Further Update on our Story–Supplements Gain Exemption From Codex Language in Senate Food Safety Bill
Our account was 100% accurate. Here’s why.
Our account was 100% accurate. Here’s why.
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA), natural health and supplement supporters, plan to introduce new legislation, the Dietary Supplement Full Implementation and Enforcement Act of 2010, within the coming weeks.
Alliance for Natural Health-Intl recommends a scientifically defensible approach to establishing dosages for vitamin and mineral food-supplements.
The FDA previously attacked cherry producers. It now says that if you tell consumers about the health benefits of walnuts, you turn walnuts into a drug. Please join us in protesting this attack on both common sense and free speech.
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.
There is a great deal of confusion on Capitol Hill and on the internet about the status of Senator McCain’s mis-named Dietary Supplement Safety Act, the anti-supplements bill. ANH-USA sets the record straight.
As we explained last week, we have made tremendous progress on this bill, thanks to your efforts. But the story is not yet over. Let’s all make a final push to be sure this bill goes where it belongs: into the dustbin.
Internet rumors are serving to confuse. Why it’s so important to have your facts straight when communicating with elected representatives.
We did it! Hundreds of thousands of messages poured into the Senate opposing Senator McCain’s bill, the bill that would have wiped out current legislative protections for dietary supplements. More and more messages were arriving by the day. The entire Congress began to take note. Senator McCain was embarrassed by our ad whose headline pointed out that he was misrepresenting and did not seem to understand his own bill.
A vocal advocate for integrative medicine, Somers sparred with O’Reilly on Fox TV regarding the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, proposed by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.