How else to explain the extraordinary, coordinated attack on Chipotle for going GMO-free? Action Alert! After announcing that Chipotle would make the switch to using exclusively non-GMO ingredients in their food, the restaurant chain was slammed hard by major news media outlets. Here’s a sampling of some of the headlines: “Why Chipotle Mexican Grill Going […]
As usual, it gets the science wrong, and we think we detect a hidden, commercial motive as well. Action Alert! The FDA recently sent a warning letter to KIND, the company known for making several varieties of fruit-and-nut bars. The letter contends that four of KIND’s products bear the claim on their labels that they are “healthy and […]
ANH-USA Board, Consumer Advocate Robert A. (Bob) Beiswenger has a total of more than 32 years of military service with the Air Force, flying C-141s during most of his career. Bob became interested in alternative treatments because […]
ANH-USA Board, Consumer Advocate Robert A. (Bob) Beiswenger has a total of more than 32 years of military service with the Air Force, flying C-141s during most of his career. Bob became interested in alternative treatments because his wife came from a cancer-prone family. Unfortunately, when his wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, he […]
ANH-USA Board Member Dr. Preuss received his BA and MD from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and New York City, trained for three years in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center under Dr. David E. Rogers, studied for two years as a fellow in renal physiology at Cornell University Medical Center under Dr. Robert F. […]
Since its inception, the Alliance for Natural Health USA has waged many successful battles to protect alternative health options . Throughout our history we have played an important role in filing precedent-setting lawsuits and passing significant legislation that directly benefit the natural health community: Dietary Supplement Health And Eduction Act (DSHEA). We were instrumental in […]
We couldn’t have done it without you, and the help of other health advocacy organizations. Much more remains to be accomplished in 2015. Nutrition Facts Panel FDA proposed a new 109-page set of rules for revising nutrition and supplement labels. It included a provision that would have banned the word “folate” from supplement labels, even though […]
Supplement Access Scientific Censorship Protect Access To Good Food Reform the FDA Protecting Medical Practitioners From Monopolistic Attack Protect Individualized Medicine and Individual Choice Insure Access To Quality Supplements As staunch advocates of natural health, ANH-USA has long worked to insure that consumers have access to quality supplements. Our organization’s first lawsuit was the landmark […]
The agency has issued a new guidance on laboratory developed tests (LDTs), even though a congressional committee challenged its legal authority to do. Action Alert! Last month we told you how the powerful House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee took the FDA to task, saying that the agency’s proposal to put laboratory-developed tests in the […]
A powerful subcommittee says a new FDA proposal on medical testing will stifle innovation and may not be legal. Action Alert! Three months ago we told you about laboratory-developed tests (LDTs)—inexpensive diagnostic tests for patients that are developed and performed by local labs. They include standard tests but also new ones, genetic tests, tests for […]