Here it is – official – the official EU text telling us we cannot advertise that water prevents dehydration and the concomitant effects of dehydration.
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EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA)
Following an application from Prof. Dr. Moritz Hagenmeyer and Prof. Dr. Andreas Hahn, submitted pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 via the Competent Authority of Germany, the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies was asked to deliver an opinion on the scientific substantiation of a health claim related to water and reduced risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance. The scope of the application was proposed to fall under a health claim referring to disease risk reduction. The food, water, which is the subject of the health claim, is sufficiently characterised. The claimed effect is “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance”. The target population is assumed to be the general population. The Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 defines reduction of disease risk claims as claims which state that the consumption of a food “significantly reduces a risk factor in the development of a human disease”. Thus, for reduction of disease risk claims, the beneficial physiological effect results from the reduction of a risk factor for the development of a human disease. The Panel notes that dehydration was identified as the disease by the applicant. Dehydration is a condition of body water depletion. The Panel notes that the proposed risk factors, “water loss in tissues” or “reduced water content in tissues”, are measures of water depletion and thus are measures of the disease. The Panel considers that the proposed claim does not comply with the requirements for a disease risk reduction claim pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.
Summary
Following an application from Prof. Dr. Moritz Hagenmeyer and Prof. Dr. Andreas Hahn, submitted pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 via the Competent Authority of Germany, the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies was asked to deliver an opinion on the scientific substantiation of a health claim related to water and reduced risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance.
The scope of the application was proposed to fall under a health claim referring to disease risk reduction.
The food that is the subject of the health claim is water. The Panel considers that water is sufficiently characterised.
The claimed effect is “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration and of concomitant decrease of performance”. The Panel assumes that the target population is the general population.
The Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 defines reduction of disease risk claims as claims which state that the consumption of a food “significantly reduces a risk factor in the development of a human disease”. Thus, for reduction of disease risk claims, the beneficial physiological effect (which the Regulation requires to be shown for the claim to be permitted) results from the reduction of a risk factor for the development of a human disease.
The Panel notes that dehydration was identified as the disease by the applicant. Dehydration is a condition of body water depletion. Upon request for clarification on the risk factor, the applicant proposed “water loss in tissues” or “reduced water content in tissues” as risk factors, the reduction of which was proposed to lead to a reduction of the risk of development of dehydration. The Panel notes that the proposed risk factors are measures of water depletion and thus are measures of the disease (dehydration).
The Panel considers that the proposed claim does not comply with the requirements for a disease risk reduction claim pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006.
Keywords
Water, dehydration, performance, health claims
Panel Members
Carlo Agostoni, Jean-Louis Bresson, Susan Fairweather-Tait, Albert Flynn, Ines Golly, Hannu Korhonen, Pagona Lagiou, Martinus Løvik, Rosangela Marchelli, Ambroise Martin, Bevan Moseley, Monika Neuhäuser-Berthold, Hildegard Przyrembel, Seppo Salminen, Yolanda Sanz, Sean (J.J.) Strain, Stephan Strobel, Inge Tetens, Daniel Tomé, Hendrik van Loveren and Hans Verhagen.
Acknowledgment
The Panel wishes to thank the members of the Working Group on Claims: Carlo Agostoni, Jean-Louis Bresson, Susan Fairweather-Tait, Albert Flynn, Ines Golly, Marina Heinonen, Hannu Korhonen, Martinus Løvik, Ambroise Martin, Hildegard Przyrembel, Seppo Salminen, Yolanda Sanz, Sean (J.J.) Strain, Inge Tetens, Hendrik van Loveren and Hans Verhagen for the preparatory work on this scientific opinion.
China Daily News reports today from Qingdao, Shandong – autism is ranked No 1 among mental disorders in China, according to a presentation on Nov 4 at the International Autism Research Collaboration Development Conference in Shanghai. The data include only diagnoses in hospitals and research centers, so the actual number may be much higher, experts warned. The report is detailed and we recommend you click the link and read it all to get a good picture of what is going on in one of the most populous nations in the world.
“Autism has a strong link to genetic abnormalities. That is generally accepted,” said Kuang Guifang, director of the psychology department at Qingdao Children’s Hospital. “Birth defects, environmental causes such as heavy metals and pesticides, and childhood vaccines also are blamed.“
Experts in UK, USA and in other parts of the world try to play down the fact that the worldwide explosion of autistic conditions in children is new. They want to have us believe we have always had these numbers of children with autistic conditions and it is nothing new; that the link to the dramatic roll-out of multiple repeated vaccines to children since the mid 1980’s has nothing to do with this and it is just the medical profession getting better at noticing.
So click on the link to the story and read it yourself. Look at the symptoms of the children described and tell yourself “Doctors and teachers just have not noticed these symptoms in children before the mid 1980s” and then ask yourself “how difficult it would be not to notice children who do not talk or interact in any way like other children” and “are doctors and teachers morons then?“.
And also ask yourself how it is, as the report states “Lack of a developed support network adds to parents’ burden” that can be if this has always been with us all worldwide? And ask yourself why should families in China be struggling to cope because of that absence of a support network. Also ask yourself how is it that the Qingdao Shengzhiai Rehabilitation Center opened in only 2003 and has not existed before. It has just 31 autistic students ages 3 to 12. So how many of these centers will China need now for the millions of children now affected? How much is it going to cost the Chinese people?
In China a limit by law was imposed to control the population growth of one child per family. So what happens when autism starts to hit the children of highly placed State officials?
And when are we going to see drug industry executives and public health officials in Court to answer for this disaster wrought on so many children worldwide?
Look at the effect on the parents and families – this is a social and economic disaster but let’s not blame the vaccines – after all they are the most important development in modern medicine – right?
The story reports:
Most people would be upset if you thought they looked 10 years older than their real age. Wang Yonglin, 35, has learned to smile and say he’s used to it.
Once an energetic, sports-minded man, Wang is thin and looks tired. He has a few gray hairs. The changes began in 2009.
“I felt my world collapse,” said Wang, a former nonsmoker who now goes through two packs a day.
Wang and Li often feel hopeless, he said. They cannot sleep through an entire night and have even thought of suicide. “We gave up the idea finally, for who will take care of her if my wife and I die?
“You know, the most difficult thing is you have tried your best, but still can’t see any hope. And even without hope, you still have to smile to face an innocent daughter every day.”
And do vaccines cause autism. Yes they do according to admissions made by US Government Health officials and agencies when put in the spotlight when award winning New York journalist and author David Kirby broke the Hannah Poling story in the USA in February 2008.
We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.” [Text added 10 April 2011]
The first known cause of autism was rubella virus. So not only is New Scientist an unreliable source of information, this cause of autism has been known since the 1960s. And rubella virus is one of the three live viruses in the MMR vaccine.
… rubella (congenital rubella syndrome) is one of the few proven causes of autism.” Walter A. Orenstein, M.D. US as Assistant Surgeon General, Director National Immunization Program in a letter to the UK’s Chief Medical Officer 15 February 2002.
rubella virus is one of the few known causes of autism.” US Center for Disease Control. [ED 8/Apr/12: This is the web archive of the CDC page – you will need to search in or scroll down the page to see the text. As papers cited on the original page by the CDC as evidence for no link with the vaccine have been steadily discredited it seems the CDC has decided to remove the page and it seems someone has been deleting the archived versions of the page from the web archive too].
Chess, S. Autism in children with congenital rubella. J Autism Child Schizophr. 1, 33-47 (1971).
Chess S. Follow-up report on autism in congenital rubella. J Autism Child Schizophr. 1977;7:69 –81
Ziring PR. Congenital rubella: the teenage years. Pediatr Ann. 1997;6: 762–770
People who are pre-disposed to have a mitochondrial dysfunction can develop autistic conditions following vaccination. The current President of Merck’s Vaccines Division, Julie Gerberding confirmed to CBS News when she was Director of the US Centres for Disease Control that:
Now, we all know that vaccines can occasionally cause fevers in kids. So if a child was immunized, got a fever, had other complications from the vaccines. And if you’re predisposed with the mitochondrial disorder, it can certainly set off some damage. Some of the symptoms can be symptoms that have characteristics of autism.“
Mitochondrial dysfunction is claimed to be “rare” but is not. It can apply to a minimum of 20% of cases.
And this was said when Gerberding was then head of the US Centres for Disease Control – budget US$11 billion. It followed from award winning author and journalist David Kirby breaking the story of the Hannah Poling case, secretly settled by the US Government. It was after this story broke that it started to be acknowledged that autism has an “environmental” cause and is not solely an “internal” condition [ie not determined solely by genetics]: AUTISM – US Court Decisions and Other Recent Developments – It’s Not Just MMR
[Gerberding went from the US agency charged with promoting vaccines [CDC] directly to become vaccine maker Merck’s Director of Vaccines Division: Dr. Julie Gerberding Named President of Merck Vaccines – 21 Dec 2009 – Merck & Co., Inc.
Autistic conditions can result from encephalopathy following vaccination. The US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) confirmed to CBS News that of 1322 cases of vaccine injury compensation settled out of court by the US Government in secret settlements:-
We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.” [PDF Download – Text of email from US HRSA to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News]
So there is direct evidence that live measles, mumps or rubella viruses separately can cause encephalitis leading to autism.
More troubling is that this has been known for a long time. So the risks of giving very young children a vaccine containing threelive viruses all at once were known. These two World Health Organisation papers published nearly 40 years ago set out the hazards:
Virus-associated immunopathology : animal models and implications for human disease”:
Autistic conditions can result from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) following MMR vaccination as held by the US Federal Court in the case of Bailey Banks. In his conclusion, US Federal Court Special Master Abell ruled that Petitioners had proven that the MMR had directly caused a brain inflammation illness called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) which, in turn, had caused the autism spectrum disorder PDD-NOS in the child:
The Court found that Bailey’s ADEM was both caused-in-fact and proximately caused by his vaccination. It is well-understood that the vaccination at issue can cause ADEM, and the Court found, based upon a full reading and hearing of the pertinent facts in this case, that it did actually cause the ADEM. Furthermore, Bailey’s ADEM was severe enough to cause lasting, residual damage, and retarded his developmental progress, which fits under the generalized heading of Pervasive Developmental Delay, or PDD [an autism spectrum disorder]. The Court found that Bailey would not have suffered this delay but for the administration of the MMR vaccine, and that this chain of causation was… a proximate sequence of cause and effect leading inexorably from vaccination to Pervasive Developmental Delay.
[Banks v. HHS (Case 02-0738V, 2007 U.S. Claims LEXIS 254, July 20, 2007)].
And what does not cause autism?
Autism is not “caused” by “genes”
Dr Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. the 16th and current Director of the US$30.5 billion budget National Institutes of Health [nominated by President Obama: NIH News Release 17th August 2009 ] stated in evidence to US House of Representatives Committee May 2006 when Director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute:
“Recent increases in chronic diseases like diabetes, childhood asthma, obesity or autism cannot be due to major shifts in the human gene pool as those changes take much more time to occur. They must be due to changes in the environment, including diet and physical activity, which may produce disease in genetically predisposed persons.“
Conclusions: The prevalence estimate of known cases of ASC, using different methods of ascertainment converges around 1%. The ratio of known to unknown cases means that for every three known cases there are another two unknown cases. This has implications for planning diagnostic, social and health services.”
We live today in an approximation to the Orwellian world writer Eric Blair described when writing under the Nom de Plume of “George Orwell” in his world famous 8th June 1949 published novel titled “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. And it is not getting better and looks like it is going to get a whole lot worse as time passes. The greatest threats today to our lives and freedoms come from within our own societies: from our politicians and from our governments and their officials. Our governments fail to govern and manage effectively and they and their officials are subject to manipulation, influence and control of individuals and corporations with the resources to do so unseen and unknown to citizens of so many nations today.
The main character of “Nineteen Eighty-Four” is Winston Smith. Winston is a member of the Outer Party and works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue). Minitrue is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. Winston’s job is re-writing past newspaper articles so that the historical record is congruent with the current party ideology. Because of the childhood trauma of the destruction of his family — the disappearances of his parents and sister — Winston Smith secretly hates the Party, and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. He lives in Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party.
It is possible it is just a matter of time in our “real” world, not that of Oceania, before the internet falls subject to central government control, as it already is in some parts of the world. With that will go our continued decline as a civilisation into the Big Brother world of Winston Smith. So you had better make the most of it while you can and get what information from it you can to counter the failures of the established world news media and modern journalism. Journalists today report mostly from the incessant streams of news releases fed literally “down the wire” to newsrooms around the world, with little time to scrutinise and consider what lies behind these stories they report.
One source of information CHS suggests you subscribe to is www,NaturalNews.com. And keep your eyes open for other information sources which report with independence, a commodity in short supply. www,NaturalNews.com is currently a useful and continuous source of information which seems to report with independence of and from the Orwellian world of the thought-police we see more and more in evidence in modern times. But of course be under no illusions that a change of ownership or control cannot change today’s seemingly useful information sources into something less useful or even misleading or useless.
Winston’s Smith’s life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control which is administrated by a privileged Inner Party elite. Yet they too are subordinated to the totalitarian cult of personality of Big Brother, the deified Party leader who rules with a philosophy that decries individuality and reason as thoughtcrimes; thus the people of Oceania are subordinated to a supposed collective greater good.
Any of that sound familiar in the 21st Century? Like a world of perpetual war? Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Al-Qaeda, Somalia, Bosnia, Serbia, Burundi, Baluchistan, Bangladesh Army Mutiny, Central African Republic, Chad, Chechnia, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Darfur, Ethiopia-Somalia, Georgia-Russia, Honduras, India-Bangladesh, India’s Maoist Insurgency/Naxalite Guerrilla, Israel-Palestine, Israel-Syria, Korea, Macedonia Albania, Nepal, Yemen, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Waziristan. And of course not forgetting the ever present nuclear threat between the increasing number of “stable” and not so stable “super powers”.
Now read some of today’s email alert from NaturalNews.com. [To try it out – its completely free – subscribe click here].
Cops now arresting journalists at OWS protests A recent New York Police Department (NYPD) sweep at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, where hundreds of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters had been occupying and living in tents, took with it several journalists who were simply there to…
New study reveals expensive MRIs pushed on women for breast cancer screening have no medical benefit The use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, better known simply as MRI, for breast cancer screening is increasing and so is its use in guiding breast surgery when cancer is discovered. Obviously, that means healthcare costs are soaring, too,…
A US drug company manufactured a potential EU human health disaster which was only averted by the vigilance of scientists in just one EU country, the Czech Republic. This dramatic story which came to light in February 2009 should have been given much wider news coverage around the world. It was not. Draw your own conclusions. We are re reporting this story to remind readers and provide some links to reference sources before they eventually vanish from the web.
If health officials are to be believed [which appears is not often] the consequences could have been a pan-European health disaster not seen for a century or more. Such a disaster would have seen sales of ‘flu vaccines soar and remain buoyant for decades whilst causing economic havoc in the EU, which could have spread much further. Whilst described as an accident, some experts believe that biosecurity protocols are so strict that such a release could not have been an accident.
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During the early stages of the fake “swine ‘flu/bird ‘flu scare-that-never-was”, which made billions for drug companies in 2009 and caused great embarrassment for the World Health Organisation responsible for announcing and maintaining the scam health scare, the Deerfield, Illinois-based US pharmaceutical company Baxter International Inc was caught at an early stage in December 2008 releasing into several EU countries contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria containing live H5N1 avian flu viruses.
We are including as usual links to some source references and recommend to interested readers to keep details before they cease to be available. If a reader comes across a link to a report from sources like a reputable news outlet or statements from health officials of recognised health organisations, please post them in a comment here for the benefit of others to refer to so we can build up a resource of links on this page for reference.
….. an official of the World Health Organization’s European operation said the body is closely monitoring the investigation into the events that took place at Baxter International’s research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria. “At this juncture we are confident in saying that public health and occupational risk is minimal at present,” medical officer Roberta Andraghetti said from Copenhagen, Denmark.
“But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau.”
The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.
The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn’t die from exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses.
Public health authorities concerned about what has been described as a “serious error” on Baxter’s part have assumed the death of the ferrets meant the H5N1 virus in the product was live. But the company, Baxter International Inc., has been parsimonious about the amount of information it has released about the event.
On Friday, the company’s director of global bioscience communications confirmed what scientists have suspected.
“It was live,” Christopher Bona said in an email.
The contaminated product, which Baxter calls “experimental virus material,” was made at the Orth-Donau research facility. Baxter makes its flu vaccine — including a human H5N1 vaccine for which a licence is expected shortly — at a facility in the Czech Republic.
People familiar with biosecurity rules are dismayed by evidence that human H3N2 and avian H5N1 viruses somehow co-mingled in the Orth-Donau facility. That is a dangerous practice that should not be allowed to happen, a number of experts insisted.
Accidental release of a mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 viruses could have resulted in dire consequences.
While H5N1 doesn’t easily infect people, H3N2 viruses do. If someone exposed to a mixture of the two had been simultaneously infected with both strains, he or she could have served as an incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to and among people.
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Baxter hasn’t shed much light — at least not publicly — on how the accident happened.
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Andraghetti said Friday the four investigating governments are co-operating closely with the WHO and the European Centre for Disease Control in Stockholm, Sweden.
Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.
NHS health guidelines state clearly that drinking water helps avoid dehydration, and that Britons should drink at least 1.2 litres per day.
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EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.
Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.
Last night, critics claimed the EU was at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true.
“If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”
Lucy Hinks is unable to walk or talk after having injections at school.
Parents warn others to check on potential side effects of Cervarix vaccine.
Lucy Hinks, 13, began to experience extreme exhaustion soon after having the cervical cancer vaccine alongside classmates
They were told the vaccine had few side-effects and would protect their daughter from cervical cancer. But Steve and Pauline Hinks are convinced the controversial HPV jab is behind their daughter Lucy’s mystery illness which is making her sleep up to 23 hours a day. Tests have so far ruled out a brain tumour and glandular fever and the 13-year-old’s paediatric consultant is investigating potential links with the vaccine Cervarix. The jab was used in a national vaccination programme which started in September 2008. But it has already been linked to several cases of girls displaying severe side-effects. Before she received the vaccine, Lucy was perfectly healthy, had an excellent school attendance record and was among the top students in her year.
Take a look at Luke and his mother in this brief interview [details below] which UK’s ITV West TV ran including an interview with Dr Wakefield and Dr Godlee, BMJ Editor-In-Chief.
See for yourself in the video [link below] what happened to Luke. The account also given by Luke’s Mom at the beginning is typical of most if not all of these cases of autism. There are at least tens of thousands of cases like this across the world. That does not include the numbers of children with the less serious autistic conditions. So you have to ask yourself, should Luke and his family and many others suffer like this for a childhood illness which strengthens most children’s immune systems and they get over in a few days. And why in the 21st Century do we have no measles pill? Because we have the measles vaccine and a drug industry getting rich expanding their markets for more and more vaccines which are unnecessary for the vast majority.
If you are outside the UK and cannot view Luke’s video we have added some others at the end of this post.
In the UK 1 in 64 children [1 in 40 boys] now have an autistic condition according to research from Cambridge University. In the USA the figure is put at 1 in 100.
And do vaccines cause autistic conditions? In the US Federal Court children have been compensated after findings they developed autism and other injuries. If you read nothing else we strongly recommend you read this: PDF Download – Text of email from US HRSA to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News]. In it the US Health Resources Services Administration [HRSA] state to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkission
We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.”
CLICK ON THE LINK TO WATCH THE ITV WEST REPORT ONLINE:-
The British Medical Journal is calling for Parliament to hold an inquiry into the MMR vaccine scare. Vaccination rates plummeted after Dr Andrew Wakefield, from Bath, suggested there was a link between the jab and autism.
His claims were discredited and he was struck off the medical register last year.
VIDEOS OF KIDS BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR VACCINES
Before in this video is shown before the 3 minutes 27seconds mark and after is after that mark:-
Before in this video is shown before the 55 seconds mark and after is after that mark:-
The following is a photo history of Brandon after his DPT vaccine:-
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