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if you do nothing, REAL MILK will be categorized by the FDA as a 'dietary supplement' in order to gain jurisdiction over it, then regulate it to death. Now is your chance to talk back to your bureaucrats, while you still may.URGENT ALERT: FDA Has Gone Into Stealth Mode In An Attempt To Target Dietary Supplements & Alternative Medicine This is an URGENT SOS with a call for writing letters AND e-mails to Save Our Supplements. PREPARE FOR BATTLE as it appears that the grandest, sneakiest attack upon personal freedom of choice for health care and nutritional supplement availability is well under way without fanfare. Prepare to make a personal and DIRECT response. DO NOT SEND YOUR RESPONSE BY WAY OF A THIRD PARTY ORGANIZATION as has been suggested in the preceding days by various e-mails. There is an old adage, "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it." About 15 years ago the FDA was gearing up to clamp down on nutritional supplements with a very safe history of use in a more restrictive fashion akin to that of dangerous drugs that are laden with long lists of side effects. A letter writing campaign to Congress of such magnitude as was not seen before and has not been seen since ensued. More letters were received by Congress in a few months than all the letters written about Vietnam to Congress during that action covering more than a decade of the 1960s and 1970s. Millions of letters inundated Congress from concerned individuals desirous to protect their access to nutritional supplements. The result was DSHEA -- the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act -- that basically took the paper to the dog's nose backing the FDA away. That ol' FDA dog learned to not be so open and get sneaky. A few years later they began to concentrate their efforts through the United Nations Codex group to try to get around DSHEA. This has been a slow and arduous task and some headway has been made. However, these efforts have been mired in infighting amongst nation members throught the last two years. That ol' FDA dog is getting even sneakier. More than four months ago a new policy was drafted regarding "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products" i.e. nutritional supplements for "Regulation" and "Availability". It was almost three months before this nefarious 17 page document of bureaucratic doubletalk and spin doctoring was entered into the Federal Register ever so quietly with no fanfare for a public comment period that is now set to expire in less than three weeks. YES you should respond to the FDA if you value your health and health freedom choices. A letter investing a 39 cent stamp carries more weight than an unpaid electronic submission. Doing both is better yet. Postage paid response to: Food and Drug Administration5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061Rockville, MD 20852 All comments should be identified with the docket number REFER TO: [Docket No. 2006D-0480]Electronic submission may be made at: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/comments/getDocketInfo.cfm?EC_DOCUMENT_ID=1451 & SORT= & MAXROWS=15 & START=121 & CID= & AGENCY=FDA There is a 'Submit Comments' icon to click at bottom of page ... THAT is where comments should be placed. Comments should indicate that the financially strapped FDA should concentrate their time and money efforts to drugs that are proven dangerous and deadly, and to keep their grimy paws off nutritional supplements that have a shining record of safety. NO you should not send your responses by way of a third party organization proposed by many in recent days for reasons left unmentioned at this time. DIRECT and PERSONAL is much more powerful. NOW PAY ATTENTION ... the FDA is filled with bureaucrats unaccountable to citizens. Therefore it is even more important to follow up as was done about 15 years ago by sending a copy of your response to your congressional representatives -- your U.S. House Representative and both of your United States Senators. THESE PEOPLE ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO YOU BY WAY OF THE BALLOT BOX PLUS they have direct oversight of that ol' dog FDA. You may view the full policy draft guideline at: http://www.fda.gov/cber/gdlns/altmed.htmDraft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration; Availability C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him c/o P. O. Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@... .