Vitamins outlawed?

[Girl Next Door]

http://dev.healthfreedoms.org/content/reject-s-3002-nutritional-supplement-prohibition-act

Signatures for the petition : Reject S. 3002 - The Nutritional Supplement Prohibition Act

Reject S. 3002 - The Nutritional Supplement Prohibition Act

Posted March 2nd, 2010 by admin

 

John McCain If Arizona Senator John McCain has his way, many of the supplements you rely on for good health will disappear. And the cost of the few you can still get will explode in price.

Earlier this month, Sen. McCain introduced a bill falsely labeled the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010” (S. 3002). Sounds good, right? Nothing to worry about. McCain says: “Legitimate dietary supplement companies should have nothing to fear from this legislation. The purpose of the bill is not to create a sweeping regulatory structure, but instead a targeted structure that provides for openness, transparency and safety.”

 

This bill would require every person involved with supplements – all the way down to mom-and-pop health food stores and multi-level-marketing distributors — to register with the FDA. Next, every “dietary supplement facility” must turn over a complete list of the products and ingredients they sell or handle.

It gets worse. Should this bill become law, the state will determine if an ingredient can be sold. You see, under DSHEA passed in 1994, any ingredient sold before the bill passed could be sold legally forever. Well, no more.

Under this bill, the FDA will assume any ingredient “adulterated” unless “there is a history of use or other evidence of safety.” Manufacturers and distributors must provide the FDA “with information, including any citation to published articles, which is the basis on which the manufacturer or distributor has concluded that a dietary supplement containing such dietary ingredient will reasonably be expected to be safe.”

And guess who is the ultimate judge and jury? The FDA!

 

A recent study shows there were ZERO deaths from supplement use in 2008. Zero. Nada. Ziltch. Big Pharma racked up about 150,000. Hospital infections another 48,000. Read the full report here: http://healthfreedoms.org/no-deaths-from-vitamins-minerals-amino-acids-o...

 

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[Ambergris]

Something's not right here. If a company has been using the same ingredients since 1994, and no ill effects have been documented, then presumably each of those ingredients will be GRAS--generally regarded as safe. If people are slipping in new ingredients without telling anyone, or not keeping track of what ingredients they have historically used, then frankly that's a problem.

[ScrubbieLady]

How did John McCain introduce earlier this month called the "dietary supplement safety act of 2010"? Wouldn't that have been last year? And the last Congress. I went to opencongress.org and couldn't find anything to match the name or number.