[steplock]

Since this bill is from LAST YEAR ----

Did you look up the current status? did it pass / fail / tabled ???

[grania]

This comes up every year. The pharmaceutical industry keeps trying to get its buddies in Congress to pass laws against nutritional supplements. As it is, the current laws make it really easy to take a supplement off the market, even if misuse caused medical problems.

It's inane. Can you imagine how many pharmaceuticals would be left on the market under those conditions? Can you imagine what it would cost health insurance plans and the government if people who paid for their own vitamins and supplements instead used products that are covered by insurance policies and government programs?

Is the day going to come when I'll have to go to Canada to purchase vitamin pills? Or, is everyone going to be a zombie with the government deciding what pills they should take? Keep in mind that it has already happened with some adolescents and Ritalin.