Act Now to Protect Your Health Freedom Rights, All Your Rights! The Life You Save May Be Your Own! Dr. Robin Falkov is available for consultation to review your medical history, current health conditions and concerns. Please contact her at: *************************************************************** Dr. Robin Falkov will be on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Wednesday, 2-24-10 at 10 pm PT, 1 am ET for part of the first hour. Dr. Falkov will be discussing the McCain Bill and why it must be stopped! Please read the below information from the Alliance for Natural Health and take action by contacting your Senators! Senator McCain Files New Bill That Attacks Your Access to Supplements and Repeals Key Sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education ActSenator McCain’s bill is
called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key
sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA).
DSHEA protects supplements if 1) 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.
These protections are far from perfect. They discourage companies
from developing new forms of supplements. New supplements may be
arbitrarily banned by the FDA or adopted by drug companies in a way
that precludes their further sale as supplements.
McCain’s bill would wipe out even the minimal protections contained
in DSHEA. It would give the FDA full discretion and power to compile
a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while
banning all others.
Everyone knows that the FDA is friendly to drug companies (which pay
its bills and provide good revolving door jobs) and hostile to
supplement companies. Under this bill, this same Agency could quite
arbitrarily ban any supplement it wished or turn it over to drug
companies to be developed as a drug and sold for multiples of its
price as a supplement.
The FDA will like this because it believes that it can more easily
control a few industry giants. But isn’t it more likely that the
industry giants will eventually gain control over the FDA?
The FDA is already misusing the adverse event reporting process that
exists. Drugs rack up thousands of adverse event reports without any
action. Just recently, the FDA yanked from the market a supplement
product based on just a couple of alleged adverse event reports
without even allowing the company (an old and respected firm) to
provide any counter-evidence or counter-argument.
The bill also allows the FDA to yank a product (at the company’s
expense) if there is a “reasonable probability” that it is
“adulterated” or “misbranded”. Let’s remember that “adulterated”
could mean there is a minor record keeping error on the producer’s
part and “misbranded” can mean that the producer simply tells the
truth about the product. An “adulterated” and “misbranded”
supplement in Orwellian FDA speak may actually be both completely
safe and effective.
We must prevent this bill from gaining traction! Protect your access
to supplements by contacting your senators today and asking them NOT
to co-sponsor the Dietary Supplement Safety Act but rather to oppose
it.
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