Senate bill 3767 seeks to put dietary supplement makers in prison for ten years

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[Scythian]

Beware of Senate bill 3767, the so-called Food Safety Accountability Act. This dangerous legislation, if passed, would criminalize nutritional supplement manufacturers who tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of their products. Based on language in the bill, health proponents who sell supplements could be criminalized and convicted to ten years in prison.

The Life Extension Foundation recently published an important warning piece about this, complete with some call to action items for which we need your help.

Here's what was written by William Faloon and published at LEF (http://www.lef.org/featured-article...). I agree with every word written here and urge you to read this and take this message seriously, then do your part to oppose this new legislative tyranny that seeks to criminalize dietary supplement manufacturers.

Congress Seeks to put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!

by William Faloon, LEF.org

Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.

The Senate is debating a bill that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their web site.

The pretext for these draconian proposals is a bill titled the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to punish anyone who knowingly contaminates food for sale. Since there are already strong laws to punish anyone who commits this crime, this bill serves little purpose other than enriching pharmaceutical interests.

The sinister scheme behind this bill is to exploit the public's concern about food safety. Drug companies want to convince your Senators that an overreaching law needs to be enacted to grant the FDA powers to define "food contamination" any way it chooses.

Even today, the FDA can proclaim a dietary supplement as "misbranded" even if the best science in the world is used to describe its biological effects in the body. The concern is that the FDA will use the term "misbranded" in the same way it defines "adulterated" in order to jail dietary supplement makers as if they were selling contaminated food.

The new bill being debated in the Senate increases the penalties the FDA can use to threaten supplement makers to ten years in prison. The big issue here is that the FDA will use this as a hammer to threaten and coerce small companies into signing crippling consent decrees that will deny consumers access to truthful non-misleading information about natural approaches to protect against age-related disease.

Please tell your two Senators to OPPOSE the Food Safety Accountability Act (S. 3767). You can do this in a few minutes on our convenient Legislative Action Center on our Web site. Click here to take action now.

If you'd like to read the legal details about this bill, log on to the Alliance for Natural Health Web site: http://www.anh-usa.org/breaking-new...

Health-conscious consumers have succeeded in preventing Congress from capitulating to the pharmaceutical industry this year. Please continue this string of victories by telling your Senators to OPPOSE this underhanded attempt (S. 3767) to grant the FDA dictatorial new powers.

Due to the short session before Congress adjourns for the election, please alert your two Senators today!

For longer life,
William Faloon

[Scythian]

Senate bill 3767 seeks to put dietary supplement makers in prison for ten years (for telling the truth)

[sodpoodle]

Cigarette manufacturers put warnings on their product - are they next?

If you can be sued for $billions in class action law suits you won’t go to jail.

The trial lawyers are counting on it.

carry on.

[Diogenesis]

First, they took the curative cancer treatment drugs
and diagnostics for white women. I said nothing.

Then, they took the insurance for the children.
I said nothing.

Then, they took ordinary health supplements away from adults.
I said nothing.

Then, they came for me.

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism
or socialism on people has been by way of medicine..."
President Ronald Reagan

Death Panels imposed by Mitt Romney (ObamaCARE=RomneyCARE).

[Scythian]

This is outrageous, for instance, you can find serious information on PubMed and other sites, real double blind studies for many things such as Magnesium supplements and so on, but if a supplement maker uses that information or even links to it they could arrest him.

Basically, this is nothing but the FDA acting as the NAZI police force for Big Pharma. The truth is, once Obama care kicks in many procedures and things will be denied, America will turn to natural solutions and find that in large part, the key to good health is the proper balance of magnesium, potassium, calcium, amino acids, PH, and so on. And this could undo Big Pharma and they know it.

1 out 5 acute patients in hospitals are so low on Vitamin C they are at risk of getting scurvy, America is dying of lack of real nutrition and supplementation can be very beneficial.

[goodwithagun]

I always suggest this book on these threads: Anticancer by Dr. David Servant-Shreiber. Great read.

[Clintonfatigued]

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[Scythian]

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[OpusatFR]

I stopped the Statins after EVERY single one of them over a five year trial period caused muscle problems.

I now take Red Rice Yeast and Fish oil, my cholesterol is 180 and I have no discomfort or side effects.

The suppplements are also pretty cheap, thus depriving Big Pharma of that revenue.

This is all a bid to corner the supplement market, control and jack up the prices along with having to go to a physicians and get the prescription.

[Scythian]

You’re right and good for you for taking control of your own health.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Shows how much they hate businesses.

[Scythian]

BUMP

[Dead Corpse]

End the drug war. Now.

This is the slippery slope most of us have been yelling about since they made pro-hormones illegal via arbitrary edict.

Enough of this sh*t...

[Will88]

That this nonsense is even in a bill shows how bought and paid for our Congress is. Thousands of deaths per year from prescription drugs and OTCs, but they can scarcely find a single death from food supplements and herbal remedies. Not even to mention non-fatal, but harmful side effects of prescription drugs.

[Lurker]

End the drug war. Now.

"Take ONLY the drugs approved by your Supervisor!" Jello Biafra, The Dead Kennedys.

I've been arguing here for years that Congress has no Constitutional authority to tell adults what they can or can not put into their bodies. For that I've been called every name in the book.

Well here's hoping a whole bunch of Statist Freepers can't get their whatever the hell it is they want. I can't wait to hear the howls of "But that's not what I meant!"

It'll be music to my ears.

L

[Dead Corpse]

For that I've been called every name in the book.

Libertine. Dopertarian. Pot head. Roid monkey.

Been there. Been called that. As with most real freedom advocates, while I advocate the freedom... I don't partake personally.

Unlike the Nanny Stater's, I freely admit and accept that what is right for me may not be right for someone else. I admit that giving such extra-Constitutional powers to our government is a REALLY bad idea.

I highly doubt that you'll hear nearly as much howling as you would hope to hear. Too many will feel that giving up their glucosamine/chrondroitin will be worth it if it keeps one white girl from having sex with a jazz musician.

[Lurker]

Too many will feel that giving up their glucosamine/chrondroitin will be worth it if it keeps one white girl from having sex with a jazz musician.

That's funny right there. Thanks for the laugh. I bid you a pleasant day.

[Scythian]

Thousands of deaths per year

Uh, actually that is in the 100,000 deaths per year for prescription drugs, another 20,000 plus for Acetometaphine OD's

[Scythian]

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[stephenjohnbanker]

Actually, we never had a “War on Drugs”. Singapore and Malaysia did, and they won. Use or sell illegal drugs? get a bullet in your effing forehead.

We might as well legalize them, as we spend billions for nothing, and we can take the huge profits away from the criminals....maybe ;-)