Topic: New Durbin Anti-Supplement Bill - Please take action!!!
Razzle
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Today, just as Congress is preparing to recess until the second week in September, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) reintroduced legislation that would deal a deadly blow to nutritional supplements.
This bill is a naked new FDA power grab-an attempt to move us one step closer to a full FDA pre-approval system for supplements. That, of course, would just make supplements insanely expensive, like drugs-if you could get them at all.
URGENT! Please write to your senators immediately and tell them to stop Sen. Durbin's frontal attack on your right to use supplements dead in its tracks! We don't need this new legislation-all we need is for existing laws to be fully enforced. We do need our access to nutritional supplements to be protected.
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Catgirl
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Done! Thank you for posting this Razzle!
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Need a good summarry of proposed legislation as well as documentation that other legislation covers already what bill is attempting to do.
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Razzle
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I've signed it and shared it on facebook!
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Catgirl
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This is real. The bill was reintroduced again and needs to be opposed, fast!
Almost all of the bill's provisions are already covered by existing law, and the few that aren't covered are so vague that they could mean whatever the FDA wants them to mean. It can give the FDA power to move us all one step closer to a FDA pre-approval system for supplements. It would also make them insanely expensive (like meds).
Added to that, the cost of pre-approval from the FDA would be so cost prohibitive for producers that most supplements would simply disappear from the shelf.
This bill uses vague language to create red tape. What Americans actually need is enforcement, not new legislation. It basically threatens access to 29,000 supplements. It will affect everyone.
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Catgirl
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If you click on Razzle's link, you can fill out the form and it will send it to your senators (easy)!
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