Your Access to Nutritional Supplements is Under Attack

It is sad but true. On February 3, Senator John McCain stood on the Senate floor and proposed S. 3002, the McCain-Dorgan Senate Bill, stating, "The dietary supplement industry is one that is mostly self-regulated"! Which is far from the truth.

There are hundreds of pages of laws and regulations to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) that manufacturers must follow in order to keep their products on the market and protect Americans' access to safe dietary supplements. DSHEA prohibits putting adulterated or contaminated foods and dietary supplements on the market and includes detailed and complex Good Manufacturing Practices and requirements for all dietary supplements. Those regulations work as DSHEA regulates foods and dietary supplements/nutrients and concerns itself with safety on all levels.

It appears that Senator McCain wants to over-regulate food and dietary supplements as if they were dangerous drugs instead of enforcing existing, effective food and dietary supplement laws. He is obviously discrediting the safety history of dietary supplements in favor of more and more unnecessary and hostile regulation that will squelch a consumer-driven industry.

Americans hold that dietary supplements are not drugs, they are nutrients, generally regarded as safe, and the government already has the ability to take them off the market if they pose a risk of harm. I encourage the marketing of nutrients. It is our right as Americans to eat nutrients of all kinds without first proving, like drugs, that they are effective to eat. We should have the right to decide what we choose to consume.

This is Big Pharma in action folks, and I implore all of you to help DEFEAT S. 3002! Tell McCain and Dorgan to honor our existing law prohibiting adulterated products and requiring good manufacturing practices. Tell them to aggressively protect dietary supplements as foods and not drugs. Say NO to S. 3002. Stop this bill before it goes any further.

CONTACT YOUR SENATOR ONLINE and send THIS LETTER to them today!

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