The FDA's Disregard for US Law Must be Controlled. 

Take Action to Prevent Regulations Banning Protected Supplements From Interstate Commerce

Despite clear protection for all supplements covered by the 1994 Dietary

Supplements and Health Education Act (DSHEA) in the FDA Amendments Act

of 2007 (Public Law 110-85), the FDA is once again seeking to impede the

right of Americans to access, choose and use health products and nutrients.

DSHEA classified supplements, nutrients and herbs as substances which

were to be treated as foods, not drugs. As such, their dose and composition

was a matter for personal choice and market forces to determine since

they were not to be regulated as drugs. This legal protection has been

anathema to the FDA which declared after DSHEA's adoption by unanimous

consent by the US Congress that it was the worst law ever passed.

FDA's continuing assaults on dietary supplements and related protected

substances has been consistent and unrelenting. Natural Solutions Foundation

ascribes this to the enormous influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry

on the FDA since low cost, safe and effective nutrients are the single most

significant economic competitor faced by high cost, toxic and often lethal drugs.

When Public Law 110-85 was being debated by the US Senate,

Natural Solutions Foundation health freedom advocates prevailed

upon Senator Harkin (R-IL) to introduce language stipulating that nothing

in the bill should apply to prdoucts and substances protected by DSHEA.

That language was adopted and preserved in the final bill under as adopted

by the US. Congress. Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom advocates

fought hard to convinced Senator Harkin (R-IL) to force inclusion of language

exempting dietary supplements from the provisions in the law. That protective

language is the law of the United States of America, enacted as Section 1011.1, Rule of

Construction:

  "Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be 
construed to affect--
            (1) the regulation of dietary supplements under the Dietary 
        Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-
        417)"
None the less, the FDA is currently promulgating a Draft Regulation which would  make it illegal to ship nutrients and supplements  in interstate Commerce if any  scientific study existed about that substance, considering that such study is, in and  of itself, sufficent to classify this product or substance an untested drug.  Clearly, this  thinly veiled, and thoroughly illegal, attempt to destroy the supplement industry serves  to demonstrate clearly the vigorous opposition of the FDA to both health freedom and to  being restrained by US law when it does not serve the interest of industrial forces  which determine FDA policy. Please join me, during the few days that we have remaining,  in sending your strong opposition to this unwise and illegal regulation.  Please join me, too,  in sending this information to everyone on your contact list urging them to protect their  health and their freedom to make their own health choices at the same time.    Yours in health and freedom,  Dr. Rima   Rima E. Laibow, MD  Medical Director  Natural Solutions Foundation  www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

November 22, 2008 Subject: To the Reciever of Dockets: I am writing to you at the suggestion of the Natural Solutions Foundation, a not for profit health freedom advocacy NGO. The Natural Solutions Foundation has alerted me to the proposed assault on dietary supplements, nutrients and other products protected by DSHEA (1994) under the terms of the 2007 FDA Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-85) Section 1011.1, Rule of Construction which definitively states: "Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be construed to affect-- (1) the regulation of dietary supplements under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (Public Law 103- 417)" Nutrients, vitamins, minerals, herbs and other dietary supplements are protected by DSHEA and shall be considered as foods, whose dosage and composition must not be regulated except in cases in which their purity or safety is in question. Neither of these conditions exist and the astonishing, illegal and ill-advised proposed policy of the FDA to ban any nutrient or similar substance from interstate commerce BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY, somehow making it a drug, is both breathtaking in its unconstitutionality and irrationality and flagrantly illegal under the statute cited above. The FDA would do much better to attack and question unsafe pharmaceutical drugs and substances which contain their damaging residues, to better safeguard the safety of the American people by reconsidering the headlong rush to over medication and over vaccination with contaminated and unsafe products which pose an uninsurable risk than to constantly attack simple, effective, inexpensive and self-administered nutrients despite the fact that they are the most significant economic competitor to the pharmaceutical industry, second only to clean, unadulterated food. I urge you in the strongest possible terms to abandon this wrong-headed and bizarre regulatory assault and turn your attention to where it needs to go: the dangers of contaminated food and dangerous drugs. Yours in health and freedom, We will add your signature from the information you provide.		First Name* Last Name* Email* Street 1* Street 2 City* State/Province* Select a state Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware D.C. Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Armed Forces (the) Americas Armed Forces Europe Armed Forces Pacific Alberta British Columbia Manitoba Newfoundland New Brunswick Nova Scotia Northwest Territories Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Territory Other Zip/Postal Code*   Send an Email Send a Fax

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