S1082 Update - Monday's ActivityCon Job Unfolding; New Threat to Dietary Supplements Emerges By Byron J. Richards, CCN On Monday, April 30, 2007, Senator Edward Kennedy, consistently stumbling on his words and unable to look up (its hard to look anyone in the eye or speak clearly when you are lying through your teeth), sought to convince the American public that bill S1082 was true and meaningful drug safety reform. The latest information is that Kennedy and Enzi will now consider various amendments to S1082, which may last a day or two. Kennedy will evaluate these amendments, not on the basis of meaningful reform, but on the basis of how many votes he needs in order to get S1082 to pass. He is expected to reject Senator Grassley’s meaningful drug-safety amendments – there could be some fireworks (tune in to C Span if you want to watch). A full Senate vote could happen tomorrow, although it is most likely to be later this week. Don’t be deceived, this is Big Pharma backed legislation concocted in close harmony with the dysfunctional FDA management team and is designed specifically to bring riskier medications onto the market with hardly any safety or effectiveness testing. As Kennedy and Enzi both stated on the floor of the Senate today – safety will now depend on the FDA linking to health care databases and looking for trends. Yes, that’s right, the inept FDA will now track safety “real time” as the drug companies perform their experiments on the public. In other words, the practice of medicine will now officially be one large clinical trial. A New Threat to Dietary Supplements EmergesSenator Kennedy announced that he was working with Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) to include Durbin’s food safety legislation as an amendment to this already overbroad package of FDA reform. For those of you who may not know, Senator Durbin is the number one vitamin-hating senator in the Congress. His currently proposed food bill (S654) would have the net affect of repealing the DSHEA act of 1994 the (current supplement law that gives us some health freedom) and reclassifying and regulating dietary supplements as drugs. Originally, it was not included in S1082. At this time, nobody knows what Kennedy and Durbin are crafting – but it can’t be good. Thus, health freedom and dietary supplements are now under assault from several aspects of this legislation. Keep up the pressure and keep flooding the Senate with objection to S1082. Related Articles: Call the Capitol toll-free: 800-828-0498, 800-459-1887, or 800-614-2803 To get information on contacting your Senators follow this link: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm To get information on your Congressperson in the House of Representatives follow this link: http://www.house.gov/writerep/ ### Copyright © 2007 Truth In Wellness, LLC All Rights Reserved
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