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Poison in Our Foods/UK -- Toxic Corrosives ALL MUST READ " luckypig " <luckypig 2. MEDICARE:: Hill Negotiators Rethink Reimported Drugs " luckypig " <luckypig 3. detoxing " J Mittelman " <jmittelman 4. attn:t: The coming die-off " luckypig " <luckypig 5. New Treatment for Osteoporosis " luckypig " <luckypig 6. HEALTH Tidbits " luckypig " <luckypig 7. Fw: [alternacare] Your Access to Vitamins and Supplements -- endangered " J Mittelman " <jmittelman ______________________ ______________________ Message: 1 Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:38:07 -0500 " luckypig " <luckypig Poison in Our Foods/UK -- Toxic Corrosives ALL MUST READ A good question is whether these substances are already in our foods in the US.....Maybe this is why Americans have so much indigestion and then require medicine from Big Pharma.....or maybe Chemtrails are taking too long.......... Drain Cleaner and Quicklime Poisons Approved for Food Supplements as SafeVitamins are Banned Three substances approved for use in food supplements by the European Commission and the Food Standards Agency are exposed today as fatal to humans. Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Hydroxide and Calcium Oxide - also known as Caustic Soda, Caustic Potash and Quicklime - are all contained in a list of safe " substances for supplementation in the EU's Food Supplements Directive, supposedly devised to protect consumers. Sodium Hydroxide and Potassium Hydroxide are widely used as constituents of drain and oven cleaners, while Calcium Oxide is commonly used to destroy carcasses of humans and animals. Thus, the Directive licenses three potentially fatal chemicals, while seeking to ban hundreds of vitamins and minerals in beneficial doses, at levels recognised by UK and international scientists as perfectly safe. The revelation, say campaigners, should force a full review of the Directive by the UK and the EU. More than 1,000,000 consumers signed a petition handed to Government last week, urging politicians to resist the draconian restrictions, which will force many people to resort to pharmaceutical drugs. Highlighting the " ludicrously flawed " legislation, Consumers for Health Choice said the Directive will actually allow the inclusion of poisons, while banning hundreds of safe, proven, vitamin and mineral products, that have been on the UK market for decades. It was CHC who commissioned the report into the list of so-called " approved substances " from Phylax Ltd., consultants in toxicology. The independent report says: " The list contains three substances that if included in food supplements could prove fatal if ingested. These substances â?¦as their names implyâ?¦.are caustic substances with well-established toxic effects when administered orally or by skin exposure or in aerosol form " . " All the three caustic substances have been used in the past as constituents of pastes used to destroy skin growths such as warts but are rarely or ever used today. " " Due to the caustic nature of these substances, humane practice precludes modern, conventional animal toxicity testingâ?¦. References to the damaging effects of these substances are listed in standard texts dealing with the hazards of industrial chemicals. " Sue Croft, Consumers for Health Choice, said: " In the past Calcium Oxide has been combined with sodium hydroxide as a constituent of London Paste, used to destroy skin tissue " This report just illustrates the superficial and farcical nature of the way Government and the EU has approached the whole subject. If they want to regain consumer confidence, it's not enough to say 'we'll drop these three, then' - they must go back to the drawing board, and simply start again. " The Food Supplements Directive, due to become law in the UK next year, contains a list of nutrients and nutrient sources for use in dietary supplements. At present over 300 safe and popular nutrients and nutrient sources, which have been on the UK market for decades, are not on the permitted list and unless comprehensive safety dossiers are submitted and approved for each, they will be banned. For further information\interviews contact: Sue Croft at Consumers for Health Choice on 01275 371812 or 07860 286425 Dr Bob Lister, Phylax Ltd., 01494 675758 Toxicity of the Three Preparations Listed in the EU Supplements Directive By DR. R.E. LISTER BSc ( Hons Pharmacol), PhD, CBiol, FIBiol Phylax Ltd - Consultants in Toxicology Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda, NaOH) This substance is widely used in industry as a constituent of powerful cleaning agents such as lye and domestically as a constituent of drain and oven cleaners. Its use in these latter applications has declined due to its obvious dangers and it has been replaced largely by less corrosive agents. Animal Studies Acute Toxicity LD50 Mouse i.p. 40 mg/kg (2) Other Studies Oral intubation of a 4% solution in rabbits caused mucosal and sub-mucosal necrosis within 10 seconds, a 12% solution eroded into the muscle, and a 28% solution caused perforation. Similar results are seen in cats. A 5% aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide applied to the skin of rabbits for 4 hr produced severe necrosis; however, a 1% solution (pH 13.4) failed to cause gastric, oesophageal, or other damage. (1) Human Experience Human exposure by ingestion leads to symptoms and outcomes similar to that for Potassium Hydroxide (q.v) ======================================================== Potassium Hydroxide (Caustic Potash, KOH) This chemical possesses similar caustic properties to sodium hydroxide and is used for similar purposes. Human Toxicity Excerpts: Acute poisoning: Ingestion of potassium hydroxide is followed by severe pain vomiting, diarrhoea, & collapse. The vomitus contains blood and desquamated mucosal lining. If death does not occur in the first 24 hours, the patient may improve for 2-4 days and then have a sudden onset of severe abdominal pain, board-like abdominal rigidity, and rapid fall of blood pressure indicating delayed gastric or oesophageal perforation. Oesophageal stricture can occur weeks, months, or even years later to make swallowing difficult. Carcinoma is a risk in later life. (5) =================================================== Calcium Oxide (Quicklime) This is a constituent of lye, a powerful chemical disinfectant used to destroy carcases of humans and animals that may pose a risk to health. It has been used in the past combined with sodium hydroxide as a constituent of London Paste, used to destroy skin. Human Toxicity Excerpts: Ingestion of calcium oxide causes swallowing to become painful and difficult almost immediately burning pain extends down the oesophagus to stomach. Contaminated areas of lips, chin, tongue and the pharynx become oedematous and covered with exudate. There is profuse salivation and because of pharyngeal and oesophageal oedema, it may become impossible after a few hours to swallow even saliva. Mucous membranes are at first white but later brown, oedematous, gelatinous, and necrotic. Vomitus is thick and slimy due to mucus; later it may contain blood and shreds of mucous membrane. Death may ensue if not treated (6) REFERENCES 1. American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Inc. Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values and Biological Exposure Indices. 6th ed. Volumes I,II, III. Cincinnati, OH: ACGIH, 1991. 1416. 2. Lewis, R.J. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 9th ed. Volumes 1-3. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1996. 297 3. National Institute 0f Safety and Health (NIOSH); Criteria Document: Sodium Hydroxide p.46 (1975) DHEW Pub. NIOSH 76-105 4. Mor'on F et al; Int J Tissue React 5(4): 357-362 (1983)] 5. Dreisbach, R.H. Handbook of Poisoning. 12th ed. Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lange, 1987. 211 6. Gosselin, R.E., H.C. Hodge, R.P. Smith, and M.N. Gleason. Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products. 4th ed. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1976.,p. II-72 [This message contained attachments] ______________________ ______________________ Message: 2 Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:59:52 -0500 " luckypig " <luckypig MEDICARE:: Hill Negotiators Rethink Reimported Drugs : > washingtonpost.com > > Hill Negotiators Rethink Reimported Drugs > Whether to Allow Such Medication Is a Major Sticking Point on Medicare Bill > > By Amy Goldstein and Helen Dewar > Washington Post Staff Writers > Thursday, November 6, 2003; Page A02 > > House and Senate members negotiating a revision of Medicare are rethinking > whether to include a politically sensitive provision that would allow > Americans to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada or other countries, > according to sources familiar with the deliberations. > > Key House Republicans on the Medicare conference committee, the sources > said, have suggested in recent days that Congress abandon the notion of > permitting the " reimportation " of drugs -- many of them developed and > patented in the United States -- from countries where the retail prices are > considerably lower. They have suggested that federal health officials, who > have condemned the reimportation idea, examine whether it could work. > > The reimportation matter is one of several core disagreements remaining as > the negotiators enter their final days of closed-door bargaining sessions > to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the > Medicare legislation. The prospect that they might reject drug reimports > raises questions about whether a final Medicare agreement can pass the > House, sources said. > > The issue proved vital when the House passed its Medicare bill in late June > by one vote. The bill was on the brink of defeat when Rep. Jo Ann Emerson > (R-Mo.) switched her vote in exchange for a written promise by Speaker J. > Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to schedule a vote on legislation that would give > Americans of all ages more latitude to buy drugs from other countries -- > and to push for that during the negotiations with the Senate. > > A month later, the House voted 243 to 186 to let U.S. residents buy > prescription medicine from Canada and two dozen other industrialized > countries where drug prices are government-controlled. That measure is more > lenient than a reimportation provision in the Senate's Medicare bill, which > would allow medicine to be reimported only from Canada -- and only if the > Food and Drug Administration concluded that the practice would be > cost-effective and safe. > > " Coming up with an entirely new position short of either [the House or > Senate approach] does not, in my opinion, reflect the will of the House by > any stretch of the imagination, " Emerson said in an interview yesterday. > > Hastert spokesman John Feehery said the speaker has qualms about > reimporting drugs on economic and safety grounds but is committed to a > compromise. Asked whether the study would be an acceptable compromise, > Feehery said, " If that's what the conferees come up with, I don't think > he's going to be all that upset about it. " > > The sources said that some Senate negotiators are continuing to advocate > the Senate's more restrictive approach but that the conference's leader -- > House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) -- has > balked. Another conferee, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman W.J. > " Billy " Tauzin (R-La.), a vehement critic of reimporting drugs, has > produced an outline questioning whether the final bill should omit any > mention of the issue and how federal health officials could carry out such > a study. > > " There is an active discussion, " a source said, " about whether anything > should be done at all. " > > Meanwhile, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. John D. Dingell > (D-Mich.), two longtime champions of Medicare, wrote President Bush urging > him to " exert your leadership " to help assure a compromise that " will > strike a bipartisan balance. " > > They pledged their cooperation in such an effort but made clear they would > oppose any proposals that they regarded as threats to Medicare itself, > including what they described as " excessive subsidies " to private health > plans or changes that could drive up Medicare premiums. > > " No plan that undermines Medicare . . . deserves to be enacted, " they said. > " Ideological agendas and insistence on partisan proposals must not be > allowed to make this a missed opportunity. " > > As Kennedy and Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) continued to warn > that prospects for an acceptable Medicare compromise are dimming, Sen. John > Breaux (D-La.) called a news conference to say the obituaries were > premature. The legislation " is not dead. It's not on life support, " he > said. " We can make it work. " > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5926-2003Nov5.html?referrer=e > mail > ______________________ ______________________ Message: 3 Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:13:46 -0500 " J Mittelman " <jmittelman detoxing Catalyst Activated Water, is water with lowered viscosity (wetter) and therefore can help the body to detoxify more readily. It also helps with transporting nutrients - to getting them within cell membrane walls. Of course, we can, and should, use chelating agents for mercury toxicity, but I've had great results with Catalyst Activated Water added to any detox program For more, go to www.dr-willardswater.com <http://www.dr-willardswater.com> It's easy to use. I have no financial interest in Willard Water - It can be obtained across the country. Jerry Mittelman, DDS, FAPM Reply with your street or po box address to get a sample copy of The Holistic Dental Digest PLUS jmittelman [This message contained attachments] ______________________ ______________________ Message: 4 Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:06:32 -0500 " luckypig " <luckypig attn:t: The coming die-off energyresources/message/42571 Some months ago, concerned by a Paris statement made by Professor Kenneth Deffeyes of Princeton regarding his concern about the impact of Peak Oil and Gas on fertilizer production, I tasked FTW's Contributing Editor for Energy, Dale Allen Pfeiffer to start looking into what natural gas shortages would do to fertilizer production costs. His investigation led him to look at the totality of food production in the US. Because the US and Canada feed much of the world, the answers have global implications. What follows is most certainly the single most frightening article I have ever read and certainly the most alarming piece that FTW has ever published. Even as we have seen CNN, Britain's Independent and Jane's Defence Weekly acknowledge the reality of Peak Oil and Gas within the last week, acknowledging that world oil and gas reserves are as much as 80% less than predicted, we are also seeing how little real thinking has been devoted to the host of crises certain to follow; at least in terms of publicly accessible thinking. The following article is so serious in its implications that I have taken the unusual step of underlining some of its key findings. I did that with the intent that the reader treat each underlined passage as a separate and incredibly important fact. Each one of these facts should be read and digested separately to assimilate its importance. I found myself reading one fact and then getting up and walking away until I could come back and (un)comfortably read to the next. (...) " It takes 500 years to replace 1 inch of topsoil. In a natural environment, topsoil is built up by decaying plant matter and weathering rock, and it is protected from erosion by growing plants. In soil made susceptible by agriculture, erosion is reducing productivity up to 65% each year. Former prairie lands, which constitute the bread basket of the United States, have lost one half of their topsoil after farming for about 100 years. This soil is eroding 30 times faster than the natural formation rate. As a result, the remaining topsoil is increasingly depleted of nutrients. Soil erosion and mineral depletion removes about $20 billion worth of plant nutrients from U.S. agricultural soils every year. Much of the soil in the Great Plains is little more than a sponge into which we must pour hydrocarbon-based fertilizers in order to produce crops. " Every year in the U.S., more than 2 million acres of cropland are lost to erosion, salinization and water logging. On top of this, urbanization, road building, and industry claim another 1 million acres annually from farmland. (...) Modern intensive agriculture is unsustainable. It is damaging the land, draining water supplies and polluting the environment. And all of this requires more and more fossil fuel input to pump irrigation water, to replace nutrients, to provide pest protection, to remediate the environment and simply to hold crop production at a constant. Yet this necessary fossil fuel input is going to crash headlong into declining fossil fuel production. (...) This leaves the third choice, which itself presents an unspeakable picture of suffering and death. Should we fail to acknowledge this coming crisis and determine to deal with it, we will be faced with a die-off from which civilization may very possibly never revive. We will very likely lose more than the numbers necessary for sustainability. Under a die-off scenario, conditions will deteriorate so badly that the surviving human population would be a negligible fraction of the present population. And those survivors would suffer from the trauma of living through the death of their civilization, their neighbors, their friends and their families. Those survivors will have seen their world crushed into nothing. The questions we must ask ourselves now are, how can we allow this to happen, and what can we do to prevent it? Does our present lifestyle mean so much to us that we would subject ourselves and our children to this fast approaching tragedy simply for a few more years of conspicuous consumption? [This message contained attachments] ______________________ ______________________ Message: 5 Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:20:08 -0500 " luckypig " <luckypig New Treatment for Osteoporosis New Treatments that Offer Increased Hope for Osteoporosis Patients (ARA) - For a time, hormone replacement therapy (the administration of estrogen either alone or in combination with other hormones) served as the preferred treatment for post-menopausal women hoping to reduce the progression of osteoporosis, a debilitating and inevitable bone-thinning disorder. Yet the latest findings from the prematurely halted Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study on hormone replacement therapy alarmed many women. The study concluded that an estrogen and progestin combination used by thousands increased the risk of breast cancer, blood clots, heart attacks, and strokes when taken over a long period of time. Osteoporosis is drastically accelerated during menopause and is the third leading cause of death of women over 70. By age 55, the average woman has already lost 30 percent of her bone mass. Eventually, bone loss can progress to the point where bones become so thin that they are susceptible to fracture from even the slightest trauma. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, one out of every two women over the age of 50 will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in her lifetime. Caucasian and Asian women are more likely to develop osteoporosis. However, African American and Hispanic women are at significant risk for developing the disease. Additionally, small-boned and thin women (under 127 pounds) are at greater risk for osteoporosis. Many women are now searching for a safe alternative to hormone replacement therapy to alleviate the effects of osteoporosis. Current treatments on the market such as bisphosphonates and SERMs (estrogen-related therapies) have safety issues and focus primarily on slowing bone loss. Another existing treatment option is calcitonin, a naturally occurring hormone involved in calcium regulation and bone metabolism. In women who are more than five years beyond menopause calcitonin slows bone loss, increases spinal bone density and, according to recent studies, reduces the risk of spinal fractures. In recent trials, calcitonin demonstrated a 62 percent reduction in the incidence of new vertebral fractures for a subgroup of women over 75, one of the most significant reductions demonstrated by any current osteoporosis therapy. In addition, calcitonin is the only osteoporosis therapy that can reduce the significant bone pain often associated with osteoporosis. Because calcitonin is a peptide, it cannot be taken orally because it would be digested before it could exert its therapeutic effect. Currently calcitonin is available as an injection or nasal spray. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently reviewing FORTICAL, a unique nasal calcitonin product developed by Unigene Laboratories, and Unigene is also developing an oral form of the product. A new therapeutic option is parathyroid hormone (PTH), which can rebuild bone mass that has been lost due to osteoporosis. PTH has proven to increase the volume and strength of honeycomb-shaped bone mass located within the bone. This inner mesh contains blood vessels and bone marrow and begins to diminish after menopause. PTH helps reduce the incidence of fractures by restoring some of the lost bone architecture. Currently, PTH therapy is available only via daily injections. Unigene Laboratories and GlaxoSmithKline are jointly developing a PTH treatment that can be administered orally. " Calcitonin has a proven, 25-year record of safe human use with virtually no side effects, and can be taken simultaneously with other medications, " said Dr. Warren Levy, president and CEO of Unigene. " After the WHI study, safety has become an even more important consideration because once a therapy is initiated, it should ideally be taken for life. " For more information on osteoporosis and treatment options, please log on to www.unigene.com. -=- Courtesy of ARA Content ______________________ ______________________ Message: 6 Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:23:22 -0500 " luckypig " <luckypig HEALTH Tidbits Some Seniors Taking Human Growth Hormone WASHINGTON (UPI) -- As many as 50,000 otherwise healthy seniors are getting daily injections of synthetic human growth hormone each year. Some seniors swear the hormone reduces fat, makes them more active and increases libido, but some researchers say this practice, for which the users pay between $5,000 and $10,000 a year, can have serious and potentially deadly side effects, USA Today reported. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of synthetic growth hormone for boys likely to become adults shorter than 5-foot-3 and girls likely to be shorter than 4-foot-11. When growth hormone is prescribed for adults, it's considered " on-label, " and a doctor can prescribe the hormone if it will benefit the patient for a FDA-specified condition such as patients who have lost their pituitary gland because of a tumor or for patients suffering from AIDS. However, some seniors can get the synthetic grown hormone, " off-label, " for no specific condition except that a doctor feels a patient will benefit. ---------------------- Canadian Drug Shortage Blamed on U.S. OTTAWA, Quebec (UPI) -- Canadian pharmacists say they are experiencing a shortage of prescription drugs because of a surge in drug sales to U.S. patients. Barry Power, a director of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, told the BBC that supply problems are being reported more frequently and are continuing for longer periods than before Internet pharmacies were created. Health Canada Assistant Deputy Minister Diane Gorman issued a statement saying the federal agency " regards this as a very serious matter " and requests " information regarding early indications of drug-supply problems " or " trends regarding drug supply, safety concerns or impacts on human resources which may pose risks to Canadians' health. " The Canadian International Pharmacy Association, which represents Canadian pharmacies offering U.S. mail-order services over the Internet, estimates total sales by its members will reach about $800 million this year, with more than $1 billion in sales projected for 2004. The association estimates Canada currently has between 120 and 140 Internet pharmacies, compared with 10 in 1999. Several pharmaceutical companies have threatened to limit sales of patent-protected prescription drugs to Canada. ---------------------- Bottled Water Faces Scrutiny By Julia Watson, United Press International Illinois State Sen. Susan Garrett, chair of a health subcommittee, held a public hearing last week to consider the safety and regulation of bottled water. Next month, an Illinois judge is expected to decide whether to accept a proposed $12 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Poland Spring Water that charged that its water was neither naturally pure, nor from protected sources, nor was it from deep in the Maine woods nor even from a spring. Class action suits over bottled waters have been brought in five other states. Garrett wants to determine whether there is a case for the Illinois Department of Public Health having a greater role in supervising bottled water as a health issue. The fact that bottled water may not be as wholesome as it proclaims itself must be worrying to purists prepared to pay as much for their water as for their wine -- which is what they have to do if they are in the market for a bottle of Wattweiler from France's Vosges area, featured on the menus of top Paris restaurants at nearly $10. France may be best known for its Evian, Volvic, Badoit and Perrier waters -- the last of which faced its own health inquisition a few years ago. But it boasts at least 47 bottled waters, some of which sound like a baby line-up at a mass naming ceremony. Have you ever slaked your thirst on a glass of crystal-clear Carola, Julia, Faustine, Cesar, Arvie, or Soria? Truly chic Parisians at the French capital's desperately fashionable Waterbar in the basement of the equally " now " shop Collette, opt to drink Chateldon, one of 57 sparkling and 36 still waters from around the world that appear on the bar's water-focused menu. A soft, sparkling water, bottled at source since 1650 in the Department of Puy de Dome, it was a favorite of Louis XIV, the Sun King. He was such a fan of mineral waters he created the corps of officers of the goblet on horseback -- Officiers du Gobelet a Cheval -- who would gallop off to Forges in Normandy to rush its fresh spring waters back to the sovereign. Chateldon's label bears his sun symbol of approval. Though its annual sales of 363,000 bottles represent only a tiny percentage of total sales in France of bottled water, its audacious price makes it highly desirable among the water-guzzling elite who rave over the subtlety of its " mouth feel, " the standard by which the savvy respond to the size, number and distribution of bubbles in fizzy water and the lack of them in still. Top restaurants charge roughly $7 a bottle, though buying it for home drinking from the few exclusive supermarkets that stock it costs only about $1.50. Still, that is more than twice the price for other bottled waters. A 2001 survey by the World Wildlife Fund found 89 billion liters of bottled water drunk worldwide annually, at a value in U.S. dollars of about $22 million. Benjamin Franklin is thought to have been the first American to import bottled water into the United States, in 1785. Between 1976 and 2001, per capita consumption in the U.S. rose, according to Beverage Marketing Corp. of New York, from 1.6 to 19.5 gallons. That's an awful lot of water to monitor for consumer safety and regulation. But perhaps those who wish to be absolutely sure of the cleanliness of their water should stick to Australia's " Cloud Juice, " made, according to its label, from " 7,800 drops from the purest rain. " ---------------------- Study - Mixed Race Kids Suffer More Ills CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (UPI) -- A new study involving 90,000 adolescent U.S. students indicates those who considered themselves to be of mixed race suffered more illnesses. Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill said such children were found to be more likely than others to suffer from such illnesses as depression, substance abuse, sleep problems and various other health problems. The study, conducted in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health, found it did not matter what races the students identified with, the risks were higher for all of them if they did not identify with a single race. The new findings were derived from data compiled as part of the UNC-based National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the largest and most comprehensive survey of teen-agers ever conducted in the United States. The study appears in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health. ---------------------- Copyright 2003 by United Press International. All rights reserved. ______________________ ______________________ Message: 7 Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:23:49 -0500 " J Mittelman " <jmittelman Fw: [alternacare] Your Access to Vitamins and Supplements -- endangered - <rputman <undisclosed-recipients:> Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:37 PM [alternacare] Your Access to Vitamins and Supplements -- endangered I thought the slightly edited letter below was worth passing on. If you'd like to get information about either bill discussed, do a google search (http://google.com/) on " s.1538 " or on " s.722 " . I have reservations about supporting s.1538 because it gives more money to the FDA, and it has been my observation that the FDA does a lot more harm than good. As just one example, the FDA is the organization that approved nutrasweet! Rich Putman in Minnesota ***** There's a proposal in the US Senate that could eliminate your access to the vitamins and supplements you rely on. Some legislators are proposing extreme measures that would allow the FDA to regulate your vitamins and supplements like prescription medications. This means you could lose access to many of the supplements that you take regularly, such as, Multivitamins, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Calcium, and Glucosamine just to name a few. Can you imagine paying prescription drug prices for the products that you rely on? This is what this new legislation could mean to you. You can make a difference! Support S.1538  A bill introduced by Senator Tom Harkin, and Senator Orrin Hatch that will protect your access to Vitamins and Supplements. Oppose S.722  A bill introduced by Senator Richard Durbin, that may significantly undermine the freedom that we as American consumers have regarding our dietary supplements. IMPORTANT: Please E-mail, phone, fax or write your Congressman Today! Let your voice be heard. Please act now before it is too late. Donâ?Tt let your access to Vitamins and Supplements become political folly for special interest groups with you paying the bill. Learn more and get involved today. ***** Richard back. Here is my favorite site for contacting representatives in Washington DC. http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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