Dramatic Restrictions To Our Herbs And Vitamins Via CODEX Alimentarius

CONSUMER HEALTH NEWSLETTER, November, 1998

Consumer Health Organization of Canada email: choc@consumerhealth.org; website: http://www.consumerhealth.org/

DRAMATIC RESTRICTIONS TO OUR HERBS AND VITAMINS VIA CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

Panel at Total Health 1998:

Zoltan Rona, M.D., Suzanne Harris J.D., David Rowland, Ph.D.,

Len Horowitz Ph.D. and John Hammell, Legislative Advocate

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS BACKGROUND

Canada is a member of the United Nations/World Health Organization subsidiary called the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Codex Alimentarius means "food code". The Commission, composed of member governments, is mandated to set international reference standards for trade in all kinds of food products such as raw and processed foods, pesticide residues, contaminant levels, labelling, nutritional content, etc. It met in Germany in October 1996 to create binding new global trade rules for health supplements. In June 1999, Codex members will vote on the following laws proposed by the Germans, and supported by the drug giants Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. These are the three daughter companies formed when the Nuremberg War Trials disbanded the notorious IG Farben Cartel of Nazi Germany. These companies are the ones now pushing the hardest to prevent access by the public to nutritional supplements.

Proposed Draft Guidelines for Dietary Supplements:

1. No dietary supplement can be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use;

2. No dietary supplement sold as a food can exceed potency (dosage) levels set by the

commission. Dietary supplements of higher potency will be sold as drugs and sold by

the pharmaceutical or phytopharmaceutical companies. Supplements without an RDA

(e.g. Coenzyme Q10) would be illegal to sell because they would all become drugs;

3. Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding (the GATT escape

clause would be eliminated);

4. All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go through extensive Codex

testing and approval.

How else will they monopolize unpatentable botanicals?

These proposals (which would "harmonize" food and drug laws of all member countries to international standards) are already on the agenda at Codex waiting to be passed. This will automatically restrict access and elevate prices. Expensive prescription only or expensive over the counter drugs will replace the present inexpensive general free availability of herbs, botanicals, vitamins and minerals.

Canada plays a strategic role in Codex. Both of the two big trading blocks (United States and Europe) want Canada's backing because they have opposing positions, with Europe pushing the proposals, and the U.S. remaining opposed to the guidelines, but willing to consider upper safe limits of vitamins and minerals.

ZOLTAN RONA, M.D.

Dr. Rona is a member of Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine and a

consultant to the Motherisk Program at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.

He is a columnist for Alive magazine, Health Naturally and the Toronto Star. He

has written several books on health, including Return to the Joy of Health and is

medical editor of The Encyclopedia of Natural Healing.

Codex meets every two years, usually in Rome. The Codex process is secretive, documentation is generally unavailable to the public, and there is little coverage in the media. Four steps have already been taken in the Codex process over the past few years on the German "Proposed Draft Guidelines for Dietary Supplements" (outlined above), and voting in favour of adopting these German proposal has been overwhelming. The Codex process could jump to step 8 at the next meeting in June, 1999 which would finalize these restrictions.

If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. Predictably, this scenario has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association and the Health Protection Branch of Canada (HPB).

The Codex proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an echinacea tincture which is being sold there as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores or pharmacies.

The Codex proposals have the backing of Canadian Codex Commission representatives. Further evidence of Canadian involvement is the position of the Canadian Health Protection Branch (HPB) on what is, or is not, a food or a drug. For example, garlic, ginger, licorice and peppermint are considered to be foods when sold as spices. If a grocery store manager makes claims for their therapeutic effects, they then become drugs via an HPB mechanism which remains to be defined.

Stop Codex human rights violations by banding together to demand health freedom and an end to Codex.

SUZANNE HARRIS

Suzanne Harris holds a juris-doctorate degree in law and an honours degree in

political science, specializing in international organizations. She has been an

arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris and is co-founder of

the Law Loft, an independent think tank, and co-producer of the Law Loft Report, a

nightly news analysis and broadcast from KCXL in Kansas City. She is the leading

expert on how international organizations affect health freedom in North America.

VIOLATIONS OF OUR HEALTH FREEDOMS Health freedom along with many other freedoms are disappearing in the United States and Canada. At the Law Loft, we disregarded everything already written about our current problems with health freedom, and worked strictly from original documents to determine why our health freedoms and other freedoms are disappearing. We ultimately discovered that there is an international movement in progress aiming to destroy health freedom in every country on the planet. This movement does not begin at any particular parliament or congress. It appears to start on the drafting tables or conference tables of the transnational corporate board rooms. It is not exactly for the purpose of destroying health freedom as such; it is rather for the purpose of stealing what is yours and making it theirs, and very possibly, having long term control of everybody's access to most of the health products that you and I buy today and take for granted. This is being done to us through a variety of mechanisms in the very sincere hope that we won't catch on until it's too late. The first mechanism is a new matrix of international organizations that are taking shape generally outside of the United Nations and are removing sovereignty from all of the individual nations which are members of these organizations.

HARMONIZATION Everybody, United States, Canada, the Europeans, Japan, most of Asia, S. America have signed agreements pledging total harmonization of their laws including food and drug laws to international standards in the future. And that is being achieved through different vehicles including interim agreements such as the one that was agreed to last year between the U.S. and the European Union. So you need to think in terms not only what is of immediate benefit to you in Canada, but what will have long term benefits.

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS LIMITS NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY In the health freedom movement, the organization at the moment which presents the greatest challenge to you is the Codex Alimentarius Commission which is a joint program of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Codex's history is extremely interesting because it is a kind of model for this type of transnational takeover. Codex seemed benign in the beginning, as most of these things do because they seem to have no discernable forceful impact on regulations at home. That all changed with the adoption of NAFTA and GATT because each of those agreements contained within them Sanitary (Health) and Phytosanitary agreements. Suddenly the harmless old Codex became enforceable. Nowadays Codex guidelines carry a lot of weight because they are enforceable through the World Trade Organization, whereas before you had the choice whether or not to accept its international guidelines. Enforcement is carried out by withdrawing other trade privileges conferred by the trade agreements. I have been saying this for several years now, and in some quarters it has provoked a fair amount of laughter and comments like, "That can't possibly be true, because the trade representative told us it wasn't true". Read the documents, you will get a nasty shock. The detractors have now pretty much disappeared into the closet because the World Trade Organization has issued its final decision on the European beef hormone case.

CAN CODEX FORCE US TO BUY WHAT WE DON'T WANT? In the interest of public health, Europeans refused to have beef and beef products from cattle given artificial growth hormones imported into the European Union. The United States and Canada then filed actions against the European Union at the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization. The initial opinion was private, and it basically gave everybody a minor heart attack because it said, "If you don't follow Codex regulations on health and safety issues, what you do is illegal under these new international agreements". In their final decision, the World Trade Organization has backed off a bit from this original position and said they would leave it to the committees of the WTO to harmonize, but they maintained that in the case of beef hormones, what the European Union did was illegal and they have to conform to the international rules.

NEW GLOBAL RULES FOR HEALTH So here we are affected not only by what happens in Ottawa or Washington, but by what happens at these Codex meetings as well. Unfortunately, the Codex meetings take place all over the world in little committee meetings with the major meetings occurring in Geneva or Rome every two years, and the documentation is not generally available. That makes it very difficult for us to know what they are up to. So over the last couple of years I have followed them around to pick up the documentation, and in general terms this is what they are up to: ***They want to limit internationally and nationally, access to vitamins and minerals and all kinds of dietary supplements. They want to limit potencies and combinations. In the case of potencies, they want to limit them to useless levels, reserving the right to sell and produce the higher potency products to the drug companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies, principally of Germany and France (which are also connected to the big drug companies). ***They want to pass off genetically engineered foods around the world in every market without labelling. ***They want to speed up the process of approval of food stuffs so as not to impede international commerce, and their solution is to let the corporations police themselves. ***They want to gut the powers of all the regulatory agencies such as Health Protection Branch in Canada and the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and leave the shells in place, but take the power away and transfer those powers to the international level. This is already in progress!

HEALTH PROTECTION BRANCH (CANADA) This gives you one important lesson that is not obvious. You don't want to support anything that would dismantle the Health Protection Branch, but understanding that, you have to help the Health Protection Branch to do the right thing. You want to limit them at the parliamentary level to do the job as you define it. For information about the dismantling of the HPB which has already begun see the insert by the National Coalition for Health Freedom.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) Codex is simply one among many international threats. Other threats include the World Health Organization which has international reference agency status under both the GATT and NAFTA under the technical barriers to trade agreement, and the WHO has a complete plan in mind for the sale of botanicals as well as controlling of your family doctors (making them into robots).

MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI) In addition, we have MAI on the horizon. It has been called "NAFTA on Steroids". I agree with Mr. Clarke's characterization of this proposed international agreement as "corporate rule treaty". In other words if it passes, they win and we all lose.

As outlined by Paul Hellyer in his book, The Evil Empire, "The Canadian government has been aggressively promoting this treaty which has been negotiated in great secrecy by the 29-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France. It was originally slated for signature in Spring of 1997, but has been delayed. You may think it has disappeared, but secret negotiations are continuing behind closed doors, and MAI will be reactivated at some future date. It is supported by international banks and multinational corporations including some in Canada, and is in reality a bill of rights for these banks and the corporations they control. It will hand over our sovereign rights concerning who may or may not invest in our countries to an unelected world organization run by big business. The treaty would make it impossible for Canadian legislators either federal or provincial to alter or improve environmental standards for fear of being sued by multinational corporations whether operating in Canada or not. This will create a world without borders ruled by a virtual dictatorship of the world's most powerful central banks and multinational companies. This world is an absolute certainty if we all sit on our hands and do nothing." (Ed.)

CODEX AIMS TO PROFIT THE MULTI-NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES Companies look for a regulatory framework that will maximize their profits. They don't really care about what happens to you or me. Profit margins are believed to be highest when you take things like vitamins and minerals in high potencies, and herbs and botanicals, and turn them into over the counter drugs because in that class you can limit competition by setting the obstacles high enough that the small companies can't compete, and you can charge a great deal more money for your product. At the same time you can also make therapeutic claims for your product. If your bottle of garlic says "ancient anti-inflammatory and anti-infectious cure", it will sell better. So the bigger companies, especially the ones with the German and French connections, all see this as a golden opportunity to make more money by turning these products into over the counter drugs, whether you call it a third category (a separate third category, "neither food nor drug") or a drug. From the consumer point of view this approach is disastrous because it means low potency product at high price. All of the pharmaceutical companies have already begun a massive buyout of the German phytopharmaceutical companies, so a herbal company in Germany is likely to be owned by Monsantos etc.

OUR OBJECTIVES You have to define your objectives now, which is maximum availability of multiple combinations, unlimited combinations of herbs, vitamins and botanicals in high potencies without government limitation on potency, but with cautionary labelling.

STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO RESTORE YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM Sometimes it is better to do nothing than to do the wrong thing like blindly following a leader. You shouldn't follow any leader until you have personally convinced yourself, not that he is a nice man, but whether or not his philosophy and what he is doing is in your best interest. You have to ask yourself, what forces out there are against my best interests? In the health freedom field they are: drug companies, dietary supplement companies that are linked to drug companies and producers of novel and genetically engineered foods.

In terms of this international contest, you would be better off if you keep your dietary supplements as food. You would be better off if you can form a coalition between the Japanese drug act which is flawed, the American drug act which is flawed and the Canadian drug act which is also very flawed and try to create something that is better than what you have already got and will help the Americans and Japanese in a better direction. Then with that three-part coalition, you can then confront the European Union and the South Americans. If you don't do that, if you don't think in terms of the international picture as well, you will ultimately lose, because in the harmonization meetings between the different regional blocks, your position will simply just get out-voted.

JOHN HAMMELL

John Hammell is a legislative advocate and the founder of International Advocates

for Health Freedom (IAHF) located in Hollywood, Florida. Their main goal is to

gather and disseminate information so that we will be in a better position to fight

back. He works along with health freedom fighters world-wide like Citizen's Voice

for Health Rights and Freedom for Choice in Health Care in Canada.

GERMAN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES BEHIND CODEX PROPOSALS Around the world, the pharmaceutical industry is attempting to get safe herbs and supplements classified as drugs just as they have here in Canada. They are trying to impose stricter regulations in order to have control of the market. They are trying to set things up to the advantage of these German phytopharmaceutical companies and their American partners by raising the hurdles so that the smaller companies can't clear them. This seems to be a theme that is constant throughout the world. In June 1997, a Canadian Codex proposal which threatened to create a "no trade" list of herbs was abandoned due to massive consumer protest which drove former Health Minister David Dingwall out of office. IAHF and other consumer groups brought this about. At the same time, the German Codex proposal backed by German pharmaceutical companies actively seeking to control the dietary supplement business threatens to block consumer access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range (megadoses). This proposal was knocked back from step 5 to step 3 when the Germans attempted to advance it from step 5 to step 6 at the 1997 Codex meeting.

In a recent conversation, John Hammel mentioned that tremendous grass roots opposition all over the world has helped to delay the passing of the German Codex proposal. One of the delegates commented at the meeting "These people seem to think they have a right to these things". Most recently, at the September, 1998 Codex meeting in Berlin, Dr. Matthias Rath, M.D. formerly with the Linus Pauling Institute, staged demonstrations, and plans to file a formal legal complaint to the International Court of Justice against international pharmaceutical companies including Hoechst, BASF, Bayer and Merck (see website www.rath.nl).

The next Codex meeting will be held June 28, 1999 in Rome, and the Germans will again attempt to advance their proposal to step 5 or push it all the way through. The stage has been set for them to move beyond step 4 using the "Risk Assessment Document" which is presently being circulated to all the delegates for review. This document sets supplement limits, "although there is in fact no clear scientific agreement that most humans require nutrients at the same level, and the entire concept of a one-size-fits-all balanced diet may, indeed, be fatally flawed" (S. Harris). This document was generated by the National Academy of Sciences, composed of scientists paid by pharmaceutical grant money. Health Canada also helped fund this study but with no input from consumers.

GREEN PAPER ON HERBS In January 1998, at the request of the European Commission, the European Medicine Evaluation Agency released a draft report called the "Green Paper". This report proposes that if a herb is medicinal or affects physiological functions in any way, it is a medicine and should be exclusively sold as a drug. It is now a criminal offence in Europe to sell herbs as foods which makes it the same as selling other illegal drugs. This was all brought about by EEC6565.

ENGLAND In England, the Health Minister sent a legal document to the European Union to be rubber stamped which would ban vitamin B6 to the untherapeutic dosage of 10 mg. They totally ignored the scientific evidence behind the safety of B6. It was then scheduled to go before the British parliament; however due to very strong objections by a large consumer lobby, it was not passed.

FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) IN THE U.S. In the U.S. we are trying to pass a bill called HR2868 which inserts the words "other than foods" into the current statutory definition of drug (i.e. defines a drug as "other than food") which would stop the FDA from regulating supplements as drugs and would allow therapeutic claims to be made on dietary supplements as long as they are true.

BEWARE OF SUPPLEMENT COMPANIES WHICH SUPPORT CODEX There are some health companies out there who are selling vitamins, minerals, herbs etc. who are supporting Codex. There is an entity called the European-American Phytomedicine Coalition which is at work on both sides of the U.S. Canadian border. It is comprised of American and Canadian herb companies like Quest, Nature's Way and NuLife) which have formed alliances with German phytopharmaceutical companies. Over the last decade or so, the multinational pharmaceutical companies have been buying up smaller phytomedicine and supplement companies (see Gen Eng News, Apr 15/97, Vol.17,No.8 and also see figure 6 of Herbalgram at www.healthy.net/hwlibraryjournals/herbalgram/1995/summer/features/

phytomed.html). It is in their best interest to sweep their smaller competition off a cliff. We know who these groups are through their stands on these issues. It is to their advantage to present a lot of disinformation which they have been doing. They really want supplements categorized as drugs. Here in Canada any company which is behind the third category (which stipulates that herbs and supplements should be a separate third category, "neither food nor drug") is a company that you cannot trust (see Dr. Rowland's section). In the States, any company that is not in favour of HR2868 is a company that we can't trust.

NOT ALL CONSUMER ADVOCACY GROUPS ARE GOOD FOR THE CONSUMER There is a fake grass roots organization called Citizens for Health which has chapters which have been actively promoting the concept of herbs as drugs through the German phytopharma-ceutical companies. These groups have diverted attention away from problems with Codex Alimentarius and have stifled dissent to Codex by expelling members. In the U.S., they do not endorse HR2868 which aims to remove food from the current overly-broad statutory definition of drug and this group is likely heavily influenced by American companies which have formed partnerships with German phytopharmaceutical companies. We have the same suspicion about the Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom (not the National Coalition for Health Freedom) which is actively pushing the third category which would give a monopoly to the largest herb and vitamin companies so they could do away with their smaller competition through unnecessary regulations. They try to create the impression of being consumer groups, but they are organized and funded by industry and industry driven concepts. I would urge you to oppose this very strongly. In the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa and Australia, herbal advisory panels have been convened and in each case these panels were thinly disguised pharmaceutical front groups designed to steer things in the direction of more stringent regulations.

DAVID ROWLAND, Ph.D.

Dr. Rowland has a Ph.D. in nutrition and is a master herbalist. He is a

representative for Freedom of Choice in Health Care, publisher of Health Naturally

and author of 20 books about nutrition and health.

CANADA'S HEALTH PROTECTION BRANCH The government and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health wants to regulate substances like herbs and vitamins, now considered foods under the Food and Drugs Act and put them into a third category. The first category would be for food, the second category for drugs, and the third category for supplements (separate from food or drugs). We don't need a third category. This will effectively destroy smaller competitors, and keep these products out of the public domain (that is make them available only by prescription), and there is absolutely no reason to do it because existing regulations in Canada's Food and Drugs Act gives Health Canada all the power it needs to protect us from harm and fraud in the sale of dietary supplements and natural health products. )In fact Health Canada and the Standing Committee on Health are in violation of the Constitution Act on some of their recommendations. The Constitution Act gives the provinces the exclusive powers to regulate health. It is not federal jurisdiction. If a substance is safe for human consumption, the feds have no business restricting it in any way. And they restrict it in insidious ways by charging suppliers licence fees, product registration fees, pre-approval of health claims etc.OMIT?) In Canada it is illegal to say on a bottle of vitamin C that it prevents scurvy. The Food and Drug Act prevents it. That is a violation of the charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is also idiocy and we accept it. We let them get away with it. One by one, they are taking things off the market such as amino aids tryptophan and L-carnitine. Both tryptophan and L-carnitine used to be sold in health food stores for about $14 a bottle for 100 capsules. Now they are only available by prescription for $120 to $190 a bottle. So you see what the motive is. Health Canada is participating in the take-over of this industry. There are vested interests everywhere, but what gives them the power to do this? In Canada, by definition in section 2 of the Food and Drugs Act, a drug includes any substance which is used in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a disease or disorder. This means that the nature of the substance and its safety are irrelevant to the definition. The only thing that matters is what you are using it for. So the moment you make a claim that it improves health in any way, it becomes a drug.

LEN HOROWITZ

Dr. Horowitz received his Master of Public Health from Harvard University. He is

the author of more than 80 articles and scientific reports, and the best-selling

books Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola - Nature, Accident or Genocide? and Gulf War

Syndrome: The Spreading Epidemic Cover-Up.

The Codex Alimentarius is an effort to regulate healing herbs and botanicals which really make people well. In my opinion, based on massive evidence and documentation, it is linked to a population control agenda for controlling people from birth through the health care system to death. In the 1920s the Rockefeller family established a virtual monopoly over American medicine and largely funded the pharmaceutical companies that control world pharmaceuticals. They set the standards for pharmaceuticals, drugs and vaccines throughout the world. They also created the cancer industry, Rockefeller Foundation and the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Institute. These people have controlling interests over the world's pharmaceutical and chemical industries. It is no coincidence that the United Nations was predominantly built by the Rockefellers, and all of this represents the New World Order, a phrase made famous by George Bush. Before I began my research, I had no idea that the Rockefeller family and a handful of other wealthy families stand behind this agenda. In my opinion, this agenda that is unfolding is consistent with virtually every prophecy made. What happens when the multi-nationals have got all the money, there is maybe only one or two wealthy families in power, and United Nations and NATO-UN peacekeeping forces dominate the planet, and there is one world economy like the European Union. That is where the population agenda fits in. (For more information on this topic see Consumer Health newsletters by Len Horowitz, Sep. and Oct. 1998.)

One of the best books I could recommend to you is The Science of Coercion by Christopher Simpson who studied psychological warfare methods used on leading scientists throughout the world including health care professions, since 1945 until virtually the present. Christopher Simpson concludes that it is predominantly the Rockefellers who are literally behind this entire medical-industrial complex and the World Health Organization.

Codex is part of a symptom and we have to get at the root of the problem. They are hitting us from so many sides that the alternative health care movement has constantly been on the defence, decade after decade, because of the Rockefeller led military/medical industry. The best defence is a good offense. Now that we have the documentation, the evidence to legally attack these people, it is up to us to do that.

We don't want to get overwhelmed by thinking that we are going to save the planet. Share information with family and friends and get them involved. Give them the knowledge that they need to make healthier choices. If you have a little extra energy, make phone calls, send faxes and tapes, produce educational symposiums and workshops. Set up your own non-profit educational organization, produce educational literature; you can also develop your own network. You can deliver political messages about how nutritional supplements are being jeopardized, how we are being attacked from all sides, not only by the WHO and Codex but also from corporate levels.

I would encourage you to get involved politically by working with many of the consumer advocacy groups.

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Read the information on Codex, share it with people you know, talk to your media, talk to or write your Members of Parliament, have educational meetings about Codex at your clubs. Make people aware - it's amazing how many people still don't know what's going on. Initiate legal suits, support your advocates who are attending the Codex meetings and write Canadian Codex delegates before the June 1999 Codex meeting.

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We encourage you to support your local consumer advocacy groups including Consumer Health Organization by becoming members and volunteering your time:

Debbie Anderson, CITIZEN'S VOICE FOR HEALTH RIGHTS

phone: 604-793-9087 website www.citizensvoice.org email: debbie@dowco.com

Miriam Hawkins, NATIONAL COALITION FOR HEALTH FREEDOM* (*not the same as Canadian Coalition for Health Freedom); phone: 416-537-5898 email: mirhawk@interlog.com

Mike McBain, CANADIAN HEALTH COALITION

phone: 613-521-3400 X308# website: www.healthcoalition.ca

Marilyn Nelson, FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN HEALTH CARE

phone: 416-282-6496 CHECK IF SHE HAS FAX AND EMAIL

David Orchard, CITIZENS CONCERNED ABOUT FREE TRADE

9 Bloor St. E., #202, Toronto. phone: 416-922-7867; fax: 416-405-8784

HEALTH FREEDOM ADVOCATES:

John Hammell, Legislative Advocate, INTERNATIONAL ADVOCATES FOR HEALTH FREEDOM

PO Box 625
Floyd, Virginia 24091, USA
800-333-2553 - (North America)
overseas: 540-745-6534
540-745-6535 fax

website: http://www.iahf.com email: jham@iahf.com

Suzanne Harris, J.D., LAW LOFT

c/o KCXL-1140 AM, 310 S. LaFrenz, Liberty, Missouri 64068

KCXL: phone: 816-576-7800; fax: 816-792-8258 (fax) call M-Th 7:05, Sun 4:05

Len Horowitz, Ph.D., TETRAHEDRON INC., Box 2033, Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864

phone: 208-265-2575 email: tetra@tetrahedron.org website: www.tetrahedron.org

Mathias Rath, M.D., email: www.rath.nl

Zoltan Rona, M.D., phone: 920-9241 fax: 920-7109

email: zrona@srvitamins.com website: www.srvitamins.com

David Rowland, Ph.D., phone: 705-746-7839 fax: 705-746-7893.

Canadian Nutrition Institute, 416-852-6175?, Uxbridge

2675 W. Hwy 89A, Ste. 1062, Sedona, AZ 86336 (winter)

email: everpresent@msn.com

The following consumer groups support the "third category", and are not in the best interests of the consumer:

Canadian Coalition For Health Freedom (*note - different from National Coalition for Health Freedom or Canadian Health Coalition which are genuine advocacy groups)

Canadian Health Food Association (now the Canadian Natural Health Products Assoc.)

Complementary Health Products Alliance CHECK

Citizens for Health (have member groups in U.S. but aren't active here)

Natural Affairs Party, Rob McMaster, Bloor St. W., 247-3044 CHECK THIS OUT