Fwd: Stop S.722- Supplement Restriction Act-Making Progress

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arnoldgore

Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:30:47 EDT

Stop S.722- Supplement Restriction Act-Making Progress

 

 

Hi Health Activists & Consumers,

The Drumnbeat of misinformation on the safety and your continued availability of

vitamins. minerals and herbs is under threat. As you have seen the Federal

Courts have repeatedly upheld the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act

(DSHEA) allowing more claims to be made advertising dietary supplements. Finally

an FDA commissioner was ready to actually ready to comply with the 9 year old

law. This threat to the monopoly of prescription drugs for everythhing and

limitations on information about alternatives led Sen.Richard Durbin of Illinois

to introduce the Supplement Safety Act (S.722) that would treat nutritional

supplements like drugs and shift the burden and cost of tracking safety from the

FDA to the manufacturers.

In the highly competitive non-patented vitamin market, this high cost burden

canot be easily shifted to consumers through monopolistic pricing as with

patented drugs.

 

The bill has now been co-sponsored by Sen.Charles Schumer and Sen.Hillary

Clinton of New York and Sen.Diane Feinstein of Califoria. It is time to call and

write these Senators see below for local phone numbers for these 3 senators

below.

 

Impress upon them your concern that this bill supposedly about safety, will

restrict the availability of supplements by imposing costly testing and record

keeping for the very low incidence of injury from all supplements compared to

the huge numbers of deaths and injuries from prescription drugs. The outpouring

of support for DSHEA in 1994 resulted in more mail on this issue than any other

issue since the height of the Watergate Scandal-the Saturday Night Massacre of

1973.

Those of you in other states can find information on your US Senators,each state

has two senators at www.senate.gov

Sen. Charles Schumer New York City office tel. 212-486-443

Albany office 518-431-4070

Buffalo " 716-846-4111

Binghamton 607-772-6792

Hudson Valley 914-285-9741

Long Island 631-753-0978

Rochester 585-263-5866

Syracuse 315-423-5471

 

Washington,DC office 202-224-6542

E-mail: senator

 

Sen. Hillary Clinton

New York City office tel. 212-688-6262

Westchester 914-725-9294

Long Island 631-249-2825

Buffalo 716-854-9725

Syracuse 315-448-0470

Rochester 585-263-6250

North Country 315-376-6118

Washington,DC office 202-224-4451

E-mail: senator

Sen. Diane Feinstein

San Francisco office 415-393-0707

Los Angeles 310-914-7300

San Diego 619-231-9712

Fresno 559-485-7430

Washington,DC 202-224-3841

 

The mailing address of all Senators is: United States Senate

Washington,DC 20510