Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
by Mike Adams (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) 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: The Official Stop C-51 Website - Your Freedom And Health Are At Risk!
• 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 governments 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.
Join the rally to protest C-51
On May 9th, 2008, Canadian citizens will be gathering at the Calgary Federal Court to protest C-51 and help protect their access to natural health products. Call 1-888-878-3467 to learn more, or visit the action page of Health Canada Exposed at: Call To Action - Your Freedom And Health Is At Risk!
NaturalNews is looking to hire someone with a good video camera to film the event. We'll gladly pay you to video tape this and send us the resulting file, which we will edit and then post for NaturalNews readers. If you have a video camera (with good audio, hopefully) and can attend the May 9th rally, please contact us at (U.S.) 520-232-9300 for details. If you do film there, be sure to use the camera buddy system, where you have somebody in the distance filming YOU with the camera, so that if Canadian law enforcement thugs decide to assault you and steal your video camera in order to censor the event, then somebody else in the distance has THAT on video! You got that? So there are two cameras working, camera A is filming the rally, and it's very close to the action. Camera B is set back farther from the scene, and it's filming the person holding camera A. This is standard operating practice for filming such events, and it makes it very difficult for government thugs to shut down the video. Often, the person filming with camera B is in a car somewhere, or filming covertly so that they don't attract attention. Zoom lenses help a lot.
In any case, if you manage to get some video of this event, then we'd be thrilled to share it with NaturalNews readers. And like I said, we'll pay for footage, so call us for details. Together, we can help spread the word about this important rally for health freedom in Canada.
Natural health products are generally considered to be lower-risk but they are not 'no risk.' Canadians benefit from risk-based regulation that promotes continued access to safe, effective and high quality natural health products.
The vast majority of the natural health product industry develops safe products of high quality. Bill C-51 will help us target the minority who behave irresponsibly.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that tainted products are found and recalled.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that what is on the label is actually in the bottle.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that health claims on packaging are supported by appropriate levels of evidence.
The Natural Health Product Regulations, introduced in 2004, will continue to operate the same way under Bill C-51. Canadians will continue to have access to natural health products that are safe, effective and of high quality.
Natural health products will not be regulated as pharmaceutical drugs; they will continue to be regulated under their own regulations - separate from drugs and foods.
Bill C-51 will not increase the costs of natural health products.
Bill C-51 does not regulate growing an herb garden.
Bill C-51 does not target practitioners who compound products for their patients.
Bill C-51 does not target Canadians' personal use of natural health products.
Health food stores will not require a special license to sell natural health products.
Canadians will not require a prescription from a doctor for natural health products.
Bill C-51 will not result in more compliance and enforcement action taken for regulated products, including natural health products. Action on natural health products will continue to be undertaken according to the product's level of risk, and to the Compliance Policy for Natural Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate's Policy-0001, which sets out this risk-based approach.
Inspectors will not be able to enter a private home without permission or a warrant.
Bill C-51 does not enable Health Canada to seize bank accounts.
Natural health products are generally considered to be lower-risk but they are not 'no risk.' Canadians benefit from risk-based regulation that promotes continued access to safe, effective and high quality natural health products.
The vast majority of the natural health product industry develops safe products of high quality. Bill C-51 will help us target the minority who behave irresponsibly.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that tainted products are found and recalled.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that what is on the label is actually in the bottle.
Bill C-51 will help ensure that health claims on packaging are supported by appropriate levels of evidence.
The Natural Health Product Regulations, introduced in 2004, will continue to operate the same way under Bill C-51. Canadians will continue to have access to natural health products that are safe, effective and of high quality.
Natural health products will not be regulated as pharmaceutical drugs; they will continue to be regulated under their own regulations - separate from drugs and foods.
Bill C-51 will not increase the costs of natural health products.
Bill C-51 does not regulate growing an herb garden.
Bill C-51 does not target practitioners who compound products for their patients.
Bill C-51 does not target Canadians' personal use of natural health products.
Health food stores will not require a special license to sell natural health products.
Canadians will not require a prescription from a doctor for natural health products.
Bill C-51 will not result in more compliance and enforcement action taken for regulated products, including natural health products. Action on natural health products will continue to be undertaken according to the product's level of risk, and to the Compliance Policy for Natural Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate's Policy-0001, which sets out this risk-based approach.
Inspectors will not be able to enter a private home without permission or a warrant.
Bill C-51 does not enable Health Canada to seize bank accounts.
That looks more reasonable.
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