TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

Out of control politicians being bought off by big pharma…

Zero deaths caused by supplements!

Politicians like this are evil… just like big pharma!

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Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) bill that threatens tens of thousands of products has officially been introduced. We need all hands on deck to oppose it. Action Alert!
Sen. Dick Durbin has launched his supplement attack by introducing his “Dietary Supplement Listing Act of 2022” with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN). This bill threatens your ability to access the supplements you rely on to stay healthy. We need to send a strong message to Congress that this is bad for consumers, bad for health, and bad for the economy.
The bill threatens fines and jailtime for companies that do not comply. If a company does not submit the proper information, in the correct form, by the proper date, the supplement is considered misbranded. For the first offense, violators can be imprisoned for one year and fined $1,000 dollars; for the second offense, violators can be imprisoned for three years and fined $10,000. Given the safety record of supplements that will be detailed below, the punishments here hardly seem to fit the crime.
This bill creates a lose-lose situation for consumers and supplement companies: if companies don’t comply, they face fines and jail time; if they do comply, companies are orchestrating their own demise by giving the FDA the list it needs to sweep the market of as many as 41,000 supplements that do not comply with the agency’s overreaching (and incomplete) “new supplement” guidance. Supplement companies lose, the economy suffers, and consumers lose access to critical health products.
It’s bad, but it may not even be the biggest threat to your supplements right now. Separately, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is independently moving forward with plans to attach a similar mandatory product registration provision for supplements to the reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act that must pass by the end of September. Durbin’s policy, then, has twice the chance of success because it is moving forward on two distinct paths.
Why are more supplement regulations such a priority for these federal authorities? Supplements are overwhelmingly safe. According to the FDA, in 2021, the agency received 2,400 adverse event reports related to dietary supplements. To put this in context, according to the FDA’s adverse event database, in 2021 the FDA received a total of 2,333,453 adverse event reports. That means that dietary supplements make up 0.1% of the adverse event reports to the FDA. National reports consistently show zero deaths from dietary supplements; according to the FDA’s database, in 2021 alone drugs killed 187,750 Americans.
That supplements are the products getting federal attention speaks to the power of the drug industry lobby and the willingness of elected officials and FDA officials to do their bidding. We cannot let these forces succeed in undermining our ability to stay healthy, naturally.
Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them to oppose mandatory product listing for supplements. Please send your message immediately

-https://anh-usa.org/new-bill-threatens-jail-time-for-supplement-companies/

Barbancon

I really loathe most modern politicians. Such an unprincipled, grasping bunch of globalist whores these days. They are there to assist the globalist corporations and banks in enslaving the posterity of the founders of this republic just as Thomas Jefferson predicted.

TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

Agreed!

solarkin

Durbins a frikin moron

youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart

Obviously Durbin has been bought.

woodguru

It's not that hard to comply with labeling information, and there is nothing wrong with an accountability either, except for the right that believes in the freedom of speech...well it doesn't apply to supplements or drugs.

TommyRadd Loc: Midwest USA

Try to pay attention.

0.1% of the adverse event reports to the FDA.

Zero deaths.

Why is this even on their radar with all that is going on?

Answer: Because somebody’s billion dollar industry is threatened.

Ever listened to the side effect risks given in drug commercials?

The focus is 180 degrees in the wrong direction.