Posted on 02/25/2010 8:37:48 PM PST by kingattax
Won’t stop them from trying again and again. Notice how a bottle of fish oil at the grocery store costs about $5-10, and pharmaceutical fish oil(esterified fish oil) has been found to have worse absorption and costs 5 times as much.
Giving the FDA unlimited powers to take whatever products off the market that they don’t like, or restrict the vast majority of them is plain stupid since its obvious to anyone paying attention that the FDA is and has been in the pocket of Big Pharma for decades now.
If you’re worried about supplement safety and purity, buy only from GMP certified manufacturers. Buy from companies like NOW, Solaray, Optimum Nutrition and so on.
might also be a good idea to be very cautious about buying and using anything made in china.
Lots of seniors depend on taking supplements and aren’t going to be happy about the government and McCain trying to overrule DSHEA.
Try telling someone taking statin drugs that if they want CoQ10 to relieve muscle soreness, that they’ll have to dish out 3 or 4 times as much for it for pharmaceutical CoQ10.
If this bill passes, we’re on our way to European-type price controls, in most Euro countries, you need a prescription for Vitamin C for example, you can’t get doses higher than 50mg(pathetic) and its going to cost you 4 or 5 times as much.
I wonder if McCain in his brilliance sees that legislation like this is no different than the crap the Democrats try to pass all the time. The same “the government knows better than you do and will decide for you” idiocy that this fool spends half his time railing against and the other half vehemently support.
Personally I think he’s gone senile.
That is why I stick with NOW and Optimum Nutrition. I’ve been to where NOW produces their products, all in the US, verified for potency and purity, they don’t advertise much so their prices are great and the products are top quality.
Nowadays, its mostly the real small companies that get their bulk powders from China, but even so, I’ve heard about very few issues with contamination, mostly the problematic stuff from China has involved underdosed products, not contaminated with lead...etc.
ping.
I guess MeCain is determined to push every last one of my buttons...
I’m in the SE but J.D.’s about to get himself another donation!
(and yes-MeCain is how it SHOULD be spelled!)
Knowing that there are plenty of bogus products in the health and supplements field, I actually research products before I buy them. I go by word of mouth recommendations, and internet research. It’s a small investment in time and effort, considering that I end up making informed choices, and don’t rely on a nanny state.
There was a big push in the mid-’90s to hyper-regulate vitamins and supplements. Congress got the biggest letter campaign of protest since the Vietnam war on that one. Orrin Hatch helped kill it.
Run with it JD!
McCain, thug-ocrat.
Yes, that would be the one.
“Someone should sneak into his house and inventory all the illegal vitamins he has”
Yeah...if they can get past Cindy’s prescription drugs that she stole from her own charity.
[snip]GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s wife Cindy took to the airwaves last week, recounting for Jane Pauley (on “Dateline”) and Diane Sawyer (on “Good Morning America”) the tale of her onetime addiction to Percocet and Vicodin, and the fact that she stole the drugs from her own nonprofit medical relief organization.
To make matters worse, McCain admitted, she had stolen the drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, her own charity, and had been investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
But the story I was pursuing was not so much about Cindy McCain’s unfortunate addiction. It was much more about her efforts to keep that story from coming to light, and the possible manipulation of the criminal justice system by her husband and his cohorts.”
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/18/drugs/
Sarah Palin is campaigning for McPain.
It appears it doesn't matter what her personal principles are if she has any ... . She'll compromise on them ... for McPain.
ARIZONA VOTERS, TELL MCCAIN TO STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY ON NANNY-STATE IDEAS! AND THEN, VOTE HIM OUT!
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