Immediate action required to save nutritional supplements

[kaygore]

I just received the following:

Norm Singleton in Congressman Paul's office informs us that D-Day is Tomorrow Wednesday, December 6th--the Senate will vote on S.3546/HR6168 Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, and it could also be slammed through the House at high speed before the lame duck Congress ends on Friday- without any debate or hearings of any kind, even though these bills are opposed by a substantial segment* of the supplement industry and by millions of consumers.

<* Nature's Plus, Solgar, Nutraceutical, Life Extension Foundation, Wellness Resources, Vitamin Research Products and many other small vitamin companies totally OPPOSE the NPA (formerly NNFA) Party Line on this bill.>

The moment of TRUTH is at hand. Will tomorrow be D-DAY for the Dietary Supplement Industry, or will it be a day in which the American people stand up and ROAR with righteous indignation and say “NO” TO SB 3546/HR 6168?

WHAT YOU MUST DO & WHY:

Call the following key members via the Capital Switchboard and either use your own words or use the phone script below:

HASTERT, BOEHNER ("BAYNER"), PELOSI- (Call via Capital Switchboard 202-225-3121. It’s ok to call after hours and leave messages in the voice mail of each office, the switchboard is manned 24/7 for that purpose to put your call through. )

WHAT TO SAY:

"A large sector of the Dietary Supplement industry, including Solgar, Nutraceutical Corp, Nature's Plus, Life Extension Foundation, Wellness Resources and many other companies, oppose S.S.3546/HR6168, Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act.

“This legislation has nothing in it to determine causality of an adverse event. Safe dietary supplements would be wrongly blamed for problems actually caused by pharmaceutical drugs taken concurrently with one or more dietary supplements- and there would be no medical or scientific review required by FDA before they could release the flawed "data" that could result. This would be a trial lawyers dream, but it’s not good government and it would do nothing to protect the publics’ health. There must be hearings on this legislation, and there must be changes made to its language before it would actually serve its intended purpose.”

Send this by email or fax to Boehner, Pelosi, Hastert + your own congressperson and senators.

[silverweb]

1. Nope.

http://www.acupuncture.com/newsletters/m_nov06/main2.htm

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?p=29516

It sounds very reasonable to me. Anyone who tries to suppress honest consumer information is not your friend.