Stop the Government from Taking Our Dietary Supplements!

Warning the government is trying to regulate even our dietary supplements. There are many actions going on by the government and the FDA to regulate certain drugs in our dietary supplements. This will probably take many dietary supplements off the shelves and raise prices on other. Many people rely on supplements for their health, are they now going to have to get a prescription before they take their vitamin C.

A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). This legislation was planned over the past few years working hand-in-glove with the FDA's dysfunctional management and legal team - meaning this legislation was written for the profits of Big Pharma and Big Biotech AT THE EXPENSE OF SAFETY AND HUMAN HEALTH.

It is hard for anyone to comprehend that the agency that is supposed to be in charge of drug safety is about to become a drug company. It is astonishing that the FDA will now manage a full scale business activity that uses a "non profit" foundation as a shield to avoid international patent problems, protect proprietary rights of its commercial drug-development enterprise, and massively expands FDA regulatory powers to quickly remove anything from the market that is competition to its own products and licensing agreements.

This new FDA business enterprise is called the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration (see pages 105-125). In previous versions of the Kennedy bill it was going to be an independent drug company within the FDA (the Reagan-Udall Institute for Applied Biomedical Research). In the current bill it is a "non profit" collaboration of the FDA, private industry, government funding, and private funding. It is run directly by the FDA even though it pretends to not be part of the government. Under this scam taxpayers will foot the bill for drug development and then be charged outrageous prices for the drugs. Furthermore, the new bill seeks to allow a massive expanse of FDA regulatory power through this new foundation. For example, on pages 106-107 the bill states:

"The purpose of the Foundation is to advance the mission of the Food and Drug Administration to modernize medical, veterinary, food, food ingredient, and cosmetic product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance product safety....The Foundation shall [take] into consideration the Critical Path reports and priorities published by the Food and Drug Administration, identify unmet needs in the development, manufacture, and evaluation of the safety and effectiveness, including post approval, of devices, including diagnostics, biologics, and drugs, and the safety of food, food ingredients, and cosmetics."

Through this foundation the FDA is seeking broad new regulatory power that it currently does not possess. This will include the authority to attack any dietary supplement (which are food ingredients) as unsafe based on its use of "Critical Path" technology. This means the FDA will use proteomics (the advanced study of proteins in biological systems) to assess changes in biomarkers (the change in the state of a protein at the molecular level) in order to establish whatever it wants to consider as a risk. The FDA can slant this technology, based on their own personal opinions, to make anything they want appear as a risk - including your favorite dietary supplements that you use to stay healthy. (http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/consumer_alert_042707.htm). We need to fight so we can keep our rights to handle our own health. If we want to take supplement it is our right now the governments right to take it away from us. This is just a plot for the government to get more money off of us.

The FDA should be busy regulating the food supply that keeps getting contaminated. They inspect such little amounts of food only 1% of fruits and vegetables. They should work on laws and regulations for our food on supplements.

Do what you can to stop this act from being passed. If this gets passed what will be the next thing taken away from us.

Please vote NO on the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S. 1082), which represents a major threat to the availability of dietary supplements in the U.S.