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Citizens.orgThe Voice of the Natural Health ConsumerSupplementsFamily HealthIntegrative WellnessFood/Water IntegrityS. 3002 Must Be Overhauled or Scrapped - Act Now!Senate Bill 3002 (S. 3002) is the worst bill we at Citizens for Health (CFH) have seen in the last 34 years, since the "Vitamin Volstead" Act was introduced.Introduced by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) on February 4th as the "Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010," it is designed, says the bill preamble, to "more effectively regulate dietary supplements that may pose safety risks unknown to consumers."The bill follows a surge of anti-doping initiatives and announcements dating back to September 29, 2009 (when the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs heard the testimony of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency USADA), and to a December 2nd, 2009 USADA press conference. If passed, the proposed bill would:Dramatically harm consumers;Cripple the nutritional products industry; andDo absolutely nothing to stem the tide of laboratory-concocted, performance-enhancing drug hybrids masquerading as dietary supplements.Once this bill is shelved, CFH will be happy to work with Senators McCain and Dorgan to come up with solutions directed at increasing and improving U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement against labs-for-hire that spike food products with steroids and other banned drugs.Click here to send your letter today, and urge Congress to preserve DSHEA and your access to supplements by opposing S. 3002!You are receiving emails from Citizens for Health because you d to updates or because you took action in response to an item on our website or in an alert forwarded by a friend. If you wish to receive no further emails from Citizens for Health, click here and enter any email address you wish to have removed - and don't forget to click ""!RSSCopyright© 2009 Citizens.org All rights reserved. =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.