McCain has introduced a bill called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). DSSA would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) and significantly diminish access to a broad range of dietary supplements, according to the Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA).

DSHEA protects supplements if 1) they are food products that have been in the food supply and not chemically altered or 2) if they were sold as supplements prior to 1994, the year that DSHEA was passed. If a supplement fits one of these two descriptions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot arbitrarily ban it or reclassify it as a drug. McCain’s bill would repeal these protections and instead give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others.

If we allow DSSA to pass, we will be living - and dying - under something very much like the European Food Supplements Directive's anti-supplement restrictions, implementing Codex Alimentarius' dietary supplements and nutritional restrictions.

 

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=12062&posts=1

 

S510 and this bill need to be stopped.  Natural Solutions Foundation has more information on both bills and actions to take: http://tinyurl.com/ckhwha

 

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Maybe a Palin supporter can contact her and ask why she is supporting McCain?

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