FW: New Bill To Limit Access to Supplements

February 8, 2010

I know this is off-topic, but it

is extremely relevant to most of us, so I thought it would be appropriate.

Please excuse cross – post and please forward. Thanks

Tracey

From: de Morsella

[mailto:cdemorsella@...]

Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 7:18 PM

McCain Files New Bill Attacking Your Access to

Supplements

This Bill Would Repeal Key Sections of the Dietary

Supplement Health and Education Act

Please Contact Your Senators Now to Tell Them Not to

Co-sponsor This Exceptionally Bad Bill and Instead Help Us to Defeat It!

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would repeal key

sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). It would

give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of

supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others.

Everyone knows that the FDA is friendly to drug companies

(which pay its bills and provide good revolving door jobs) and hostile to

supplement companies. Under this bill, this same Agency could quite arbitrarily

ban any supplement it wished or turn it over to drug companies to be developed

as a drug and sold for multiples of its price as a supplement.

If McCain’s bill passes, we can look to Europe for

a snapshot of what we may be in for: EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority,

has sharply reduced the list of available supplements and is in process of

reducing potencies to ridiculous levels, such as less beta carotene than can be

found in half of a large carrot. Europeans already look to the US to obtain

their dietary supplements. If this bill passes, where will we obtain ours?

Please take action immediately. Tell your senators NOT to

co- sponsor the detrimental legislation and to do everything in their power to

defeat it. Then forward this to your friends and family and ask them to do the

same!

The following is the text of the bill

Below is a statement by the American Herbal Products

Association

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