Part of a letter I received from Life Extension tonight!
Haven't had time to go there yet but looks like they either got the date wrong, or it's already too late to send their form letter to our senators! I think something needs to be done about these sneaky tactics!
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Senate Expected to Vote Tomorrow (November 17th) on Law to Put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!
Dear Health-Conscious Consumer,
Pharmaceutical companies are aggressively interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.
In its lame-duck session, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill tomorrow (November 17th) 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 website.
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.