FW: [CAVM] Senate passes supplement bill :-(

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I thought I would pass this on for all interested parties. It came from my

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Laurie McCauley, DVM

TOPS Veterinary Rehabilitation

Grayslake, IL

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[CAVM] Senate passes supplement bill :-(

Cross posted from Integrative Psychiatry E-list

Rick Palmquist

A bad AER bill was rammed through the Senate last night at 9PM. We must

now

try to stop the bill in the House of Representatives HR6168 today.

call: (Capital Switchboard 24/7) and ask for:

1. Rep. Hastert

2. Rep. Boehner- (tell him not to allow it to be put on the calendar- he

opposes the bill, but now theres going to be HUGE pressure on him to let it

be

voted on.)

3. Rep. Barton

What to say:

Oppose HR6168, the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer

Protection Act. This legislation has nothing in it to determine causality

of an

adverse event. Safe dietary supplements would be wrongly blamed for

problems

actually caused by pharmaceutical drugs taken concurrently with one or more

dietary supplements- and there would be no medical or scientific review

required by FDA before they could release the flawed " data " . This would be

a trial

lawyers dream, it's not good government and it would do nothing to protect

the public health. There must be hearings on this legislation, and there

must

be changes made to its language before it would actually serve its intended

purpose. Do not ram it through on us during the lame duck session or you

will

enrage the millions of dietary supplement users who flooded congress with

more

mail during the campaign to pass DSHEA than Congress ever received in its

history on ANY issue.

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