Supplement Alert!!

[Sandy H.]

This was sent to me from my R.N. who I consult with for my supplements. I was asked to pass it along. I know some of you take supplements as I do. This is getting serious that we may not have the freedom to use these supplements after July 2005. I will be sending along more info. Hugs, Sandy

[Sandy H.]

Oops, I forgot to attachment the information. Sorry, here it is. Sandy

URGENT - ACTION NEEDED THIS WEEKEND BY UK CITIZENS



Please pass on this message to your friends – distribute as widely as
you can to UK contacts.



We are sending this message to seek your urgent assistance with the
campaign to stop the EU Food Supplements Directive's proposed ban on
75% of vitamin and mineral forms, found in some 5000 products
currently sold in UK health stores and via practitioners.



We will be in the European Court in Luxembourg on 25 January defending
our landmark case to overturn the ban.



On the same evening of our case, this coming Tuesday, to coincide with
the legal action being taken in Luxembourg, Conservative MP Chris
Grayling and Labour MP Kate Hoey will lead a cross-Party effort to
force the Government to renegotiate the Directive and end the threat
to most bio-available forms of vitamins and minerals in the UK.



The Opposition have given up half a day of the time allocated to them
for this debate, and it will provide an opportunity for MPs to vote
against the Directive and to instruct the Government to go back to
Brussels and renegotiate its provisions.



We need your help. We need to put as much pressure on MPs as possible
to vote with us on Tuesday. Please can you send an email to your own
MP at Westminster over the weekend or before Tuesday lunchtime urging
them to back the motion and to oppose the Directive.



The email address for MPs works in the following way: the surname and
the initial followed by @parliament.uk. So John Reid, the Health
Secretary's email address would be reidj@parliament.uk and the Junior
Minister involved, Melanie Johnson's would be johnsonm@parliament.uk.



You might like to send an email to both of them as well.



If you don't know who your MP is, please go to:
http://www.locata.co.uk/commons/ and type in your postcode.



Please give us your help. The Alliance for Natural Health, and its
collaborating organisations in Europe and around the world, are in the
last-chance saloon for leading-edge food (dietary) supplements. We
have to get the UK Government - who are opposing our case in the
European Court -to listen.



And if they won't, we need to let them know how angry we are.



Thanks in anticipation of your help.



Dr Robert Verkerk

executive director

Alliance for Natural Health