Practitioners

A STORM IS BREWING...

The future of the entire nation’s Natural Health industry, and personal freedom of choice regarding access to a wide range of vitamin supplements, amino acids, herbs and traditional medicines, appears to be at genuine risk in the not-too-distant future. One can later speculate and even try to reason the intentions and motivations that have brought about this situation; however it is certain that this situation exists and is no accident in circumstance.

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THE SITUATION.

WHAT'S REALLY AT RISK?

THE APPROVED LIST.

HELP US NOW.

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 worldwide in the name of ‘trade harmonization’ and the World Trade Organization will act as the enforcement branch for all UN member nations.

Your patient’s and your own freedom of choice and access to natural remedies such as high dose supplements, herbs and traditional medicines is at very real risk.

This will adversely affect the Natural Health Industry as a whole including vitamin and herbal remedy manufacturers, distributors and resellers, health food stores, nutritionists and natural health practitioners and most importantly, the consumers they serve.

• Many currently available vitamins and mineral forms will be eliminated completely including; 23 different food forms of Calcium, 21 food forms of Iron, 30 different forms of Magnesium, 21 different forms of Potassium, 15 different forms of amino acids, almost the entire spectrum of Vitamin E, and many others.

• Maximum permitted dosage levels will be drastically reduced to RDA or "placebo" therapeutic levels.

• *Herbal ingredients will be severely restricted.

• Traditional medicines will also be restricted or eliminated completely.
• Information on natural products will be totally censored.

Something CAN and SHOULD be done about it.
The World Institute of Natural Health Sciences (WINHS) is actively concerned with protecting your professional services. Practitioners and medical doctors practicing natural health, more than any other professional group, require natural and innovative products and substances at unique dosage levels that are effective. Being forced through unfair legislation and enforcable international trade agreements signed by short sighted government representatives to use products that are not effective will have significant impact on your practice.

There are key forces that could cause you to lose some of your favored and most important natural products:

• Pressures from severely restrictive legislation and guidelines (EU Food Supplements Directive, Codex guidelines and standards).

• Pressures from existing international Trade Agreements that validate and empower foreign influence to overwrite a country's existing policies and law regarding nutrition, supplements and dosage levels.

• Pressures from the mainstream media’s apparent ‘fear’ and ‘personal risk’ campaigns and consequent negative public perceptions of natural products.

WINHS is working on your behalf in each of these key areas.

What's really at risk?

Practitioners involved in nutrition, supplementation, herbal and traditional medicines all over Europe and the United States are becoming aware of the huge range of vitamin and mineral products that will be affected by the EU FOOD SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE, the TRADITIONAL HERBAL PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE, the HUMAN MEDICINAL PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE, the NUTRITION & HEALTH CLAIMS REGULATION and CODEX ALIMENTARIUS GUIDELINES.

WINHS is involved in several media, legal and investigative campaigns and programs in order to prevent the wholesale loss of:

• Most natural forms of vitamins, such as natural sources of Vitamin E including mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols, plant form of folic acid (tetra hydro folate), mixed natural carotenoids and methylcobalamin (co-enzyme form of B12).

• All forms of sulphur, boron, vanadium, silicon and tin

• Organically bound mineral forms, e.g. seleno-methionine-cysteine and other amino acid chelated mineral forms, organically bound minerals extracted or derived from plants, etc.

• All ultra-trace elements in food supplements, e.g. many of the 60 or so ultra-trace metallic ad non-metallic elements that are increasingly recognized as having significant roles in metabolism.

The bottom line is that the totality of the new EU and global regulations of natural products will dramatically affect:

• Ingredients used as food / dietary supplements,

• Herbs, amino acids, traditional medicines.

• Maximum (and sometimes minimum) dosage levels of ingredients within food/dietary supplements.

• Health claims which are made, verbally and in writing, about food/dietary supplements and any psychological or mental benefits.

Any nutrients, herbs or other natural health products, that are not already on the existing "Approved List" which fail to be newly approved as food/dietary supplements, might not be allowed back on the market if they are registered as drugs.

The drugs licensing system is too expensive for most innovative manufacturers and, where natural products are licensed as drugs, it will force prices up dramatically, making them less accessible to practitioners and consumers.

It might be another 10 years before the EU rolls out their full 'natural health products game plan.' This is why it is so critical to support our campaigns now, so that these regulations can be properly re-shaped now - with your help.

With the plundering of your 'nutritional inventory' as early as 2009 in Europe, where supermarket-type vitamins and minerals may be the only type of products you're allowed to offer patients and clients, could you still deliver the healthcare service you would wish to?

The EU Food Supplements Directive is just the beginning… and no country is totally insulated from this attack.

The prohibition of vitamin and mineral forms in the EU Food Supplements Directive represents only the first phase of the legislation. The second phase will limit the maximum allowable doses of nutrients (which will be evaluated according to the international risk assessment guidelines being developed through Codex Alimentarius). The third phase (proposed by the European Commission), will restrict the range of all other nutrient forms in food supplements (e.g. plant extracts, phytonutrients, amino acids, enzymes, essential fatty acids, probiotics, fiber, etc).

And it does NOT stop there.

The controversial and sometimes flawed science that is being developed and proposed to limit doses for products controlled under the EU Food Supplements Directive, is precisely that which is being considered for adoption by Codex Alimentarius, which is in the process of developing global guidelines for nutrients used as health supplements.

The World Institute of Natural Health Sciences supports the development of further strategic legal challenges. Our work is focused on ensuring the future of success and innovation in natural healthcare, not only in western countries, but also in countries on continents such as Asia, Africa and South America that have very long-standing traditions of herbal and natural medicine.

Under the 'Codex risk assessment process,' Few if any of these traditions will be allowed to continue. In their place, the regulators seem content to offer a diet of western pharmaceutical drugs known to be by far the most hazardous group of substances commonly ingested by humans. Hazardous to both health and the environment.

Strategic Legal Challenges. We are firm in our view that a series of strategic legal challenges are required to ensure that the future of natural healthcare is secured worldwide.

Pro-Active Investigations.
In support of these legal challenges, we believe a series of pro-active investigatory programs are needed to expose the vested interests, their motivation and efforts while, at the same time, bringing the real situation to light in the industry and the community at large.

On-going PR and Media Campaign.
Dealing with the primarily negative spin of the mainstream media that is so often based on false, misrepresented or flawed scientific research, our offensive media campaigns are of the highest priority.

Professional Communications Programs.
In addition to pro-active PR and media campaigns, have launched a worldwide communications program to promote the volumes and volumes of scientific evidence in support of the natural health industry, its remedies and therapies and make these easier to understand by the consumers they most impact.

Practitioners are also consumers!
Please refer to our CONSUMERS page for further information.

The Approved List

The Vitamins & Minerals Positive List

Only the following nutrient sources will be allowed under the EU Food Supplements Directives. This is the so-called “positive list.”

VITAMINS

1. VITAMIN A
(a) retinol
(b) retinyl acetate
(c) retinyl palmitate
(d) beta-carotene

2. VITAMIN D
(a) cholecalciferol
(b) ergocalciferol

3. VITAMIN E
(a) D-alpha-tocopherol
(b) DL-alpha-tocopherol
(c) D-alpha-tocopheryl acetate
(d) DL-alpha-tocopheryl acetate
(e) D-alpha-tocopheryl acid succinate

4. VITAMIN K
(a) phylloquinone (phytomenadione)

5. VITAMIN B1
(a) thiamin hydrochloride
(b) thiamin mononitrate

6. VITAMIN B2
(a) riboflavin
(b) riboflavin 5’-phosphate, sodium

7. NIACIN
(a) nicotinic acid
(b) nicotinamide

8. PANTOTHENIC ACID
(a) D-pantothenate, calcium
(b) D-pantothenate, sodium
(c) dexpanthenol

9. VITAMIN B6
(a) pyridoxine hydrochloride
(b) pyridoxine 5’-phosphate

10. FOLIC ACID
(a) pteroylmonoglutamic acid

11. VITAMIN B12
(a) cyanocobalamin
(b) hydroxocobalamin

12. BIOTIN
(a) D-biotin

13. VITAMIN C
(a) L-ascorbic acid
(b) sodium-L-ascorbate
(c) calcium-L-ascorbate
(d) potassium-L-ascorbate
(e) L-ascorbyl 6-palmitate 

MINERALS

• calcium carbonate
• calcium chloride
• calcium salts of citric acid
• calcium gluconate
• calcium glycerophosphate
• calcium lactate
• calcium salts of orthophosphoric acid
• calcium hydroxide
• calcium oxide
• magnesium acetate
• magnesium carbonate
• magnesium chloride
• magnesium salts of citric acid
• magnesium gluconate
• magnesium glycerophosphate
• magnesium salts of orthophosphoric acid
• magnesium lactate
• magnesium hydroxide
• magnesium oxide
• magnesium sulphate
• ferrous carbonate
• ferrous citrate
• ferric ammonium citrate
• ferrous gluconate
• ferrous fumarate
• ferric sodium diphosphate
• ferrous lactate ferrous sulphate
• ferric diphosphate (ferric pyrophosphate)
• ferric saccharate elemental iron (carbonyl+electrolytic+hydrogen reduced)
• cupric carbonate
• cupric citrate
• cupric gluconate
• cupric sulphate
• copper lysine complex
• sodium iodide
• sodium iodate
• potassium iodide
• potassium iodate

MINERALS

• zinc acetate
• zinc chloride
• zinc citrate
• zinc gluconate
• zinc lactate
• zinc oxide
• zinc carbonate
• zinc sulphate
• manganese carbonate
• manganese chloride
• manganese citrate
• manganese gluconate
• manganese glycerophosphate
• manganese sulphate
• sodium bicarbonate
• sodium carbonate
• sodium chloride
• sodium citrate
• sodium gluconate
• sodium lactate
• sodium hydroxide
• sodium salts of orthophosphoric acid
• potassium bicarbonate
• potassium carbonate
• potassium chloride
• potassium citrate
• potassium gluconate
• potassium glycerophosphate
• potassium lactate
• potassium hydroxide
• potassium salts of orthophosphoric acid
• sodium selenate
• sodium hydrogen selenite
• sodium selenite
• chromium (III)
• chloride chromium (III)
• sulphate ammonium molybdate (molybdenum (VI))
• sodium molybdate (molybdenum (VI))
• potassium fluoride sodium fluoride

Some of the 300+ vitamin or mineral sources excluded from the Food Supplements Directive positive list.

Substance: Benefit

Mixed (incl. gamma) tocopherols, tocotrienols (i.e. almost the whole spectrum of naturally-occurring Vitamin E): Antioxidants, which protect against damage by free-radicals which are associated with cancer and other degenerative diseases

Mixed/ natural spectrum of carotenoids: Protective against infections, antioxidants, use in cancer prevention/treatment

Boron (all forms): Required for absorption of calcium

Vanadium (all forms): Controls diabetes or blood-sugar levels, better in combination with bioavailable chromium forms

Silica (all forms): Works in conjunction with boron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and ascorbic acid to support bones, arteries, connective tissue, healthy hair, skin, and nails.

Sulphur (all forms): Includes glucosamine suphate for support of joint tissue and MSM (methyl-sulfonyl-methane) with wide variety of known health benefits.

Selenium (14 different forms, including selenium yeast products): Antioxidants. Important for heart function. Very low or non-existent in foods owing to mineral depletion of agricultural soils

Colloidal or ionic trace elements derived from natural sources: Very wide range of health benefits

Calcium ascorbate: A type of Vitamin C for those who cannot tolerate ascorbic acid

Calcium (23 different food forms): Includes many bioavailable forms of calcium needed for bones, teeth and cell function. Dairy products do not provide substantial bioavailable forms of calcium

Chromium (in 17 different forms) including picolinate and polynicotinate: Important for balancing blood sugar levels; manages arteriosclerosis; widely used by diabetics

Copper (24 different forms): For artery strength, maintaining connective tissue

Iron (21 food forms, including iron-based yeast): For blood and many enzymes involved in energy metabolism

Magnesium (30 different forms): For healthy bones and teeth, nerve transmission and muscle contraction

Molybdenum (15 different forms of amino acid chelate): Essential component of enzymes involved in the production of genetic material. May reduce tooth decay

Potassium (21 different forms): Maintains blood pressure and heart beat rhythm

Colloidal silicic acid: Helps in the maintenance of healthy nails

The European Commission will most likely issue further restrictive positive lists for other nutrient groups including essential fatty acids, amino acids, phytonutrients, antioxidants, etc. **pending submission of Scientific Dossiers; see www.foodsupsinfo.net for details.

Please help the WINHS and support the campaign and legal challenges by taking the following steps immediately:

1. Become a MEMBER OF THE WORLD INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HEALTH SCIENCES. This registered base of supporters is critical to the success of our lobbying work in the European Parliament, the U.S. Congress and other campaign activities throughout the world. You will then also receive regular mailshots about the campaign progress.

2. Please visit our website regularly and find out more about the issue and the problems that will result if the Food Supplements Directive, other EU Directives and Codex Guidelines are fully implemented.

3. Make your own personal contribution to the 'financial fuel' required NOW for the INSTITUTE to move rapidly forward. Your contribution is vital, however little you are able to give. Please consider donating monthly of you are able. Contribute to the INSTITUTE by secure credit/debit card donation on our website, by direct bank transfer (details available by phone or email request info@winhs.org.

4. Ask as many others as you know (throughout Europe and elsewhere) who may be similarly concerned about the legislation to visit our website.

5. Help us now. If you wish to make a contribution, you can easily do so on our confidential and secure contribution page. CLICK HERE.

6. 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.

With your help and 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 time to protect your right to provide natural health choices. This is a critical time for the future of natural health care.

What are these funds needed for?

1. WINHS is assisting and supporting the European scientific and legal challenges to the EU Food Supplements Directive and working to develop further legal challenges to medicinal law revisions in the EU.

2. We support and promote technical, scientific and legal actions directed against the European threats to natural health, and conduct briefings and consultations with regulators, legislators, health freedom and consumer groups.

3. We've launched an expanded public and media awareness campaign to garner additional support.

4. The successful implementation of a worldwide celebrity endorsement campaign in the media, promotions and documentaries for television and online broadcasts.

5. We provide 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 traditional medicines.

6. We acqure and utilize 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. We're investigating, documenting the vested interests, their motivations, activities and the significant funding used to influence legislators and legislation for corporate and personal gain.

8. We've launched a massive international "Public Awareness" Campaign to alert the media, legislators and consumers of the potential disaster to natural health products and services.

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

One Final Note:
Please join the rapidly growing support base of practitioners who are working across the US, Europe and all over the world with the WINHS to protect innovation and the availability of leading-edge supplements. JOIN US NOW!

Please e-mail us at info@winhs.org, should you require any further information. Or telephone 1.818.951.7933 (US) and +44 (0) 7913 188 756.