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  • From: <fdnokes@hotmail.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Fw: Preserve our Nutritional Choices and Freedom
  • Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:27:12 -0800

FW: Preserve our Nutritional Choices and Freedom




Subject: Preserve our Nutritional Choices and Freedom


The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (S. 3002; introduced by Senator John McCain
on February 4, 2010 has little to do with safety and much to do with
regulation and control.

This bill is rather an attack on the nutritional supplement industry.

Nutritional supplements, up to now, have been somewhat protected from the
long arm and nose of the federal government because they are classified as
food. There are laws on the books that already protect consumers from
misbranded, fraudulent, or contaminated products, food or otherwise.

The McCain Supplement Act would change all that. By playing favorites and
ignoring the hundreds of unsafe drugs that cause serious harm and even death
on the market today, all FDA approved, the FDA would now be granted absolute
authority to over-regulate the dietary supplement industry.

The bill would severely limit development of any products from newly
discovered nutritional components through regulation; install an onerous
registration system for dietary supplement manufacturers; impose a burdensome
documentation process for sellers complete with monetary penalties for
non-compliance; and develop an "Accepted Dietary Ingredients" list at the
sole discretion of the Secretary, who also would have unlimited recall
authority.

The very broadly written bill leaves much room for the government to
interpret its own definitions for terms like "adulterated," "misbranded," and
"reasonable probability." It would even make mandatory the reporting of minor
side effects, which is not required for even the worst FDA-approved drugs. A
Pandora's box of intended and unintended legal complications and government
harassment of nutritional supplement manufacturers and sellers could very
well be unleashed if this bill is passed.

Those who best have the consumers health and safety interests at heart are
the consumers themselves. It is big government who has a proven track record
of not protecting the public. And it is big government who is seeking to
take away yet another individual freedom, the right to choose one's own
treatment, whether it be for the common cold or cancer.

Please see
http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&APP=GAC&IssueID=20662&SiteID=-1


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