A key thrust of this legislation is to assist pharmaceutical companies in ridding themselves of competition...competition in the form of comparatively inexpensive nutritional supplements that are increasingly demonstrating effectiveness in helping to maintain health and prevent/treat various disease conditions...when taken in appropriate concentrations.
Some of these bills (similar to those being adopted by the EU) would allow some (but not all) subtances to continue to be sold, but only in concentrations that would force one to buy/consume perhaps hundreds of capsules to get the equivalent dosage that can currently be obtained in 2-3 capsules.
Follow the money...
DUMB ASS DEMOCRATS are at it again.
As long ago as 1985, the pharmaceuticall industry was investigating supplements as a possible profit center. I met a department head from Eli Lilly on vacation in Germany back then. He was there checking out German homeopathic remedies. And btw, I've never taken a BioForce homeopathic that didn't do exactly what it promised. Very interesting stuff. And extremely cheap, so far at least.
When I asked him how his company tested new drugs on humans, he said that they did not do so. They just put new drugs on the market hoping they'd work as well as they worked in animal testing. Scary!