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Your personal rights to determine, obtain and provide natural healthcare, food supplements, herbs and alternative therapies are at risk.

 

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The Situation

WHAT YOU CAN AND SHOULD DO.

What is the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences?

Why support the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences?

Help us now.

What are these funds needed for?

To make a donation

 

The Situation
European Union legislation, backed by well funded vested interests, is set to ban many of the food supplements we normally take for granted. Worse yet, the United Nations, through their Codex Alimentarius Commission, is seeking to adopt this restrictive European legislation and apply it world wide in the name of ‘trade harmonization’ and the World Trade Organization will act as the enforcement branch for all UN member nations.

Your freedom of choice and access to natural health remedies such as food supplements and herbs is at very real risk.

This will continue to adversely affect the Natural Health Industry as a whole including vitamin and herbal remedy manufacturers, distributors and retailers, Health Food stores, Nutritionalists and Natural Health Practitioners and most importantly, the consumers they serve.

  • Many vitamins and mineral forms will be eliminated completely with expensive and time consuming procedures for uncertain recourse.

  • Maximum permitted dosages will be drastically reduced to "placebo" therapeutic levels.

  • Natural food substances are to be reclassified as medicines and drugs and brought under the control of Pharmaceutical companies.

  • Restricted promotion of benefits will be enforced.

  • Herbal ingredients will also be severely restricted.

WHAT YOU CAN AND SHOULD DO.
1. Take the time needed to learn the facts. Don’t rely exclusively on anyone’s interpretations of the legislation or opinions. Personally read the actual documents themselves. If you have questions about what you have read, ask questions and get your questions satisfactorily answered.

2. Have a good look at the WINHS website and return frequently to see which of the issues presented you consider most important, and let your representatives in government know your concerns - in writing!

  • If you live in Europe, please consider writing to your government representatives, highlighting your concerns about all the EU Directives, in particular how they impact negatively on innovation in the food supplements and herbal products industries.

  • If you are a citizen of a country in Europe, find your MEP by clicking here.

  • If you are a British Subject or UK citizen, find your MEP by clicking here.

  • If you are an Irish citizen, find your MEP by clicking here.

  • If you are an American citizen, click the following links to find your Congressman and Senator.

You can help us as well.

What is the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences?
The World Institute of Natural Health Sciences (WINHS) is a non-profit, worldwide organization established to facilitate the protection and defense of the natural and alternative health care industries; their sciences, and the individual's right of uncensored access.

We fully support and work to defend each individual's basic right to make their own educated decisions from all available treatments and therapies in order to maintain or re-establish a desirable and sustainable level of health and well-being.

Further, its purpose includes the collection and synthesizing of research and technical developments from the scientific community in the fields of nutrition, foods and food supplements, minerals and herbs and the alternative and natural health industries themselves. In addition, our purpose includes all of the work necessary to codify and simplify these reports in order to redirect them back into the community and public sectors for universal access and understanding.

The Institute continues to sponsor and assist allied groups in order to reverse the international trend and campaigns against natural, food-based supplements. With your help, WINHS will continue to work and support allied groups towards appropriate legislation to secure the long-term future of alternative products, natural healthcare and its therapies.

Why support the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences?
The remarkable verdict of the Advocate General in the European Courts of Justice on April 5th, 2005 gave the natural health industry, consumers and practitioners real hope.

Describing the provisions in the EU Food Supplements Directive "as clear as a black box," the Advocate General has recommended that the Directive be declared invalid under EU law.

Despite such strong and unprecedented language against the Directive, on July 12, 2005, the European Court chose to ignore the Advocate General’s recommendations and ruled in favor of the directive noting that their examination of the challenge referred to the Court revealed no factor to affect the validity of the Directive and was not in conflict with the laws of the Member States relating to food supplements.

Certainly it is not all over in Europe. In fact, it is only the beginning…for many countries on every continent.

The Institute has a narrow window of opportunity to work with their EU associates as they renegotiate the legislation so that your right to choose leading-edge natural products including vitamins and minerals is secured. The time to act is NOW!

We believe that defensive legal challenges coupled with strong offensive programs directed at the sources and vested interests of this legislation will do much more to win the fight.

The Institute's programs and initiatives are of critical importance to consumers, practitioners, retailers and doctors who rely upon innovative and complex food supplements and alternative health care practices.

The World Institute of Natural Health Sciences focuses its work at the core of the problem whether this is in the EU, United States or internationally through Codex Alimentarius' all too similar agenda.

We can only do this with your support, and make no mistake, only by working at the heart of the problem with scientists, lawyers, expert researchers and communications specialists, can we make a difference.

Help us now.
$941,399 US (£500,000 / 731,070 EUR) is currently needed to cover the costs of campaign actions to successfully counter key anti-alternative and natural health care initiatives in 2008.

  1. Make certain your government representatives know and understand your position on the EU Directives and additional attacks on your right to access and choice worldwide through Codex Alimentarius.

  2. Please donate whatever you can. NOW. (EUR, £s or $).

Whatever you can send: 10.00, 20.00, 50.00, 100.00, 500.00 or more.

With your financial support, the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences has a real chance to protect your right to use leading-edge food supplements and other natural health products.

Now is the chance to protect your right to natural health choices. This is a critical time for the future of natural health choice.

What are these funds needed for?

  1. Professional fees to assist the European Court challenges and the support necessary to develop further legal challenges to medicinal law in the EU.

  2. Support of groundbreaking technical, scientific and legal work on EU threats, and consultation with regulators' professional public affairs lobbying in Brussels.

  3. An expanded public and media awareness campaign to garner additional support.

  4. Successful implementation of a worldwide celebrity endorsement campaign in the media, promotions and documentaries for television.

  5. The translation of scientific breakthroughs in innovative and alternative health into digestible layman's terms to increase accessibility and understanding of scientific findings, technical reports and legislation information concerning natural health, medical practices, drugs and drug manufacturing, food supplements, herbs, and innovative and alternative health care developments.

  6. The acquisition and utilization of professional and volunteer researchers to document local, regional, national and international legislation concerning natural health, medical practices, drugs and drug manufacturing, food supplements, herbs, and innovative and alternative health care developments.

  7. The research, documentation and promotion of vested interests, their activities and funding used to influence legislators and legislation for corporate and personal gain.

To make a donation:

You can support the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences' campaigns and programs in a number of safe and secure ways.

  1. We suggest that you use our secure web payment system, and note that you are not required nor obligated to join or become a member – this is totally optional.

    2. If you prefer, rather than making a donation through our secure web payment system you can make a donation direct to the World Institute of Natural Sciences.

  2. By standing order: Please download the standing order mandate, complete the form and send it directly to your bank. Once this is done, please send an email to info@winhs.org with the amount and frequency or telephone 1.818.951.7933.

  3. By check: Checks can be sent direct to our registered office and should be made payable to the 'World Institute of Natural Health Sciences' and sent to:

    4. For North & South America - send to:
    The World Institute of Natural Health Sciences
    Leicester House
    11417 Mt. Gleason Avenue
    Los Angeles, CA USA 91042

    For Europe - send to:
    The World Institute of Natural Health Sciences
    Suite 7, Bulrushes Farm
    Coombe Hill Road
    East Grinstead
    West Sussex, UK

  4. By Inter-Bank Transaction / Bank wire: You may wish to make a donation by bank transaction. Please email info@winhs.org for more details or telephone 1.818.951.7933.

Thank you for supporting the World Institute of Natural Health Sciences and your right to natural healthcare!