Contact your senator if you want freedom to purchase supplements
Posted By Phyllis on March 29, 2010
Well-meaning senators are seriously considering a bill that is intended to curb abuses of supplements by athletes, but would drastically curtail my rights and yours to purchase supplements as we have been doing, for autism treatment regimens and more.
This is Senate Bill S. 3002. It restricts access to safe dietary supplements that have long been available in the U.S., putting us in line with other countries like the European Union and Canada which restrict access to supplements without prescriptions. (Canadians are crossing the border to buy vitamin products. )
For more information and an online form for contacting your senators, you can go to
http://www.anh-usa.org/main-menu/campaigns/defeat-mccains-anti-supplement-bill/
I just contacted my senators through this site, adding a personal plea at the top of the boilerplate. Here was my personal plea:
Please oppose Senator McCain’s Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). This would make it much more difficult for me to administer supplements for autism treatment and prevention to myself and my son. Our health is far better under a supplement regime, overseen by a knowledgeable chiropractor. This is a situation where conventional medicine has no answers. The right supplements are the key, and so is my freedom to choose and purchase them.
Here’s the link again:
http://www.anh-usa.org/main-menu/campaigns/defeat-mccains-anti-supplement-bill/
Your post definitely caused me to sit up and do some research — I am a big fan of natural health and nutritional supplementation, and this kind of regulation would be simply terrible. I found this link at the Natural Products Association website:
http://www.npainfo.org/index.php?src=news&refno=243&category=pressreleases10
Do you know whether this is up to date info, and if the Hatch-Harkin agreement will, in fact, resolve this? It’s probably a good idea to keep contacting our senators in any case, to remind them how much their constituents value the freedom to pursue a health alternatives that work for their families. Thanks for the nudge!
Contacting senators is the best plan, I think, so they know how important this whole thing is to us. I haven’t kept up on the ins and outs of the issue. Thanks for looking it up!