
your heath and deadly to your freedom!
 

How to stop them? Generate Huge Opposition and GROW it by dissemination! We are pleased to say that about 16 health freedom and consumer groups have followed our lead and taken up this battle.  That is wonderful. Our momentum and leadership are what you, and the other groups, rely on.  Our numbers are what the decision-makers respond to.

Take Action Now for Each Member of Your Family and Pass It On to Everyone You Know

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

 
This Valentine’s Day, You’ll be Saying “I Love You, Codex”
1,000 times Over If You Choose To Do Nothing

Join NSF’s NO GMO Forum,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/no-genetically-modified-foods/join

This is in response to an email bemoaning (quite correctly, as it happens) what is happening to the US and its food supply.  But rather than just bemoan it, I have a different take on the situation.

First, a true story:

Years ago, just after General Bert and I founded the Natural Solutions Foundation, I contacted the founder and president of the major glyconutrient MLM and told him that he would be put out of business if Codex was permitted to ratify the 2005 Vitamin and Mineral Guideline.  I knew that without support from the wellness industry as well as consumers, it would be ratified on July 4, 2005 at the Codex Alimentarius Commission, as, indeed, it was.

He told me, through his special assistant, that he was not worried because he had been promised that if he helped to bring in Codex into the US and Canada, his “reward” would be that his would be the only line of nutrients available in the EU.

I asked him what about the people who depended upon his products here, and firmly believed that they were the reason that cancer, autism, ADD and a host of other serious diseases and disorders were either gone or under control.
The answer?

“Business is Business!”

This man was also deeply involved with the MLM industry organization.

End of true story.

The writer of the post on the GMO forum said that she had been fighting this battle for a long time. I have been fighting this war for a long time, too.

It is clearly up to us, each one of us.  So here is my question to you all, each and every one of you: What are YOU doing to organize your community, to take the call for a total ban on GMOs and the fight against the McCain/Harkin bills, S 3002 and S 510, to your communities of interest?


Have you been out to your local farmers’ market, your health food stores armed with flyers and Action Item information and directions?

Have you sent emails with the action items out to every single person on your lists with a short note saying this is important to you and you believe it is important to them, too?

Have you written or called the supplement companies you are buying products from, asked if their materials are free of GMO sources, how do they know and, if not, what they are doing about replacing them so that they are free of them?

Have you asked your tea and coffee, snack and other food companies if their products are free of GMOs and, as above, how do they know and what are they doing to change that?

Have you stopped, absolutely stopped, buying prepared and prepackaged foods, totally, unless they say “Organic” (even then, there is a serious problem, but it is considerably better than other foods)?

Have you stopped buying anything but organic foods in all forms an, if there is an economic problem, made other compensatory changes (fewer chips, sodas, bottled water – fill a glass bottle with your own and take it with you)?

If not, inaction will cost us the battle.  Either each and every one of us is either a warrior or we are not.  Are you?

I know you are busy.  That is exactly what the other side is counting on.
I know you feel powerless. That, too, is exactly what they are counting on.
I know you feel over whelmed.  Guess what? They are counting on that, too.

We have the numbers IF we use them.

They have the dollars and they are absolutely using them.

So here is the battle plan:

Go here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608 and read this then take action here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

to stop the McCain and Harkin bills (S. 3002 and S. 501) that WILL repeal DSHEA and thus destroy our right to access supplements to bring us into HARMonization with Europe, where this has already happened and WILL totally industrialize the entire US food supply.

We’ve already generated 1.099,240 emails already but that’s just the beginning.  Let’s make it 10 times that many.  Remember to ask everyone to take the action once for each member of their household.

Next, go here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

, to ban ALL GMOs. We have only generated 39,883 emails on this Action Item.  That means that the people on this list and their friends may care, but not enough to act strongly. This is actually quite surprising, since polls repeatedly show that well over 80% of Americans do not want GMO foods in their cupboards, their foods or their bodies.  So it would seem reasonable that this list would be very close to 100% in its opposition to this type of adulterant in its food since freedom alone, and health aside, I cannot imagine anyone one who is a Natural Solutions Foundation supporter agreeing that secret, untested, dangerous and biosphere contaminating food should be forced upon to make us sick without our having any say in the matter.  We agree.  Act now.

Take these Actions and then disseminate these items asking everyone you know to take action and then disseminate it the same way.

If we are a nation of sheep and we do not know it, we are, I suppose, not to blame.

If we know what is happening and we act like sheep, then we are to blame.

Let’s take our collective awareness and spearhead the drive to own our own bodies and reclaim our freedom!

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation


Idiocy of the Decade: CDC announces ’57 Million People Have Swine Flu!’

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-swine-flu13-2010feb13,0,5302753.story

This is the most astonishing, and laughable incidence of propaganda puffery gone wild that I can remember in ages.  I sent this to a friend and here is what he wrote back to me.  Be sure to read the quote at the end of his letter to understand his intent:

<< Rima, GET REAL! 1.67 Swine Flu cases per person in the US is very logical. You need to stop trying to think things through and do what you are told! Who do you think you are trying to second guess The Los Angeles Times? Why they are one of the most credible sources and you know it.

<< By questioning my known, reliable sources, you are taking away my comfort zone and I don’t appreciate it. Please stop it and start conforming, go with the flow and start doing what you are told for once, will you? Please!

<< It is people like you that will make it necessary to censor the web so we can go back to only having credible TV and newspaper media sources again. 

<< Please stop it before I report you !!!!!!!

Your friend,

[Name withheld by request]

~ “It really almost makes you ask the question would it have been better if we had never invented the internet…” ~ Jay Rockefeller 2009   >>

[With the likes of Rockefeller and Gore claiming to have ‘invented’ the Internet, I guess we now know where those geek engineers got the idea… NOT!- REL]

Obviously,  my friend wrote a tongue in cheek missive to point out what the MMD, Media of Mass Deception, is trying to impose on us.

But ask yourself for a moment, in the face of the lies and deceit you are being fed daily, what time, effort and other resources have you commtted TODAY to changing this dangerous march to suppression and oppression.

If the answer is, “None”, you need to reassess your priorities.  If the answer is, “Some, but not enough”, you are on the way to making a better decision.  If the answer is, “Here I am, ready to do more – I have already taken all the Action Steps for each member of my family and have sent out the Health Freedom Action eAlert to everyone I can reach, what can I do next?”, you are a Health Freedom Hero.

Thank you for your activism.  This is everyone’s fight and that means that everyone needs to put their shoulder to the wheel.  Of course, part of that shoulder-to-the-wheel-ism is helping make financial resources possible.

Managing Resources is a Serious Matter For Any Army

Have you set up your recurring tax exempt donation yet?  If so, thanks!  You are one of about 4% of our supporters who make donations.  Of course, that is hardly fair.  We are fighting this battle for everyone, not just the 4% of our supporters who donate. If everyone made large or small donations on a regular basis, we would have the resources we need and would not have to ask you for money again!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

Why do we need resources?  Well, there is the vitally important Stop the Shot litigation through which we intend to STOP all influenza AND H1N1 vaccine use since they are deeply illegal under the existing laws and regulations of the Untied States.  If your donation end in the number “6”, the funds will be earmarked for our legal activities.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189


Then there is Codex, the New Food Order, the destroyer of clean food, nutrition and nutrients.  On may 3-7, 2010, Codex will hold its annual Codex Committee on Food Labeling, a vitally important meeting, in Canada.

If you want us there, now is the time to start making donations, because that is the ONLY way we are going to get there. You know that there are at least 3 Codex meetings this year that you want us to attend for you.  Instead of a last minute emergency, let’s start accumulating the money to go to them – that way, we can plan on attending them, spend the necessary time doing the preparatory research, buy our tickets early to get better prices, make arrangements to meet national delegates for meetings, etc.

If you want daily video reports on what Codex is up to like this one,

http://www.youtube.com/naturalsolutions#p/u/4/Hyo_VjJSVFo

then it’s up to our dedicated Health Freedom Mouse Warriors to make sure that we have the money to get there.

The Natural Solutions Foundation is working for your health and your health freedom in the most creative, diverse and effective ways, which is why it is the largest health freedom organization in the world.

But, not surprisingly, it needs resources to run: human resources, energetic resources and financial resources.  We are the Health Freedom team, you and the Natural Solutions Foundation.  And we ARE playing a good game of defense.  The more resources we have, the better our game of offense gets!
 

Aspartame: How Sweet It Isn’t!

By the way, did you know that Ajinimoto, a major manufacturer of aspartame (owned by Monsanto, of course) has changed its name to “AminoSweet”.  Isn’t that comforting, comfortable and contemptible?

And did you also know that since fully 75% of all complaints filed with the FDA’s Adverse Reaction Monitoring System in 1995 were aspartame related, the FDA ceased accepting aspartame related complaints in response? 
http://www.foodbev.com/news/ajinomoto-brands-aspartame-aminosweet

More Ways To Serve You: Natural Solutions Foundation Launches New Website

Did you know that the Natural Solutions Foundation has a new website?  Take a look at www.DrRima.net where you will find all of my latest recommendations.You already know that every time you purchase something from www.ValleryoftheMoonCoffee.org

www.ewater.com/nsf

www.nsfcoffeedeal.com

www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

www.organics4U.org

www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org

or any of our MLM sites you are supporting the vigor of the Natural Solutions Foundation AND getting outstanding products for yourself.

“Dr. Rima Recommends” has become such a popular part of our Health Freedom Action eAlert that we decided to give you more of my recommendations and more in-depth information. The site is already up, and it will be growing rapidly to make more of my recommendations, based on 40 years of medical and psychiatric practice without drugs.

You know, from a wellness industry point of view, we live in a fascinating time: the illness care industry wants to kill our wellness care products, which includes healthy food, of course,  because they are so effective.  Being effective, they are the logical and most significant economic



competitors to drugs, vaccines and other substances of ineffective, but highly profitable permanent marketing strategies.

Why do I say that drugs/vaccines nothing more than permanent marketing strategies? Simple: they weaken your immune system, do organ damage and make you sick so you have to take more meds and more vaccines and more and more and more. From my perspective as a drug free physician and psychiatrist, I can see absolutely no place, whatsoever, none!, for drugs in any part of medicine but emergency rooms and operation rooms.  But think of the reaction of Big Pharma to that reality. Codex is part of it, the lap-dog, stunningly corrupt FDA and all the Direct to Consumer advertising they permit is part of it, the vicious attacks on good health care practitioners who do not use drugs are part of it. The Mc Cain and Harkin bills are part of it.  GMO “food” is, too.
 
That IS all part of the marketing model.

And, remember, that the agricultural chemicals and GMOs that make you sick are made by drug companies.  This is no accident.

So our strategy is really, really simple:

1. Get the truth out on the internet that Sen. Jay Rockefeller regrets our ever having gotten hold of and on radio and by every other means of which we can think

2. Formulate effective strategies and them implement them through effective tactics (that is where you come in!)

3. Garner the assets, including activists, domestic and international friends to what we are doing, finances and keep doing it better and better and better.

4. Repeat steps 1, 2 and 3 over and over and over.


We need and appreciate your activism! Email me at drlaibow@gmail.com

with ORGANIZER’S HANDBOOK in the subject line and we’ll send you our organizing ebook, so you can “think globally and act locally…” Spread these Health Freedom Action eAlerts and help make the message “go viral!”

And Here are Important Dr Rima Recommends Messages

We’ve started to develop a new network, just to bring you the best of Dr Rima Recommends, www.DrRima.net – we’ll feature various outstanding items from our

www.Organics4U.org and

www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org pages, too.

Remember, the EPA and FDA are, in a separate action, trying to take nano and colloidal silver off the market, just as the European Food Supplements Directive has succeeded in doing there as of January 1, 2010.  Silver is an illegal substance in Europe.

Why? Because silver is the universal antibiotic and would destroy a vast pharmaceutical market if enough people knew about it. After investigation, I personally recommend the nano silver available at

www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions, Silver Biotics.

I would start laying in a supply now.  Although the product carries an “expiration date”, there is no evidence of which I am aware to suggest that Silver Biotics has a significantly limited shelf life.

Cognitive Enhancement?
It’s Mind Control, Alright, You Controlling Your Own Mind!

General Bert and I continue experiencing extraordinary results with our Cognitive Enhancement Pack (me) and Senior Cognitive Enhancement Pack (Gen. Bert) which are literally astonishing.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4558 or www.DrRi

I know supplementation and neurological enhancement very, very well. I have never seen (or experienced) anything like this. You know how busy we are; how much we rely on our ability to multitask and react quickly to challenges…

The name says it all: COGNITIVE. ENHANCEMENT.

That’s the story, in two words.

Here are the other two words to the story: Try Them!

Dr. Rima’s Cognitive Enhancement Packs:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4558

Or visit our new Dr Rima Recommends Network link,

www.DrRima.net

Support your health and your health freedom with Valley of the Moon Coffee,

http://nsfcoffeedeal.com or

http://www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org


The Dr. Rima Reports: Your Health, Your Way

March 17, 2010 FDA rampage against natural health care continues.  Join us for a frank 2 hour discussion with Jim Fulsom, who has been temporarily released from a Federal Prison.  As a Rife researcher and writer, his pending surrender in April for a 4 year sentence for selling Rife devices to people who wanted to buy them, Jim will discuss Rife technology, Federal trials and the appeal he is pursuing to show that Rife technology is grandfathered and not subject to FDA restrictions. 

TUNE IN Every Week! Wednesday 8-10 PM Eastern at www.TheFreedomLink.org

Check out our Dr. Rima Reports Archives, http://www.thefreedomlink.org/Dr_Rima_Reports.php,

Paul G. King, PhD: Think vaccine schedules are just for children? Think again! http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4626763

Sarah Schons, MD: European Health Fascism Heading to the US

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4197979

Justin Plumlee: Health Freedom – Does It Include Medical Marijuana?

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4116404

Fred van Liew: Health Freedom and Health Freedom Foes http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3793748

www.TheFreedomLink.org Archives: Click on “The Dr. Rima Reports”

The Dr. Rima Reports brings you information on the issues we must respond to, battles we must win, victories we must achieve.

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow MD
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedomUSA.org
Food Freedom eJournal
www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org
International Decade of Nutrition
www.InternationalDecadeofNutrition.org
Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
Valley of the Moon Coffee

www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
Virtual Malls Supporting Health Freedom

www.DrRima.net

www.Organics4U.org

www.NaturalSolutionsMarketplace.org

PS – If you haven’t received them, here are the permalinks to some of the last couple eBlasts.
We always archive our Action eAlerts on the Health Freedom Blog at

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

eBlasts Being Blocked; McCain Bill Attacks DSHEA!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4615

Can’t Lose for Winning if we PUSH BACK!

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4595

War Council: from Push Back to Take Down

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4548

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Vacccine Files: Why Poison Our Kids? 75% of Those Fully Mumps Vaccinated Get the Disease!

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation The Voice of Global Health Freedom (TM)
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Make your tax deductible donation here http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 Please give generously now.

URGENT ACTION ITEM TO PROTECT ACCESS TO SUPPLEMENTS, CLEAN FOOD:
1. Protect access to supplements and clean food
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714. You can read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608
2. Ban All GMOs Now http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

Vaccines are a magnificently financed, well-crafted fraud. They do not work. They are dangerous. There has NEVER been a single placebo-controlled, double blind standard to show whether vaccines do or do not protect against disease.

Kids vaccinated with seasonal influenza shots have three times the hospital admissions for all reasons. Asthma incidence and prevalence has gone up at the same rate as increases in pediatric vaccine schedule. Autism has followed the same curve. Infant mortality has, too, so that it is safer to be pregnant and give birth – for both mother and baby, in Bosnia than it is in the US where vaccines are ubiquitous.

People are getting wise and are becoming resistant to the lie that vaccines are safe or effective or, worse, both. They stayed away in droves from the H1N1 vaccine and, guess what? They did not die. Since the lab tests for H1N1 virus are wrong 90% of the time, and since nobody is doing those lab tests anymore, it is not clear that a single person has ever died from that genetically engineered, highly profitable virus.

It is clear, however, that no antibody produced by the body in response to a vaccine have ever been shown to protect the vaccinated person against the disease.

Vaccine programs create outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics.

Read the article following to see how it works and note carefully that 75% of the victims of mumps had been vaccinated either once or twice, considered full immunization by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5851a6.htm?s_cid=mm5851a6_e.

And be sure to read my Open Letter to Forbes Magazine’s absurd advice to “Just Get Vaccinated“, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4568.

IF vaccines worked, perhaps the risk might be justified. When you clear away all the propaganda, though, the ultimate fact comes through: toxic and dangerous at all ages (seen the new ACIP schedule for adults yet? Click here: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5901-Immunization.pdf): the more vaccinations, the more toxic.
How many diseases are we willing to accept for a fraudulent procedure?
How many children are we willing to loose to it?
How many dollars are we willing to surrender to it when it simply turns us into life long ATMs for Big Pharma?
How many lies are we willing to look past because they are the social norm and truth challenges the astoundingly well-financed system of lies and deceit?
How many micrograms of aluminum, mercury (which literally changes not only our immune systems and brains, but our very DNA as well!), formaldehyde, leukemia viruses, antifreeze, infertility substances, fetal tissue, and other injected poisonous substances are we willing to offer ourselves and our children up for?

The Natural Solutions Foundation has initiated the Stop the Shot Federal Law Suit as our second round in legal assaults on this immoral poisoning of us all. Please support us in this health freedom battle for our very sustainability. If your tax deductible donation ends in the number “6”, your donation will automatically be earmarked for our legal fund.
Click here now to set up a recurring donation of any size: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

Oh, by the way, just a few days ago the New York State Legislature abandoned a vote on legislation which would have given the state permission to prevent or treat, including the use of vaccines, any sexually transmitted disease or anything related to one (which could be twisted into anything at all) WITHOUT PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL.
The uproar was so deafening that, once again, Push Back became Take Down and the vote was canceled. God job, New York State. You were an inspiration to the rest of us.

Oh, yes, one more thing: herd immunity is absurd. IF vaccines worked, they would provide individual immunity, and the herd would be totally irrelevant. More tobacco science. But, hey, what can you expect? It’s Big Pharma, the Mother of Lies!

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedomUSA.org

Food Freedom eJournal – www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org

International Decade of Nutrition – www.InternationalDecadeofNutrition.org

Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org

Valley of the Moon Coffee – www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org

Virtual Malls Supporting Health Freedom
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org

Vaccine Not Fail-Safe in Ongoing Mumps Outbreak
CDC says more than 1,500 cases have been reported in New York, New Jersey
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) — In a recent mumps outbreak occurring in the eastern United States, even some of those who were vaccinated against the infectious illness got sick, health officials report.

A study released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked an ongoing outbreak of mumps, largely confined to an orthodox Hasidic Jewish group. The outbreak started among boys attending a religious summer camp in New York State and continued when the youngsters returned to their homes in New York and New Jersey. Currently some 1,521 cases have been reported, with more individuals coming down with the disease.

The mumps virus can cause swelling and pain in the salivary glands, giving people so-called “chipmunk cheeks,” as well as fever, headache, sore throat and pain when swallowing. Other symptoms include loss of appetite, vomiting and tired, achy muscles.

Symptoms can last for up to 10 days, and the disease can be spread one to two days before symptoms start and for up to nine days after symptoms appear. It can take up to 25 days after exposure to mumps before symptoms appear.

Mumps is a self-limiting disease with no specific treatment. It is best treated with bed rest and over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen to reduce fever, according to the CDC.

“The outbreak has been ongoing since the end of June,” said study co-author and CDC epidemiologist Kathleen Gallagher. “Ninety-seven percent of cases are among this Jewish community.”

The outbreak has probably been confined to this group because they have less contact with the wider community, Gallagher noted.

She said the outbreak started in a summer boy’s camp. “The original [patient] case had traveled to Great Britain, where they are having, and have been having, an ongoing outbreak of mumps for a while now,” she said.

The report is published in the Feb. 12 edition of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Although the outbreak started among boys and remains mostly among them, the disease has spread to some adults and girls, Gallagher said. The concentration of the outbreak among boys is largely due to the separation of these boys and girls in school and other social and religious activities.

Most of the people who have become sick had received the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine (MMR), according to the report. In fact, 88 percent had received at least one dose of the vaccine and 75 percent had received two doses.

However, the vaccine is not 100 percent effective, the CDC team noted. Studies have found one dose 73 percent to 91 percent effective, while the effectiveness of two doses ranged from 79 percent to 95 percent, according to the report.

“That means if you were to expose 100 people to mumps, 10 of them might still come down with the disease,” Gallagher said. In this outbreak, these percentages are holding, she added.

Although the vaccine doesn’t protect everyone, it does work for most people and effectively prevents outbreaks from becoming worse. “We think that if we didn’t have such high levels of MMR coverage, we would have even more spread,” Gallagher said.

Outbreaks of mumps are not all that unusual, Gallagher said.

“We have had outbreaks of mumps in communities that have had two doses before,” she said. In 2006, there was a large outbreak of mumps among college students in the Midwest, she noted.

And mumps remains prevalent in other areas of the world.

“While we are well-vaccinated against mumps in the United States, many countries throughout the world don’t vaccinate at all against mumps,” she said. “There is a lot of mumps circulating globally. This means that anytime there is a potential for importation like happened with this summer camp, there is potential for mumps to be introduced even into a highly vaccinated population.”

More information

For more information on mumps, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

SOURCES: Kathleen Gallagher, D.Sc, M.P.H., epidemiologist, Division of Viral Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Feb. 12, 2010, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/635955.html

Safe Food on the Chopping Block: Meat and Poultry Additives

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation The Voice of Global Health Freedom (TM)
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Make your tax deductible donation here http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 Please give generously now.

URGENT ACTION ITEM TO PROTECT ACCESS TO SUPPLEMENTS, CLEAN FOOD:
1. Protect access to supplements and clean food
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714. You can read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608
2. Ban All GMOs Now http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

Food additives are regulated by the FDA and USDA. These two organizations have the power to make sure you food is clean, wholesome, accurately labeled and free of both filth and contaminants. But, tragically for freedom, food and your health, they do not.

Instead, they bow to industry pressure to lower standards, hide contaminants and toxins, thus increasing the dangers of foods to consumers, the unimaginable horrors of food production at every step along the way, agricultural labor, factory food operations, slaughter, harvest, processing, and, finally, the horror of what that food does to you and your loved ones: the preventable, needless and tragic diseases that cost us our lives, our health and, ultimately, our freedom to make other choices.
Even organic standards are degraded both by the USDA and Codex (which are, in many ways, one and the same) to the point where they are becoming meaningless, with virtually unlimited GMO contamination permitted in the US, more chemicals permitted in the production of organic vegetables, fruits and animal products and a softening of procedural safeguards and product restrictions in those standards – all unlabeled, of course!

And deeply embedded in this slavish subjugation of real regulation and protection, corruption and callous disregard of our health and that of our planet, is Codex Alimentarius, http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp, the United Nations Commission which sets up standards and guidelines covering every single bite or drink of food, every nutrient, every swallow of everything that can legally go in your mouth except drugs.
And who runs Codex? Basically, the US, in cahoots with the EU, decides what they want and then bulls it through the process to ratification by the annual Codex Alimentarius Commission.

The Natural Solutions Foundation attends some of the huge numbers of Codex meetings each year (there is one just about every week somewhere in the world) and what we see is that the US is serving its lethal constituency, the Bigs: Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Biotech, Bic Chema and Big Medica. Of course, we undersand that the same companies which make the agricultural chemicals and additives are also the drug companies. They are also the industrialized agriculture companies.

Just as Big Pharma is working very hard to drive natural medicine out of existence since that is its primary competitor, so it and its sister industries, its sister Bigs, are working just as hard to take over all food production all over the world. After all, healthy people mean sickly profits for an industry that makes money only when you are sick, healthy profits mean sick people. And healthy food means slickly profits for the chemical, irradiation and GMO companies, all tightly tied to Big Pharma.

‘Whoever controls food controls the world’, Henry Kissinger told President Nixon in 1974 when he authored his then-secret National Security Memorandum 200. That same document stated what the World Health Organization would state at around the same time: that it was ‘necessary’ to hold depopulation as the primary goal of US foreign policy, “starting with the third world”. That is the reason that WHO gives for creating, and continuing to deploy

And that is precisely what Codex is: an extension of the US foregin policy of depopulation, with a huge dollop of greed and immoral deception thrown in for good measure. It is, in fact, nothing short of a globalist conspiracy, at the top levels, using food to contaminate our food supply and eliminate the “useless eaters” of the world, those who are consuming the non-renewable resources which the elite believe they own by some sort of diving right of Illuminati kings. If you want more information on this aspect of Codex, and I recommend that you do, please spend 40 minutes or so watching “Nutricide“, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634# . I do not think you will look at Codex again, or the US involvement with it, the same way again.

Ah, you say, not in the US. Our food is clean and industries are held accountable for what they put in our food, do to our food, allow to happen to our food. That depopulation stuff is just for the third world, isn’t it?

Dream on. The very industries which FDA, EPA and USDA were created to curb, control and corral have become the owners, though intense corruption and vastly deep pockets, the dictators of the limp regulations which do not curb them, control them, nor protect anything but their interests, public be sickened and be dammed. Our food supply is horrifyingly degraded, minus accurate labeling.

How degraded? Take a look at the article following this article and realize that you are looking at Codex on the hoof, that, with a few minor differences, the contamination and adulteration described here, making you sick with illnesses of supposedly unknown origins like cancer, heart disease, MS, MD, arthritis, diabetes, auto immune disease, chemical sensitivity, birth defects, autism, infertility, psychiatric illnesses and on and on and on are also Codex on the hoof.

Wrap you mind around the reality that clean food is not easy for mega industries to produce, so it is not profitable. What is not profitable is not produced and, if someone else, for example, small farmers, produce it, they will be driven out of business.

With the help of the US Congress. The House of Representatives has passed legislation which, if passed by the Senate, will criminalize the production and sale of clean healthy foods. Senator Harkin’s bogus Food “Safety” Bill, S. 510, will give the entire food supply to Big Agribiz with no checks, balances or redress AND give vast amounts of power to the FDA, which Rep. Dr. Ron Paul says is already abusing its power to our detriment. We agree with Dr. Paul. Giving more power to what is arguably the most corrupt organization in the developed world is not a reasonable action.

Worse yet, our contaminated food requires an increased supply of nutrients but Senator John McCain has introduced another bogus Food “Safety” bill, S. 3002, which will destroy the legal basis for your access to the nutrients that over 90% of the US Population chooses to use to maintain or regain health.

The Natural Solutions Foundation knows that these bills are intended to destroy access to clean, unadulterated food, a prime requisite for health and freedom. We know that the high likelihood is that these two dangerous and anti-health, anti-freedom bills will be merged into a single omnibus piece of death-dealing legislation which will literally criminalize the production, sale or consumption of clean food and nutrients.

Please take a moment to take this Action Item once for each member of your family and then send it on to everyone you can reach asking them to do the same: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714. You can read more here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608

Please note that the contamination, irradiation, adulteration, chemicals permitted (including sprays of fluoride produced by Dow Chemical Company at 3300 ppm on your food to prevent it from getting moldy, for example), are just as much a problem as the meet additives listed below.

From where I sit, every single decision made by Codex, which really means made by the US Government on behalf of the multinational corporations, is a decision to degrade your health, curtail your freedom, mandate under nutrition and then use your suffering to ruthlessly control you and yours by eliminating all options for health choice and natural health options. Unless and until we take control of our health, our freedom and our food, things will just get worse.

This is a war that we cannot afford to lose. If you are not already a member of the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Health Freedom Action eAlert, go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org or www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org and sign up now. If you are not growing your own food in tiny spaces yet, go to www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org and start learning how to do that either by yourself or with friends and neighbors. And if you want to know more about the Foundation’s pilot project in Panama to reclaim the production of food, and how you can be a part of that project, go to www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org.

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedomUSA.org

Food Freedom eJournal – www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org

International Decade of Nutrition – www.InternationalDecadeofNutrition.org

Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project – www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org

Valley of the Moon Coffee – www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org

Virtual Malls Supporting Health Freedom
www.Organics4U.org
www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org

Food is List of Additives Allowed in Meat & Poultry (Yum!)

Want to know what’s in your meat and/or poultry? The government’s got a new 40-page PDF document, http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oppde/rdad/FSISDirectives/7120.1Rev1.pdf, with a complete list of allowed additives. And, to help you decipher the list, they also provide a Glossary of Commonly Used Meat and Poultry Additives and Terms, http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Additives_in_Meat_&_Poultry_Products/index.asp.

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find in meat & poultry. By the way, many of these chemicals do not need to be labeled on the products you purchase. Honestly, some of these things might be harmless. Even water can sound like a dangerous chemical if you refer to it as dihydrogen oxide. But the sheer length of this list as well as the fact that consumers are in the dark about most of them makes me very glad that I’m a vegetarian and that what little meat I’ve eaten in the past several years came directly from farmers I know.

Acidifiers: Ammonium hydroxide, an aqueous solution of acidic calcium sulfate, an aqueous solution of hydrochloric and acetic acid, an aqueous solution of citric and hydrochloric acid, an aqueous solution of citric acid, hydrochloric acid, and phosphoric acid, an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid, citric acid, and phosphoric acid, sodium bisulfate, and sulfuric acid.

Anticoagulants: Sodium tripolyphosphate

Antimicrobials: An aqueous solution of sodium diacetate (4%), lactic acid, (4%), pectin (2%), and acetic acid (0.5%); an aqueous solution of sodium octanoate or octanoic acid and either glycerin and/or propylene glycol and/or a Polysorbate surface active agent (quantity sufficient to achieve the technical effect of octanoic acid emulsification) adjusted to a final solution pH of 1.5 to 4.0 using sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, or an acceptable GRAS [generally regarded as safe] acid;… (the list goes on for many pages and includes such gems as anhydrous ammonia and chlorine gas)

Antioxidants: BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene)

Binders: A mix of sodium alginate, calcium sulfate, glucono deltalactone, and sodium pyrophosphate; a mixture of carrageenan, whey, protein concentrate, and xantham gum; beef collagen; binders listed in 9 CFR 424.21(c) for use in cured pork products and poultry products; carboxymethyl cellulose (cellulose gum); carrot fiber; cellulose, powdered conforming to the specifications in the Food Chemicals Codex 5th Edition; guar powder, micronized; hydroxypropyl methylcellulose; inulin; konjac flour; methylcellulose; oat hull fiber; oat fiber; orange pulp, dried; orange pulp, dried and orange pulp, dried with guar gum; partially hydrolyzed proteins; pectin; pork collagen; pork skin proteins; rice bran; rice starch; sodium alginate; “(species) protein” (e.g., chicken protein); transgultaminase enzyme; trehalose, xantham gum (purified by recovery with ethyl alcohol)

Colorings: Carmine (cochineal)

Curing Accelerators (must be used only in combination with curing agents): Potassium erythorbate

Denuding agents (may be used in combination. Must be removed from tripe by rinsing with potable water.): Calcium carbonate, calcium citrate, calcium hydroxide, potassium carbonate, potassium citrate, potassium hydroxide, tricalcium phosphate, tropotassium phosphate

That’s just the first 24 pages or so. The list goes on with film forming agents, flavoring agents, “Miscellaneous,” packaging systems, poultry scald agents, and tenderizing agents. Yum!
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Action eAlert – ACT NOW! Food Bills to Kill Supplements

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010




McCain attack on nutrients raises furor! Help us to victory!

Natural Solutions Foundation
Emergency Health Freedom Action eAlert
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Permalink: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4642

NEWS FLASH: 02/09/10 – NYS Withdraws Bill Allowing Secret Kid Vaccinations Without Parental Knowledge or Consent – Bill No. S04779 was slated for vote today, but the Push Back uproar was so loud that no vote was held and the bill was withdrawn from consideration.

MESSAGES FROM GEN. BERT & DR. RIMA —

Thanks to all the Mouse Warriors who pushed back this atrocity. But remember, this idea, promulgated in a recent Rand Corporation contract report for Big Pharma, WILL be back again. And we’ll be ready, again!

URGENT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR HEALTH AND FREEDOM

Take Supplements or Herbs? Not For Long if McCain Has His Way!

McCain Bill S 3002 to Kill Supplement Access Generates Huge Opposition!

Take Action Now for Each Member of Your Family and Pass It On to Everyone You Know
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

There’s a deeply welcomed Internet furor building over Senator John McCain’s new bill to restrict dietary supplements while giving the FDA MORE power to abuse. And, as always, Natural Solutions Foundation is at the head of the Health Freedom Parade: – our Action Item has been posted on the main pages of web sites such as www.CampaignforLiberty.com and www.GaryNull.com! There are other Action Items following our lead by at least half a dozen organizations. That’s all to the good. Take them, too!

The trustees of Natural Solutions Foundation, http://www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, have been warning for years that federal government power brokers have a plan to force Americans to give up their health freedoms and submit to centralized, internationalized restrictions on what we can choose to nourish our health and that of our families. It is, after all, the same plan being used to destroy the dollar and our other freedoms. GMOs are part of the problem as are dangerous vaccines, but right now the immediate threat lies in two companion phony “food safety” bills in the US Senate.

WE Dare Call It “Conspiracy”!

If you’ve been following health freedom in recent years you’ve seen some of the extraordinary reports by our own Dr Rima from the international Codex Alimentarius (World Food Code) meetings where attacks on health and freedom are often launched. Five years ago she warned about “Nutricide” – the intentional destruction of the body of knowledge about nutrition and health and the equally intentional deaths of large numbers of people through food manipulation.

Well over a half million people have seen that presentation. In that video she warned that the plan was for Codex controls to be implemented by the end of the first decade of the new millennium. Mandated under nutrition was to be instituted through Codex and billions would die of what WHO and FAO call the “preventable, non-communicable epidemic diseases of under nutrition: cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke diabetes and obesity”. This past November you saw Dr Rima expose the genocidally low “daily reference values” Codex wants to impose on nutrients. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P30Itrfhn8oThe Theater of the Absurd.

While your “Push Back” last year stalled Sen Durkin’s disastrous “Food Safety” [sic] bill, S 510, that would have led to the suppression of family farms and ranches, natural agriculture, community gardens and the like, there is an effort being made by the usual power brokers (e.g., Big Pharma’s lackeys in both parties in the US Senate) to move their agenda forward by introducing yet another bogus “food safety” bill, this time S 3002, the “Dietary Supplement Safety [sic] Act” (DSSA) which would mandate the most important part of the Codex nutrient control system, the “approved ingredient list” for the US AND give the already bloated and deadly FDA power to take ANY nutrients off the market reneging on existing legislative protection for them.

This would be, in fact, exactly like the system imposed over the past few years in Europe, resulting in the complete loss of many nutrients (vitamins, herbs, minerals and amino acids) and, for those that remain, tremendous reductions in potency. NutraIngredients.com, a leading wellness industry site, reports that the European Food Safety Agency has rejected 80% of the “dossiers” seeking ingredient approval. Eighty percent of our nutrients could be taken off the market too!

We know for sure that high doses of fluoride will be permitted, but real nutrients are to be reduced, as they are in Europe, to totally ineffective levels. What’s left? Pharmaceuticals. Period.

That’s what Americans face – for sure- if the disastrous McCain bill is adopted.

We predict that something even worse is actually intended to take place: McCain’s bill will be merged with the companion Harkin “safety bill” S 510 and both our foods AND our supplements will become subject to more political power for the FDA to abuse. This is, you will recall, the same FDA that regularly approves drugs which prove so deadly that, within just a few years, half of them are quietly removed from the market. The same FDA which whitewashes mercury in vaccines, protected vaccine manufacturers from all liability, allows profound personal conflict of interest in the regulators who approve drugs and vaccines, refuses to allow GMO labeling….

Need we go on? This is one of the most dangerous and corrupt agencies in the US, and these bills would give it enough power to destroy what remains of either health or freedom, all at the behest of companies like Monsanto, Merck and their malignant ilk.

McCain introduced the bill last Thursday. The next day, the Natural Solutions Foundation sent an emergency Health Freedom Action eAlert to the www.HealthFreedomUSA.org list. We were, as far as we know, the first health freedom group to take action on this disastrous proposal by Senator McCain, who would seem to be securing his retirement pay with Big Pharma.

You’ve responded as we knew you would, riding your Freedom Mouse, generating over 75,000 emails to the Senate and President, since Friday night, saying “NO!” to the fake “safety” bills. We’ve seen clear evidence on the Internet that this issue is “going viral!” This means people are sending this information to all their social, personal, business and other contacts, beginning the process of generating an avalanche of public sentiment against the restrictions these bills would impose. Thank you. Please keep doing so. The issue is by no means dead and our continued action is urgent.

Take this Action Item Once For Each Member of Your family:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Please email it to your contact list and ask them to do the same. Paste the link above into your email to your list.

Read More About

The McCain bill, S 3002: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4608

The “Food Safety” bill, S 510: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4014

DISSING Health Freedom

With the McCain bill’s apt acronym, DSSA (“DISS-sa”) we see the agenda playing out to our detriment, unless we take every step possible to stop this gambit to force through fake food and supplement “safety” bills. If they pass, the only thing safe will be Big Pharma and Big Agribiz, Big Biotech, Big Chema and Big Medica profits.

Learning from Europe’s Health Freedom Loss

Why is an “approved list” so bad? Here is what our own Counsel Ralph Fucetola has to say about this threat to our health choices, “The “Accepted Dietary Ingredient List” is especially troubling since such a code provision moves us away from our Common Law Right to access the foods we choose to a Civil Law (that is, Codex Alimentarius) regulation of what we may choose. Under the Common Law what is not explicitly forbidden is allowed; under the Code (“Civil Law”), whatever is not permitted is forbidden. This “lawyer’s distinction” is of the greatest significance in preserving our Liberty.” Only those things on the list will be permitted. The list is very, very short and the doses are very, very low.

A spokesperson for the Life Extension Foundation wrote about another aspect of the loss of health freedom which this bill assures, the vibrant nutrient marketplace: “If it were not for the technological advances made possible by private enterprise, the adverse effects of governmental ineptitude would have rendered this nation insolvent decades ago. Said differently, if it were not for the increases in productivity and reductions in costs made possible by free enterprise, government waste and fraud would have already destroyed us. “

So it is very simple: take the Action Item –

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Please take action once for each person in your family and enlist all your contacts to do likewise. What happens if you don’t? The US will be “HARMonized” with the disastrous European Food Supplements Directive, under which, for example, colloidal and nano silver were taken off the market on January 1, 2010, homeopathic remedies are increasingly illegal to purchase in Germany, nutrients are less and less available and Europeans’ freedom to chose natural, safe, effective treatments have been virtually destroyed.

We need to protect Health Freedom in America and take back Health Freedom in Europe!

It’s time to turn PUSH BACK into TAKE DOWN!

Yours for Global Health and Freedom,

General Bert
Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)
President

Natural Solutions Foundation.

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Remember, the EPA and FDA are, in a separate action, trying to take nano and colloidal silver off the market, just as the European Food Supplements Directive has succeeded in doing there.

Why? Because silver is the universal antibiotic and would destroy a vast pharmaceutical market if enough people knew about it. After investigation, I personally recommend the nano silver available at www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions, Silver Biotics.

I would start laying in a supply now.  Although the product carries an “expiration date”, there is no evidence of which I am aware to suggest that Silver Biotics has a significantly limited shelf life.

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I know supplementation and neurological enhancement very, very well. I have never seen (or experienced) anything like this. You know how busy we are; how much we rely on our ability to multitask and react quickly to challenges…

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These are emergencies we must respond to, battles we must win, victories we must achieve.

Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima
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PS – If you haven’t received them, here are the permalinks to some of the last couple eBlasts.
We always archive our Action eAlerts on the Health Freedom Blog at
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

eBlasts Being Blocked; McCain Bill Attacks DSHEA!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4615

Can’t Lose for Winning if we PUSH BACK!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4595

War Council: from Push Back to Take Down!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4548

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Fake “Safety” Bills – Clear and Present Threat to Health Freedom

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Natural Solutions Foundation
The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

07.04.10 – UPDATED Action Item Educate the Senate on the Fake “Food Safety” Bills:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

Update: 04/13/10 – “Food Safety” Bill updated to “protect” Dietary Supplements… we’re NOT satisfied! See: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5144 for details.
Update: 04/01/10 – Will the “Food Safety” Bill be amended to include restrictions on Dietary Supplements? Or, will your voices be heard and the bill amended to protect local, natural food production? TAKE THE ACTION ITEM ABOVE.
Update: 03/08/10 – NutraIngredients confirms S.3002 is dead.
Update: 03/05/10 – Rumor from DC: Sen McCain told Sen Hatch he will withdraw bill!*
Update: 02/15/10 – Action eAlert – Food Dictatorship Thanks to Codex, Harkin and McCain… http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4683
Update: 02/09/10 – Action eAlert – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4642
Update: 02/05/10 – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4615#2
Update: 02/04/10 – “DSSA” Filed as Senate Bill S 3002. Follow it at: http://www.thomas.gov and search for that bill number.

* 03/05/10 – Update: Latest rumor from DC: McCain to withdraw his support for the so-called Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (DSSA – S.3002). Says one email rumor that claims to have insider info:

“Hundreds of thousands of messages* poured into the Senate opposing Senator
McCain’s bill, the bill that would have wiped out current legislative
protections for dietary supplements. More and more messages were arriving by
the day. The entire Congress began to take note. …
Word is now racing around Capitol Hill that Senator McCain met with Senator
Orin Hatch, a champion of natural medicine, and told him that he is
withdrawing his support for the bill he authored, the so-called Dietary
Supplement Safety Act (S 3002). This means that the bill as written is now
dead….”

* Actually, we tally 390,000 emails generated through the Health Freedom Action eAlert system since McCain offered the bill on February 4th. Previously we had generated just about one million emails opposing the McCain bill’s “more evil twin”– the fake food “safety” bill, S.510, which was poised for adoption last November until about 150,000 messages poured into the Senate from us over one weekend.

We assume the rumor is correct and the McCain bill is dead. However, we’ve believed the McCain bill was just a stalking-horse for S.510 and intend to continue to push against that bill to make sure it is not amended to include McCain’s imposition of international Codex restrictions on our Dietary Supplement freedoms.

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We re-post in full the February 3rd media release from the Natural Products Association and the Citizens for Health analysis, regarding S 3002 and its threats to health freedom.

Index
Our Analysis
Natural Products Association Release
Citizens.org Analysis

It was Constitutionalist Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas) who described the FDA’s behavior as “an abuse of power…” and now failed presidential candidate John McCain lets us know where he stands: on the side of the power abusers and against the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) which a unanimous Congress adopted to protect our access to high potency nutrients. With the suppression of wholesome, natural nutrition and natural remedies will come the preventable diseases of mal- and under-nutrition, a lower population and profits along the way.

The “Accepted Dietary Ingredient List” in the McCain bill is an especially troubling provision since such a code provision moves us away from our Common Law Right to access the foods we choose to a Civil Law (Codex Alimentarius) regulation of what we may choose. Under the Common Law what is not explicitly forbidden is allowed; under the Code, whatever is not explicitly permitted is forbidden. This “lawyer’s distinction” is of the greatest significance in preserving our Liberty. This provision could outlaw thousands of herbs, minerals and nutrients, just as similar European provisions are limiting dietary ingredient choice under the EU’s implementation of Codex.

Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

The terms of this bill further the Globalist Eugenicidal Agenda (of the “Bigs” — Big Agribiz, Big Pharma, Big Finance, Big Govt…) in that they seek to treat dietary supplements, which are foods and therefore ought to be deemed safe if used as directed, as though they were toxins (while, of course, the agency treats the real dangers – GMOs, food additives, dangerous drugs, vaccines and industrial toxins as though they were perfectly safe). If they succeed, our best hope for safe foods and high potency nutrients could be gone.

Further, this bill needs to be seen in the context of the other fake “Safety” bill pending in the Senate, the The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S 510, which does “for” family farms and ranches, natural and community food production what the McCain bill does to dietary supplements: create restrictions that the “Bigs” can live with but which will drive ethical, local production out of the market. See: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4014 for Sen Tom Harkin’s assurance this past November that DSHEA was not under attack. But now it appears to be under attack and we view McCain’s bill as part of a concerted effort to restrict Health Freedom. – RF

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Natural Products Association on S 3002
February 3, 2010: New Legislation Poses Threat to DSHEA

At a press conference held earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced that he would be introducing legislation that would amend the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) additional powers over retailers and suppliers in the dietary supplements industry. The Natural Products Association is reviewing McCain’s bill, which is cosponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), and offers this initial analysis regarding the impact of the legislation on the industry.

NPA will work aggressively to address this threat to the industry. The association will continue to keep its members informed and let them know how they can help protect their businesses.

Brief description of the provisions of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010

New Requirements from Suppliers to Retailers

Suppliers and retailers regardless of size all along the chain of commerce are required to “obtain adequate written evidence” from the seller that the product is registered as required. That evidence must be retained in a file available for inspection.

Adverse Event Reporting (AER)

Requires reporting of all adverse events, not just serious adverse events. In addition, a compilation of non-serious AERs must be submitted annually, and records must be maintained for three years.

“Accepted Dietary Ingredients” List

Mandates creation by the Secretary of a list of “Accepted Dietary Ingredients” to replace the current “in commerce pre-DSHEA” test.

New Dietary Ingredients (NDI)

NDIs are considered adulterated unless there is a history of use or evidence of its safety. Registrants shall maintain a “scientifically reasonable substantiation file” available for inspection by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Registration required 75 days prior to market.

Recall Authority

Provides immediate recall authority to the Secretary upon determination that a supplement “would cause serious, adverse health consequences or death, or is adulterated or misbranded.” Companies subject to a recall have the right to challenge the order in an “informal hearing” within 10 days. At their own expense, retailers must notify customers of such recalls.

Registration of Dietary Supplement Facilities

Dietary supplement facilities shall register with the Secretary (required information includes name, address of all facilities, trade names, list of supplements, their ingredients, and labels). Registration is annual.

Read the complete bill here:
http://www.npainfo.org/clientuploads/regulatoryLegislative/2010%20Dietary%20Supplement%20Safety%20Bill.pdf

This entry also posted at: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=32204
And: http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2010/02/mccain-bill-poses-threat-to-dshea-and.html

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And here is what Citizens.org has to say about S 3002:

“…there are a host of problems in the bill serious enough to make it a completely irreparable and untenable piece of legislation. These include:

(1) The creation of completely outrageous European Food Supplements Directive (EFSD)/Health Canada-esque facility registration requirements for all brands, products and ingredients, despite the fact that food facilities are already required to be registered;

(2) The effective removal of the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) status for most major dietary supplement/herbal ingredients, thereby deeming most supplements as “adulterated” unless they are included on the FDA’s “Accepted Dietary Ingredients” list;

(3) The creation and maintenance of voluminous safety dossiers on every dietary supplement and ingredient;

(4) The requirement that “all adverse events” (not just serious adverse events) relating to supplements be reported, including non-serious, trivial and unsubstantiated reports; and

(5) The codification of arbitrary and capricious cease-and-desist and recall authority based merely on the FDA’s “reasonable probability” that an item is adulterated or misbranded (this action can be taken regardless of whether the manufacturer is properly challenging the order).

This bill’s proposed establishment of an “approved list of ingredients” (much like EFSD’s approved lists of supplement ingredients and ingredient forms) is something to which the U.S. government (specifically the U.S. Codex delegation) has been adamantly opposed. So why would that same U.S. government endeavor to create “lists” – within its own borders – that it sees fit to battle against internationally?

In addition, the proposed provision that would require “all” adverse events to be reported would bog the AER system down with hundreds, if not thousands, of trivial and product-unrelated reports. This would serve to bury reports noting potential areas of commonality (signal events) in a garbage heap of useless information…”

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