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Should The Senate On Nov. 17 Give Fda Power To Jail Supplement Makers For Citing Scientific Studies On Their Websites?... What about the First Amendment?
I have found dietary supplements more effective than drugs for my health needs. There are many high-quality scientific studies supporting the powerful health benefits of dietary supplements. The Life Extension Foundation says the drug companies are behind this outrage.
Read what they have to say about it and utilize their website to e-mail your US senators. I don't know how to em<x>bed the links, so to use them, you'll have to go to the web page I copy and paste from below.
http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Senate-Expected-to-Vote-on-Bill-to-Put-Supplement-Makers-in-Jail.htm
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 your two Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative Action Center.
If you’d like to read the legal details about this bill [Web page has link here], 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 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 here to e-mail your two Senators. [Web page has link here.]
Sorry I didn't get this up sooner.
I have found dietary supplements more effective than drugs for my health needs. There are many high-quality scientific studies supporting the powerful health benefits of dietary supplements. The Life Extension Foundation says the drug companies are behind this outrage.
Read what they have to say about it and utilize their website to e-mail your US senators. I don't know how to em<x>bed the links, so to use them, you'll have to go to the web page I copy and paste from below.
http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Senate-Expected-to-Vote-on-Bill-to-Put-Supplement-Makers-in-Jail.htm
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 your two Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative Action Center.
If you’d like to read the legal details about this bill [Web page has link here], 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 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 here to e-mail your two Senators. [Web page has link here.]
Sorry I didn't get this up sooner.
