U.S. FDA AXE FALLS AUGUST 27- UNLESS WE BOMB ‘EM NOW TIL THEN!

WE HAVE 27 DAYS- (AND NOT A SECOND TO WASTE!!!)

WHAT _YOU_ MUST DO IMMEDIATELY:

1. READ THIS ACTION ALERT WHICH EXPLAINS FDA's AGENDA REGARDING THEIR PROPOSED RULE TO BAN COMMERCIAL FREE SPEECH- THEY WANT TO KILL STRUCTURE FUNCTION CLAIMS

2. YOU MUST SIGN THE ENCLOSED FORM (SCROLL TO THE END) (OR YOUR OWN LETTER) &
EMAIL IT TO THE FDA DOCKETS MANAGEMENT BRANCH AT  JBUTLER1@BANGATE.FDA.GOV

A) FORWARD IT (with this alert)  TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, AND HAVE THEM DO THE SAME!!!!

B) DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR WORD PROCESSOR, PRINT IT OUT, MAKE COPIES, AND URGE YOUR LOCAL HEALTH FOOD STORES TO BAG STUFF IT SO THAT ALL THEIR CUSTOMERS WILL SEND IT IN! (If a health food store doesn't think its important enough to take action, inform them that they have just _LOST YOUR BUSINESS_ and that you will institute a BOYCOTT against 'em!!)

C) PUT THIS IN YOUR WEBSITE AND ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE TO TAKE ACTION!

D) IF YOU ARE IN A MULTILEVEL VITAMIN COMPANY- PUMP IT OUT TO YOUR DOWNLINE AND ENCOURAGE YOUR COMPANY TO PUT IT IN THEIR WEBSITE! (DON'T WAIT FOR YOUR COMPANY TO ACT AT THE TOP- THEY MIGHT NOT MOVE FAST ENOUGH!! TAKE ACTION NOW, and PUMP THIS OUT THRU YOUR DOWNLINE!!!!

FDA'S SLEAZY AGENDA TO BURN US ON AUGUST 27:

The FDA's current proposed rule (Docket No. 98-N-0044) bears the SAME IDENTICAL NUMBER as an EVEN MORE restrictive proposed rule currently pending in SOUTH AFRICA!! (When I called Dr. Robert Moore at FDA to inquire about this "coincidence" he as "smirking" on the phone, and "rubbing his hands together in gleeful anticipation.

What does this mean? I'll tell you what it means, it means that the criminals at the US FDA (and in the South African MCC) are ALREADY taking their MARCHING ORDERS from the globalists in Brussels, Geneva, and Rome!!! If we should fail to STEP IN IN LARGE ENOUGH NUMBERS in order to GET BACK IN THEIR FACES, we'll have the IRON BOOT stamping in our faces FOREVER! THE SHELL GAME IS HAPPENING RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES, and ITS UP TO US TO _BLOW THE WHISTLE ON IT!_ (If you don't have time to read the additional explanation below, just skip to the end, cut and paste the provided form letter into a new message, sign it, and forward it to the FDA. Do it again and again and again, don't just send it one time to the bastards! And forward this whole thing to your friends!

The International Pharmaceutical Industry's concerted effort to undermine and take over the dietary supplement industry began in earnest on June 18, 1989 with the first meeting of ESCOP, the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, in Cologne, Germany. I don't think its any coincidence that this meeting was held in Cologne, which is where Madaus AG is located. Madaus AG and Schwabe are the two largest German phytopharmaceutical companies, and they are part of a sleazy coalition called the EAPC, (European American Phytomedicines Coalition) which is comprised  of American herb companies which have sold out, and European (mostly German) phytopharmaceutical companies.

These companies have been petitioning the FDA since 1992 in an effort to turn herbs into "drugs". I don't think its any coincidence that Norway began "harmonizing" their food and drug laws to really restrictive WHO guidelines right after that first ESCOP meeting. Today, you can't buy vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range in Norway, and anything that doesn't have an RDA, as well as all vitamins more than 2.5 x the RDA are regulated as "drugs" and are heavily restricted and grossly overpriced– WHEN YOU CAN GET THEM AT ALL!!! (If you want that here, do nothing, and I guarantee, it will happen.)

This "listings" system that was first developed in Norway to regulate vitamins as "DRUGS" then spread throughout Europe, with the exception of England and Holland. It also spread to Australia, it has been partially shoved down the throats of Canadians, and they're trying to shove it down the throats of S.Africans, and the Kiwis of New Zealand RIGHT NOW in a VERY BLATANT manner!

They know they can't move as aggressively here in the USA to push this pharmaceutical agenda, so they are currently trying to TAKE A HUGE BITE out of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) in an effort to begin a process of "HARMONIZING" us to EEC 65/65, the European Commission Directive through which dietary supplements are regulated as "DRUGS" in Europe.

(We TOLD the FDA we didn't WANT this so called "HARMONIZATION" last fall when we succeeded in getting dietary supplements specifically exempted from the harmonization language in the FDA Reform Bill, but they are RELENTLESSLY trying through RULE MAKING to get past what we have BLOCKED them from doing legislatively!!!! When we were doing our work on Capital Hill last fall to get the FDA Reform Bill amended, RELENTLESS efforts by companies within the EAPC were made to STOP us, because these "sold out" companies WANT herbs to be regulated as "DRUGS"!!! (So we can't TRUST the supplement industry to defend us, WE MUST DO IT OURSELVES, because the vitamin trade associations are increasingly being controlled by herb companies which have SOLD OUT!

For THIS REASON, if you do not help me pump the following form letter in to the FDA in VERY HIGH VOLUME, like ANY schoolyard bully, the FDA will then QUESTION OUR RESOLVE, and they'll take any sign of weakness from us as a sign that they can DO WHATEVER THEY WANT!!!! (And if we give them an inch, they'll try to take TWO HUNDRED MILES, because THATS the way they ALWAYS do things!

I've been fighting them professionally for 10 years, and believe me, I know how they do things. I know these guys! I've had MEETINGS with them, and know the way they think! I once had a meeting with Gary Dykstra, Deputy Associate Commissioner of Regulatory Affairs. It was supposed to be a one on one meeting. I KNEW he'd bring 15 of his cronies to the meeting so they could all GANG UP on me, and SURE ENOUGH, this is what he did! But I foiled him by bringing Clinton Ray Miller with me, so I wasn't alone.

Clint is the most experienced health freedom lobbyist in America. We turned a tape recorder on, stuck it in Dykstra's face, and informed him that he was a public servant and that we were going to tape the proceedings. The year was 1990, one year after ESCOP held their first meeting in Germany. Dykstra had a really draconian proposed rule on the table, which was IDENTICAL to the German Codex proposal.

The proposed rule went with the passage of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, a terrible bill that the FDA was able to fast track through Congress because WE WEREN'T PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION! Dykstra proposed banning vitamins and minerals more than 2.5 x the RDA, and anything without an RDA would have been regulated as a "drug" (his proposal was IDENTICAL to the German Codex Proposal. We wanted an extension on the comments period, because this was before the web was used to disseminate documents, and the only way anyone could get a copy of FDA's proposed rule was through the US gummint printing office, and they ONLY PRINTED 200 copies! (So hardly anyone could even FIND OUT what was going on!!!!)

If we hadn't gotten DSHEA through Congress, Dykstra's proposed rule would have been shoved down our throats at HIGH SPEED! But we EMBARRASSED the FDA and their DRUG CARTEL masters when we got DSHEA through Congress, causing them to lose face to the German Burgermeisters and to the Trilateralists who are trying to shove a world government down our throats at top speed.

****The FDA has ALREADY ANNOUNCED their intention to "HARMONIZE" their regulations to emerging CODEX standards. They made this unconstitutional announcement on July 7, 1997 in the 1997 Federal Register, Vol. 62, #129 pp.36243-36248. I filed comments opposing this, asking them why they intended to give more power to the Codex Commission than was warranted under even the BROADEST interpretation of our obligations under international law, and demanded to know why they didn't petition the appropriate Federal District Court in order to find out what their constitutional obligations were in this situation.

PLEASE! HELP _STOP_ FDA'S DESPICABLE SHELL GAME!

FLOOD THEM WITH THE ENCLOSED FORM LETTER BY SENDING IT _REPEATEDLY_ to them at JBUTLER1@BANGATE.FDA.GOV and urge all of your FRIENDS to do the same!!! Go to your health food store and SHOW THIS to the owner's and managers and INSIST that they help out! They MUST bagstuff copies of the enclosed form letter, and You MUST help me, because I can't  win this battle for you without YOUR HELP! Each of you who reads this must help compensate for the fact that it's the end of July and a lot of people are on vacation. Therefor, each of you who reads this: please TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION and ALERT MORE PEOPLE!
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Form letter follows:

BY AUGUST 27,1998 [Docket No. 98N-0044] RIN 0910-AA59
Regulations on Statements Made for Dietary Supplements Concerning the Effect of the Product on the Structure or Function of the Body; Proposed Rule and Dietary Supplements: Comments on Report of the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels; Notice

Submit written comments to: Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) FDA 200 C. St. SW, Washington DC 20204, 202-205-4697, email to FDA at JButler1@bangate.fda.gov

To Whom it May Concern at FDA:

Your proposed rule will have an adverse effect on public health by placing arbitrary and capricious limits on the allowable health information to be presented to consumers at the point of sale on dietary supplements, in complete violation of the first amendment. Your definition of disease is overly broad. Under proposed §101.93(g)(1) a "disease" is any deviation from, impairment of, or interruption of the normal structure or function of any part, organ, or system (or combination thereof) of the body that is manifested by a characteristic set of one or more signs or symptoms.) Thus, in your zeal to "insure that dietary supplements don't act as a disincentive to new drug development" (the now "immortal" words of FDA's Gary Dykstra), you would even disallow structure/function claims relative to aging: ie "hot flashes". (Since when are"aging" or the menopause "disease states"?) You are clearly over-reaching here.

Norman Farnsworth, PhD was on the Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels and is a Research Professor in Pharmacognosy and Senior University Scholar at University of Illinois. In a letter dated December 15, 1997, he stated to Michael Friedman of FDA that your final rules "were not helpful to industry as to how to craft truthful non misleading health claims." For this reason, the CDSL stated on p.37 of their Report "...it is possible to craft a statement of nutritional support and not a health claim or drug claim." Farnsworth went on to say "it seems to me that having a mild to moderately elevated cholesterol level being lowered is a clear structure function claim as opposed to a statement that lowering cholesterol may prevent atherosclerosis."

In the US District Court in Utah, Judge Dale Kimball just issued an injunction against FDA to force you to lift your aribtarily imposed ban on cholestin, and I am ALSO telling you to BACK OFF!! I remind you that the drive to pass DSHEA generated more mail to Congress than any issue in HISTORY, including the VIETNAM WAR! Where do you get off trying to circumvent the will of Congress? Is it your belief that the law is "in your mouth?"

Red rice yeast extract (Cholestin) is not a "drug". It has been used as a dietary supplement for years in both China and the United States. Dr.Farnsworth considers it to be a dietary supplement, and I agree with his expert opinion. Foods are NOT drugs, and neither is WATER!
 
In your zeal to force "harmonization" to the EU's EEC 65/65,  you are trying to push dietary supplements across a line from food to "drug", as has been done in the EU. We remind you that dietary supplements were specifically exempted from the "harmonization" language in the FDA Reform Bill, and that Congress was flooded with faxes, email, and outraged calls over this issue in October, 1997.

(cc to my Senators and Congressman in support of HR 2868 which removes food from the definition of "drug")

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