Dietary Supplements: Natural Health Care Progress in the Senate
26 Apr
According to recent articles on the Alliance for Natural Health USA (whose motto is “Good Science & Good Law”) Web site, Senator John McCain has withdrawn his support for Senate Bill 3002 (which he had co-sponsored) after hundreds of thousands of messages poured in opposing his action.
It’s reported that Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), the two health champions of the Senate, will introduce a new bill that will protect supplements.
This new bill, called the “Dietary Supplement Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2010″ (DSHEA) will regulate dietary supplements rather than trying to throttle the industry. McCain may end up as a sponsor of this new bill by including the provision that requires the FDA to notify the Drug Enforcement Administration if any supplement contains anabolic steroids. This is a reasonable proposal and satisfies his biggest beef which was the steroid scandal in baseball.
Another very dangerous piece of legislation, the FDA Food Modernization Act (Senate Bill 510, also known as the “Food Safety Bill”) has been altered to exempt dietary supplements from the language that would have harmonized American regulations to the Codex Alimentarius.
The Codex Alimentarius was developed to establish international food safety standards and to regulate ingredients in food products. There exists apprehension that the Codex standards are moving in the direction of the very restrictive European rules on supplements and that if America harmonizes with the Codex it would be the basis of severe restrictions on dietary supplements here in the U.S.
The House version of the “Food Safety Bill” has already passed. We need to make every effort to make sure the House version does not become law. Senators Hatch & Harkin are also the leaders in the battle to modify Senate Bill 510 so that it doesn’t restrict your access to supplements, and they deserve our support.
Additional Resources about the “Food Safety Bill” and Dietary / Nutritional Supplements:
The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) is an organization spearheading this battle for retaining your rights to use the nutritional supplements that form the basis for a natural approach to health care.
Read more in the following two articles about this issue at the ANH-USA Web site:
“ANH-USA Victory! Supplements Are Exempted From Codex Language in Food Safety Bill” (Published April 13, 2010)
“New Senate Supplements Bill Expected” (Published April 20, 2010)
CLICK HERE to learn more about the Codex Alimentarius at Wikipedia

