New Bill To Limit Access to Supplements

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McCain Files New Bill Attacking Your Access to Supplements

This Bill Would Repeal Key Sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and

Education Act

Please Contact Your Senators Now to Tell Them Not to Co-sponsor This

Exceptionally Bad Bill and Instead Help Us to Defeat It!

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would repeal key sections of the

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). It would give the FDA

full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed

to remain on the market while banning all others.

Everyone knows that the FDA is friendly to drug companies (which pay its

bills and provide good revolving door jobs) and hostile to supplement

companies. Under this bill, this same Agency could quite arbitrarily ban any

supplement it wished or turn it over to drug companies to be developed as a

drug and sold for multiples of its price as a supplement.

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?

The following is the text of the bill

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Below is a statement by the American Herbal Products Association

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Related article with analysis and feedback from the supplement industry

Industry attacks McCain Bill for " regulatory overkill

http://bit.ly/97YOFy