Health Freedom action alert, plse help NOW

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Scroll all the way down below for sample letter to Senators, you can

cut and paste into an email to your senators, also send hard copy,

thanks !!!

 

Colleagues, Friends and Family,

> The attached " Health Freedom Action Alert, " composed by

attorney and activist Diane

Miller, calls to our URGENT attention to S. 3546, a bill just

introduced in the US Senate. If

enacted, this bill would:

>

>1. Mandate that all manufacturers, packers, or distributors of

dietary supplements whose name

appears on the labels of a dietary supplement marketed in the US,

submit to the FDA, on MedWatch

forms, all reports received of serious adverse events associated

with the dietary supplement.

This is, in effect, treating a dietary supplement like a drug.

>

>2. Require records of reports and medical information be

maintained and available for

inspection for 6 years.

>

>3. Prohibit states from making or continuing to have in effect any

state law that is not

identical to the federal laws on adverse event reporting.

>

>This is nothing less than a blatant power grab by the FDA that is

the first step toward taking

away our right to purchase what supplements we want, when we want.

It lays the groundwork to

shift the burden of proof of safety and effectiveness from the

government (where it belongs!) to

the manufacturer. This has already occurred in Europe, where most

supplements cannot be

purchased without a medical doctor's prescription, and are priced at

3-8 times what we currently

pay in the US.

> If you value your right of access to those supplements which

help maintain your health,

NOW is the time to send the politicians and bureaucrats in DC that

message. I have adapted

Diane's bulletin to a letter format which you can easily paste into

an e-mail or Senator's Web

form. It is also attached.

> Please log on to the following links to let Sens. Cornyn and

Hutchison know you oppose S.

3546 (If you are NOT from Texas, log onto www.senate.gov. In the

upper right corner you can

select your state and be taken to contact information for YOUR

Senators):

>

>http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?

State=TX

>

>Once on that page, to contact Sen. Hutchison:

hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm (lower part of

the page)

>

>Sen. Cornyn does not maintain an e-mail address. However, you can

FAX a letter to him at:

>

>Sen. John Cornyn

>517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.

>Washington, DC 20510

>Fax: 202-228-2856

>

>Please understand: this is VERY serious!!! The future of our

access to nutritional supplements

is ultimately at stake. Please take action NOW!!!

>

>In solidarity,

>

>Peter McCarthy, ND

>Chair, Texas Health Freedom Steering Committee

>

>

 

Dear Senator __________,

I am a constituent writing to express my opposition to Senate

Bill 3546, called the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug

Consumer Protection Act. The dangerously deceiving title tells it

all by trying to make citizens think that there is a reason we need

more protection from Dietary Supplements!

The bedrock of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

of 1994 (DSHEA) holds that dietary supplements are nutrient foods

and do not pose a significant risk of harm to the public and should

be regulated as such. The premise that foods are safe and that the

burden of proof should remain on the government before infringing on

the free trade and marketing of dietary supplements is the

foundation of DSHEA. This bill would gut those important provisions.

S. 3546 is over-regulation and an attempt to encroach upon

citizen freedoms to access foods that have health benefits. The

bill requests that DSHEA be amended to include:

 

1. Mandating that all manufacturers, packers, or distributors of

dietary supplements whose name appears on the labels of a dietary

supplement marketed in the US, submit to the FDA, on MedWatch forms,

all reports received of serious adverse events associated with the

dietary supplement. This would, in effect, treat a dietary

supplement just like a drug!

 

2. Records of reports and medical information be maintained and

available for inspection for 6 years. This provision further opens

the door to regulation of MY supplements just like a drug.

Completely unacceptable!

 

3. No state would be able to make or continue to have in effect any

state law that is not identical to the federal laws on adverse event

reporting. This is a blatant infringement on states' rights!

 

The bill would strike a blow to the fundamental principles of

DSHEA. Mandatory reporting pre-supposes a false belief that dietary

supplements are different and less safe than food. This bill is a

blatant attempt to try and get more control over supplements, to

over-regulate them, and convince people that dietary supplement

nutrients need to be treated like over the counter drugs.

When a government regulates private citizens, manufacturers,

distributors, packers, they need a basis for their regulation and

without that basis government cannot make laws that affect freedoms

The role of government in our lives and the making of

regulatory laws must be strictly scrutinized when it affects our

fundamental freedom to access information and products that we use

for our survival. This bill is an attempt to move dietary

supplements into a drug like regulatory status and this is

completely unacceptable to the American people.

I urgently request that you, as my elected representative, join

me and thousands of your fellow Texans in opposing this deeply

flawed bill. Please say NO to S. 3546!!!

 

Sincerely,