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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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