Senator McCain Cosponsors Bill That Threatens Access To Supplements

[Guest guest]

Dear friends:

First the FDA tried to push through a guidance document on short public notice

in 2007 that would label virtually all nutritional supplements as drugs.

The above occurred only a handful of months after my son Willy's amazing

recovery from an ADHD diagnosis, classic bipolar symptoms, and weak and sickly

childhood health was widely posted to the Internet in June 2006.

The above also also occurred only a handful of months after my problematic

difficulties with hackers paid for by a drug company (or companies) began as

well. (These difficulties that I have been having with Big Pharma hackers since

June 2006 continue to this day. These difficulties have actually become far more

frequent and far more problematic ever since it was found in January 2009 that

what Willy invented – his baggie of supplements – could also resolve the

hallmark schizophrenic symptom of " hearing voices " in as little as a matter of

hours.)

And now this.

I got the material below what I have written here from

http://www.anh-usa.org/new_site/?p=2326. It involves a new bill misleadingly

called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA).

I have to wonder how many tens of millions of dollars of drug company blood

money went into the secret offshore bank accounts of both Senator McCain

(R-AZ) and Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) such that this bill was put before

Congress.

There is no possible way in my mind that this is not a Big Pharma written and

sponsored bill. And there is no possible way in my mind that these two senators

were not paid off in a very big way to put this bill before Congress.

Or perhaps just one of these two senators (probably McCain) got fifty million

dollars or so put into an offshore bank account, and got the other senator to

cosponsor this bill without getting tens of millions of dollars in bribery money

due to his stupidity.

Who knows the real truth here?

All I do know is that it is EXTREMELY LIKELY that Big Pharma corruption and

bribery involving possibly tens of millions of dollars is behind this bill.

How do I know this?

I know this due to the fact that natural cures for many mental illnesses have

recently been found, to include illnesses called depression, ADHD, bipolar

disorder, and schizophrenia. (These cures involve the use of nutritional

supplements and other natural measures. They involve no drug whatsoever.)

The drug industry knows that if even one of the above-mentioned cures become

known by the masses (especially the cure for depression), that their industry is

doomed to collapse.

Conclusion

There is no other explanation but bribery of the process of law by Big Pharma

for this Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) bill that makes any sense.

We now seem to have " a government of the corporation, by the corporation, and

for the corporation " , and let the people be damned. Even bribery of Supreme

Court Justices seems to be involved (as per their recent decision allowing

corporations to donate unlimited amounts of money to candidates up for election

or reelection).

It sure seems time to " vote out all the bums " that are working in the corporate

interest, rather than in the interest of the general public. This needs to be

done as soon as it is practical or possible to do so. After doing so, and

getting a legislative body that is not rampant with corruption (as it is now),

both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights need to be amended such that they

permanently stop a corporate takeover of America from ever being attempted

again.

Darman

http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/

From http://www.anh-usa.org/new_site/?p=2326:

Update: Senator McCain Cosponsors a New Bill That Threatens Your Access to

Supplements and Repeals Key Sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and

Education Act

February 9, 2010

A wide variety of organizations, working together with ANH-USA, have swung into

action to stop McCain's new bill that threatens dietary supplements.

Already thousands of messages are on their way to Capitol Hill in protest.

Please be sure that your message is among them. If you have not already done so,

please take action now.

As we told you last week, Senator McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Byron Dorgan

(D-ND) have cosponsored a new bill misleadingly called The Dietary Supplement

Safety Act (DSSA). DSSA would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement

Health and Education Act (DSHEA), signed into law by then-President Clinton.

DSHEA protects supplements 1) if they are food products that have been in the

food supply and not chemically altered or 2) if they were sold as supplements

prior to 1994, the year that DSHEA was passed. If a supplement fits one of these

two descriptions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot arbitrarily ban

it or reclassify it as a drug. DSHEA provides the framework for effective

regulation of dietary supplements by the FDA.

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would eliminate the supplement

protections contained in DSHEA and allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

arbitrary authority to draw up a list of what supplements can be sold and at

what potency levels. Europe is currently limiting both supplements and potencies

to ridiculous levels. If DSSA passes, the FDA, beholden as it is to drug

interests, would move to do the same in the US.

Please take action now.

The purported emergency giving rise to DSSA is illegal steroid use by athletes.

The bill is supported by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) which is funded by

major league sports teams including baseball, football and others. Baseball

commissioner Bud Selig has urged its adoption. In his comments, Senator McCain

cited six NFL players recently suspended for testing positive for banned

substances and allegedly exposed to these substances through dietary

supplements.

The FDA currently has complete and total authority to address illegal steroids

and, more broadly, to regulate dietary supplements. If the FDA were policing

rogue products adulterated with steroids as current law requires, the NFL

violations would not have happened.

DSSA also requires the reporting of even minor adverse events related to

supplements. This is in addition to the already existing requirement to report

serious adverse events. This will further stack the deck against small

supplement companies by creating new, unnecessary, even more cumbersome, and of

course very expensive administrative hurdles.

It will also give the FDA, which ignores very large numbers of serious adverse

reports involving drugs, including many deaths, more ammunition to use in its

capricious war against food supplements.

The likely result: the consolidation of the supplement industry into a few big

companies selling many fewer supplements at much lower doses. These large

companies would also very likely be owned by drug companies.

The bottom line: our health would be almost completely controlled by the FDA and

drug companies.

Please take action now.

Natural Products Association executive director Gay has issued the

following statement in response to Senator McCain's proposed legislation: " Our

industry has long supported efforts to remove the relatively few bad actors who

market adulterated products. We have advocated for additional enforcement funds

for regulators, and for giving regulators additional authority to act. What we

cannot support is wholesale changes to a regulatory structure that is working,

and could work better if the measures we have supported were adopted. A series

of new laws for criminals to ignore is not the answer. Some seek to paint with

an awfully broad brush. For example, the idea that the 150 million Americans who

use dietary supplements are gambling with their health by shopping at mainstream

stores just doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Hyperbole does not lead to sound

policy. "

Council for Responsible Nutrition president Mister offers his comment as

well: " Dietary supplements have a very strong safety profile and consumers

should continue to feel confident in the supplements that they are taking. "

Senator McCain's proposed legislation highlights the mindset at the FDA, dubbed

the Fear and Denial Administration by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA). The FDA, which

is responsible for guarding the health of American citizens, is hostile to the

kind of natural medicine—based on lifestyle choices, nutrition, dietary

supplements, and exercise—that is both effective and sustainable.

Senator McCain appears to have been naïvely sold a bill of goods from vested

interests. It is clear he does not know that he is being used by these interests

in opposition to the wishes of tens of millions of Americans who supplement

wisely to maintain optimal health. If you have not done so already, please take

action now or read more about The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010.