Urgent Alert - Preserve Your Health Rights

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Citizens Health Action Network

jmittelman

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:29 PM

Urgent Alert - Preserve Your Health Rights

 

 

 

URGENT HEALTH ALERT! DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1st

 

Dietary Supplements are Important to YOUR Health

Tell the FDA to RESPECT your HEALTH RIGHTS

 

Take Action Today! It only takes one minute to send an email

message to the FDA.

 

FDA is reviewing portions of DSHEA, the Dietary Supplement Health

Education Act. The agency may propose new and overly burdensome regulations that

could restrict your access to new dietary ingredients and dietary supplements

that were not on the market prior to 1994 when DSHEA was passed.

 

Recall that 2.5 million concerned consumers contacted Congress between

1992 and 1994 to support DSHEA and assure access to their supplements. In

response to the overwhelming consumer support, Congress passed DSHEA and

deliberately created new and different regulations for dietary supplements.

Congress enacted DSHEA to stop the FDA from treating dietary supplements like

food additives or drugs and to protect consumer's rights to purchase these

products.

 

We need to make our voices heard once again!

The deadline is February 1, 2005. Send YOUR Letter NOW

 

Tell the FDA to uphold DSHEA and your continued access to beneficial

dietary supplements today! At risk are many innovative and

particularly effective dietary supplements. The FDA needs to hear from you to

preserve your hard-won access to the most innovative and important health

products. Any new guidelines that require onerous food additive and drug like

notifications, excessive testing and documentation will make the introduction of

new products unnecessarily expensive.

 

This disincentive for companies to develop new health promoting products

will assuredly lead to the reduction of many products that can benefit the

health of Americans. It could block consumer access to validated new and

innovative products -- for good. American consumers have the right to these

health enhancing products that are also shown, in many cases, to reduce the

staggering public health burden, and reduce the cost of health care.

 

We only have a few short weeks to send a strong message. The FDA is

considering comments until February 1,2005. Make sure your voice is heard.

 

Washington, DC needs to hear from at least 25,000 consumers who care about

their health rights. Urge the FDA to ensure that any new guidelines for New

Dietary Ingredients reflect the intent of Congress and continue to provide

complete access to the safe, affordable and innovative dietary supplements you

rely on for your health.

 

 

Take action today!

 

 

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> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:39:09 -0500 (EST)

> Citizens Health Action Network

> <info

> darby700

> Urgent Alert - Preserve Your Health Rights

>

> URGENT HEALTH ALERT! DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1st

>

> Dietary Supplements are Important to YOUR Health

> Tell the FDA to RESPECT your HEALTH RIGHTS

>

> Take Action Today! It only takes one minute to send

> an email

> message to the FDA. Go to

>

http://www.healthactioncenter.com/ctt.asp?u=3095742 & l=74263

>

> FDA is reviewing portions of DSHEA, the Dietary

> Supplement Health Education Act. The agency may

> propose new and overly burdensome regulations that

> could restrict your access to new dietary

> ingredients and dietary supplements that were not on

> the market prior to 1994 when DSHEA was passed.

>

> Recall that 2.5 million concerned consumers

> contacted Congress between 1992 and 1994 to support

> DSHEA and assure access to their supplements. In

> response to the overwhelming consumer support,

> Congress passed DSHEA and deliberately created new

> and different regulations for dietary supplements.

> Congress enacted DSHEA to stop the FDA from treating

> dietary supplements like food additives or drugs and

> to protect consumer's rights to purchase these

> products.

>

> We need to make our voices heard once again!

> The deadline is February 1, 2005. Send YOUR Letter

> NOW

> www.healthactioncenter.com

>

> Tell the FDA to uphold DSHEA and your continued

> access to beneficial dietary supplements today! At

> risk are many innovative and particularly effective

> dietary supplements. FDA needs to hear from you to

> preserve your hard-won access to the most innovative

> and important health products. Any new guidelines

> that require onerous food additive and drug like

> notifications, excessive testing and documentation

> will make the introduction of new products

> unnecessarily expensive.

>

> This disincentive for companies to develop new

> health promoting products will assuredly lead to the

> reduction of many products that can benefit the

> health of Americans. It could block consumer access

> to validated new and innovative products -- for

> good. American consumers have the right to these

> health enhancing products that are also shown, in

> many cases, to reduce the staggering public health

> burden, and reduce the cost of health care.

>

> We only have a few short weeks to send a strong

> message. The FDA is considering comments until

> February 1,2005. Make sure your voice is heard.

> www.healthactioncenter.com

>

> Washington, DC needs to hear from at least 25,000

> consumers who care about their health rights. Urge

> the FDA to ensure that any new guidelines for New

> Dietary Ingredients reflect the intent of Congress

> and continue to provide complete access to the safe,

> affordable and innovative dietary supplements you

> rely on for your health.

>

>

> Take action today!

>

http://www.healthactioncenter.com/ctt.asp?u=3095742 & l=74263

>

>

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