Article: New Bill To Require Supplement Registration

Why do people keep voting for these guys?!!! Thank God for Rand Paul, he stands up for supplement freedom from what I understand. It seem the D's are always coming up with these bills and pressuring the R's to "Meet them half way" and these old, wrinkly guys just sign them without knowing what the bills are.
Any thoughts out there? Is there like, a petition we can all sign? Do we write a letter to someone?
I only buy reputable brands that have been around a wile so I would think the market is self regulating. That's why we have forums like this one, so we know what's good and what's not.The crappy brands just go out of business.
 
Chris1 said:
Why do people keep voting for these guys?!!! Thank God for Rand Paul, he stands up for supplement freedom from what I understand. It seem the D's are always coming up with these bills and pressuring the R's to "Meet them half way" and these old, wrinkly guys just sign them without knowing what the bills are.
Any thoughts out there? Is there like, a petition we can all sign? Do we write a letter to someone?
I only buy reputable brands that have been around a wile so I would think the market is self regulating. That's why we have forums like this one, so we know what's good and what's not.The crappy brands just go out of business.
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Please contact your Senators. Use the following statement:

I am writing you over my concern about the new bill recently introduced: Dietary Supplements Labeling Act. I find this bill troubling in many regards and redundant. The bills main points are already being used by the Dietary Supplement Industry, such as lot numbers on bottles and the allowance of certain ingredients. The Certified Good Manufacturing requirements in place and the DSHEA Act as well as the NDI(New Dietary Ingredient) requirements already thoroughly regulate the industry. Is the industry perfect, of course not as no industry is. The new legislation would put needless red tape in place and bog down an industry that despite the recession has been steadily growing. In these troubling economic times I feel the last thing we need is to stifle growth of one of the few strong home grown job supplying industries. I thank you for your time as I know you are a very busy person. Have a great day.
 
Contact your senators and send them the following:

I am writing you over my concern about the new bill recently introduced: Dietary Supplements Labeling Act. I find this bill troubling in many regards and redundant. The bills main points are already being used by the Dietary Supplement Industry, such as lot numbers on bottles and the allowance of certain ingredients. The Certified Good Manufacturing requirements in place and the DSHEA Act as well as the NDI(New Dietary Ingredient) requirements already thoroughly regulate the industry. Is the industry perfect, of course not as no industry is. The new legislation would put needless red tape in place and bog down an industry that despite the recession has been steadily growing. In these troubling economic times I feel the last thing we need is to stifle growth of one of the few strong home grown job supplying industries. I thank you for your time as I know you are a very busy person. Have a great day.
 
All the regulations in all the wrong places. Stupid, and not thought out at all. Its really that simple.
 
there's plenty of websites out there that can draft formal petitions and such. The signatures are all electronically tabulated.
 
This is correct.

This is really an attempt to stop steroid production in the supplement industry though since companies are creating new ones every day and sticking enough supplemental ingredients in there with them to call it a "supplement". Either way, the manufacturers are only responding to demand. I say let consumers choose whether or not they want to take a risk with a prohormone..just like they often choose to take the risks associated with smoking and drinking. I see hypocrisy left and right when it comes to supplements, steroids and controlled substances. Non of the laws deter anyone from doing or taking what they desire.

It only pisses us off, really.

Plus, what will likely happen is that the supplement companies will make offers or perhaps % earnings to pay the FDA off and let them put stuff on the market anyways. At the end of the day, money is the only thing that talks in government regulation.
 
Registration means pre-approval of ingredients and dosages as for OTC drugs. It might grandfather ingredients but lock the combinations.

The largest class of FDA warnings are for herbal products with drug ingredients imported from the far east and sold over web or in oriental stores. They come from foreign-owned shell companies with minimal U.S. assets. FDA enforcement is like netting smoke.

Next are recreational drugs sold as "bath salts" that are also produced in small runs to be sold in head shops and convenience stores. There are no real companies behind the multitude of producers. FDA enforcement is like netting invisible smoke.

The FDA needs no additional authority against either but would never receive sufficient budget.

Durbin's bill would almost certainly ban steroidal products from main-stream supplement companies. Shell companies and non-companies would fill the vacuum with less dependable and less safe clones.

I cannot agree with the characterization of Rand Paul whose opposition relates to budget. Any claim that he "stands up for freedom" is denied by his position on contraception and abortion and his support for the "global gag rule" that prohibits talking about either. How is it ever good to "thank god" for our supposedly secular government?
 
We need more congressmen like Ron and Rand Paul, truly looking out for the best interest of the people; following the constitution, not short term monetary gain.
 
Fck the FDA!
First get us food with no poison in them!
Second leave our supplements alone.
Third! LEGALIZE IT!
 
Unfortunately we will never know the full story but I worked in politics for a few years. I guarantee money was passed down from Lobbyists somewhere. This law sounds like a watered down version of something else.
 
I guarantee lobbyists watered down a former version of this bill by giving money to the law makers. Lobbying and law making is the most unfortunate aspect of our government workings.
 
Everyone post this on their facebook and twitter along with the email and phone numbers of their state officials. These guys are getting ready for the upcoming elections, they will listen.

Please contact your Senators. Use the following statement:

I am writing you over my concern about the new bill recently introduced: Dietary Supplements Labeling Act. I find this bill troubling in many regards and redundant. The bills main points are already being used by the Dietary Supplement Industry, such as lot numbers on bottles and the allowance of certain ingredients. The Certified Good Manufacturing requirements in place and the DSHEA Act as well as the NDI requirements already thoroughly regulate the industry. Manufactures understand that producing safe and high quality products are the only road to success in this current market. This new legislation would put needlessly bog down an industry that despite the recession has been steadily growing. In these troubling economic times, the last thing we need is to stifle the growth of one of the few strong domestic job supplying industries. If this Act is past, it would cost thousands of American jobs state wide. I thank you for your time, your people are depending on you.

(I barrowed most of this from BigFlex0's post, Thanks BigFlex0!)
 
bcruder said:
Registration means pre-approval of ingredients and dosages as for OTC drugs. It might grandfather ingredients but lock the combinations.

The largest class of FDA warnings are for herbal products with drug ingredients imported from the far east and sold over web or in oriental stores. They come from foreign-owned shell companies with minimal U.S. assets. FDA enforcement is like netting smoke.

Next are recreational drugs sold as "bath salts" that are also produced in small runs to be sold in head shops and convenience stores. There are no real companies behind the multitude of producers. FDA enforcement is like netting invisible smoke.

The FDA needs no additional authority against either but would never receive sufficient budget.

Durbin's bill would almost certainly ban steroidal products from main-stream supplement companies. Shell companies and non-companies would fill the vacuum with less dependable and less safe clones.

I cannot agree with the characterization of Rand Paul whose opposition relates to budget. Any claim that he "stands up for freedom" is denied by his position on contraception and abortion and his support for the "global gag rule" that prohibits talking about either. How is it ever good to "thank god" for our supposedly secular government?
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I thought you were doing good until that last paragraph.

I resent the ignorance of the statement "Any claim that he "stands up for freedom" is denied by his position on contraception and abortion and his support for the "global gag rule" that prohibits talking about either". We could easily argue that aborted infants are having their freedoms stripped from them, too. So I wouldn't go there if I were you. It's an endless debate and at the end of the day you just either need to 1) stop caring about it or 2) have a heart change.

If you knew anything about our Constitution, you'd know that any one man cannot and will not ever amount to anything as far as legislative influence in our country. What I am saying is, you don't have to worry about the Paul's points of view on personal choices. That's what conservatives (all three parties) have been trying to tell all the other numbnuts for years! These petty issues like abortion and contraception are just ways to sidetrack the public from what they really need to focus on. They dont matter at all from a federal standpoint. Let states on local governments work those things out since populations within states and counties tend to share similar view points on morals. End of story.

The government is NOT in place to define morals. That is something every single person is born with. The Paul's understand that "globally gagging" the topic is not to gag private conversation about it but rather to shut the mouths of politicians from using the issue to side track the country! And another thing, do you really think that you're gonna find someone that you agree with on 100% of the issues? Just because you can't agree with him on a few things doesn't make him unworthy of following. Have some hope for Goodness sake.
 
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