HELP DRIVE MCCAIN FROM OFFICE & KILL HIS TERRIBLE BILL S.3002 DIETARY SUPPLEMENT SAFETY ACT OF 2010 WHAT TO DO:

[Guest guest]

(L-R) Senator McCain, Challenger JD Hayworth,..... Hammell in the IAHF

Office

IAHF List:

For the past couple of weeks I've been probing deeply into a number of issues

surrounding Senator McCain's bill S.3002 (The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of

2010), and on Thursday I'm going to the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus Ohio

where 700 dietary supplement companies selling sports nutrition products will

have booths. I'll be there through the weekend.  I'm hoping some of these

companies can assist in my making additional trips to DC to kill this dangerous

bill. Your donations are badly needed to help pay for this trip to Ohio.

My purpose in going to " the Arnold " will be to urge these companies and the

public to help kill S.3002, and to drive Senator McCain, its sponsor, from

office by assisting JD Hayworth who is running against him. (Hayworth is a

strong supporter of DSHEA and opposes S.3002) I have flyers reading to pass out

to the 700 booths where I'll ask them to distribute them to thousands of

attendees.

I'll also be asking Sports Nutrition Companies to assist IAHF in self policing

the dietary supplement industry because the excuse for McCain's bill is that

some criminals have been operating in our midst selling illegal synthetic

steroids masquerading as " dietary supplements " which they're NOT. They've been

brazenly selling illegal steroids on bodybuilding websites mixed in with

legitimate legal supplements. The FDA has more than ample power to deal with

these criminals, something they've already been doing, so theres no reason to

make sweeping changes to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. (More

on this.)

Durk Pierson, formulator of several cutting edge dietary supplements, urges us

to think of the absurdity posed by S.3002 this way:

" Remember Reid, the terrorist shoe bomber?

Did his attempt mean that the US needed to register shoe stores and shoe

salesmen? Did it mean that the US needed to create more regulations on shoe

manufacturers? Did it mean that all new shoe designs had to be approved before

sale by a shoe design czar?

No, of course not! It simply meant that more testing needed to be done at

airports to make sure that people were not walking on board airplanes with bombs

on their feet disguised as shoes  rather than legitimate shoes.

That's it. If McCain wants to pass a bill giving the FDA $10,000,000 to purchase

products advertised to increase muscle and test them for anabolic properties,

that shouldn't interfere with legitimate dietary supplements.

How do you test for new synthetic anabolic steroids? Put out a bid for a test

that measures activation of a human testosterone receptor that has been coupled

to jellyfish green fluorescent protein expression in bacteria. Simple routine

genetic engineering of bacteria. Add an anabolic substance to the culture, and

it will soon glow green under long wave UV. There are at least a dozen US

biotech firms that could deliver such tests in less than a year. Anything that

would activate the human receptor for testosterone would be detected. End of

problem. "

(Several attempts to communicate Pierson's message to Senator McCain's office

went nowhere hence my strong feeling that he must be driven from office- he is

an enemy of dietary supplement consumers.)

HOW S.3002 POSES A THREAT TO GUT THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT HEALTH & EDUCATION ACT

AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO STOP IT

Right now, under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, supplement

companies have broad leeway allowing thousands of products to be sold, but under

S.3002, a so called " Positive List " would be created by the FDA, and if one or

more ingredients in a supplement companies product is not on this list, they'd

be blocked from selling it unless they filed an " NDI " or " New Dietary

Ingredient " application with the FDA, and the FDA approved it.

The World Anti Doping Agency and the US Anti Doping Agency have a list of over

400 different ingredients currently found in dietary supplements that they've

banned athletes from using. Most of these ingredients are legal, but a few are

not under current law. It is not reasonable for these organizations to impose

their will on the public at large, but thats what they're trying to do, under

false pretenses.

FDA has a very poor track record of approving NDIs. Since passage of DSHEA,

they've hardly approved ANY NDIs, moreover, despite frequent requests from the

supplement industry for the FDA to provide a guidance document to facilitate

approval of NDIs, the Agency has failed to act on this request. This illustrates

FDA's longstanding bias against dietary supplements. They don't want to do

anything to help our industry bring products to market. If a company were to

sell a product containing even one ingredient not on FDA's " Positive List " , it

could be raided, charged with misbranding, and heavily fined. This would cause

thousands of products to be removed from the market very quickly including many

of your favorite products.

S.3002 would also require supplement manufacturers to report even minor Adverse

Event Reports to the FDA, a very impractical requirement considering that FDA

has very limited resources with which to review these AER reports and that would

prevent the SERIOUS Adverse Reactions that are WORTH looking at from being

properly examined making consumers LESS safe, not MORE safe.

Whats totally outrageous about this is that supplements, which are much safer

than either prescription or  OTC drugs, or than food in common form, would be

subject to a much more restrictive requirement when none is needed!

S.3002 would also give the FDA automatic recall authority over dietary

supplements, a higher standard than is imposed on prescription drugs which are

far more dangerous!

It would also impose a registration requirement of all supplement companies,

their products and ingredients, imposing yet another layer of red tape that will

drive small companies under while increasing costs to consumers- doing nothing

to improve safety.

THE EXCUSE DRIVING S.3002: ILLEGAL STEROIDS

MASQUERADING AS " DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS "   (FDA Already has all the power they need

to take these illegal products off the market)

See this FDA press release about Bodybuilding.com's voluntary recall of 65

dietary supplements that may contain illegal steroids. Several different

manufacturers were named in the recall.

From this we see that FDA has ample enforcement power under the Anabolic Steroid

Control Act to address this problem of illegal steroids being sold as " dietary

supplements " (which they are not).

The solution is to not give the FDA more power which they have a long history of

abusing when it comes to dietary supplements, the solution is for the FDA to do

its job properly by making more of an effort to enforce the law!

Its also not a bad idea for the supplement industry to do more to police itself

by reporting companies selling these illegal products to the FDA. Consumers can

also help with such an effort.

The US Anti Doping Agency is pushing McCain's bill by disseminating anti dietary

supplement propaganda from its website.

In an attempt to influence congress to pass S.3002, they've built this special

site.  Several calls and emails IAHF sent to USADA ceo Tygart have not

been returned. Its clear to me that Tygart is no friend of health freedom, he'd

like to see DSHEA be repealed, and he won't listen to reason on this issue.

IAHF's EFFORTS TO SELF POLICE THE INDUSTRY

I found several bodybuilding product websites that are openly selling illegal

synthetic steroids, and I sent each of them variations on the following letter

which I cced to the FDA. I don't TRUST the FDA to do their job in instances like

this (since they want McCain's bill to be driven through congress and it helps

them do that when these illegal products remain on the market)

I also cced my letters to the Inspector General's office at the Department of

Health & Human Services. (The IG serves as an internal policeman inside HHS, and

FDA is under that umbrella. The IG's office has forced FDA at times to do their

job, and I hope that happens here if FDA fails to act.)

In my letters I quoted the law to them showing them that DSHEA forbids them from

selling products containing ingredients that are not found in food and which

have been chemically altered. I sent them the urls of pages on their site that I

wanted them (and the FDA) to review since it appeared that they were selling

illegal synthetic steroids. I will follow up to insure that either these

companies act, or that the FDA takes action. If FDA fails to act, I'll go to the

IG to demand that they MAKE FDA take action!

In my letters said: " Do not sell ANY of these items or ANY chemically altered

hormonal products from ANY manufacturer " :

List of Alleged Chemically Altered Steroids STILL on sale at several

bodybuilding product sites

These has been on the market for over 5 years.  100% Chemically Altered - not in

food

4-chloro-17a-methyl-androst-1, 4-diene-3-17b-diol

4-chloro-17a-methyl-androst-4-ene-3-17b-diol

Anti-estrogenic steroid. 100% Chemically Altered - not in food

6-bromo androst-4-ene 3, 17 dione

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

2a,3a Epithio-17a -methyl-17b-hydroxy-5a-androstane

MATD: 100% Chemically Altered - not in food

17a-methyl-5a-Dehydro-Etiocholan-4, 6-Dien-3-One-17-ol

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

17-a-methyl-etioallocholan-17b-ol-3-hydroxyimine

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

2,17-dimethyl-5-androstan-17-ol-3,3'-azine

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

5a-etioallocholan[2,3-c]furazan-17b-tetrahydropyranol ether

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

3,2-c]pyrazole-5alpha-etioallocholane-17beta-tetrahydropyranol

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

13-ethyl-3-methoxy-gona-2,5(10)-diene-17-one

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

Methyl-1-Etiocholenolol

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO KILL MCCAINS BILL

You'll find a form letterhere that you can send with one mouse click to your

Senators. Please forward this alert to as many people as you can, and urge them

to also take action! Urge them to sign up for IAHF alerts by by going to the

IAHF website.

Do anything you can to assist JD Hayworth's campaign to unseat McCain who badly

needs to be driven from the Senate. Hayworth is running against him in the

Republican primary. McCain graduated near the bottom of his class at polis

and the only reason he wasn't thrown out was that his father was an Admiral. He

also crashed a jet on the flightdeck of a carrier killing a huge number of

people, causing a fire that took 24 hrs to put out, and he should have been

court martialled. Again, the only reason he wasn't was his father was an

Admiral. We don't need this idiot messing with our lives by pushing this moronic

bill, he doesn't belong in the US Senate.

Hayworth has been a Congressman in the past, and he's a staunch supporter of

DSHEA. I've spoken with his staff and they're fully embracing the health freedom

issue. McCain has a huge campaign warchest though and incumbents aren't easy to

drive from office. Please donate to Hayworth's campaign at his website.

IAHF NEEDS YOUR HELP TO GET TO OHIO & TO DO THIS WORK

Please help me make this trip to the Arnold Bodybuildng Products trade show, I'm

leaving Thursday, return monday and will be passing out thousands of flyers on

the show floor to the public via as many companies booths as I possibly can.

Your generous donations make it possible for me to run IAHF, and no one is

working harder to defend your access to dietary supplements!

Please donate via paypal at this site  or via check or money order to IAHF 556

Boundary Bay Rd., Point WA 98281 USA. Thanks for your support! Please

forward this to as many people as possible and urge them to join you in taking

action against S.3002!

For Health Freedom, C. Hammell, President International Advocates for

Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point , WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com jham@... 800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World

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It would be admirable to " kill the bill " but I do not think we get any advantage

should we " drive " anyone from office. What makes us think a person's stand,

today, will be their stand tomorrow. One of the last people I would be

'supporting' would be this Hayworth person and I believe strongly that we should

not be politicking other than raising issues about certain bills, not whom to

vote for. I still maintain the 'Natural' people are partly to blame for giving

the authorities excuses to control what we need. Joe C.

From: Jas Storc

Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:10 AM

cindylstorc@...

Subject: [ ] HELP DRIVE MCCAIN FROM OFFICE & KILL HIS TERRIBLE BILL

S.3002 " DIETARY SUPPLEMENT SAFETY ACT OF 2010 " WHAT TO DO:

(L-R) Senator McCain, Challenger JD Hayworth,..... Hammell in the IAHF

Office

IAHF List:

For the past couple of weeks I've been probing deeply into a number of issues

surrounding Senator McCain's bill S.3002 (The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of

2010), and on Thursday I'm going to the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus Ohio

where 700 dietary supplement companies selling sports nutrition products will

have booths. I'll be there through the weekend. I'm hoping some of these

companies can assist in my making additional trips to DC to kill this dangerous

bill. Your donations are badly needed to help pay for this trip to Ohio.

My purpose in going to " the Arnold " will be to urge these companies and the

public to help kill S.3002, and to drive Senator McCain, its sponsor, from

office by assisting JD Hayworth who is running against him. (Hayworth is a

strong supporter of DSHEA and opposes S.3002) I have flyers reading to pass out

to the 700 booths where I'll ask them to distribute them to thousands of

attendees.

I'll also be asking Sports Nutrition Companies to assist IAHF in self policing

the dietary supplement industry because the excuse for McCain's bill is that

some criminals have been operating in our midst selling illegal synthetic

steroids masquerading as " dietary supplements " which they're NOT. They've been

brazenly selling illegal steroids on bodybuilding websites mixed in with

legitimate legal supplements. The FDA has more than ample power to deal with

these criminals, something they've already been doing, so theres no reason to

make sweeping changes to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. (More

on this.)

Durk Pierson, formulator of several cutting edge dietary supplements, urges us

to think of the absurdity posed by S.3002 this way:

" Remember Reid, the terrorist shoe bomber?

Did his attempt mean that the US needed to register shoe stores and shoe

salesmen? Did it mean that the US needed to create more regulations on shoe

manufacturers? Did it mean that all new shoe designs had to be approved before

sale by a shoe design czar?

No, of course not! It simply meant that more testing needed to be done at

airports to make sure that people were not walking on board airplanes with bombs

on their feet disguised as shoes rather than legitimate shoes.

That's it. If McCain wants to pass a bill giving the FDA $10,000,000 to purchase

products advertised to increase muscle and test them for anabolic properties,

that shouldn't interfere with legitimate dietary supplements.

How do you test for new synthetic anabolic steroids? Put out a bid for a test

that measures activation of a human testosterone receptor that has been coupled

to jellyfish green fluorescent protein expression in bacteria. Simple routine

genetic engineering of bacteria. Add an anabolic substance to the culture, and

it will soon glow green under long wave UV. There are at least a dozen US

biotech firms that could deliver such tests in less than a year. Anything that

would activate the human receptor for testosterone would be detected. End of

problem. "

(Several attempts to communicate Pierson's message to Senator McCain's office

went nowhere hence my strong feeling that he must be driven from office- he is

an enemy of dietary supplement consumers.)

HOW S.3002 POSES A THREAT TO GUT THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT HEALTH & EDUCATION ACT

AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO STOP IT

Right now, under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, supplement

companies have broad leeway allowing thousands of products to be sold, but under

S.3002, a so called " Positive List " would be created by the FDA, and if one or

more ingredients in a supplement companies product is not on this list, they'd

be blocked from selling it unless they filed an " NDI " or " New Dietary

Ingredient " application with the FDA, and the FDA approved it.

The World Anti Doping Agency and the US Anti Doping Agency have a list of over

400 different ingredients currently found in dietary supplements that they've

banned athletes from using. Most of these ingredients are legal, but a few are

not under current law. It is not reasonable for these organizations to impose

their will on the public at large, but thats what they're trying to do, under

false pretenses.

FDA has a very poor track record of approving NDIs. Since passage of DSHEA,

they've hardly approved ANY NDIs, moreover, despite frequent requests from the

supplement industry for the FDA to provide a guidance document to facilitate

approval of NDIs, the Agency has failed to act on this request. This illustrates

FDA's longstanding bias against dietary supplements. They don't want to do

anything to help our industry bring products to market. If a company were to

sell a product containing even one ingredient not on FDA's " Positive List " , it

could be raided, charged with misbranding, and heavily fined. This would cause

thousands of products to be removed from the market very quickly including many

of your favorite products.

S.3002 would also require supplement manufacturers to report even minor Adverse

Event Reports to the FDA, a very impractical requirement considering that FDA

has very limited resources with which to review these AER reports and that would

prevent the SERIOUS Adverse Reactions that are WORTH looking at from being

properly examined making consumers LESS safe, not MORE safe.

Whats totally outrageous about this is that supplements, which are much safer

than either prescription or OTC drugs, or than food in common form, would be

subject to a much more restrictive requirement when none is needed!

S.3002 would also give the FDA automatic recall authority over dietary

supplements, a higher standard than is imposed on prescription drugs which are

far more dangerous!

It would also impose a registration requirement of all supplement companies,

their products and ingredients, imposing yet another layer of red tape that will

drive small companies under while increasing costs to consumers- doing nothing

to improve safety.

THE EXCUSE DRIVING S.3002: ILLEGAL STEROIDS

MASQUERADING AS " DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS " (FDA Already has all the power they need

to take these illegal products off the market)

See this FDA press release about Bodybuilding.com's voluntary recall of 65

dietary supplements that may contain illegal steroids. Several different

manufacturers were named in the recall.

From this we see that FDA has ample enforcement power under the Anabolic Steroid

Control Act to address this problem of illegal steroids being sold as " dietary

supplements " (which they are not).

The solution is to not give the FDA more power which they have a long history of

abusing when it comes to dietary supplements, the solution is for the FDA to do

its job properly by making more of an effort to enforce the law!

Its also not a bad idea for the supplement industry to do more to police itself

by reporting companies selling these illegal products to the FDA. Consumers can

also help with such an effort.

The US Anti Doping Agency is pushing McCain's bill by disseminating anti dietary

supplement propaganda from its website.

In an attempt to influence congress to pass S.3002, they've built this special

site. Several calls and emails IAHF sent to USADA ceo Tygart have not

been returned. Its clear to me that Tygart is no friend of health freedom, he'd

like to see DSHEA be repealed, and he won't listen to reason on this issue.

IAHF's EFFORTS TO SELF POLICE THE INDUSTRY

I found several bodybuilding product websites that are openly selling illegal

synthetic steroids, and I sent each of them variations on the following letter

which I cced to the FDA. I don't TRUST the FDA to do their job in instances like

this (since they want McCain's bill to be driven through congress and it helps

them do that when these illegal products remain on the market)

I also cced my letters to the Inspector General's office at the Department of

Health & Human Services. (The IG serves as an internal policeman inside HHS, and

FDA is under that umbrella. The IG's office has forced FDA at times to do their

job, and I hope that happens here if FDA fails to act.)

In my letters I quoted the law to them showing them that DSHEA forbids them from

selling products containing ingredients that are not found in food and which

have been chemically altered. I sent them the urls of pages on their site that I

wanted them (and the FDA) to review since it appeared that they were selling

illegal synthetic steroids. I will follow up to insure that either these

companies act, or that the FDA takes action. If FDA fails to act, I'll go to the

IG to demand that they MAKE FDA take action!

In my letters said: " Do not sell ANY of these items or ANY chemically altered

hormonal products from ANY manufacturer " :

List of Alleged Chemically Altered Steroids STILL on sale at several

bodybuilding product sites

These has been on the market for over 5 years. 100% Chemically Altered - not in

food

4-chloro-17a-methyl-androst-1, 4-diene-3-17b-diol

4-chloro-17a-methyl-androst-4-ene-3-17b-diol

Anti-estrogenic steroid. 100% Chemically Altered - not in food

6-bromo androst-4-ene 3, 17 dione

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

2a,3a Epithio-17a -methyl-17b-hydroxy-5a-androstane

MATD: 100% Chemically Altered - not in food

17a-methyl-5a-Dehydro-Etiocholan-4, 6-Dien-3-One-17-ol

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

17-a-methyl-etioallocholan-17b-ol-3-hydroxyimine

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

2,17-dimethyl-5-androstan-17-ol-3,3'-azine

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

5a-etioallocholan[2,3-c]furazan-17b-tetrahydropyranol ether

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

3,2-c]pyrazole-5alpha-etioallocholane-17beta-tetrahydropyranol

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

13-ethyl-3-methoxy-gona-2,5(10)-diene-17-one

100% Chemically Altered - not in food

Methyl-1-Etiocholenolol

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO KILL MCCAINS BILL

You'll find a form letterhere that you can send with one mouse click to your

Senators. Please forward this alert to as many people as you can, and urge them

to also take action! Urge them to sign up for IAHF alerts by by going to the

IAHF website.

Do anything you can to assist JD Hayworth's campaign to unseat McCain who badly

needs to be driven from the Senate. Hayworth is running against him in the

Republican primary. McCain graduated near the bottom of his class at polis

and the only reason he wasn't thrown out was that his father was an Admiral. He

also crashed a jet on the flightdeck of a carrier killing a huge number of

people, causing a fire that took 24 hrs to put out, and he should have been

court martialled. Again, the only reason he wasn't was his father was an

Admiral. We don't need this idiot messing with our lives by pushing this moronic

bill, he doesn't belong in the US Senate.

Hayworth has been a Congressman in the past, and he's a staunch supporter of

DSHEA. I've spoken with his staff and they're fully embracing the health freedom

issue. McCain has a huge campaign warchest though and incumbents aren't easy to

drive from office. Please donate to Hayworth's campaign at his website.

IAHF NEEDS YOUR HELP TO GET TO OHIO & TO DO THIS WORK

Please help me make this trip to the Arnold Bodybuildng Products trade show, I'm

leaving Thursday, return monday and will be passing out thousands of flyers on

the show floor to the public via as many companies booths as I possibly can.

Your generous donations make it possible for me to run IAHF, and no one is

working harder to defend your access to dietary supplements!

Please donate via paypal at this site or via check or money order to IAHF 556

Boundary Bay Rd., Point WA 98281 USA. Thanks for your support! Please

forward this to as many people as possible and urge them to join you in taking

action against S.3002!

For Health Freedom, C. Hammell, President International Advocates for

Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point , WA 98281-8702 USA

http://www.iahf.com jham@... 800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World

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I am all for killing McCain's sponsored bill S.3002 and will email my own

senators urging them to vote against it. However, one bill does not a good

senator make or break and I think McCain is an excellent senator and would not

like to see him driven from office. If you disagree with most of his policies

then I understand why you would want him driven from office. But if this is the

one thing that you disagree with him about, I think it is silly to drive him

from office. I know that there is a site online that one can start a petition

to be emailed around for signatures. If you know how to do it or know someone

else that might, I think it would be a good thing to circulate.

From: Jas Storc

cindylstorc@...

Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:10 AM

Subject: [ ] HELP DRIVE MCCAIN FROM OFFICE & KILL HIS TERRIBLE BILL

S.3002 " DIETARY SUPPLEMENT SAFETY ACT OF 2010 " WHAT TO DO:

(L-R) Senator McCain, Challenger JD Hayworth,..... Hammell in the IAHF

Office

IAHF List:

For the past couple of weeks I've been probing deeply into a number of issues

surrounding Senator McCain's bill S.3002 (The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of

2010).....

HOW S.3002 POSES A THREAT TO GUT THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT HEALTH & EDUCATION ACT

AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO STOP IT

Right now, under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, supplement

companies have broad leeway allowing thousands of products to be sold, but under

S.3002, a so called " Positive List " would be created by the FDA, and if one or

more ingredients in a supplement companies product is not on this list, they'd

be blocked from selling it unless they filed an " NDI " or " New Dietary

Ingredient " application with the FDA, and the FDA approved it....

.....