| Health alert! Your health freedom is at stake!
Your hard-won natural health freedoms as guaranteed
by the Dietary Supplement Health
and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 are under attack.
International efforts to limit your health
rights include the Codex Alimentarius
Commission and the FAO/WHO Nutrient Risk Assessment Project.
At the national level, these are the bills we need
to DEFEAT:
Current House and Senate Bills Affecting Your Health
Freedoms
There are a growing number of House and Senate bills that
have the potential to take away your health freedoms.
Some of the most important of these bills are outlined below.
The Dr. Rath Health Foundation OPPOSES the following
bills:
- H.R. 3156 (the Dietary Supplement Access
and Awareness Act) would severely and negatively impact
DSHEA by giving the FDA the authority to ban large numbers
of dietary supplements or dietary ingredients from the market
if they fail unreasonable and arbitrary risk/benefit assessments.
- S. 729/H.R. 1507 (the Safe Food Act
of 2005) would create a new federal food safety agency and
undermine DSHEA by reclassifying supplements and regulating
them as drugs.
- H.R. 2485 (the DSHEA Full Implementation
and Enforcement Act of 2005) would give the FDA an extra
$205 million between now and 2010 to regulate dietary supplements
on the dubious grounds that it has not adequately used its
authority to enforce DSHEA due to a lack of resources.
- H.R. 2510 (the Dietary Supplement Regulatory
Implementation Act of 2005), similar to H.R. 2485, would
appropriate an extra $205 million to the FDA to regulate
dietary supplements.
- S. 2686 (the Communications, Consumer’s
Choice and Broadband Deployment Act) would allow telephone
and cable companies to restrict freedom of access to the
Internet and, consequently, to websites providing lifesaving
and health-promoting information about dietary supplements
and other natural therapies.
The Dr. Rath Health Foundation SUPPORTS the following
bills currently pending in Congress:
- H.R. 2352 (the Consumers’ Access
to Health Information Act) would codify into law the right
for natural product retailers and manufacturers to legally
discuss the many benefits of natural health products.
- H.R. 2486 (the Dietary Supplement Tax
Fairness Act of 2005) would allow the costs of purchasing
dietary supplements to be treated as medical expenses under
federal law.
- H.R. 4282 (the Health Freedom Protection
Act) would prevent the FDA from censoring Americans’
right to truthful information about the health-enhancing
benefits of foods and dietary ingredients.
- H.R. 1545 (the Dietary Supplement and
Healthy Meal Replacement Tax Parity Act of 2005) would allow
people to claim a medical expense deduction for meal-replacement
and dietary-supplement products that qualify, or will in
the future, for FDA-approved health claims.
We need to ACT NOW to defend our rights!
Participate on September
10th for our national Health Awareness Day
Write your U.S. Senators
and U.S. Representatives!
Call your U.S. Senators and U.S.
Representatives!
Download and share Dr. Rath’s
Petition!
Download and share with
others a summary page of legislation threats to your health
freedom and free access to natural supplements.
Download our new brochure
documenting Dr. Rath's successful history of fighting to protect
your rights.
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