vitamin battle rages in EU

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EU Parliament Classifies Vitamins As Drugs
Cosmiverse.com

May 01, 2002

Many are outraged at the European Parliament's March 13th decision to pass the "EU Directive on Dietary Supplements". The directive labels vitamins and natural remedies such as lysine, chromium picolinate and selenium as medical drugs rather than the current classification of "food supplements".

In 2005 it will be illegal to sell these supplements over-the-counter in every European Union (EU) country. It will be required that those wanting to use the supplements obtain a prescription from a doctor.

Many believe that the directive has been pushed by the pharmaceutical companies for their own financial benefit rather than the Parliament's claim that it is for the protection of consumers. If consumers can no longer purchase supplements over-the-counter, pharmaceutical companies will eliminate competition.

Those claiming this conspiracy support their belief by citing the example of Frits Bolkenstein, a well known EU Commissioner. Bolkenstein is also a member of the advisory board of Merck, Sharp and Dohme, the second largest pharmaceutical company in the world.

604 million people have already expressed their displeasure at the directive by signing a global on-line petition to maintain free access to natural remedies. Many signers include United States citizens as well.

Considering the fact that the United States and the European Union are each other's largest trade and investment partners many fear that the US could try to adopt similar legislation.

Source: Health Sciences Institute

 

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Last Updated: Friday, 30 January, 2004, 15:33 GMT

Court victory for vitamin firms

An estimated 10m Britons take vitamin supplements. Groups opposed to new EU rules on vitamins and food supplements have won their fight to take the matter to the European Court of Justice. The High Court in London ruled on Friday that their case could be referred to judges in Luxembourg.

The European Commission wants to tighten up the rules on food supplements from August 2005.

However, opponents say it will lead to thousands of products being taken off shelves in the UK and elsewhere.

New restrictions

Under the new rules, only vitamins and minerals on an approved list can be used in supplements. There will also be restrictions on the upper limits of vitamin doses.

Industry and some patient groups want the EU directive scrapped, which only the European Court can do.

Mr Justice Richards had been asked to refer the directive to the European Court on the grounds that it was unlawful and would unfairly affect millions of people, threatening both health and trade.

Agreeing to the request, the judge ruled there was "an arguable case" and the reference "is plainly appropriate and should be made as soon as possible".

The UK government had opposed the move.

Lawyers representing some of the groups told the High Court that the directive would have a "severe impact" on the sale of many "small niche" products.

Conor Quigley QC also suggested it did not have "a proper legal basis".

Andrew Lockley, a solicitor representing health food stores and manufacturers, welcomed the ruling.

"My clients are glad and relieved that their concerns about this wide-ranging directive and its effect on the health food industry and its customers in the UK have been recognised.

"They look forward to carrying on the battle to overturn the directive at the European Court of Justice."

Speaking earlier, Paoli Pestori, director of food safety at the European Commission, told the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme, the new rules would protect the public.

"The directive will not ban any product. The aim is to ensure that vitamin and mineral pills which are marketed as food supplements are safe and properly labelled."

She said there would be a list of approved products which can be sold, and in addition, individual countries could approve others - if they had a safety record put forward before 2005.

But David Hinde of the Alliance for Natural Health, which represents patients and industry, said the directive could mean thousands of products were no longer be available.

He said obtaining a safety record could cost up to £250,000 per product.

"Under the law here, you do not need to have a safety record for food supplements. "It's a fundamental change in the law that is being proposed here."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3445503.stm

 

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For people that do not understand how big this network is....think of it this way, it affects every drop of food and drink besides the vitamins and minerals you take in.

EU probes vitamins cartel

Commission follows up US fines for price-fixing pharmaceuticals companies

By Julie Wolf in Brussels
Saturday May 22, 1999

The European Commission said yesterday it was investigating vitamin price fixing cartels a day after the US imposed record fines on two European pharmaceutical companies accused of running an international cartel.
The commission said its inquiries were at an advanced stage. Although the companies under investigation have not been officially identified, sources said they include Switzerland's Roche and Germany's BASF, the companies fined in the US.

Roche's chief executive, Franz Humer, said yesterday that the company had contacted the commission after agreeing to settle the US case. He said he expected the commission's investigation to last for some months.

Roche and BASF pleaded guilty on Thursday in a US district court in Dallas to conspiring to fix prices for vitamins. Roche agreed to pay a $500m fine, while BASF will pay $225m to settle charges by the US Justice Department.

France's Rhone-Polenc, which was in the price fixing ring, was spared punishment after co-operating with US regulators. The three companies have 75% of the US's $3bn annual market for vitamins.

Although the EU's competition authority has never imposed such high penalties on a single company, it is likely to follow suit with heavy fines if its evidence is as convincing as that obtained by US officials. The commission and US justice department are working increasingly closely in competition cases, although the two authorities can exchange 'privileged' information only if companies let them, commission officials said.

The starting point for calculating fines for serious cartels is $20m (£13.2m), a commission official said. The commission said several of the companies being investigated were co-operating. EU competition law allows for lower fines to be imposed on firms that help out in cartel investigations.

In the US case, a former senior marketing executive at Roche faces a $100,000 fine and a four-month prison sentence for his role in the price fixing conspiracy and subsequent cover up.

Roche, BASF, Rhone-Polenc and American and Japanese companies also face court claims for millions of dollars in damages in suits brought by bulk vitamin customers, including livestock farmers. The inflated prices imposed by the cartel affected products ranging from animal feed to breakfast cereals, according to the US justice department.

The cartel 'is the most pervasive and harmful criminal anti-trust conspiracy ever uncovered', said Joel Klein, who heads the justice department's anti-trust division and who is embroiled in the case against Microsoft, the computer software producer.

Mr Klein said the price fixing cartel 'hurt the pocket book of virtually every American consumer, anyone who took a vitamin, drank a glass of milk, or had a bowl of cereal'. Evidence gathered by US investigators in the vitamins cartel showed that the companies dictated all aspects of vitamin sales. The cartel's executive met annually to fix a budget in an arrangement known by some participants as 'Vitamins Inc' .

Roche, the world's biggest maker of vitamins, yesterday told a press conference that the fine would not affect its long-term financial outlook. Nonetheless, Roche's chief executive said the company was extremely angry about the affair. The executives involved in running the cartel have been dismissed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,295228,00.html

 

[MyZz]

Yes the vitamin battle is raging and it does look grim below is a link to the supplements that will be allowed to be manufactured,bought and soldhttp://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHwebsiteDoc_10.pdf

a large number of supplements are not on this list and this is a disaster for the health of the people who depend on the forbidden supplements.The way things stand now its going ahead for august 2005 which will become the cut-off point where they become illegal.However I do understand that companies will be given a certain time to phase them out.
It's all a disaster and when viewed in the light of what is recently happening to Terri this all looks so sinister.This move on supplements is targetting the ill and most vulnerable.Most of the supplements on the allowed list are in forms that are not favoured by nutritional therapists since they are inorganic and cannot be properly assimilated into the tissues or they give side effects.They are the supplements that are currently manufactured by pharmaceutical companies and no self respecting health practitioner would recommend those over the other more suitable alternatives which work beautifully.And now,they are being banned!!
It's not scare-mongering here in europe its a reality and much money and work has gone into fighting and lobbying this proposed legislation.
The lives and health of countless people are at risk.

 

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MP Mark backs fight against EU vitamins ban
EDITORIAL - whtimes@archant.co.uk
16 March 2005
HERTFORD and Stortford MP Mark Prisk is fighting against new EU regulations that would see thousands of vitamin and mineral supplements banned from August 1.

The MP voted in favour of a cross-party motion in the House of Commons, calling on the Government to renegotiate the Food Supplements Directive.

At present there are over 300 safe and popular nutrients that are not on the permitted list.

Campaigners fear that unless safety dossiers are submitted and approved they could no longer be sold.

And they are worried that bringing in EU law on this subject will have an adverse effect on small retailers.

Consumers would also not have the right to buy their favourite brands, some of which would no longer be on sale.

The Government outvoted the motion, but it secured endorsement from different political parties.

Mr Prisk's support gained praise from health campaigners and the lobby group Consumers for Health Choice (CHC).

He said: "I'm pleased to support CHC's campaign. This Government has failed to protect us from this unnecessary EU directive. People should be free to choose."
Sue Croft, director of CHC, said: "This is a pernicious piece of legislation that will restrict the way we look after our health.

"Government negotiations on behalf of the public were at best half-hearted and have shown a distinct lack of interest and understanding.

"Mark voted in support of consumers in the Commons - but we need more. We would encourage all users of vitamins, minerals and herbal remedies to find out if their MP is prepared to challenge this directive."
More information on CHC can be found at www.healthchoice.org.uk

 

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To learn the mechanics of how the rich and powerful move nations to do business their way.... you have to see the structure and function of the beast.

http://www.healthchoice.org.uk/codex/default.aspx

 

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Revelation18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy pharmakeia were all nations deceived.
Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their pharmakeia, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

We often talk about the beast, and the harlot among others of the book of Revelation. But none that I have read cover the fact that "by pharmakeia were the nation deceived."

This thread is about just that. Those companies that are involved in pharmakeia, those political groups that are involved in this deceptive mechanism. The deceptiveness of the medical drug world fostered as "good for your health". I have never known anyone to be deficient of a drug. It amazes me that Tv comercials pumping drugs was wonderful, list all the side effects which are far worse than the symptoms they are suppose to treat, and people do not hear it. That to me is one example of the power of this deception.

 

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Missing Nutrients ~ the Full List
Published: Wednesday, 9th March 2005

Source: The Times T2

Today's article in The Times T2 ran out of space before they were able to show the full list of nutrients and nutrient sources missing from the Food Supplements Directive Positive Lists.

The National Association of Health Stores prepared the list below after months of extensive research on products sold throughout the UK.

If you compare the list below against the ingredients shown on the labels of your favourite supplements - and find any listed here, then your product will either need to be reformulated before the end of July 2005 to remove and ingredient 'not allowed by EU' - or the product may be removed from the market in just 4 months time.

Derogation can be achieved for some ingredients on the basis that a dossier has been submitted for approval to the Food Standards Agency; that derogation may last until 31 December 2009 - providing the European Food Standards Agency has not given the substance an unfavourable opinion.

Ingredients that have already obtainer derogation are marked with **; those that are likely to obtain derogation in the near future are marked ++.

LIST OF INGREDIENTS NOT ON THE FOOD SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE POSITIVE LISTS:-

ALL ultra-trace elements

ALL protein-bound vitamins & Minerals

Octothiamine
Thiamin-5-phosphate ++
Thiamin co-carboxylase
Thiamin

pyrophosphate Nicidimide adenine dinucleotide
Inositol Hexaniacinate
Magnesium Pantothenate
Pantethine

Pyridoxamine
Pyridoxine alpha-Ketoglutarate
Dibencozide

Boron
Boron Amino Acid Chelate
Boron Ascorbate
Boron Aspartate
Boron Citrate
Boron Fumarate
Boron Gluconate
Boron Glycinate
Boron Lysinate
Boron Picolinate
Boron Proteinate
Boric Acid **
Sodium Borate / Sodium Tetraborate Decahydrate **

Ascorbyl Glycerate
Ester C ingredients **
Magnesium Ascorbate ++
Manganese Ascorbate ++
Niacinamide ascorbate

Calcium Amino Acid Chelate **
Calcium Arginate
Calcium Aspartate
Calcium Borogluconate
Calcium Citrate Malate
Calcium Cysteinate
Calcium Ethanolamine Phosphate
Calcium Fluoride ++
Calcium Folinate
Calcium Fructoheptonate
Calcium Fumarate
Calcium Glucoheptonate
Calcium Glycinate
Calcium Glytamate
Calcium Hydroxyapatite
Calcium Ketoglutarate
Calcium Lysinate
Calcium Malate
Calcium Methionate
Calcium Orotate
Calcium Phosphinate
Calcium Phosphoserine
Calcium Pidolate
Calcium Pyruvate
Calcium Silicate ++
Calcium Succinate
Calcium Sulphate **
Calcium Tartrate
Calcium Taurate
Calcium Undecyclenate
Calcium Yeast ++
Dolomite

Chromium Amino Acid Chelate **
Chromium Arginate
Chromium Ascorbate
Chromium Aspartate
Chromium Chloride
Chromium Citrate
Chromium Ethanolamine Phosphate
Chromium Fluoride
Chromium Fumarate
Chromium Glutamate
Chromium Glycinate
Chromium Ketoglutarate
Chromium Malate
Chromium Niacinate
Chromium Nicotinoglycinate
Chromium Nitrate
Chromium Orotate
Chromium Picolinate ++
Chromium Polynicotinate / Niacinate **
Chromium Succinate
Chromium Trioxide
Chromium (GTF) Yeast ++

Cobalt
Cobalt Gluconate

Copper Acetate
Copper Amino Acid Chelate **
Copper Ascorbate
Copper Aspartate
Copper Ethanolamine Phosphate
Copper Glutamate
Copper Glycinate
Copper Histidinate
Copper Ketoglutarate
Copper Lysinate
Copper Malate
Copper Orotate
Copper Oxide
Copper Picolinate
Copper Sebacate
Copper Succinate
Copper Tyrosinate
Copper Yeast

Cholecalciferol - Cholesterin

d-beta-tocopherol
d-delta-tocopherol
d-gamma-tocopherol
Tocotrienols
Mixed Tocopherols ++

Calcium Fluoride

5-methyl-tetra-hydrofolate ++

Ferritin
Iron Amino Acid Chelate **
Iron Arginate
Iron Ascorbate
Iron Aspartate
Iron Bisglycinate **
Iron Ethanolamine Phosphate
Iron Glucoheptonate
Iron Glycinate Sulphate
Iron Histidinate
Iron Ketoglutarate
Iron Malate
Iron Orotate
Iron Oxide
Iron Pantothenate
Iron Peptonate
Iron Phosphate
Iron Picolinate
Iron Pidolate
Iron Succinate
Iron Yeast ++

Menadione
Menaquinone
Magnesium Amino Acid Chelate **
Magnesium Arginate
Magnesium Ascorbate ++
Magnesium Aspartate ++
Magnesium Cysteinate
Magnesium Ethanolamine Phosphate
Magnesium Fumarate
Magnesium Gallate
Magnesium Glucoheptonate
Magnesium Glutamate
Magnesium Glycinate
Magnesium Ketoglutarate
Magnesium Lysinate
Magnesium Malate ++
Magnesium Methionate
Magnesium Niacinate
Magnesium Trisilicate
Magnesium Orotate
Magnesium Pantothenate
Magnesium Phosphoserine
Magnesium Pyruvate
Magnesium Succinate
Magnesium Tartrate
Magnesium Taurate
Magnesium Yeast ++

Manganese Amino Acid Chelate **
Manganese Arginate
Manganese Ascorbate ++
Manganese Aspartate
Manganese Cysteinate
Manganese Ethanolamine Phosphate
Manganese Fumarate
Manganese Glycinate
Manganese Histidinate
Manganese Ketoglutarate
Manganese Lactate
Manganese Malate
Manganese Methionate
Manganese Orotate
Manganese Picolinate
Manganese Yeast

Molybdenum Amino Acid Chelate
Molybdenum Arginate
Molybdenum Ascorbate
Molybdenum Aspartate
Molybdenum Citrate
Molybdenum Ethanolamine Phosphate
Molybdenum Fumarate
Molybdenum Glycinate
Molybdenum Malate
Molybdenum Methionate
Molybdenum Picolinate
Molybdenum Trioxide
Molybdenum Yeast
Potassium Molybdate ++
Sodium Molybdate

Nickel
Nickel Sulphate (Hexhydrate)

Phosphorus Amino Acid Chelate
Phosphorus Aspartate
Phosphorus Proteinate
Phosphorus Yeast
Sodium Phosphate

Potassium Amino Acid Chelate
Potassium Arginate
Potassium Aspartate
Potassium Caprylate
Potassium Ethanolamine Phosphate
Potassium Fumarate
Potassium Glutamate
Potassium Ketoglutarate
Potassium Malate
Potassium Orotate
Potassium Phosphate
Potassium Pyruvate
Potassium Salicylate
Potassium Sorbate
Potassium Succinate
Potassium Sulphate
Potassium Tartrate
Potassium Yeast

Selenium Amino Acid Chelate
Selenium Ascorbate
Selenium Citrate
Selenium Ethanolamine Phosphate
Selenium Fumarate
Selenium Glycinate
Selenium Lysinate
Selenium Malate
Selenium Picolinate
Selenium Succinate
Selenium Yeast **
Selenocysteine
Selenomethionine
Selenous Acid

Silicon
Algal silica
Colloidal silicic acid
Silicon Chelate
Silica Monomethylsilane Triol
Silicon Aspartate
Silicon Dioxide / Colloidal Silicic Acid ++
Silicon Ethanolamine Phosphate

Sodium Metasilicate
Silver
Sodium Caseinate
Sulphur AA Chelate

Tin
Tin Chloride

Vanadium
Bis-glycinato oxo vanadium
Sodium Metavanadate
Vanadium Amino Acid Chelate
Vanadium Ascorbate
Vanadium Aspartate
Vanadium Citrate
Vanadium Glycinate
Vanadium Oxide
Vanadium Picolinate
Vanadium Yeast
Vanadyl Sulphate

Zinc Amino Acid Chelate **
Zinc Arginate
Zinc Ascorbate ++
Zinc Aspartate
Zinc Caprylate
Zinc Cysteinate
Zinc Ethanolamine Phosphate
Zinc Fumarate
Zinc Glucoheptonate
Zinc Glutamate
Zinc Glycerophosphate
Zinc Glycinate
Zinc Histidinate
Zinc Ketoglutarate
Zinc Lysinate
Zinc Malate
Zinc Methionate ++
Zinc Orotate
Zinc Picolinate ++
Zinc Pidolate
Zinc Proteinate
Zinc Succinate
Zinc Tartrate
Zinc Taurate
Zinc Undecyclinate
Zinc Yeast ++

 

[Sephania]

So does this mean that this will happen in the European Union by July or here in the states as well? Does this also mean that food that is supplimented will also have the vitamins stripped from them like cereals, and such? What about school lunch programs? It sounded like to me that they were finally getting a grip on proper nutrition there as well as some of the fast food restuarants offereing fruit instead of fries.

Do you have any information on how this will affect the Kosher certified foods?

Also does this mean that we can't even have anything in our homes that contain these "illegal" vitamins? Are homes gonna be searched for this?

 

[MyZz]

Zayit ,foods that are supplemented such as breakfast cereals and bread are usually done with the cheaper and more chemicalised forms of the vitamins,the ones that are made by pharmaceutical companies and are on the allowed list

 

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Zayit, foods that are supplemented such as breakfast cereals and bread are usually done with the cheaper and more chemicalised forms of the vitamins,the ones that are made by pharmaceutical companies and are on the allowed list

Take for example, d - "variety" - tocopherol .... if you are looking at a label of a vitamin or mineral with either a "d" or an "l" in front of it, you are looking at either "d" which is natural or "l" which is chemically manufactured or both with is "dl". By the way, "l" variety is like the wrong key jamming the lock in the cell door.

Another thing that you will notice is that all "chelated" vitamins or minerals have been put on the first to go list. "Chelate" minerals are awesome, and your body can absorb and utilitize these faster and more effectively. In fact, if you are looking at a label and you are noticing "ate" at the end, you are looking at a more readily absorbable and body friendly variety.

Realize what I have said are nothing more than a generalization that for the most part will serve you well. Another thing to understand, while the supplement may say that it has so much of such and such, it is the potency that is important, for that is where you will have bigger reactions. At the manufacture companies, they grade the herbs and minerals and vitamins by the potency, and the cheaper your bottle of supplements the less potency. Another thing to do is when you open the bottle, smell it, if it starting to have no smell, or smells a little dusty then it has lost its potency.

Then comes the day when we will have to gather from the woodlands and get our supplements raw. We will need to train ourselves to know what natural forest and woodland flora is good for us and how to harvest it and what it is good for. We should also learn how to determine how much to use and when to use it.

What you can do to determine if your body really needs what in it, is smell it, and your body will actually not mind the smell. If your body has more than enough, then your body will reject the smell. The good Lord has given us six senses, and they are what we need to listen to, we need to appreciate the good senses God has given us. On herbs, it may be bitter, neutral, or nice. Nice is good. Neutral is fine. Body reject is your signal, it really doesn't need it.

Remember these generalizations are to help you make judgment calls at home. If you want to test it, you can hold your arm out. Have someone test the resistence level of the arm by applying pressure on the forarm to get a feel at what your normal resistence level is. This is not a strength test. Then put the pill on your tongue and have them test it again. If there is a change in the resistence level, stronger and better resistence, it means the body needs it. Weaker and less resistence means the body rejects it. If you or the testor can not determine a difference. Then you are at a neutral level. This test is called applied kinesiology. If you are getting a strong reaction, add another pill and test again. Keep doing it until the resistence goes weak or neutral... and that will determine your dosage. Remember the reason you are doing this is for therapuetic levels and will only need to be at this level for the duration of therapy. So make sure you do regular tests to back off.

Survival will depend on how much we learn to self sufficient. True, I beleive that there will be a total of seven years where it will get increasingly difficult, then the covenant of peace will be over, and the three and 1/2 years of living hell will be upon the face of the earth. That will be the time to head for the hills. The three and 1/2 years when Elijah moved in with the woman who had only a little flour and oil left but it lasted during the drought that covered the land during the "no rain" til the end of prophecy.

 

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Such blind faith in the medical drug taught deceptions. Let me give you an example of dirty underhanded tricks.

People who have "acid reflux disease" believe what they have been told. Acid reflux disease is caused by too much acid which gets up in the esophogus.

Your stomach is made to have acid in it. When your acid level runs low, it is like a griddle with spitting oil. It burns whereever it is spitting outside the stomach wall.

When you take an anti-acid/medication, you are stopping or neutralizing the acid, depending whether you are blocking the production of the acid, or increasing the alkaline level. By doing so, you are changing the pH level in the stomach environment. Now it is more friendly to bacteria. Bacteria that can eat away at the lining of the stomach. By changing the pH you are also changing the capabilities for the stomach to break down the food as it should.

Let's suppose that this creates further problems down the intestinal tract for sake of discussion. This will increase the need for medical intervention for the new digestive problems, which in turn will increase the amount of medication. This medication could have a side effect and need another medication after continued use. Now you can have it get worse and need surgery. If not surgery, keep taking the medication, while the good doctor monitors it. He will be watching for severe side effects, adverse reactions, new developments, and will continue to add/subtract your medications as needed. If the medication is of the sort that wears and tears on the kidneys, they will breakdown eventually and then you will need to be on dialysis.

The success of the increase number of dialysis centers is due to the increase number of people taking medications that tear up the kidneys. To me it is a monument to the drug industry's success.

Next time you suffer from indigestion, or heartburn, try taking vinegar or lemon juice, usually just a tablespoon will do the trick. The pH level of lemon juice is about the same as stomach acid. When you reach normal acid levels the problem is solved. You will find that the problem will decrease in frequency and in intensity with lemon juice use when needed.

Ok, I am off my soap box....

 

[Sephania]

I have heard there are natural cures for cancer as well, something about the ph of your body.

 

[MyZz]

The nutritional treatment which has the best proven track record is the Gerson therapy,however since it is a treatment that concentrates on organic vegetable juices and no money is to be made from it by pharmaceutical companies it remains a very unpublicised treatment.funny how the cancer charity and self help organisations dont publicise it too much either.

it all revolves around money unfortunately.

 

[Sephania]

THE "True"g/d that this nation trusts in.

 

[visionary]

Revelation18:23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy pharmakeia were all nations deceived.

Think about that for a moment, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride are not heard anymore in the boardroom. Satan has taken over the financial world, big conglomerates of continual evil, worship money, the root of all evil. There were three in this bed, the nations, the merchants, the beast with the image of the beast, and the harlot with her harlots.

Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their pharmakeia, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

White collar corruption that goes untouched, because they can afford to find the escape clause. There is one escape clause that they will not be able to get around. IT will be the day when the Lord does the judgment.

Revelation 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:11
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

Revelation 18:17
For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

Revelation 18:19
And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

I think that is such a cool ending to a bad system.

 

[Shimshon]

A European judge has declared illegal a directive controlling the sale of some vitamins and other food supplements.



An advocate-general at the European Court of Justice, Leendert Geelhoed, said the directive -- to have become law this year -- was seriously deficient and broke basic legal principles, the Times of London reported Wednesday. The British health food industry hailed the ruling as a victory in its battle against the European Union directive, which would have outlawed 300 vitamin and mineral ingredients and resulted in the removal of more than 5,000 products from European store shelves. ...washington times

There is always hope!!!

 

[Sephania]

I'm just gonna put my hope in that the manna will fall again, or some widow will have a replenishing barrel of flour.

 

[MyZz]

This came in a newsletter today
A GREAT VICTORY: EU ban on health supplements could be overturned

European legislation that was set to ban hundreds of vitamins and health supplements from August may have been overturned in an extraordinary 11th hour decision by the senior adviser to the European Court of Justice.
The ruling, by Advocate General Geelhoed, is the result of intense and exhaustive campaigning by the Alliance for Natural Health. His decision now has to be ratified by the other judges, but it is expected to receive 'the nod' in June.
If accepted, the Food Supplements Directive, which was set to ban around 75 per cent of supplements and health products currently on the market, will be shelved.
In a statement read out on Tuesday morning, Advocate General Geelhoed, pronounced that the directive infringes the principle of proportionality because basic principles of Community law, such as the requirements of legal protection, of legal certainty and of sound administration have not properly been taken into account.
If the Advocate General's recommendations are adopted, in effect, the ban on vitamin and mineral forms not included on the EU's 'Positive list,' due to come into effect on 1 August 2005, will be declared illegal. In essence, the positive list of allowable nutrient forms will be deemed to be too narrow, too restrictive, and based on flawed science.
This would avoid the totally irrational situations that the Food Supplements Directive would otherwise create. For example, synthetically produced selenium would have been allowed on the positive list, while the natural source found in Brazil nuts would not; synthetic forms of Vitamin E (often used in 'adverse' vitamin studies reported in the media) would be allowed, but the natural, most beneficial food forms would not.
"It is commendable that the EU Advocate General has seen through the flawed science and law of the Food Supplements Directive and reached his recommendations today," said Dr. Robert Verkerk, Executive Director of the ANH. "All that ANH is campaigning and working cooperatively for is the right for consumers to have access to safe natural healthcare and for legislation to be based on good science and good law. This is a great day for the tens of millions of people who believe passionately in the benefits of natural, preventative healthcare."

Great news

 

[Sephania]

Could be, may have been?

Keep N