EMERGENCY IN EUROPE!

FROM VRP & ADVANCED MENOPAUSE RELIEF:

Dear Valued Customer,
There are proposed regulations in Europe that, if allowed to become law, will negatively effect both the availability and price of many of your favorite dietary supplements. Vitamin Research Products is proud to join the support for the cause, as embraced by many concerned consumers and manufacturers of the supplement community.

Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, Sir Cliff Richard, Phil Collins and a large number of other high profile celebrities are lining up to oppose controversial EU legislation that threatens to ban the vast majority of vitamin and mineral supplements currently on sale in the UK and around the EU. The extraordinary galaxy of stars supporting the campaign includes many famous names from the worlds of music, sport and television. The celebrities are all supporting the rights of EU consumers to purchase a wide range of food supplements, the availability of which could be jeopardized as a result of the Food Supplement Directive. Because food supplements are demonstrably safe, the stars believe that consumers should have the right to make up their own minds, without EU interference, about whether to purchase vitamins and minerals in higher doses than the RDAs.

I urge you to read the information below and to help in any way you can.

Thank you,
Rob Watson
President/CEO
Vitamin Research Products

FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION:

EU Food Supplement Directive:

In order to preserve the future availability of supplements in the USA, it is now vitally important for US citizens to fax or e-mail the following people requesting that the EU Food Supplement Directive be abandoned. If this directive is not stopped it will strongly influence the deliberations of the UN Codex Alimentarius committee, who advocate similar tight restrictions on the sale of supplements. The USA would then come under strong international pressure to implement these Codex recommendations because of its' having signed up to the NAFTA and GATT international trade agreements.

Romano Prodi (President of the European Commission)
romano.prodi@cec.eu.int Fax number 011 32 2 295 8532

Robert Coleman (EU Director-General for Health and Consumer Protection)
robert.coleman@cec.eu.int Fax number 011 32 2 299 6298

David Byrne (EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection)
David.Byrne@cec.eu.int Fax number 011 32 2 298 1499

Basil Mathioudakis (whose job it is to steer the Directive through the European Parliament)
basil.mathioudakis@cec.eu.int Fax number 011 32 2 296 0951

EUROPEAN UNION (EU) VITAMIN DIRECTIVE THREATENS HEALTH FREEDOM GLOBALLY BECAUSE OF HOW IT WILL IMPACT CODEX IF NOT STOPPED

CODEX THREATENS U.S. DOMESTIC VITAMIN LAWS ACCORDING TO ANALYSIS BY CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE PER QUESTION BY CONGRESSMEN PAUL/DEFAZIO - See http://www.iahf.com (click spinning green disk for .gif file of letter from Paul/DeFazio to Burton prior to Codex Oversight Hearing last March).

Formal Statements Needed From Alternative Medical Practitioners using vitamins world wide to EU Parliament in support of Amendment One, which would KILL the Directive outright as totally unnecessary (Vitamins are SAFE, Drugs are DANGEROUS; no NEED to regulate vitamins like drugs); threatens to set up TRADE WAR between EU and US; threatens to LEAD TO DEATHS all over the EU; threatens to remove over 300 products from UK/Dutch Health Food stores; will cause HEADACHES for the EU that they do not NEED!

For European Union citizens or residents only Please send comments to EU Parliament
(See instructions at http://www.europarl.eu.int/petition/help_en.htm)

US Citizens should use the following as the basis for their faxes and e-mails:

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am an American citizen and a consumer of food supplements, and have been following with great concern the progress of the EU Food Supplement Directive. Quite apart from the fact that the directive completely ignores both individual freedom of choice and individual nutritional need, I am disturbed to learn that should this restrictive directive be implemented it will influence the deliberations of the Codex Alimentarius committee. Thus, your legislation will therefore be having an influence not only on Europe, but on world-wide trade, and in non European markets such as the USA. My own rights to buy the food supplements of my choice could therefore be directly affected by this directive.

The Food Supplement Directive as it is currently proposed does not treat consumers and food supplements in a way that encourages good health; unlike the US DSHEA for example, where President Clinton himself attributed the move toward legislative and regulatory reform for dietary supplements to a growing interest on the part of the American public in the use of dietary supplements. In signing DSHEA into law, he stated:

"…in an era of greater consciousness among people about the impact of what they eat on how they live, indeed, how long they live, it is appropriate that we have finally reformed the way the Government treats consumers and these supplements in a way that encourages good health."

President Clinton's statement, and the US DSHEA itself, are in stark contrast to the proposed EU legislation, which rather than protecting the rights of consumers to buy and consume the supplements of their choice will instead tightly restrict both the availability and dosages of all nutrient ingredients. This goes against all of the latest nutritional and scientific research, which shows clear and unequivocal benefits to human health and longevity from the consumption of high-dose food supplements.

I therefore urge you to now abandon this directive, and consider the rights of consumers of nutritional supplements, who have not asked for, nor do they want, their individual freedom of choice in health-care to be restricted by this directive.

Yours sincerely,

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