Disastrous Durbin Anti-Supplement Amendment Just Offered! Help Stop it.

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Please go to this link and oppose this bill by contacting your senators. This is

happening today.

http://www.anh-usa.org/disastrous-durbin-anti-supplement-amendment-just-offered-\

help-stop-it/

The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187) is a bill

that is considered " must-pass " legislation. Within hours, Senators Dick Durbin

and Blumenthal will be offering Amendment 2127 to the bill. Their

amendment creates duplicative, unnecessary, and unexpected new regulations while

upending current law and the regulatory process.

As you know, Sen. Durbin has engaged in this sort of dirty-trick legislative

process before in an attempt to regulate away your supplements. The amendment

will:

Circumvent the FDA's New Dietary Ingredient Industry Guidance. FDA and the

dietary supplement industry are currently engaged in conversations regarding

implementing a new dietary ingredient notification process. The Durbin amendment

creates an entirely new law that would require new FDA regulations, likely

erasing nearly two decades of DSHEA's positive influence in favor of Durbin's

knee-jerk approach to governing.

Require that a " facility engaged in the manufacturing processing, packing, or

holding " of dietary supplements to register with the FDA. Title III of the

Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002

already requires supplement facility registration! Extra regulation drives up

costs of supplements.

Hurt businesses and the economy with burdensome and unexpected new regulations.

Supplement manufacturers have thirty days to register their products after

marketing or face charges of misbranding. Given that there are thousands of

products currently in the market, these regulations will force significant

numbers of products off the market as industry adjusts to the new regulations,

costing the industry significant revenue, and causing the loss of American jobs.

Most importantly, this amendment would drastically limit you access to

supplements as companies would likely remove their products from store shelves

in order to meet Durbin's thirty-day deadline.

Contact your senators IMMEDIATELY and tell them to OPPOSE the Durbin and

Blumenthal amendment no. 2127 to the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (S.3187).