Every Right we were born with, given to us by God, and to be
protected by the contract with government, the Constitution, not to
be abridged by government, is currently under constant attack. Our
Rights to Privacy, Freedom of Speech, Right to Redress, and our
Right to Life, a Healthy Life via choice is now being eroded by the
mechanism of government. At the behest of big business$$ Its all
about Money, not your family's health and safety. Do not be fooled.
Take Action while you can and hold those accountable to their oath
of office. Use your Voice.
Understanding the Threat to Dietary Supplements - Part 2
Senate Attempts Damage Control - House Braces for onslaught of
phone calls.
Byron Richards, CCN.
May 16, 2007.
NewsWithViews.com
Senators were taken off guard by the public outrage over
the passing of bill S.1082 with language that can be used to
seriously harass dietary supplements by enabling the FDA to apply
drug-related risk analysis to the safety of food and food
ingredients (and thus dietary supplements). .
Senators are also struggling to defend the fact that they enabled
the creation of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, having been
conned into believing this foundation was for the purpose of
improved safety when in fact its mission is to assist the FDA to
develop the next generation of drugs with drastically reduced safety
or effectiveness testing. .
These issues are fully explained in Part 1 of this article .
(
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron30.htm
),
if you would like to know the details in greater depth.
This week the Senate has unleashed a damage control campaign,
sending out numerous e-mails to those who have been complaining over
the past few weeks. The goal of these letters is to calm
apprehensions about dietary supplements and seek to convince
everyone that dietary supplements are not in any danger.
DO NOT BE FOOLED AGAIN
READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY
This was told to me by an ex Senator in New Mexico. Most
politicians do NOT read bills, they just ask who is voting for what
and trade off favors for favorable votes for their particular
legislation.
Let your representative know you understand this terrible
piece of legislation is their doing, and have them amend it.
Intent of amendment:
To eliminate from the bill any possibility that food or food
ingredients would be treated like drugs either for safety review
purposes or for assessment of their efficacy. It is a fundamental
tenet of food and drug law that foods and food ingredients are
presumed to be safe and have to be established to be adulterated
only if they present a significant or unreasonable risk of illness
or injury.
In assessing whether dietary ingredients and dietary supplements
are safe, the Foundation or Institute shall not compare product
risks with health benefits or efficacy. Instead, the Foundation or
Institute shall determine whether the product presents a significant
risk of illness or injury under conditions of use recommended or
suggested in labeling, or if no conditions of use are recommended or
suggested in labeling, under ordinary conditions of use.
Health Freedom is on the Line
It is vitally important to send the following message to all
members of the House and keep flooding the Senate (as there will be
a conference committee).
It is also important to send this message to Senators Hatch and
Harkin (the original designers of DHSEA) and Kennedy and Enzi (who
claim they are not trying to regulate dietary supplements with this
legislation).
These Senators must hear from the American public as they will
determine the fate of this amendment when it reaches the conference
committee. Success will require significant support from the people.
Thank you.
To get information on contacting Senators, click here
(http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
).
To contact your House Representative, click here
( http://www.house.gov/writerep/
).
Please send the following message.
HR 1561 (senate bill S.1082) - Please Amend to Protect Dietary
Supplements
May 16, 2007
The Honorable (Representative or Senator First and Last Name)
Address
Address
Dear Representative (or Senator) Last Name;
The Senate has recently passed bill S1082, commonly known as the
FDA Revitalization Act. I am concerned that the legislation, as
currently written, opens the door for considerable regulatory
confusion enabling the FDA to use this legislation to undermine my
access to safe and effective dietary supplements.
There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of
food and food ingredients - which are governed by different laws.
I am sure you and other members of Congress are not intending to
create such concern among the 150 million Americans who rely on
dietary supplements to assist their health, and this matter is
easily corrected with the following amendment, which will not in any
way stop the FDA from identifying truly contaminated food that poses
a risk to human health. Changes in Existing Law
The following provides a print of the existing statute or part or
section thereof to be amended or replaced (existing law proposed to
be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, existing law in which no
change is proposed is shown in roman):
CHAPTER IV - FOOD
SEC. 402
(f) -
(1) If it is a dietary supplement or contains a dietary
ingredient that -
(A) presents a significant [or unreasonable] risk of illness or
injury under-
(i) conditions of use recommended or suggested in labeling, or
(ii) if no conditions of use are suggested or recommended in the
labeling, under ordinary conditions of use:
Changes in Proposed Bills
Proposed amendment to S 1082 and HR 1561:
The bills are hereby amended to prohibit the Foundation or
Institute from evaluating the health benefit or efficacy of foods,
dietary ingredients, and dietary supplements and to limit review of
foods, dietary ingredients and dietary supplements to a
determination of whether they are safe. In assessing whether dietary
ingredients and dietary supplements are safe, the Foundation or
Institute shall not compare product risks with health benefits or
efficacy. Instead, the Foundation or Institute shall determine
whether the product presents a significant risk of illness or injury
under conditions of use recommended or suggested in labeling, or if
no conditions of use are recommended or suggested in labeling, under
ordinary conditions of use.
Please help preserve my rights and support this amendment.
Sincerely,
Johns addition to Byron's Update:
In addition to your senators, please also contact the members of
the Dietary Supplement Caucus to ask them to sponsor our amendment
when this legislation gets introduced in the House (they'll probably
just introduce the Senate bill as a House bill:
DIETARY SUPPLEMENT CAUCUS
Congressman Ron Paul
Congressman Dan Burton
Congressman Peter De Fazio
Congressman Chris Cannon
Congressman Frank Pallone
Read them all via 202-225- 3121 Capital Switchboard, ask for
their fax numbers. Explain to them that when S.1082 gets introduced
in the House that we need this amendment.
For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA
98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World
_____________________________ Then please call your Senators via
the Capital Switchboard at
202-225-3121 to lob in the same message: "AMEND THIS BILL S.1082-
the FDA Revitalization Act! It doesn't protect us from unsafe drugs,
it does the opposite! It creates a drug company inside FDA while
giving FDA broad new power to attack safe dietary supplements!"
Be well
Be Vigilant, Take Action!
Sal
