Is this true?

- that vitamins etc will soon be prescription only?

I've just had an email asking me to sign a petition against it:

Dear abc,

I don't know if you are aware of this but, unless we do something, and fast, the pharmaceutical industry will have the control over natural remedies.

Unless we act now, then, apparently we won't be able to buy vitamins or health supplements without a doctor's prescription by December 2009!

Please Downing St Petition Needs Your Signature!



"Dear Friends,
I know some of you will be familiar with this, for others you may not
be aware of what parliament is about to do in your name. Codex
Alimentairus is a law designed to hand over the control of natural
remedies to the pharmaceutical giants. One more attempt to regulate
us - with potentially dire=2 0consequences. Unless we take this last
opportunity and act now we will not be able to buy vitamins or
health/nutritional supplements without a doctor's prescription - they
will be banned from 31st December 2009.

You may think this can't happen, you may think why haven't I heard
about this before. The reason is that there are vested interests,
giant multinational pharmaceutical companies, and its not in their
interest that you know about and oppose this. They and our lawmakers
in Europe are banking on public apathy. Despite considerable pressure
already exerted our government is still planning to implement this law
- UNLESS THERE IS MASSIVE OPPOSITION IT WILL GO AHEAD.

Like many health and safety matters this was started with good
intentions, in 1962 by the United Nations, to establish international
free trade foods but has become a major threat to our civil liberties
and freedom of choice.

As the song says: YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT TILL ITS GONE

Please, sign the petition to the Prime Minister . . It takes 10
seconds! This is for our health, and well-being and the health and
well-being of our children. Please click on this link below ...

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Vitamins/

For more information google opposition to codex alimentarius or look
on facebook and you'll see that the threat is very real and opposition
is from people from all walks of life, in many countries"

A quick search does bring up references to this so it doesn't look like a hoax email.

If anyone knows about this - Will supplements such as minerals and Kelp and herbal capsules be included?
.

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