Comments on: Stop Canadian Supplement Restrictions Coming to the US

By: Don Somsky

Don Somsky — Sat, 04 May 2024 18:43:14 +0000

We need a bill passed that will take money out of politics and give a prison sentence to every ex government employee including Generals and lobbyists who take money from corporations etc. Vote for Trump and this country will have one of the most corrupt crooked country’s in the world. We have so many crooked people working for our country it is a disgrace.

By: susan

susan — Sat, 04 May 2024 16:56:21 +0000

When a supplement is even suspect from doing harm, it is taken off the market and targeted for destruction, but when a drug harms or kills people, oh well, its Big Pharma so keep selling them $$$$$$.

By: Linda Solomon

Linda Solomon — Fri, 03 May 2024 23:04:44 +0000

I’M A GROWN WOMAN WHO’S RESEARCHED & HELPED MYSELF FOR DECADES SUPPLEMENTS THAT HAVE HELPED ME BECAUSE THEY’RE WHAT WORKS BEST FOR MY BODY & HEALTH. I WAS ABLE TO FIND SOMETHING TO HELP WITH MY GALL BLADDER SO I DIDN’T HAVE TO HAVE SURGERY TO REMOVE IT. I ALSO FOUND HELP FOR A SECOND DEGREE BURN INFECTION, A BLADDER INFECTION DECADES AGO & ALSO SOMETHING THAT HELPED ULCERS THAT HAD DEVELOPED. I TAKE TIME TO DO RESEARCH TO FIND WHAT WILL HELP i DON’T JUST SWALLOW ANYTHING! THIS ANGERS ME BECAUSE I’M SENSITIVE TO CHEMICAL MEDS & HAVE SIDE EFFECTS. WHEN I USE WHAT HELPS ME I HAVE NO PROBLEMS. TO RESTRICT PEOPLE’S FREEDOM TO WHAT WILL HELP THEM IS NOT FAIR AT ALL! I DEAL WITH REPUTABLE COMPANIES WHO SELL QUALITY PRODUCTS & HAVEN’T EVER HAD A PROBLEM. WHAT WILL THEY WANT TO CONTROL NEXT BECAUSE I KNOW FULL WELL WHAT I’VE BEEN DOING FOR DECADES! THIS CAUSES ME MUCH ANXIETY! MR DURBIN THINK AGAIN, BECAUSE WE DON’T NEED OR WANT TO DO WHAT CANADA DOES. EXCEPT THAT IF THEY DON’T HAVE GLYPHOSATE & OTHER TOXINS IN THEIR FOOD & PESTICIDES ARE NO DOUBT MORE REGULATED THERE THAN HERE IN AMERICA SO PLEASE FOLLOW THAT B/C PLENTY OF CHILDREN & OTHERS ARE SICK BECAUSE OF THEM! CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT??

By: Richard Malter, PhD

Richard Malter, PhD — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:21:52 +0000

I’ve been following Sen. Durbin’s relentless efforts to restrict supplements for decades. The FDA is Big Pharma’s government marketing arm that would implement Durbin’s supplement restricting agenda. 25 years ago, they used the National Academy of Science (NAS) to write an article that set very low “upper limits” for supplements. I wrote an extensive critique of the NAS article that Dr. Abram Hoffer published in his Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine in 2000. https://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/2000/pdf/2000-v15n02-p069.pdf
I think I covered the essential issues of limiting or even eliminating nutritional supplements from the market. What I said about the vital importance of nutritional supplements still applies today.

By: Dr Maha

Dr Maha — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:14:23 +0000

What is it with Durbin? He appears to oppose Pharma, and then turns around and behaves like their employee. He, Tillis, and Coons are working on the Pharma friendly legislation that would allow Pharma’s riding roughshod over the patent system and actually INCREASE the drug-pricing crisis in this country. Recently, they’ve pushed forward the misleadingly named Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) and Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act. Enacting these bills, alone or together, would richly reward pharmaceutical companies for their donations, and encourage them to give more to support Coons and Tillis’s re-election bids in 2026. (If Durbin is cashing in from Pharma it’s not obvious in disclosures, but payoffs could be held in trust.)
PREVAIL, also co-sponsored by Durbin, enables companies to keep patents that cover things that were already known or obvious to scientists in the relevant field. PREVAIL would protect wrongly granted patents by hamstringing the one mechanism the public has for challenging them outside of federal court: the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a government entity Pharma abhors. Congress created PTAB to make it more efficient to invalidate wrongly granted patents. And it has been a success: 46 percent of patents challenged at the PTAB have been found invalid in whole or part.
Supplements may be a parallel strategy to enrich Pharma by removing any “threat” to disease and standard of care approaches requiring expensive patent medicines, or they could be swept into the patent protection of PREVAIL where they would disappear under an improper patent.

By: Julie Hemmings

Julie Hemmings — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 01:51:52 +0000

So what lobby money does Dick Durbin take, how much and for how long? What engagements does he attend sponsored by Pharma?This information should be reported right along with his proposals so people can see a bigger picture.