[SecretsNowRevealed] 94-0!!! Victory dance!

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At 10:38 AM 5/5/07, you wrote:

>Victory Dance!

>Posted by: " saraoamk " saraoamk saraoamk

>Fri May 4, 2007 3:32 pm (PST)

>May 3, 2007

>

>Good News Travels Fast!

>

>Your activism just saved supplements from being turned

>into " untested drugs " ! Big Pharma will be back, but today, we can do

>a victory dance!

>Thank you 435,005 times. That's the number of people who used our

>site to submit their comments to the FDA on their dangerous CAM

>Guidance through our site. 182,484 succeeded but, since our site was

>interfered with several times, 252,521 people did not. We were

>working feverishly to submit those comments manually.

>

>Ready for Some Great News?

>

>Although the FDA denied our request to extend the comment, failed

>to update its site or its comment tally, extended the comment period

>and then resinded the extension (!), our collective voice won us a

>huge victory in Congress today. Because we rallied behind our health

>freedom and access to natural health products, every member of the

>Senate voting today heard us loud and clear and acted -- without a

>single dissenting voice -- to protect our health freedom!

>Read what " the Vitamin Lawyer " , Ralph Fucetola, has to say about

>the impact of our activism in an email on the topic today:

> " And some very good news: Congress has accepted the following

>amendment to S.1082 - Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of

>2007 - from Sen. Durbin.

>It appears that Congress heard our concerns! Hundreds of thousands

>of messages to FDA no doubt reverberated through the halls of

>Congress. The

>amendment was adopted by the Senate 94 to zero.

>

>Sec. X08. Rule of Construction

>Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be

>construed to affect--

>(1) The regulation of dietary supplements under the Dietary

>Supplement

>Health and Education Act; or

>(2) The adverse event reporting system for dietary supplements

>created

>under the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer

>Protection Act.

>

>Like many victories in Congress, you hardly ever get everything you

>want. Leading supplement industry lawyer, J. Emord, originally

>proposed exempting all

> " foods " from the new law (Counsel stated: " 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. " This

>approach would have offered even greater protection for natural

>products, but we are grateful that enough members of Congress heard

>the loud shout from the public and responded so quickly to at least

>protect DSHEA products -- the power of Internet politics at its

>best. "

>

>Internet Politics at its best: That's YOU!

 

 

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