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Summarized Information About The Illegal US CODEX Office Policy That You Can Use in Your Letter:

The United States CODEX Office and FDA Policy which supports harmonization with the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (ratified July 4, 2005, Rome) violates US law which prohibits harmonization with international regulations which themselves violate US laws. See for example, Title 19, section 3512, 1997 with reference to DSHEA (which treats supplements as foods without any upper limits) and the FDA Modernization Act (1997) which excludes nutritional supplements from harmonization. The US CODEX Manager requested comments and questions on the US CODEX policy at a public hearing on June 9, 2005. The Natural Solutions Foundation's detailed letter to the US CODEX Manager raising questions of law around this policy and other CODEX actions may also be found at:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/forcongress

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November 22, 2009

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The United States actively supported the ratification of the Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG) (July 4, 2005, Rome, Italy).  Despite their support, the implementation of this Guideline would increase hunger and illness here in the US as it would abroad.  
The VMG is in sharp contrast with US law and tradition.  Americans are accustomed to, and profit from, the open access to high potency nutrients as permitted under DSHEA which classifies supplements as food which, as such, may have no upper limit set on its use.

Instead, the implementation of the VMG would limit permissible nutrients only to those on a small "Positive List".  All others would be forbidden.  In addition, higher doses of those nutrients than those permitted would be forbidden.

Since the technique for determining the dosages of permitted nutrients is specified in the VMG as Risk Assessment (a technique which determines doses of toxins so small that they can have no discernable impact on any human being, no matter how sensitive), the only permitted doses will be those that are so tiny as to have no clinical significance.  This is a tragedy both for health and health freedom.

In Norway and Germany, where Codex-compliant rules have been enacted through the European Food Supplements Directive, glucosamine and Fish Oil were recently made illegal substances.  All permitted nutrients are restricted to doses so low that they have no significance for disease prevention or health promotion.

If the United States supports the Revised Vitamin and Mineral Guideline, available from the Natural Solutions Foundation, naturalsolution@optonline.net or at http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/step3/Revised_VMG_Markup.pdf, the principles of DSHEA will be strongly supported and the prevention of a loss of health and health freedom will be supported as well.

I look forward to your strongly positive response and support for this guideline and all other measures which protect our health and health freedom.  I also look forward to learn that you have expressed your strong displeasure with their support to the US Codex Office and the FDA for endorsing measures which put American lives at risk through mandated under nutrition and which deny Americans the health freedom choices to which they are entitled under DSHEA.

I will monitor your health freedom support very closely since I believe that, as a US voter, it is my right and responsibility to make sure that the people who represent me in Congress subscribe to my priorities and protect my rights.

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