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S722 is presented as a “safety” bill-promising to safeguard consumers from unsafe dietary supplements-but it does not. Instead, the detail spell out plans to: * Increases health care costs and decreases consumer choices * Restricts access to supplements used by millions for better health * Subjects supplements to an unnecessary higher standard of scrutiny than most over-the-counter medicines and food additives * Questions the safety and potentially restricts access to any dietary supplement that receives even one complaint, legitimate or not. * Provides no more protection for consumers than the current law-DSHEA-already provides. The FDA has simply failed to fully...

READ THIS VERY IMPORTANT HEALTH MESSAGE BELOW AND CONTACT EVERYONE. Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may end in June of this year (2005). After that U.S. supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code) is setting the supplement standard in all countries in the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and will over ride U.S. laws. The U.S. President and Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO Treaty was signed. Violations are punished by WTO trade sanctions,...

Your Right to Use Nutritional Supplements Is in Jeopardy Senators Push Regulatory Assault on Vitamins by Dr. Julian Whitaker Posted Sep 3, 2003 Text Size:  S   M   L printer-friendly email to a friend Government Ignores the True Cost of Medical Care    Pharmaceutical Firms Latest To Learn That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished    Hillary's Back!    Admitting Real Costs Could Have Killed Drug Bill    Medicare?s Insolvent Entitlement    We need to take action, and we need to take action now. There is a movement in Congress to push through legislation that would restrict your freedom to use nutritional supplements, and...