FOR TODAY 4/20: ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE IN B.C. CANADA- BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING
IN CANADA IS HAPPENING WORLD WIDE- SO AMERICANS AND PEOPLE WORLD WIDE
PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CANADA!

Important Public Notice: Due to Vested Pharmaceutical Interests Within It,
the Canadian Health Food Assn is Misrepresenting the Regulatory Situation
in both the USA and in Australia in an effort to Deceive the Canadian
People and Parliament into adopting a so called “third category,” or quasi
drug category which would NOT foster a level playing field, but is designed
to drive the smaller companies out of business by tying Canada even MORE
into the Australian listings system (which came to Australia from Norway
where the shell game first began unfolding in the mid '80s.) The CHFA is
grossly misleading you by selectively presenting just ONE of the MANY fees
the Australian TGA charges natural products manufacturers! Download the
COMPLETE list from www.health.gov.au/tga/tgapubs/pubs/feesach.htm

For the RECORD: Here in America, we DO NOT HAVE a THIRD CATEGORY
(“neither foods nor drugs”). FOOD, (including dietary supplements), is
regulated under Chapter 4 of our Act, while DRUGS & DEVICES are regulated
under Chapter 5. Anyone who tries to tell you that DSHEA gave us a “THIRD
CATEGORY” is deliberately attempting to misrepresent what we have here.
Moreover, DSHEA hasn’t been fully implemented here: they are STILL trying
to destroy health freedom by creating a so called botanical review board at
FDA, which would create an unlevel playing field, favoring only the largest
companies which would be able to afford the costs involved with FDA
licensing to sell OTC drugs.

We are trying to derail this through HR 2868 The Consumer Health Free
Speech Act, which would remove food from the current overly broad statutory
definition of DRUG! This would eliminate the ...(ahem) "need"... for any so
called “botanical review board” at FDA, because if a therapeutic claim were
true, we could make it: on a herb as sold as  a dietary supplement, and
eliminating this ludicrous structure function claim limitiation (which
people in Canada are attempting to foist off on you as a wonderful thing.)
(If something is TRUE, does anyone ANYWHERE REALLY NEED a band of
MICROCEPHALIC BUREAUCRATIC, PAPER PUSHING NON ENTITIES to PROCLAIM IT SO?
SIMULTANEOUSLY, the same people are attempting to MISREPRESENT what you
have to Americans (via American Herbal Product Assn’s newsletter), in an
effort to con herb companies here into agreeing to a DIN classification
system, (attempting to depict it as a GOOD THING(!)

So far you’ve embraced the DIN numbering scam, now they want you to take
the next step-- to use  a Canadian version of the Australian registration
software. Do not be deceived! This is just a means by which to more
thoroughly engage in divide and conquer tactics by developing a more
complete database of how your manufacturers do business, who their
suppliers are, etc. They suck you into registering by computer by INITIALLY
making the registration fees affordable, THEN they jack them out of sight
once the... (ahem!)“system”... is in place...

Alert to the Canadian People:

The Liberal Party's effort to turn today’s Standing Committee on Health
proceedings into a “dog and pony show” with only such ASTROTURF (fake grass
roots- pro German pharmaceutical orgs as Canadian Coalition for Health
Freedom and Rob McMaster’s so called “Natural Affairs Action Party” being
the only groups “on camera” when the media arrives was only NARROWLY
prevented by Citizens Voice for Health Rights which will have at least A
FEW speakers present while the media is there. IAHF strongly endorses
Citizens Voice for Health Rights as a TRUE grass roots health freedom
organization, and calls upon all Canadians to support the foods are not
drugs amendment, and to drive Rock out of office, the same as you did to
Dingwall!!