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THIRD: Check out Counsel for Responsible Nutrition (Note the huge number of pharmaceutical members.) John Hathcock, PhD CRN's Vice President, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs formerly worked at the FDA alongside Dr. Beth Yetley. I recall Hathcock from when he used to work at FDA because he spoke at a press conference at the Beyond Deficiency Vitamin Conference in 1991 at which there were eminent scientists from all over the world extolling the virtues of dietary supplements, citing study after study, irrefutable scientific evidence attesting to the safety and efficacy of numerous dietary supplements, including folic acid in the prevention of neural tube defects which cause babies to be born with crippling deformities such as spina bifida, which condemns them to lives of ill health, sometimes so paralyzed they can't even move their hands or arms or even speak. I heard Hathcock condemn all of these scientific studies and say to the news media that "None of them were honored by the FDA, and the FDA would allow no claims based on ANYTHING that had been said at the conference." I felt nauseas upon hearing this, and when Hathcock left the building, I followed him onto the Metro train, but when I sat next to him and attempted to question him, he got up and moved to another seat, refusing to answer any questions. |
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Then- in '98, all of a sudden Hathcock reappears in front of me once more, this time on staff at CRN [Counsel for Responsible Nutrition], at a meeting of the US Codex Delegation the day before the Codex meeting in Berlin began, and he JUMPED quite VIGOROUSLY to the defense of Dr. Beth Yetley of the FDA when I was sharply CRITICAL of the fact that Yetley was IGNORING a letter from 5 members of Congress (see it under letters from congress at http://www.iahf.com) which told her NOT to put the grossly unscientific, pharmaceutically funded paper generated by the National Academy of Sciences titled "A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Safe Upper Levels for Nutrients" on the table at CODEX. (See this outrageous paper, which calls the deadly toxin fluoride an "essential nutrient" and which calls for a "35 mg UL" on Niacin (because niacin causes some very sensitive people to experience flushing at low doses, and NAS considers that to be an "adverse drug side effect" when A) Niacin is a food, not a "drug" and B) The flushing is not the least bit "dangerous", all it means is that the niacin is working, that it's improving circulation by causing capillaries on the surface of the skin to dilate which causes a mildly irritating burning sensation that is no means "dangerous" I've taken megadoses of niacin for 20 years, and I'll be DAMNED if I'm ever going to get a Dr.'s prescription for my high dose niacin! A complete discussion of the fraudulence of the NAS paper can be found on the IAHF website in a paper written by Dr. Rick Malter which was published in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Second Quarter, 2000 Vol. 15, Number 2. Additionally, additional criticism of Hathcock's unscientific methodology, (which NAS used) to develop the paper can be found in an editorial by Brian Leibovitz, PhD, Editor of the Journal of Optimal Nutrition titled "The ABC's of Confusion as a Weapon" also see http://www.internetwks.com/pauling/bs.html and hear Liebovitz in a radio interview denouncing the FDA's anonymous adverse reaction Medwatch "Reporting System" (The only way FDA can "prove" that vitamins are "dangerous") at http://www.citizensvoice.org Hathcock's involvement in developing the methodology which NAS has intentionally misapplied in order to create a pharmaceutically funded utterly biased "safety standard" for vitamins, constitutes an effort to set up the dietary supplement industry to lose in a trade dispute before the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body. The paper defines the safety of vitamins (in a very biased, unscientific way) and the only legal basis by which a country can not agree to harmonize its laws to the emerging highly restrictive Codex vitamin standard is on a basis of safety. FDA has argued that IAHF's contention that Codex could impact US dietary supplement laws is "false" and as "evidence" they site the Federal Statute which implements the GATT Trade Agreement, which contains an exemption clause which in THEORY on PAPER "protects" our domestic laws from harmonization to international standards. The big LIE which FDA/CRN/NNFA/ and so called "Citizens for Health" are promulgating is that what's happening at Codex "can't" impact our US dietary supplement laws, but this is proven FALSE by an article by Jeanne Grimmett of the Congressional Research Service titled "Dispute Settlement" which documents the 7 Trade Disputes the USA has lost and the fact that in each case, our domestic laws were indirectly forced to be changed under threat of trade sanctions by the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body. My efforts to get Congressional Oversight Hearings on the Codex vitamin issue have been blocked by the pharmaceutically dominated CRN, and NNFA which have told Congressman Burton simply that "oversight hearings on the Codex vitamin issue aren't necessary". (Despite my efforts to point out the gross conflict of interest situation inside both CRN and NNFA, Burton has STILL not held oversight hearings and the American people must rise up and DEMAND them by calling his office at 202-225-2276. Warning, Burton has an aide named Beth Clay, who shows all the earmarks of a plant. She has IGNORED all evidence brought before her as to what is really going on here. For this and similar reasons, Congressman Ron Paul has introduced the American Sovereignty Restoration Act HR 1146 which would get us completely out of the UN and out of the WTO, and this is the ONLY thing that would truly protect our dietary supplement laws from the outrageous orchestrated scam currently unfolding at CODEX. Conclusion: We are being SET UP like bowling pins, and unless a lot more people WAKE UP and assist IAHF in bring out the truth, your health freedom will be destroyed. Currently IAHF is sending copies of "Let Truth Be the Bias" (copyright APMA) the award winning documentary produced by Kevin Miller over to several European Health Freedom Fighters, to encourage them in their battle against the horrible EU regs because if they pass next year, all EU countries, including England, Holland and Sweden which have at least some health freedom now, will all be forced into a regulatory situation as bad as Germany's is. (For collaboration on my assessment see the website of the British health freedom group Society for the Promotion of Nutritional Therapy) Entering "EU Vitamin Directive" in their search engine brings you to http://freespace.virgin.net/nutrition.therapy/notices.htm which explains just how dangerous the situation is in Europe right now. This is VERY dangerous to Americans, because at the next Codex meeting of the CCNFSDU in Berlin in 2002, all 15 EU countries, plus the EU itself, will be coming out in a BLOCK in favor of finalizing a VERY RESTRICTIVE Codex vitamin standard, originally proposed by Germany. Dr. Matthias Rath held a huge demonstration against the Codex meeting in Berlin in June, and I was there. See the videotape and photos from this demonstration at http://www.rath.nl It would be great if Rath's optimistic conclusions about what happened at the meeting were accurate, but they were not, and he was grossly premature in declaring "victory". The Pharma Cartel and Codex aren't "DEAD" unless vitamin consumers world wide rise up in open rebellion, and get behind IAHF's campaign to bring out the truth. IAHF URGENTLY NEEDS DONATIONS AND MORE CLIENTS to properly do this work, and to assist the health freedom fighters in Europe. Please send your most generous donation to: IAHF PO Box 625 Floyd VA 24091 USA http://www.iahf.com jham@iahf.com 800-333-2553 Anyone can get on the IAHF email distribution list at no charge from http://www.iahf.com Please forward this to others! International Advocates for Health Freedom <http://www.iahf.com>http://www.iahf.com, email: jham@iahf.com Tel. Within N. America 800-333-2553, Overseas 540-745-6534 Fax 540-745-6535 Donations Needed: IAHF POB 625 Floyd, VA 24091 USA
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