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Kava is no more of a risk than acceptable de minimis risk levels associated with food additives, so why capitulate?

My understanding is that Germany and several other countries have banned kava illegally under EU law -- why not take that route? If they have regulated kava off the market illegally, then kava is in fact not banned -- it's merely perceived to be banned. As Wales have revoked their regs, so you should be pushing for France, Germany, etc to revoke theirs.

Please look at the attached graph -- Kava, even if accepting all deaths as caused by kava -- which of course would be a total nonsense -- would at worst sit below the de minimis level which is 46 times more risky than a typical dietary supplement. I'm repeating this chart for other countries, and the same sort of relative risk keeps coming up -- in fact these relative risks are based on the creation of a death in NZ tagged against dietary supplements, simply to get a denominator.

Please don't sell industry down the river... that won't be good for anyone other than big business, and especially Mr Bush's pharma masters. He'll be smiling at the outcome of Rx -- he know's it's as good as a ban in most countries.

Regards
Ron

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