BAD AER BILL PASSED IN SENATE LAST NIGHT AT 9 PM: BATTLE SHIFTS TO THE HOUSE!!!

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BAD AER BILL PASSED IN SENATE LAST NIGHT AT 9 PM: BATTLE

SHIFTS TO THE HOUSE!!!

Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:40:13 -0000

 

 

 

 

Please send John Hammell a donation, as Zeus Information Service has

done, to continue doing the excellent and very brave work he is

doing.....(Americans can send cheques). Everything is slowly being in

put in place for global laws which will affect all countries - so

called 'harmonisation'. The drugs companies are desperate to stem the

tide of popularity of natural medicine and are leaning on governments

to create this kind of legislation...also happening in NZ right now.

Zeus)

 

S.3546 has passed in the Senate. The Senate is now pressuring the

House to pass the companion bill which is HR6168, during the Lame Duck

session.

 

We MUST buy some time in order to get HEARINGS on this bill in the

next Congress where we'd have the chance to defuse the ticking bomb by

getting language changes into it to protect our interests! If we don't

take this very seriously, it will lead to the TOTAL DESTRUCTION of the

American dietary supplement industry. We'll see supplements wrongly

blamed for adverse reactions actually caused by Rx drugs taken

concurrently. We'll see " Trial by TV " like never before against

supplements!

 

We'll see insurance companies jack up their premium costs beyond what

any of the small, innovative companies such as Wellness Resources or

Life Extension Foundation could afford, and we'd see a total Pharma

takeover of the industry occur.

 

If we can kill the AER bill in the House during this lame duck session

which ends Friday, the bill would have to be reintroduced in the next

Congress under new bill numbers - they'd have to try again - and we

will have to push very hard for a HEARING on the bill in order to get

the changes made to it that we need.

 

The other side is pulling out all the stops to get this bill through

because it would enable the big supplement companies that could afford

the red tape, to knock off the small companies that can't and the big

ones would gain hugely increased marketshare. Thank God not all big

companies are against us! Please be sure to THANK Nature's Plus,

Nutraceutical, and Solgar for being in our corner against NPA

(formerly NNFA).

 

WE CAN STOP THIS BILL - but ONLY if you make the calls and urge all

your FRIENDS and FAMILY to also make the calls! If we can just HANG IN

THERE for the next 2 days and kill it in the House, then they'll have

to completely reintroduce the bill in the next Congress and it will be

back to square one for the other side.

 

So..... we must call: 202-225-3121 (Capital Switchboard 24/7) and ask

for:

 

1. Hastert

 

2. Boehner- (tell him not to allow it to be put on the calendar- he

opposes the bill, but now there's going to be HUGE pressure on him to

let it be voted on.)

 

3. Barton

What to say:

 

" A large sector of the Dietary Supplement industry including Solgar,

Nutraceutical Corp, Nature's Plus, Life Extension Foundation, Wellness

Resources and many other companies oppose HR6168 - Dietary Supplement

and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act.

 

This legislation has nothing in it to determine the causality of an

Adverse event. Safe dietary supplements would be wrongly blamed for

problems actually caused by pharmaceutical drugs taken concurrently

with one or more dietary supplements - and there would be no medical

or scientific review required by FDA before they could release the

flawed " data " from this witchhunt.

 

 

 

This would be a trial lawyer's dream, but it's not good government and

it would do nothing to protect the public health. There must be

hearings on this legislation, and there must be changes made to its

language before it would actually serve its intended purpose.

 

Do not ram it through on us during the lame duck time. If you do,

you will enrage the millions of dietary supplements users who flooded

congress with more mail during the campaign to pass DSHEA than

Congress ever received in its history on ANY issue. "

 

IAHF needs your help to get back to DC in January.

 

We must continue to build our base regardless of what happens on this

Bill.

 

We must ALSO push for a hearing on FDA's illegal Trilateral

Cooperation Charter with Canada/ Mexico wherein FDA is attempting to

harmonize the food and drug regs for all 3 countries as if the

N.American Union already existed. We're seeing a concerted effort to

DESTROY our country - but it will only be destroyed if we LET it!

 

See my petition and please sign it:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232#body

 

For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President International Advocates

for Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702

USA Paypal donate button at http://www.iahf.com jham

800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World

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IAHF ALERTS:

 

JAM THESE HOUSE FAX LINES TOO!! WE CAN & MUST KILL HR 6168 BY FLOODING

CONGRESS TODAY & FRIDAY!!

 

 

CHANGE OF PLANS: BAD AER BILL PASSED IN SENATE LAST NIGHT AT 9 PM:

BATTLE SHIFTS TO THE HOUSE!!!

 

 

Calls To Senate Still Urgently Needed on Bad AER Bill- Voting Was

Delayed on it til Thurs or Friday

 

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NHF HIGH PRIORITY ALERT - ACT NOW

 

 

 

S. 3546/H.R. 6168 (AER BILL) HAVE NOT YET PASSED & SHOULD NOT

 

 

 

CONSUMER ACTION IS NEEDED TO STOP BOTH BILLS

 

 

 

LET HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER, JOHN BOEHNER, KNOW THE TRUE

 

FACTS ABOUT AER BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

 

December 7, 2006

 

 

 

http://www.thenhf.com/oppose_S3546_nhf_call_to_action_dec_2006.htm

 

 

 

 

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