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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 11:35 AM
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Misguided Durbin Bill Targets Supplements
Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 12:00 PM by Why Syzygy
http://www.anh-usa.org/disastrous-durbin-bill-finally-online-get-it-stopped/

I hope some of us can get involved in this campaign. I have to admit, it ticks me off a little that this subject
has been considered tin foil hat material by skeptics and other general ignoramuses up to the present day!
How can this be denied? People that shoo us off of these things on which our life and liberty depend are not our FRIENDS!
But I don't dwell on it.

from link:
Sen. Durbin’s disingenuous “Dietary Supplement Labeling Act,” which we told you about last week, needs to be defeated. Please contact your senators!

The bill, S.1310, is finally available for viewing by the American public. It exploits the Lazy Cakes incident, where a rogue food company decided to put melatonin into brownies and allowed them to be sold to children. But that case was about the illegal actions of a food manufacturer, whereas this bill is simply another attempt to limit your access to dietary supplements.

The proposed law trusts the FDA and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to decide what levels and combinations of dietary ingredients are considered safe and what aren’t. Given the FDA’s profound bias against supplements, and the skewed, anti-science recommendations of the IOM’s recent vitamin D report, these are hardly trustworthy sources of guidance!

If the bill is passed, neither the FDA nor the IOM will even be subject to any clear standards. They can just make it all up as they go along. Their judgments can be completely arbitrary.

eta:

This is the law office that has begun litigation to stop this insanity:
(they have beat the FDA before)
http://www.emord.com/
Law governing foods, dietary supplements, drugs, cosmetics, biologics, medical devices, advertising, unfair and deceptive acts and practices, labeling, misbranding, dietary ingredients, adulteration, new drugs, importation, worker’s compensation, insurance, trademark, tort claims, libel, business defamation, Medicare, medical practice, and expert witness qualification. Emord & Associates is a national law firm.







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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 02:44 PM
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1. huge issue
I am hugely unhappy with Durbin over this and other things..........

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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 02:47 PM
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2. I find it horrifying.
I have been buying a little extra of my most basic supplements.

The horrific is because this IS coming from our REPRESENTATIVES? They are just priming the pump for a career in the pharmaceutical
industry after someone kicks them out of Congress.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 03:42 PM
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3. This is certainly about personal freedom
What happened to the 18th century Enlightenment and "the pursuit of happiness"?

I'm really sick of other people trying to make decisions for ME, when those decisions affect only ME.
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kimmerspixelated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 04:52 PM
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4. Good point!
Oh, I am very much into the fight for health freedom..

http://dev.healthfreedoms.org/content/reject-s-3002-nutritional-supplement-prohibition-actI don't know if that is the most recent one.

From Health Freedom Alliance
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-11 05:18 PM
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5. Good for you, Kimmers..
are we friends @ facebook?
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kimmerspixelated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-11 08:19 PM
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6. I don't think so...
PM if you'd like..
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