Health supplements---DIRE NEED TO AMEND S.1082/HR1561

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Original Message ----- IAHF.COM Saturday, May 26, 2007 7:55 PM TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: SUMMARY OF EMORD RADIO SHOW RE DIRE NEED TO AMEND S.1082/HR1561 the_wolfs_lodge@yah Attorney Jonathan Emord- The Man Who Has Defeated the FDA More Times in Court than Any Attorney in the USA IAHF List: Soon I hope we'll have an audio archive of the Jonathan Emord's radio show today with guest Byron Richards re the dire need to amend S.1082/ HR 1561. If I can get that, I'll send it out in case you missed the show today. Emord holds the record of defeating the FDA in court more times than any other attorney. He has done more to defend DSHEA in court than any other attorney. He did not mince words in what he had to say about the threat posed by S.1082/ HR 1561- to paraphrase Emord said : "Through this legislation The FDA are about to unleash the Big Dogs of Big Pharma on the Dietary Supplement Industry to Take It Down unless you take immediate action to defend the industry by pushing for our amendment." He warns us that unless we amend S.1082/ HR 1561, it will be OPEN SEASON on ALL dietary supplements. Richards

backed him up with a discussion of how Genomics and Proteomics work and how FDA could use these unproven sciences to ban anything on a whim- based on just their OPINION, and he made it clear that the moment you allow the FDA to create their own drug company, which is going to be developing, patenting and licensing its own drugs, you'll also create a situation where FDA is going to have far more incentive than they've EVER had to attack dietary supplements as unwanted competition. WHAT YOU MUST DO, RIGHT NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF:

1. Life Extension Foundation now has the form letter to the House on their Capwiz site where with one mouse click you can email it to your members of congress: http://www.lef.org/lac/index.htm#HR1561 (or see below)You will have the opportunity via LEF's site to alert 6 friends to this issue- please do this both by email and by phone to insure that they act! After emailing the form letter, please also CALL your members of congress via the Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121 to demand to know if they will help protect you by pushing for this amendment or not. Let me know what they

say. There is no way of knowing how soon this will come up for a vote in the House, but its a "must pass" bill because its been coupled with the FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act which must be renewed, so at the very least they will pass something by the end of September, and they'll probably vote on it in the House before August Recess. HR 1561 (Senate bill S.1082) - Please Amend to Protect Dietary Supplements The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions has approved S.1082, The Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act. This Act gives broad new regulatory powers to the FDA that can be used to attack dietary supplements. This Act

also turns the FDA into a drug development company that exposes Americans to new and dangerous drugs that have little testing to prove safety or effectiveness. Major Expansion of FDA Powers will Target Dietary Supplements A new attack against health freedom, drug safety, and dietary supplements was launched last week by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) with major support from Michael Enzi (R-WY). It is called the Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act (S1082). Featured in Consumer Alerts, April 2007U.S. Health Freedom on Verge of Collapse Your freedom is at stake! Let your elected representatives know that you do not want the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal Trade Commision (FTC) to prohibit nutrient disease relationship claims and prevent health benefit advertising. Featured in Life Extension Consumer Alerts, September 2005Your freedom is at stake! WHAT YOU MUST DO, RIGHT NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF: 1. Life Extension Foundation now has the form letter to the House on their Capwiz site where with one mouse click you can email it to your members of congress: http://www.lef.org/lac/index.htm#HR1561 You will have the opportunity via LEF's site to alert 6 friends to this issue- please do this both by email and by phone to insure that they act! After emailing the form letter, please also CALL your members of

congress via the Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121 to demand to know if they will help protect you by pushing for this amendment or not. Let me know what they say. There is no way of knowing how soon this will come up for a vote in the House, but its a "must pass" bill because its been coupled with the FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act which must be renewed, so at the very least they will pass something by the end of September, and they'll probably vote on it in the House before August Recess. 2. Complain about the Natural Products Associations mindless stance on this issue. How the hell

can they be FOR this legislation which attorney Jonathan Emord warns us guts DSHEA? Find out if your local health food store belongs to NPA (formerly NNFA) and tell them you're going to BOYCOTT their store unless they help you pressure NPA to switch their position. Camp out in front of NPA member health food stores to hand out form letters and if the store objects, urge everyone to boycott the store. Call the front office of NPA in both Washington DC and in California at ph: (202) 223-0101 fax: (202) 223-0250 E-mail: natural ph: (714) 460-7732toll-free: (800) 966-6632 fax: (714) 460-7444 and let them know you're ANGRY about this. DEMAND that they pay attention to what Jonathan Emord is saying and let them know you intend to BOYCOTT any NPA store that doesn't do their part to oppose this

wrong position. If they attempt to tell you that Emord is wrong, send them here and tell them to REFLECT on his credentials: http://www.talkstarradio.com/hosts/emordpage.htm Tell them its high time they started enforcing their conflict of interest disclosure bylaw and that they stopped allowing pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer to be amongst their membership. (If they try telling you Pfizer is not a member, tell them

that Capsugel is and they're a Pfizer subsidiary.) Use the argument below that I'm asking you to present to CFH. 3. Complain about so called "Citizens for Healths" allignment with NPA on this issue by calling Frank Herd, Executive Director at 612-879-7583 and also by calling their Board Chairman- attorney Jim Turner at 202-882-6664 (H) 202-255-8040 (cell) 202-462-8800 (w) Use the information in this email to argue with them and if they attempt to tell you Emord is wrong, direct them to his credentials here: http://www.talkstarradio.com/hosts/emordpage.htm and tell them you can't possibly trust them as a health freedom organization. Tell them that you're very ANGRY about their directing people to file comments with FDA re the CAM Guidance Document given that we have zero leverage over the unelected bureaucrats at FDA and that they're using this non issue to DISTRACT the grass roots from the all too REAL issue of S.1082/ HR 1561. 3. Call Ralph Fucetola at 973-300-4594 and Complain about so called "Natural Solutions Foundations" constant effort to confuse the grass roots by misdirecting them using the CAM Guidance Document, a non issue, while not doing the right things to alert them to the need to amend S.1082/ HR 1561. Tell them that FDA routinely ignores citizens input, that we have zero leverage over unelected FDA bureacrats, that we only have leverage over elected congressional officials and that right now DSHEA is under full blown attack according to Jonathan Emord who just said so on

the air and that Fucetola is in no position to second guess his judgement. Tell them that you're angry that they're not even mentioning the House bill by number in the woefully insufficient alert on their website and that theres a real question as to where form letters signed on their website actually go- tell them it seems to you that they're doing nothing but build a mailing list while going through the MOTIONS of "defending health freedom". (When someone on the IAHF list tested their form letter it did not reach its (supposedly) intended congressional destination.) Unsub from their distribution list and never forward any of their so called "alerts". This is for all the marbles folks, and its NOT a drill!!! I strongly recommend that you take your summer vacation sitting

at a card table in front of your local health food store to distribute info about this if you value your health freedom, and in case you think I'm joking GUESS AGAIN!! I'm NOT! This situation is identical to what we faced when I first started doing this work back in the summer of '89 when the NLEA was a stealth bill that had been fast tracked through the house. I spent that whole summer camped out in front of health food stores that I systematically made the rounds to in order to hand out form letters, and I enlisted a grass roots army to fight back! We failed to kill the NLEA because NNFA was behind it, but we did get them to switch their position, and we did get some amendments to curbed some of its worst excesses. The situation

today is far WORSE than it was then because even more people are now asleep. We MUST wake them up! Please let me know what YOU are doing. Don't expect me to do your work for you, I'm just one person, with no staff. I'll go to DC for you on this, but I need to know you're backing me up with tons of calls, faxes, emails and I'll need you to make personal visits over this to your Congressman's district office- and let me know you're doing this. Without your help, I won't be able to do much on Capital Hill. When you aren't slinging money around on the hill, you better have grass roots firepower or you just get stonewalled. Don't leave me twisting in the wind folks. Please systematically go through your phone book and make a list of every health food store within a 50 mile radius of your house and contact them all. GO to them

all. Enlist help from friends and neighbors. I am NOT joking! Direct people to this article for more information: http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron31.htm Please keep me abreast of your efforts, I'm serious, if you want me to go to DC for you, I need to know you're in the trenches with me because I don't have a magic wand. For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President International Advocates for Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA http://www.iahf.com jham 800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World

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