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From: Health Action Center <mailto:info@...>

Natural Health News

April 21, 2005

www.citizens.org <http://www.citizens.org>

Health on the Hill

I. Court Overturns One Year Old FDA Ephedra Ban...Low Doses of 5000 Year

Old Herb Not Proved Dangerous.

Congressional Democrats Attack Decision. New York Times and other media

voices urge Congress to " move promptly to enact overdue legal revisions

that will significantly strengthen the agency's [FDA's] power to monitor

and police the supplement industry. "

Take Action!

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your health rights! Support DSHEA. Dietary Supplement critics are using

this decision to call for restricting access to dietary supplements -

they claim that the FDA needs more authority to regulate supplements and

that we need to rewrite DSHEA. We need your support more than ever to

create strong grassroots support for DSHEA. Support us today!

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Opinion & Analysis by Jim , Chairman, Citizens for Health. >>go to

full article <http://www.healthactioncenter.com/ctt.asp?u=3033516 & l=89649>

On April 13, 2005 Judge Tina ruled that the FDA had failed to

prove any danger from 10mg or less of ephedra daily and ordered it to do

so if it wished to enforce the ban. Immediately Democrats Senator Ted

Kennedy and Congressman Henry Waxman, well known foes of dietary

supplements, issued statements deploring the outcome...read more.

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II. European Food Supplement Directive Deemed Invalid. Advocate General

Finds Food Supplements Directive Invalid Under EU Law. >>read more

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II.Health Action Alert Senate Bill voids existing state laws protecting

children from mercury in vaccines along with other state's rights while

it creates a national electronic surveillance database from YOUR health

records Tell Your Senators to Oppose S. 3 Today! It only takes one

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