The Senator has been trying to sneak his supplement attack into an end-of-the-year government funding bill. Will he succeed? Action Alert!
ANH-USA has been keeping a close watch on Senator Dick Durbin’s (D-IL) efforts to impose additional regulations on dietary supplements that would threaten our access to important products. Over the course of this year, he has been trying to add his anti-supplement policy to larger pieces of must-pass legislation, because it is evident that it lacks the support to pass on its own merits. So far, with your determined activism, we’ve been able to block his efforts.
Congressional leaders have just released the language of the omnibus legislative package—the massive bill to fund the federal government into next year—and Sen. Durbin’s anti-supplement policy has not been included!
This is incredible news and a testament to your continued advocacy to protect dietary supplements from these restrictions. Though we’re very optimistic of the final outcome, it’s not a done deal yet. Congress still needs to approve the bill, and last-minute changes can always happen. If, for some reason, Congress does not approve the bill, another continuing resolution could be passed, opening another door for Sen. Durbin to move his disastrous supplement policy. For these reasons, we need to keep up the pressure until Congress approves the bill without Sen. Durbin’s policy.
It’s been a whack-a-mole type of year trying to stymy Sen. Durbin’s anti-supplement policy. Previously he tried to attach it to the must-pass bill to reauthorize FDA drug user fees, and he’s been trying similar stunts throughout much of the second half of this year. With your help, ANH-USA has sent hundreds of thousands of grassroots messages to Congress opposing this policy, and so far, Sen. Durbin has not been successful in his efforts.
But the fight is not over. In addressing his failure to get it done in this Congress, Senator Durbin vowed to continue pursuing his anti-supplement policy in the future: “I’ve pushed in every Congress I’ve served in, and I will continue.” We will be ready in 2023 to protect your supplements and defeat Sen. Durbin again.
Sen. Durbin’s mandatory listing legislation would add regulations to supplements that would increase prices for consumers and decrease available options, making it easy for the FDA to eliminate supplements that compete with the drugs that provide significant funding for the Agency. We’ve argued that mandatory product registration is a prelude to eliminating high-dose dietary supplements, as the European Union is in the process of doing, and throttling innovation in the supplement sector that delivers American consumers a diverse array of cutting-edge products that support health.
Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them to oppose mandatory product listing for supplements. Please send your message immediately.
Why is Senator Durbin so consistently attacking the supplement industry? Is he being paid off by Big Pharma or is there another reason?
I just received toady Mitch McConnell’s reply to my second notification. He has favored me with a form letter both times praising the FDA and why we need them. This time I responded with ‘if the FDA is a responsible oversight commitee, they would never have approved the covid shots.’
Durbn is a disgrace!
How a UNinspiring dolt can win this job shows to me elections ARE rigged!
What kind of idiot would vote for this corpo-controlled person?!?
Keep up the pressure!
Thank-you for your heroic efforts!!
Thank you for fighting for us Commoners. I was afraid this would happen, and I just found your website. I use supplements to protect my health in multiple ways. I am 63 and have stayed healthy and young by taking supplements instead of manmade chemicals. I refuse many prescriptions and use natural methods to heal myself. I have been personally injured by manmade chemicals, so I am afraid of them and Big Pharma . As a matter of fact, I refused the mNRA gene therapy and have boosted my immune system with natural methods. I haven’t called in sick to work 1 day in 3 years of this pandemic. I submitted letters to my representatives, FDA & the President. Thanks again for working on our behalf and for providing the format and wording for the letters. Gods speed.
I feel very strongly about our right to use supplements and vitamins as we need them to stay healthy! Some people like myself, who are frequently unable to take prescription drugs because of allergic reactions, at least have an alternate resource in natural supplements that can work, with out dangerous side effects. Some natural treatments have been around successfully for a hundred years or more, so why now, do we need to put it into a prescription, or eliminate it all together? The only thing that comes to mind is $$ in someone’s pocket or just control! I realize prescriptions have there place, but some seem to have more problems than natural supplements. I hope we can come to a workable solution.