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Jan 10, 2019 40USDA Makes GMOs Disappear
It’s official: the “mandatory” GMO labeling rule will obscure more than it makes transparent. Action Alert! The USDA has released its final GMO labeling rule, and it’s not good. As we feared when the agency released its proposal earlier this year, the so-called GMO labeling law will ap...
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Jul 19, 2016 16Secretive Trade Group Moving Against Natural Medicine?
The Federation of State Medical Boards is actually an entirely private trade group that seems to exist to thwart competition. State-based Action Alerts! For many months, we’ve been following the FDA’s war on natural medicine. The agency has been eliminating natural ingredients from the list of...
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Aug 5, 2008 0Hyperbaric Oxygen for Our Nation’s Veterans
Report from the Trenches: Government Affairs from your Nation’s Capitol Dr. William A. Duncan, Your Lobbyist in Washington The DoD-Brain Injury Rescue & Rehabilitation Project Since January of 2007, the American Association for Health Freedom has sponsored a project to have veterans of the...
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Integrative Healthcare Included in Senate Healthcare Bill’s Language
The American Association for Health Freedom (soon to be The Alliance for Natural Health-USA thanks to our merger with The Alliance for Natural Health) has worked for months to gain recognition for integrated healthcare in President Obama’s Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) plan (part of the...
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Jun 9, 2009 0
FDA Seeks Your Suggestions for Increased Transparency
The FDA has established a Transparency Task Force, and has called for public comment. We certainly applaud this as a hopeful sign. Openness in government is imperative, and prompt disclosure to the public of government activity ensures legitimacy and accountability. (more…)...
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Jan 13, 2009 1
The Non-GMO Project Product Verification Program is Up and Running
The governments of the US and Canada stand in sharp contrast to sixty other countries around the world, including the European Union, Russia, and China, by not requiring foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be so labeled. They do so despite good evidence that GMOs could have n...
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Oct 25, 2016 0Good and Bad News in the War on Compounded Natural Medicine
The FDA listens to ANH-USA members and other critics in final rule. The agency, in its final rule governing the removal of medicines from a list of permitted compounded drugs, has agreed to notify interested parties in advance, as required by law. This is a victory, in that the agency’s original p...
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When is a Vitamin Not a Vitamin? When the FDA Says So!
In September of 2005, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) senior vice president of scientific and international affairs, John Hathcock, PhD, wrote a letter to the FDA stating that “Pyridoxamine is unequivocally a dietary ingredient because it is one of the three primary natural forms of vit...
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Children Are Being Exploited to Extend Pharmaceutical Patents
Want to protect your kids from high cholesterol? Just give ’em drugs—like the new, chewable form of Lipitor. Yes, chewable. Like candy. A new Action Alert asks Congress to repeal a really rotten law that encourages this. (more…)...
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