BAD Legislation Could Harm Our Access to Supplements ...

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From Dr. Mark Hyman:

There is some BAD legislation in Congress right now that could harm our access

to supplements …

Senator McCain (R-AZ) and Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have cosponsored a

new bill misleadingly called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). DSSA

would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

(DSHEA), signed into law by then-President Clinton.

This legislation would change current regulation for dietary supplements. It

could make many prescription only, limit what is on the market, offer patents to

drug companies and in many other ways severely limit access to dietary

supplements.

A wide variety of organizations, working together with ANH-USA, have swung into

action to stop McCain's new bill that threatens dietary supplements.

Already thousands of messages are on their way to Capitol Hill in protest.

Please be sure that your message is among them. I encourage you to act now to

send a message to your Senator or Congressman. If you have not already done so,

please take action now:

http://www.anh-usa.org/new_site/?p=2326

DSHEA protects supplements 1) if they are food products that have been in the

food supply and not chemically altered or 2) if they were sold as supplements

prior to 1994, the year that DSHEA was passed. If a supplement fits one of these

two descriptions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot arbitrarily ban

it or reclassify it as a drug. DSHEA provides the framework for effective

regulation of dietary supplements by the FDA.

The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA) would eliminate the supplement

protections contained in DSHEA and allow the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

arbitrary authority to draw up a list of what supplements can be sold and at

what potency levels. Europe is currently limiting both supplements and potencies

to ridiculous levels. If DSSA passes, the FDA, beholden as it is to drug

interests, would move to do the same in the US.

So please act now and write to your Senator and Congressman to oppose this

legislation.

Thank you.

Mark Hyman, MD

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