Vermont “Vitamin Tax” on Dietary Supplements Defeated
Our Vermont supporters and others defeated the “Vitamin Tax” in Vermont last week–a significant victory for consumers of dietary supplements.
27 Apr
2010
20 Apr
2010
Vermont Considering New Tax on Dietary Supplements
Will the Vermont State Legislature pass a 6 percent sales tax to be applied to the sale of dietary supplements?
20 Apr
2010
Chemical Cosmetics Linked To Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer
Danger lurks in moisturizers, soaps, shampoos.
13 Apr
2010
ANH-USA Victory! Supplements Are Exempted From Codex Language in Food Safety Bill
ANH-USA worked closely with our allies in the senate to ensure that dietary supplements are protected from Codex language in the Senate Food Safety bill.
06 Apr
2010
New Title, Same Focus
Next week the title of our newsletter will change, but the focus will remain unchanged.
06 Apr
2010
Alert: Protect Your Right To Natural and Bio-available Vitamin B-6!
Human beings cannot live without vitamin B-6. The FDA recently gave one natural form of this critical vitamin to a drug company for its exclusive use. Another drug company wants the most important natural form as well, the one that our bodies cannot do without. Please help stop this outrageous vitamin grab.
06 Apr
2010
FDA Ignored Urgent Warnings
The Food and Drug Administration has disregarded government experts sounding the alarm about routine exposure to medical radiation, including the powerful CT scans used to screen for colon cancer. This is yet another example of why fundamental FDA reform remains so important.
30 Mar
2010
Acetaminophen: the Killer Painkiller
Acetaminophen (e.g. Tylenol) is linked to 50 percent of all liver failure in the United States. It can also cause eye disease, asthma, hearing loss — and death. Why is the FDA silent about the dangers of this country’s most commonly used painkiller?
30 Mar
2010
Just How Broken is the FDA?
The reexamination of a knee device and a campaign to extend the patent of a blood-thinning medication underscore the need for FDA reform.
30 Mar
2010
Expensive, Dangerous
Evidence mounts that many of the procedures that constitute the current “standard of care” fail to promote health, are unnecessary and may put patients at greater risk. These risks increase with a standardized, one-size-fits-all form of monopoly medicine.