OT: McCain supplement bill

[Guest guest]

Just got this article from www.hsibaltimore.com:

Dear Reader,

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote to you about Senator McCain's bill and how it

might threaten our access to vitamins and supplements.

At the time, McCain seemed to be backing down. But I knew that was too good to

be true.

Apparently, Senator McCain got a deluge of angry letters, emails and calls.

Never one to retreat, McCain realized he needed a new strategy. And that new

strategy could make it even harder for you and me to get our hands on the

products we rely on to stay healthy.

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Eight ball, corner pocket

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While he did withdraw his support for the " McCain Bill, " the Senator seems to

still be on the warpath against our supplements.

Smart man that he is, McCain knew any new bill focused on supplements would

continue to draw public ire (and threaten his chances for re-election), so he

took four of the key provisions from his original bill and snuck them into the

FDA Food Safety Modernization Bill.

I mean, who doesn't want safer food???

That's why I'm worried this bill will sail through.

And one of McCain's pet ideas could also mean that any ingredient not occurring

naturally in the food supply would have to be approved as a " new dietary

ingredient (NDI) " before it could be sold. As always, that sounds like a good

idea on the surface but wait 'til you see what that really means.

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The secret dangers of...grape skins?

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You see, food extracts aren't considered " in the food supply " so items like

resveratrol or ECGC or CoQ10 could literally be pulled off the market without

warning and forced to go through lengthy and expensive approval processes before

we would be allowed to take them again.

...for our own good, of course.

Now maybe Senator McCain isn't leading an evil plot to get CoQ10 off the market,

but he would be giving the FDA the power to do just that.

And those two words together are pretty scary: " FDA " and " power. "

It doesn't seem like this will blow up in McCain's face the way the DSSA bill

did so I wouldn't count on him backing down this time.

That means we need to be ready. So stay tuned and I'll keep you posted and let

you know what we need to do to save our supplements.