WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION

ACTION ALERT
July 25, 2005

TAKE ACTION TO DEFEAT HR 3156, LIMITING AVAILABILITY OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS

We need your help to put the brakes on a bad bill in the U.S. House of
Representatives. H.R. 3156, otherwise known as the Dietary Supplement Access and
Awareness Act, would give the FDA authority to ban virtually any herb or
specialty product from the market if it failed to pass an arbitrary risk/benefit
analysis.

H.R. 3156 threatens to fundamentally alter DSHEA (the Dietary Supplement Health
& Education Act.) DSHEA allows you to purchase dietary supplements while giving
the Food and Drug Administration authority to remove unsafe products from the
market.

H.R. 3156 would hold dietary supplements to a higher standard than riskier food
additives and over-the-counter drugs. It proposes onerous and unnecessary
reporting requirements that will increase the cost of your medicinal herbs
without providing a safer product. It also establishes a troubling risk analysis
process that could remove any dietary supplement even if there is no proof of
actual harm.

According to the language of H.R. 3156, an herb should be removed from the
market if there is any chance of a so-called risk unless "sufficient" health
benefits are proved to the FDA's satisfaction. This approach ignores the
bio-individuality of individuals and is an impossible standard for most
supplement manufacturers to meet; the science in this area receives less than 1%
of U.S. research funding.

This bill is unacceptable and if allowed to progress will severely undermine
your health rights. Take action today! And tell your friends. Together, we can
put the brakes on this bill that is bad for health, bad for you, and bad for the
nation's pocketbook.

Please go to the following link to ask your Congressperson to vote NO on this
bill:
http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=371722\
67&u=339618

Thank you.

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Bill Sanda
Executive Director
Weston A. Price Foundation
bsanda@...

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