FDA threat to Supplements-Jonathan Emord-Saturday PM-Actions to Contact

May 25, 2007

IAHF List: Please leave a note to yourself to go to

_http://www.talkstarradio.com/hosts/emordpage.htm_

(http://www.talkstarradio.com/hosts/emordpage.htm)

on Saturday at 2 PM Pacific time to tune in Attorney Jonathan Emord's radio

show.

His guest will be Byron Richards, Certified Clinical Nutritionist, author of

Fight For Your Health- Exposing FDA's Betrayal of America and a regular

columnist on News With Views on Health Freedom issues. If you haven't already

read Richard's alerts about S.1082/HR 1561- see his most recent one here:

_http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron31.htm_

(http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron31.htm)

Emord has done more to defend your access to dietary supplements than any

attorney in the world and you can trust him when he tells you we MUST amend

S.1082/HR 1561 or health freedom will be totally destroyed. You can see

transcripts of his legal victories over the FDA on his website at

_http://www.emord.com_ (http://www.emord.com/)

They'll be discussing The FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 2007

(S.1082/HR 1561) with specific emphasis on how this " must pass " legislation

WILL

TORPEDO DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act), unless we can get

an AMENDMENT into it to specifically protect dietary supplements.

NSF ONCE AGAIN ATTEMPTING TO HIJACK HEALTH FREEDOM MOVEMENT WITH DISINFO RE

CAM GUIDANCE DOC

With the so called " Natural Solutions Foundation " once again attempting to

DISTRACT the grass roots by misdirecting people to write to the unelected

bureaucrats at FDA about the CAM Guidance Document, its VERY IMPORTANT that

all

of you actively REACH OUT to more people to urge them to tune in this all

important radio show so that they can truly UNDERSTAND whats going on, and what

to do about it!! Especially urge health food stores to tune in, and to play

it loud enough for customers in their stores to hear the broadcast! See

specific instructions below on what to do, and get them into every health food

store in your area!

NSF is a controlled opposition group operating inside the health freedom

movement. IAHF and Allied groups won't give them the time of day because

they're

actively misleading the public by misdirecting people into dead ends. Once

again: we have ZERO LEVERAGE over the unelected bureaucrats at the FDA. You

can send them comments til you're blue in the face and they'll just IGNORE them

all, but FDA cannot make law, only Congress can!

People who waste their time sending comments to FDA about the CAM Guidance

Document are playing right into FDA's hands, because when they do that and

FAIL to put ALL their energy into DEFENDING DSHEA by working to get an

amendment

into S.1082/HR 1561 to specifically protect dietary supplements, they create

the situation where FDA can attack us the way they say they WANT TO in the

CAM Guidance Document.

Hopefully this painfully obvious truth will sink into enough people's brains

that more of you can help IAHF and Allied Groups to COUNTER NSF's

Disinformation Campaign which is intended to DESTROY health freedom. Never

forward an

enemies campaign. If you know anyone who is receiving NSF's so called

" alerts " , do us a favor and urge that person to and to stop

forwarding

garbage which undermines our movement. So the FDA has extended their " Comments

Period " on CAM Guidance Document? My response: " So WHAT??? " Its IRRELEVANT!

THE REAL ISSUE IS TO DEFEND DSHEA BY GETTING AN AMENDMENT INTO S.1082/HR 1561

Keep in mind here that this bill MUST PASS congress before August recess or

else the Prescription Drug User Fee Act will expire and they're not going to

let that happen, so we MUST get our amendment in, and as the summer wears on,

it gets HARDER and HARDER to rally the grass roots! Thats why NSF's so

called " alert " is so reprehensible, and all of us must work together to

overcome

their efforts to destroy health freedom.

WHAT YOU MUST DO:

1. Read this alert _http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron31.htm_

(http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron31.htm)

2. At the end of it you'll find this form letter, please send it in to your

Senators and Congressman: (hypertext links shown below don't work, go to the

News With Views article to read them)

Changes in Proposed Bills

Proposed amendment to S 1082 and HR 1561:

The bills are hereby amended to prohibit the Foundation or Institute from

evaluating the health benefit or efficacy of foods, dietary ingredients, and

dietary supplements and to limit review of foods, dietary ingredients and

dietary supplements to a determination of whether they are safe. In assessing

whether dietary ingredients and dietary supplements are safe, the Foundation or

Institute shall not compare product risks with health benefits or efficacy.

Instead, the Foundation or Institute shall determine whether the product

presents a significant risk of illness or injury under conditions of use

recommended or suggested in labeling, or if no conditions of use are

recommended or

suggested in labeling, under ordinary conditions of use.

Health Freedom is on the Line

It is vitally important to send the following message to all members of the

House and keep flooding the Senate (as there will be a conference committee).

It is also important to send this message to Senators Hatch and Harkin (the

original designers of DHSEA) and Kennedy and Enzi (who claim they are not

trying to regulate dietary supplements with this legislation). These Senators

must hear from the American public as they will determine the fate of this

amendment when it reaches the conference committee. Success will require

significant support from the people. Thank you.

To get information on contacting Senators, _click here_

(http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm) .

To contact your House Representative, _click here_

(http://www.house.gov/writerep/) .

Please send the following message.

HR 1561 (senate bill S.1082) - Please Amend to Protect Dietary Supplements

May 16, 2007

The Honorable (Representative or Senator First and Last Name)

Address

Dear Representative (or Senator) Last Name;

The Senate has recently passed bill S1082, commonly known as the FDA

Revitalization Act. I am concerned that the legislation, as currently written,

opens

the door for considerable regulatory confusion enabling the FDA to use this

legislation to undermine my access to safe and effective dietary supplements.

There must be no confusing the safety of drugs and the safety of food and

food ingredients â€“ which are governed by different laws. I am sure you and

other members of Congress are not intending to create such concern among the

150

million Americans who rely on dietary supplements to assist their health, and

this matter is easily corrected with the following amendment, which will not

in any way stop the FDA from identifying truly contaminated food that poses

a risk to human health.

Changes in Existing Law

The following provides a print of the existing statute or part or section

thereof to be amended or replaced (existing law proposed to be omitted is

enclosed in black brackets, existing law in which no change is proposed is

shown

in roman):

CHAPTER IV â€“ FOOD

SEC. 402

(f) â€“

(1) If it is a dietary supplement or contains a dietary ingredient that â€“

(A) presents a significant [or unreasonable] risk of illness or injury underâ€”

(i) conditions of use recommended or suggested in labeling, or

(ii) if no conditions of use are suggested or recommended in the

labeling, under ordinary conditions of use: