Preserve Your Health Rights

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Citizens Health Action Network

 

 

 

 

URGENT HEALTH ALERT! DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1st

Dietary Supplements are Important to YOUR Health

Tell the FDA to RESPECT your HEALTH RIGHTS

Take Action Today! It only takes one minute to send an email

message to the FDA.

FDA is reviewing portions of DSHEA, the Dietary Supplement Health Education

Act. The agency may propose new and overly burdensome regulations that could

restrict your access to new dietary ingredients and dietary supplements that

were not on the market prior to 1994 when DSHEA was passed.

 

Recall that 2.5 million concerned consumers contacted Congress between 1992

and 1994 to support DSHEA and assure access to their supplements. In response

to the overwhelming consumer support, Congress passed DSHEA and deliberately

created new and different regulations for dietary supplements. Congress

enacted DSHEA to stop the FDA from treating dietary supplements like food

additives

or drugs and to protect consumer's rights to purchase these products.

We need to make our voices heard once again!

The deadline is February 1, 2005. Send YOUR Letter NOW

Tell the FDA to uphold DSHEA and your continued access to beneficial dietary

supplements today! At risk are many innovative and particularly

effective dietary supplements. The FDA needs to hear from you to preserve

your hard-won access to the most innovative and important health products. Any

new guidelines that require onerous food additive and drug like notifications,

excessive testing and documentation will make the introduction of new

products unnecessarily expensive.

This disincentive for companies to develop new health promoting products will

assuredly lead to the reduction of many products that can benefit the health

of Americans. It could block consumer access to validated new and innovative

products -- for good. American consumers have the right to these health

enhancing products that are also shown, in many cases, to reduce the staggering

public health burden, and reduce the cost of health care.

We only have a few short weeks to send a strong message. The FDA is

considering comments until February 1,2005. Make sure your voice is heard.

Washington, DC needs to hear from at least 25,000 consumers who care about

their health rights. Urge the FDA to ensure that any new guidelines for New

Dietary Ingredients reflect the intent of Congress and continue to provide

complete access to the safe, affordable and innovative dietary supplements you

rely

on for your health.

 

Take action today!

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