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and take away more rights from citizens."
Posted on 02/25/2010 5:29:52 AM PST by webschooner
McCain-Dorgan Bill could make nutritional supplements available only by doctor’s prescription; stifling natural product innovation.
(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) - Ironically, in the middle of American Heart Month 2010, the U.S. Senate is weighing a proposed amendment to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321) that could deny freedom of access and mandate a doctor’s prescription for many dietary supplements, like purified fish oil, which could become seven times more expensive than it is today.
Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have dubbed their new bipartisan bill the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010.” A reading of the proposed amendment demonstrates very little in the way of consumer protection. In fact, the new bill jeopardizes consumers’ rights to purchase nutritional supplements at affordable prices, smothers innovation and places big pharmaceutical companies in a position where they could patent certain dietary supplements and make them available only with a physician’s prescription. They could also potentially reap enormous profits as a result of the bill.
“This bill is clear, undeniable evidence of the strong ties between our elected legislators and the pharmaceutical industry, and it is also an attack on innovation,” said Steven Joyal, M.D., Vice President of Science and Medical Affairs of Life Extension. “This bill aims to further pharmaceutical profits by creating wide-ranging, unprecedented FDA power to reclassify natural nutritional products as drugs.”
Dr. Joyal explained that the proposed amendment was introduced by Senator McCain in a senate speech that noted the source of the bill stemmed from two baseball players who, when tested for illegal drugs, were found to have steroids in their systems. They claimed they were only taking nutritional supplements and didn’t know those supplements contained steroids.
The solution? A proposed bill that will serve to dramatically deny freedom of access to natural products for everyone and create the opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to generate huge profits from natural products.
The FDA has already reclassified a natural nutritional supplement as an investigative new drug (IND), much to the detriment of America’s diabetes patients. On January 12, 2009, the FDA declared that a naturally occurring form of vitamin B6, called pyridoxamine, was an investigative new drug rather than a dietary nutritional supplement. The ingredient is found in brewer’s yeast, as well as in fish and poultry. However, because of the agenda of a pharmaceutical company, this dietary supplement is no longer freely available at a low cost.
“If the American public is denied freedom of access to natural products, we will no longer have the right to purchase natural products for optimal health. The McCain-Dorgan Bill poses that potential threat to health conscious Americans.”
Dr. Joyal pointed out that preventive medicine, or a focus on strategies that can keep us healthy, is extremely important especially in today’s economy. He said nutritional supplements offer a safe, cost-effective means to achieve optimal health.
Good old medical fascism.
Thanks McCain, I don’t eat fish so the only way I can get the benefits of fish oil is to buy it as a supplement.
Go JD!
thanks john! better load up on my fish oil pills.
McKennedy is pond scum.
McCain is a piece of crap. He never saw a big government program he didn’t like.
"Then we agree. We attack the GOP, its women,
and take away more rights from citizens."
If this McCain drek passes you will only be able to get Vitamin C in 200mg unless you get a prescription and pay more at a pharmacy. I’m taking 5000mg vitamin D. To get such a good does I will have to go to a pharmacy and get ripped off
Socialist — Control, ration and restrict, everything.
Freedom and responsibility need not apply.
SOCIALISTS/STATISTS locking down alternative avenues in their quest to ram their poison pill of “healthcare” down our throats.
(Hey American. Here’s a free tongue suppressor to prevent you from uttering any hate speech.)
I HATE these statists.
...and I was concerned that McQueeg was going to tack to the right in an effort to retain his seat in November.
Thanks, John! Have a nice retirement.
Ping. More McCain usurping our freedoms.
“Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have dubbed their new bipartisan bill the ‘Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010.’”
And a few years back McShame wanted to get national facetime by dictating how Major League Baseball should run its drug screening policy.
McShame sees no bounds to the reach of the central government.
Support J. D. Hayworth for Senate.
JDforSenate.com
Mc Cain has been a Democrat for years. He hust has not officially changed party affilication. But the Republican hierarchy still love him. Odds are they will re-elect him to the Senate and it is not out of the question for them to crown him as their standard bearer in 2012.
To the Republican hierarchy Mc Caim has one unredeeming trait that they both share: Heatered of Coservatives.
This crazy SOB has got to go.
Don’t you see...
It is not just about needing to go to the pharmacy...
YOU NEED TO GO TO A DOCTOR!
That will put you in the government medical database system, that will mandate your insurance cover such items, that will mandate the need for more regulation.
That will mean if the government medical board says the RDA is X...you can’t have or take Y. You want 5000mg of Vitamin D? Nope, not unless there is an outstanding medical need for it. You need no more than the government RDA.
How many of us prefer the natural path, than the medical community path? Complimentary care?
Gonna have to find me a shaman.
Lamb will get you omega-3 fatty acids too. Yummy!
I’m a Rush 24/7 subscriber. I sent a link to this story to Rush just now. Let’s hope he will mention McNutt’s latest freedom-stealing mischief on his show today!
Get rid of him, Arizona, please ——
Government by bribery continues.
We need Federal initiative and referendum to put an end to government by bribery.
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