DEFEND DSHEA!

TAKE ACTION: Your Health Freedom is at Risk!
A Senate Bill has recently been introduced (S.3546) that would severely impact your continued access to the nutritional supplements you love. The passage of this bill could lead to the demonization of nutritional supplements, and their eventual removal from the marketplace. Click here to learn more about this bill, and how you can help keep vitamins safe from this most recent attack. [MORE (PDF)] [MORE (MSWord)]

Dr. Rath has dedicated his life to ensuring that his scientific discoveries are available to people around the world. He has assumed a leadership role in the battle for natural health freedom by courageously exposing the profit motives of the pharmaceutical industry in suppressing this information. Dr. Rath invites his fellow natural health advocates to join him in the battle for vitamin freedom!

Your hard-won natural health freedoms as guaranteed by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 have come under attack by the political allies of pharmaceutical interest groups!

As a result of the negative media attention surrounding the herbal supplement ephedra, a new Senate bill, the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act,” has been introduced. If passed, this bill would amend DSHEA so that the FDA could arbitrarily ban your access to dietary supplements! In addition, the bill would subject safe and effective natural therapies to approval standards more stringent than those for pharmaceutical drugs.

We are alerting you about the existence of this unconstitutional bill so you can take immediate action by voicing your protest to the government leaders voting on it.

THE EPHEDRA BAN: THE FIRST WINNING BLOW AGAINST DSHEA

On December 30, 2003, under the guise of consumer protectionism, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announced a national ban on the dietary supplement ephedra. Secretary Thompson, with the backing of the FDA, declared ephedra a health hazard. This ban is a direct attack on your health food store!

The ephedra ban could serve as a catalyst to passage of Senate Bill 722, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003. If passed, this bill would give the FDA power to potentially remove thousands of herbs and other dietary supplements from the marketplace and effectively revoke the vitamin freedom ensured by DSHEA.

Senate Bill 722 has been referred to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, where it awaits review. Contact your congressional representatives today and let them know you oppose this unconstitutional bill!

Your vitamin freedom is at stake! The time to act is now!