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"New legislation targeting nutritional supplements would considerably broaden the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) already expansive regulatory authority by allowing the FDA to impose draconian restrictions on developers, manufacturers, and sellers of nutritional products and on the products themselves.

The misleadingly titled Dietary Supplement Safety Act, introduced by Senator John McCain on February 4 as S. 3002 (bill text), is a regulatory scheme which would dictate which vitamins, minerals, or herbal products will be permitted for use and in what potency; install an onerous registration system for dietary supplement manufacturers; impose a burdensome documentation process for sellers complete with monetary penalties for non-compliance; and grant sole discretionary powers to the Secretary for immediate product recall.

The very broadly written bill leaves much room for the government to interpret its own definitions for terms like “adulterated,” “misbranded,” and “reasonable probability.” It would even make mandatory the reporting of minor side effects, which is not required for even the worst FDA-approved drugs. A Pandora’s box of intended and unintended legal complications and government harassment of nutritional supplement manufacturers and sellers could very well be unleashed if this bill is passed."

Folks, we NEED to get this one shot down - quickly. It's yet another massive government intrusion into our freedom of choice as regards our health-care choices. Passage GUARANTEES destruction of many supplement companies and a complete gutting of any benefit to be derived from taking supplements in the future, due to dosage restrictions, banning of new supplements and sending the cost of ALL those left through the roof. It's ONLY goal would be to make more money out of YOUR pocket for both the government AND the giant pharmaceutical companies.

PLEASE contact our Senators about this one!

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Not trying to sound stupid here, but what would this bill include? Like, i take whey protein and energy supplements and all kinds of vitamins and what not, would this be part of that bill? And what exactly are they trying to do? Tell us what we can and what we can't take?

The short answer there is that -yes - passage of this bill has the potential to impact everything you've mentioned (and more).

This is due to the increased record-keeping requirements for ALL supplement-makers, the additional level of bureaucracy involved and the extremely vague wording of the bill itself (which allows the government unlimited latitude as to their own power over this - IF we allow this bill to pass).

You can read the bill itslef here: Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress) (it's only one page long) and you'll see the certainty of damage for yourself.

I felt so strongly about this that I actually phoned Sen. McCain's office and asked him to withdraw the bill (using the points in the first part of my post above).

This kind of stuff is ALREADY being passed in Europe and if we allow it to be passed here, we're ALL going to suffer the consequences.

See:
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Proposed Dose Limits on Vitamin Supplements in Europe Found to be Scientifically Flawed

Exactly! If you take nutritional supplements you might stay healthy and then the poor drug companies would have less money with which to bribe physicians to prescribe their overpriced products. And think of the congressmen who work so very hard to secure campaign contributions from drug companies that are financially strapped after spending so much to defeat meaningful healthcare reform.

Some supplements are dangerous. My girlfriend actually OD'd on calcium (she spent more than a week in Intensive Care). Every so often we hear about someone who died after taking a pagan remedy (witchcraft can be deadly!). Then the FDA again demands authority over supplements. (Remember when we could buy tryptophan?) Of course, not much is said about the thousands who suffer daily from the toxic effects of Rx, FDA-approved drugs (until the ads for class action lawsuits appear on television).

A few years ago Pres. Shrub told us how senior citizens were suffering because they were not able to afford their medications. Meanwhile, AARP and other seniors' organizations found that their members had few such complaints. That didn't stop Shrub from claiming the need for more legislation. And under the guise of helping kids, Shrub also encouraged the legislation that requires all schoolchildren to be tested for mental disorders. Money that could have been wasted on schoolbooks and teachers will instead go to make sure that no child is left behind when it comes to prescription medication. Obviously, bored kids in crowded classrooms need to be medicated! Too bad there's not enough money to also provide proper nutrition to those kids.

For over a century drug companies have had too much influence over the affairs of state. During WWII we didn't drop bombs on drug manufacturing plants in Germany because, according to our government, the Allies would need office buildings at the end of the war.

Grin and Bayer it. And take your St. John's wort (while you still can).