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Don't Let Congress Overturn the Hard-Fought Victory of the
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994!
Send
an e-mail NOW. Your Freedom Of Choice Is At Stake!
Vote and send letter at
http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html
A new bill
called the "Dietary Supplement Safety" Act (S.722) has been
introduced in the U.S. Senate. Despite its title, it would allow
no more consumer protection than current law – the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) – provides. It would,
however, significantly undermine many of the freedoms that American
consumers of dietary supplements hold dear.
Click here to view S.722.
Oppose this Legislation!
The Food and Drug Administration must not be granted new and
unprecedented authority to subject safe and beneficial products to
additional and unnecessary scrutiny.
This bill would subject nearly all vitamins, minerals, herbal
products and other supplements to a level of scrutiny that is both
unwarranted and unnecessary. Products that have been used safely for
hundreds – and in some cases, thousands – of years would be subject
to clinical evaluation using standards that are at the complete
discretion of the FDA.
The government must not be allowed to limit the freedom of
choice of American consumers when it comes to their health.
By questioning the safety of any dietary
supplement that receives even one complaint, hundreds of products
that have been safely and beneficially used could be removed from
the marketplace. Under this new legislation, the FDA has complete
discretion to make this determination, regardless of whether the
product was used under conditions cautioned against by the
manufacturer on the label.
The government must not be allowed to single-out dietary
supplements. By almost
every measure, and by a wide margin, dietary supplements can be used
more safely than conventional foods and OTC drugs. Yet this
legislation exempts foods in these product categories from being
classified as stimulants. Specifically, the bill unfairly excludes
the most common "stimulant" ingredient in foods – caffeine.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
This bill could be added to existing Senate legislation at any time.
We need you to take two vital steps to immediately let your Senators
know you oppose this bill.
Call your Senators now. To reach your
Senators' offices, call them either through the Capitol Hill
switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or directly at their Washington, D.C.
or local offices. To find contact information for your elected
officials, simply click on the
Elected Officials
link above. When you reach your Senator's office, ask to speak with
the staff member in charge of health-related issues and give them
this simple message:
As your constituent, I urge you to oppose any efforts by your
fellow Senators to pass S. 722, the so-called Dietary Supplement
"Safety" Act, recently introduced by Senator Richard Durbin. I am
deeply concerned that rather than passing this new act - which would
unnecessarily expand the authority of the Food and Drug
Administration - Congress should instead investigate and oversee
ways in which the Food and Drug Administration can make full use of
its current and more-than-adequate authority as granted by the
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.
E-mail your Senators now.
Simply enter your ZIP code in the "Take Action
Now" button above to locate your senators and representatives, make
any changes you feel necessary to the sample letter, and click
"submit." A copy of your letter will be sent to the two U.S.
Senators from your state. A copy of the letter will also be sent to
you confirming which Senators received the letter.
Send an
e-mail NOW. Your Freedom Of Choice Is At Stake!
Vote send letter at
http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html
Don't delay – this bill has the potential to radically amend one of
this country’s most important and beneficial laws, the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.
This information curtsy of the National Nutritional Foods
Association, founded in 1936.
http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html
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