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Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:06 AM

Don't let the NFL take your away your vitamins

alobar

 

 

Senator John McCain has introduced S. 3002, the Dietary Supplement Safety

Act (DSSA). <https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/119>

 

This bill will . . .

 

* control your ability to use vitamins,

* for the benefit of the major sports leagues

 

The following welfare queens endorsed McCain's bill within hours of its

introduction . . .

 

* The National Football League

* The National Basketball Association

* Major League Baseball

* National Hockey League

* The NCAA

* The Professional Golf Association

* The U.S. Olympic Committee

 

Nearly all of these entities receive tax funding to build the stadiums they

play in. Now they want to make your supplements more expensive so that none

of their rich athletes will accidentally ingest anything banned by league

rules. But you can take action to kill this

bill.<https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/119>

 

It's crucial to understand that most vitamins and supplements aren't drugs.

Your food that grows in the ground, or on the hoof, is full of these

substances. That's one reason why previous government attempts to label

these nutritional supplements as drugs, and regulate them, have met with

fierce public opposition. Indeed . . .

 

Prior to the Internet, one such government power grab generated what may

have been the biggest barrage of letters to Congress in American history.

That power grab failed, because public pressure works!

 

Instead of regulating supplements Congress passed the Dietary Supplement

Health and Education Act of 1994

DSHEA).<http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/ConsumerInformation/ucm110417\

..htm#what>

 

That law states that most nutritional substances do not require FDA

pre-approval before going to market, and cannot be re-classified as drugs.

 

Now, John McCain seeks to repeal key provisions of the DSHEA. Yet in his

remarks introducing S.3002 . .

..<http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?dbname=2010_record & page=S4\

94 & position=all>

 

* he provides no evidence that the relatively free-market approach of the

DHSEA has failed

* he cites no evidence that dietary supplements, consumed by 150 million

Americans, are unsafe or a threat to public health

 

And the DSSA is completely unnecessary to address the (minor) steroid

problem. In fact, the problems McCain does cite were already addressed by

current law, which has not been competently enforced by the FDA!

 

* the FDA already has authority to ban any substance containing anabolic

steroids

* and products are already required to list all their ingredients

 

To make matters worse, " . . . the bill reverses " common law, which assumes

all is legal unless restricted. DSSA would allow only what is permitted to

be

legal. " <http://www.naturalnews.com/028257_Senator_McCain_dietary_supplements.htm\

l>

 

The DSSA is nothing but regulatory " corporate welfare " for major sports

leagues (and multi-national drug companies). It will put the FDA in the

business of helping the NFL, Major League Baseball, etc. enforce their

substance policies -- at your expense.

 

This bill will deny you freedom of choice, place expensive burdens on small

enterprises, and do nothing to protect your health. It will actually make

you less healthy, by causing nutritional substances to be less available and

more expensive.

 

Please use these talking points to tell your Representative and your two

Senators to oppose S. 3002, John McCain's Dietary Supplement Safety

Act.<https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/119>

 

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