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New McCain bill poses threat to DSHEA
February 10,2010
By: Morgan Bast
  

Retailers may be required to clear every supplement product with the Food and Drug Administration prior to selling, if the new Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 is passed.

Sen. John McCain announced yesterday he would be introducing the bill to amend the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act to give the FDA more power over retailers and suppliers in the industry. Additional changes to DSHEA would include all adverse events to be reported - not just serious events, as well as the replacement of the grandfather clause of the 1994 act with a new list of accepted dietary ingredients.

Functional Ingredients magazine has the full story on their website here.
 


Nutrition Business Journal also covered the topic here, highlighting how it would affect supplement sales.

 

 

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Seems that McCain is once again misinformed. Hope everyone writes their Congress people, including Congressman McCain. Great man, but needs to check more facts first.
Posted By: Kenneth Scott on February 10,2010
This is so transparent - McCain basically wants to kill the vitamin/supplement industry, and make room for his pharmaceutical friends. After Bush slashed the FDA by nearly 75%, how long will it take their skeleton staff to approve, say, a generic brand of Co-Q-10, or herbal remedies such as Hibiscus? 5 Years? 7 Years? Under this proposed legislation, will the pharmaceutical companies have the right to contest which vitamins or herbs get approved? Isn't it convenient when conservative pro-corporate politicians want to deregulate everything UNLESS it means less competition, fewer consumer options, and more profits for the pharmaceuticals. The proposed bill has higher reporting responsibilities for vitamins than ANY of the major vaccines or drugs currently on the market. There is nearly zero mandatory reporting requirement for adverse effects for the H1N1 vaccine, the new flu vaccine, the new Gardasil HPV Vaccine ... yet thousands of side effects, deaths, infant autism, etc. Not to mention side effects from Prozac, Viagra, Ritalin, etc. Yet, the GOP wants to set up a hotline to publicize every time someone allegedly gets a stomach ache from Vitamin C? The problem is, of course, the vitamin/supplement/natural foods industry doesn't have anywhere near the money or the organization to lobby against this. Most vitamins come from small manufacturers; the herbs & supplement markets are made up of small, local, family-owned apothecaries. Everything about this is so anti-American, anti-consumer, anti-health, anti-natural foods ... absolutely preposterous.
Posted By: Chance Nevine on February 10,2010
John McCain is misguided, ill-informed, and dangerous in his position as senator. He may be an out of step gas-bag, but he can hurt this industry. We must rally hard to beat back this flack, or get an arrow in the back.
Posted By: Chris Kilham on February 10,2010
this is already happening in Canada and millions of people wrote to Health Canada, they continued to pass bills underhandedly. They are more powerful than you or I. Good Luck!!
Posted By: Shauna Jones on February 11,2010
 

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