Law to Put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

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Senate Expected to Vote Tomorrow (November 17th) on Law to Put Dietary

Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

Dear Health-Conscious Consumer,

Pharmaceutical companies are aggressively interfering with your ability to

access information about dietary supplements.

In its lame-duck session, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill tomorrow

(November 17th) that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in

jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published

scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their

website.

The pretext for these draconian proposals is a bill titled the Food Safety

Accountability Act (S. 3767). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to

punish anyone who knowingly contaminates food for sale. Since there are

already strong laws to punish anyone who commits this crime, this bill

serves little purpose other than enriching pharmaceutical interests.

The sinister scheme behind this bill is to exploit the public's concern

about food safety. Drug companies want to convince your Senators that an

overreaching law needs to be enacted to grant the FDA powers to define " food

contamination " any way it chooses.

Even today, the FDA can proclaim a dietary supplement as " misbranded " even

if the best science in the world is used to describe its biological effects

in the body. The concern is that the FDA will use the term " misbranded " in

the same way it defines " adulterated " in order to jail dietary supplement

makers as if they were selling contaminated food.

The new bill expected to be voted on tomorrow (November 17th) in the Senate

increases the penalties the FDA can use to threaten supplement makers to ten

years in prison. The big issue here is that the FDA will use this as a

hammer to threaten and coerce small companies into signing crippling consent

decrees that will deny consumers access to truthful non-misleading

information about natural approaches to protect against age-related disease.

Please tell

<http://www.capwiz.com/lef/issues/alert/?alertid=17366501 & type=CO> your two

Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do

this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative

<http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Congress-Seeks-to-put-Dietary-Suppleme

nt-Makers-in-Jail.htm> Action Center on our website.

If you'd like read the legal details about this bill

<http://www.anh-usa.org/breaking-news-new-food-safety-threat-urgent-action-a

lert/> , log on to the Alliance for Natural Health website.

Health-conscious consumers have succeeded in preventing Congress from

capitulating to the pharmaceutical industry this year. Please continue this

string of victories by telling your Senators to OPPOSE

<http://www.capwiz.com/lef/issues/alert/?alertid=17366501 & type=CO> this

underhanded attempt (S. 3767) to grant the FDA dictatorial new powers.

Please contact your two Senators today as the vote on this bill is scheduled

for Wednesday, November 17! Click

<http://www.capwiz.com/lef/issues/alert/?alertid=17366501 & type=CO> here to

e-mail your two Senators.

For longer life,

Faloon

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This is sensationalism at it's finest.

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> Senate Expected to Vote Tomorrow (November 17th) on Law to Put Dietary

> Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

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> Dear Health-Conscious Consumer,

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> Pharmaceutical companies are aggressively interfering with your ability to

> access information about dietary supplements.

>

> In its lame-duck session, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill tomorrow

> (November 17th) that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in

> jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published

> scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their

> website.

>

> The pretext for these draconian proposals is a bill titled the Food Safety

> Accountability Act (S. 3767). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to

> punish anyone who knowingly contaminates food for sale. Since there are

> already strong laws to punish anyone who commits this crime, this bill

> serves little purpose other than enriching pharmaceutical interests.

>

> The sinister scheme behind this bill is to exploit the public's concern

> about food safety. Drug companies want to convince your Senators that an

> overreaching law needs to be enacted to grant the FDA powers to define " food

> contamination " any way it chooses.

>

> Even today, the FDA can proclaim a dietary supplement as " misbranded " even

> if the best science in the world is used to describe its biological effects

> in the body. The concern is that the FDA will use the term " misbranded " in

> the same way it defines " adulterated " in order to jail dietary supplement

> makers as if they were selling contaminated food.

>

> The new bill expected to be voted on tomorrow (November 17th) in the Senate

> increases the penalties the FDA can use to threaten supplement makers to ten

> years in prison. The big issue here is that the FDA will use this as a

> hammer to threaten and coerce small companies into signing crippling consent

> decrees that will deny consumers access to truthful non-misleading

> information about natural approaches to protect against age-related disease.

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>

> Please tell

> <http://www.capwiz.com/lef/issues/alert/?alertid=17366501 & type=CO> your two

> Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do

> this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative

> <http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Congress-Seeks-to-put-Dietary-Suppleme

> nt-Makers-in-Jail.htm> Action Center on our website.

>

> If you'd like read the legal details about this bill

> <http://www.anh-usa.org/breaking-news-new-food-safety-threat-urgent-action-a

> lert/> , log on to the Alliance for Natural Health website.

>

> Health-conscious consumers have succeeded in preventing Congress from

> capitulating to the pharmaceutical industry this year. Please continue this

> string of victories by telling your Senators to OPPOSE

> <http://www.capwiz.com/lef/issues/alert/?alertid=17366501 & type=CO> this

> underhanded attempt (S. 3767) to grant the FDA dictatorial new powers.

>

> Please contact your two Senators today as the vote on this bill is scheduled

> for Wednesday, November 17! Click

> <http://www.capwiz.com/lef/issues/alert/?alertid=17366501 & type=CO> here to

> e-mail your two Senators.

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> For longer life,

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> Faloon

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