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There is another thread encouraging people to call their legislators, but here is the official comment location for the FDA regulation. Very little personal information is collected. Just scroll down to the required fields: organization name NONE,and category INDIVIDUAL CONSUMER. Here is the url for the comment website.
Please keep this on page one of medical where most people will see it. I will also post it in activism.
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Thanks lou.
For those who want more info: ( you may have to sign up on Mercola's site to read the whole thing)
Story at-a-glance The FDA's new Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients threatens to remove some of your most commonly used supplements from the market
Manufacturers of supplements will be forced to conduct expensive safety studies using absurdly high doses, which will force many out of business�effectively eliminating competition to high-priced pharmaceuticals
The FDA guidelines have modeled the outrageous safety thresholds after those in place for food additives, which is in direct violation of DSHEA, which classifies dietary supplements as foods, not food additives, in order to protect consumer access to dietary supplements
Defend your right to continue using supplements by taking action now!
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and another, in the US they afre doing dribs and drabs, so we should organize those we need to send now. this site is good, perhaps we should repost but here as well:
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I went to the regulations.gov site and posted this (hope lots of people post something similar):
quote: Please do not pass this regulation. It will force consumers to have to go to doctors and pay the exorbitant price of the visits plus pay the bloated prices for prescription versions of the same supplements.
The regulation is unfair and the only entities benefiting would be the drug manufacturers and the medical establishment, NOT the consumer.
Consumers are smarter than you think and don't need government "Protection" from the current supplement manufacturers.
This would also harm the thousands of American small supplement manufacturers and all the staff they employ. Transferring supplement rights to large multinational pharma producers would obviously create lots of jobs, 100% of which would be created in foreign countries. More more job killing regulation is something we just don't need.
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