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[Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>]

*Senator John McCain Introduces Bill Attacking Consumer Access to 
Supplements*

This bill would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and 
Education Act, which guarantees consumers the right to purchase dietary 
supplements.

Please contact your senators now to tell them not to co-sponsor this 
Anti-Consumer, Anti-Health Freedom Bill.

McCain's so-called Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would repeal key 
sections of the popular Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act 
(DSHEA). It would give the FDA unilateral power, with little or no 
scientific justification, to ban vitamin supplements except for those 
produced by Big Pharma corporations.

If McCain's bill passes, we can look to Europe for a snapshot of what we 
may be in for: EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority, has sharply 
reduced the list of available supplements and is in process of reducing 
potencies to ridiculous levels, such as less beta carotene than can be 
found in half of a large carrot. Europeans already look to the US to 
obtain their dietary supplements. If this bill passes, where will we 
obtain ours?

Please take action immediately. Tell your senators NOT to co-sponsor the 
McCain's anti-consumer legislation and to do everything in their power 
to defeat it. Then forward this to your friends and family and ask them 
to do the same!

Take action 
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MHaRhI%2BRlqFv2rfbIn8tBh%2FneON13gMa>

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Keith Johnson
"Be fruitful and mulch apply."
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