Bill C-51- Vitamins and Herbs To Be Made Illegal?

by trock71 | January 14, 2009 at 11:17 am
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A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada’s Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word “drug” with “therapeutic product” throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is “therapeutic” automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.

The Act also changes the definition of the word “sell” to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved “therapeutic substances.” Learn about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the Stop51.com website: http://www.stopc51.com

New enforcement powers allow Canadian government to seize your home or business

At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new “enforcement” powers to the thugs enforcement agents who claim to be “protecting” the public from dangerous unapproved “therapeutic agents” like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the http://www.Educate-Yourself.orgwebsite ((http://educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government’s thug enforcement agents to:

• Raid your home or business without a warrant
• Seize your bank accounts
• Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
• Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for the expense involved in storing all the products they stole      from you

C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized as a “controlled activity,” and anyone caught engaging in such “controlled activities” would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other “controlled activities” include labeling bottles, harvesting plants on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving herbs or supplements would be criminalized...)

There’s more, too. C-51 is the Canadian government’s “final solution” for the health products industry. It’s a desperate effort to destroy this industry that’s threatening the profits and viability of conventional medicine.

Natural medicine works so well—and is becoming so widely used—that both the Canadian and American government conspiracy have decided to “nuke” the industries by passing new laws that effectively criminalize anyone selling such products. They simply cannot tolerate allowing consumers to have continued access to natural products. To do so will ultimately spell the destruction of Big Pharma and the outdated, corrupt and criminally-operated pharmaceutical industry that these criminally-operated governments are trying to protect.

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mmx20115

The government is in the process of making amendments to the existing framework of Bill C-51. 

The Proposed Amendments

A Unique Category: Natural health products would be defined within the Act as a unique category apart from food and drugs. The proposed amendments would support the existing Natural Health Products Regulations, which are separate from the framework for the regulation of drugs.

Standards of Evidence: Another proposed amendment would ensure that regulations specific to the approval of natural health products recognize the value of traditional knowledge and history of use in assessing benefits and risks, as is already the case.

Inspector Powers: Proposed amendments would clarify that inspectors must carry out their duties in a reasonable manner and for the purpose of verifying compliance or preventing non-compliance. They would also clarify that the exercise of enforcement powers, such as seizure and detention, would have regard to the risk of a product.

Advisory Committee: Finally, the proposed amendments would require the creation of an Advisory Committee that would provide advice to government to assist in the interpretation of the Act and its regulations. This committee would include representatives with diverse backgrounds, such as consumers, patients, health professionals, and industry.

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jasvinder

A Canadian company, Naturally Nova Scotia, makes supplements from foods instead of synthetics. The have vitamin C from fruit, herbal tinctures, green drinks, vitamin D3, and others.

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Cock Rings

That's absurd. I hope that this bill would be unsuccessful once again as it has been in 08'. Them lawmakers have more serious stuff to attend to than the banning of therapeutic products that do have alleviating effects.

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bethstuff

Great video on this subject here:

 

try this www. therealfoodchannel.com/page/24.html

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