Fw: Sign Petition to stop FDA from stoping supplements!

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Force FDA to Obey US Law Protecting Supplements

The FDA's Disregard for US Law Must be Controlled.

Take Action to Prevent Regulations Banning Protected Supplements From

Interstate Commerce

Despite clear protection for all supplements covered by the 1994

Dietary

Supplements and Health Education Act (DSHEA) in the FDA Amendments Act

of 2007 (Public Law 110-85), the FDA is once again seeking to impede

the

right of Americans to access, choose and use health products and

nutrients.

DSHEA classified supplements, nutrients and herbs as substances which

were to be treated as foods, not drugs. As such, their dose and

composition

was a matter for personal choice and market forces to determine since

they were not to be regulated as drugs. This legal protection has

been

anathema to the FDA which declared after DSHEA's adoption by

unanimous

consent by the US Congress that it was the worst law ever passed.

FDA's continuing assaults on dietary supplements and related protected

substances has been consistent and unrelenting. Natural Solutions

Foundation

ascribes this to the enormous influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry

on the FDA since low cost, safe and effective nutrients are the single

most

significant economic competitor faced by high cost, toxic and often

lethal drugs.

When Public Law 110-85 was being debated by the US Senate,

Natural Solutions Foundation health freedom advocates prevailed

upon Senator Harkin (R-IL) to introduce language stipulating that

nothing

in the bill should apply to prdoucts and substances protected by

DSHEA.

That language was adopted and preserved in the final bill under as

adopted

by the US. Congress. Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom

advocates

fought hard to convinced Senator Harkin (R-IL) to force inclusion of

language

exempting dietary supplements from the provisions in the law. That

protective

language is the law of the United States of America, enacted as

Section 1011.1, Rule of

Construction:

" Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be

construed to affect-- (1) the regulation of dietary supplements

under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994

(Public Law 103- 417) " None the less, the FDA is currently

promulgating a Draft Regulation which would make it illegal to ship

nutrients and supplements in interstate Commerce if any scientific study

existed about that substance, considering that such study is, in and of

itself, sufficent to classify this product or substance an untested drug.

Clearly, this thinly veiled, and thoroughly illegal, attempt to destroy the

supplement industry serves to demonstrate clearly the vigorous opposition

of the FDA to both health freedom and to being restrained by US law when it

does not serve the interest of industrial forces which determine FDA

policy. Please join me, during the few days that we have remaining, in

sending your strong opposition to this unwise and illegal regulation.

Please join me, too, in sending this information to everyone on your

contact list urging them to protect their health and their freedom to make

their own health choices at the same time. Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director Natural Solutions

Foundation www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Click below to sign petition

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26269