I guess he won't be smiling soon
Posted on 02/25/2010 4:53:46 PM PST by pissant
WASHINGTON—As the natural products industry continues to debate the provisions of Sen. John McCain’s Dietary Supplement Safety Act, the senator issued a floor statement clarifying what he considers to be misinterpretations of the bill. In fact, he noted, “opponents to this bill and their well-paid Washington lobbyists have spread false statements and rumors about the legislation, which is really a disservice to consumers, and instead proudly boast that they remain largely untouchable by the FDA.”
However, in an online counterpoint, the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) suggested McCain (R-Ariz.) was overlooking key aspects of the current regulatory structure and how the bill would change FDA’s ability to oversee dietary supplements.
In McCain’s statement, he noted his bill would require dietary supplements to list all ingredients on packaging, mandate that manufacturers register with FDA, and provide FDA with mandatory recall authority for dietary supplements it determines are hazardous to human health. Among what he considers falsehoods from the bill’s opponents are that it would limit consumers’ ability to purchase dietary supplements, and would establish a new regulatory structure for dietary supplements at FDA.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalproductsmarketplace.com ...
Better idea here: get rid of the FDA and McKook.
Arizona, a state of McShame!
McStain and the band of merry Marxist will not bother me.
I can buy anything I want here in the Philippines.
Even most drugs do not need a prescription.
Proof that McShame’s recent conservative posturing on the Senate floor was just that.
“Better idea here: get rid of the FDA”
yeah, let’s bring in the toothpaste from China! /sarc
Soon you will need a prescription to take two asprin.
No, but it should be real aspirin and not something that came from a witch doctor’s medicine cabinet.
More proof...
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This has nothing to do with illegals. This is about quack medicine.
My wife is Filipino. I’ve been there several times, and have been to the pharmacia’s. You ask for such and such drugs, and they bring you one or two pills in a blister pack ... I said, “I wanted to buy a full bottle” ... The clerk says, “No, we don’t have a bottle, just sell them by ones and twos.” And they were expensive, even by U.S. standards. Everytime we send a large box to wife’s relatives in the Philippines, we send some over the counter drugs along.
On the other hand, we live here in the U.S., 3 hrs from the Mexican border, where we can get about any prescription, except narcotics, over the counter. If this crap passes, I guess we’ll be buying Vit C and Fish Oil in Mexico also.
Gee, how nice for you.
Have you stopped to think of what this means to the other 300 million Americans?
I take supplements. The last thing in the world I need is to have the government horning in on it.
Well, you know that's not gonna happen.
But it could use some serious changes.
Like everything else in the government, it's grown into a top heavy monster, more interested in serving special interests than the citizenry.
“Have you stopped to think of what this means to the other 300 million Americans?”
Did I say anything about agreeing with McStain?
I merely pointed out that it will not affect ME.
It is Arizona’s problem that they keep this jerk
for a senator.
From my cold dead hands will they get my Extenze!
When is this guy going to go away and leave the rest of us alone?
Ummm... I know that. Re-read my post.
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