Durbin and Waxman Strike Again!
Their latest move targets supplements while giving drugs and vaccines a free pass. New Action Alert!
22 Nov
2011
14 Nov
2011
A New NDI Bill: It’s a Step in the Right Direction, but There’s Still a Long Way to Go
FDA’s disastrous supplement guidance, which threatens thousands of supplements, would be greatly improved by a new bill in the House. But it isn’t enough.
08 Nov
2011
A Cautious Victory on the Durbin Amendment
The senator’s latest volley failed, but we can expect him to introduce something similar at the next opportunity.
25 Oct
2011
Senator Durbin’s Stealth Move against Supplements
Since he’s having trouble getting his own bill passed, he’s trying a different approach to get the same results. New Action Alert!
25 Oct
2011
NDI Supplement Guidance is Just a Bait-and-Switch—and Time Is Running Out to Stop It!
Only 38 more days to tell FDA and Congress that the proposed rules for supplements could lead to the elimination of thousands of supplements and make the surviving ones much more expensive.
04 Oct
2011
The Threat to Dietary Supplements We Couldn’t Tell You About Last Year
ANH-USA is always working behind the scenes in Washington on your behalf. But sometimes we can’t shout it from the rooftops.
06 Sep
2011
Readers’ Corner: Should We Really Want Supplement Oversight Out of FDA?
Would creating a new federal agency just for supplements make things better or worse?
23 Aug
2011
ANH-USA Files Emord-Drafted Analysis with FDA that Reveals Cockeyed Assumptions Behind Proposed New Supplement Guidance
The FDA says all new supplements since 1994 must be approved, but this will result in only 55 new applications. Huh? Experts predict as many as 125,000, and sale of these supplements will be illegal while the FDA decides what to do with them all.
16 Aug
2011
Senator Durbin’s Credibility Problem
The Washington Times recently printed an opinion piece discussing the threat nutritional supplements are facing from the FDA and Sen. Durbin’s bill. The senator’s response makes one wonder if he has read his own bill. A follow-up to our Action Alert.
02 Aug
2011
NDI Draft Guidance is a Big, Fat Gift to Big Pharma
Want to let the drug industry take your favorite supplements off the market, patent them, and sell them back to you—by doctor’s prescription only—for 10 or 100 (or even more) times what you’re paying now? A follow-up to our recent Action Alert.