US legislation threatens supplements

[brian benjamin]

To all:

Senator Dick Durbin, presumably bowing to the pressures of the
FDA and Big Pharma, has reintroduced his draconian bill to give,
essentially, complete control to the FDA to approve supplements
for, and remove them at their own discretion from, the marketplace.
Though couched in the usual terms of consumer protection, the bill
is nothing more than the extreme power grab the FDA has sought
for 40 years over the supplement industry, to get them off the
over-the-counter market and turned into prescription items owned
by drug companies.

The bill is misleading because the FDA already has full authority
to regulate supplement quality through their Good Manufacturing
Practices program, and can instantly remove any dangerous supplement
from the market, as they have in the past.

This bill is yet another threat to the survival of our therapy.
All of you who care about the continued availability of nutritional
supplements in general and my therapy in particular, need to contact
your Senators immediately.

The Durbin bill, which he has tried to sneak through over the years
repeatedly, needs to be stopped. Public outcry, as it has before,
will bring this to an end. The Alliance for Natural Health website
has a article discussing the threat. The link is below:


You can find your Senators at:
http://www.senate.gov/

Calling is most effective, personal emails are very effective as
well. Always be polite and respectful, it helps more than anger if
you're reasonable. Please forward this to your friends and family
and get them involved.

Best regards

Nicholas Gonzalez MD

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
This email account sends announcements only; for the office contact information see our website: www.dr-gonzalez.com

For information about books and lecture recordings, see www.newspringpress.com
To subscribe, send a blank message to drgonzalez-on@mail-list.com
To unsubscribe, send a blank message to drgonzalez-off@mail-list.com
To change your email address, send a message to drgonzalez-change@mail-list.com
with your old address in the Subject: line

Nicholas J. Gonzalez MD 36 E 36th Street, Suite 204, New York, NY 10016

To unsubscribe, or change your email address, click here.


This message was launched into cyberspace to brian_benjamin3@yahoo.com