I need you all to spring into IMMEDIATE MOTION- THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Norm Singleton in Congressman Paul's office informs us that D-Day is
Tomorrow Wednesday November 6th- the Senate will vote on S.3546/
HR6168 Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer
Protection Act, and it could also be slammed through the House at
high speed before the lame duck ends Friday- without any debate or
hearings of any kind, even though its opposed by a substantial
segment* of the supplement industry and by millions of consumers.

[* Nature's Plus, Solgar, Nutraceutical,Life Extension Foundation,
Wellness Resources, Vitamin Research Products and many other small
vitamin companies totally OPPOSE the NPA (formerly NNFA) Party Line
on this bill.]

The moment of TRUTH is at hand. Will tomorrow be D-DAY for the
Dietary Supplement Industry, or will it be a day in which the
American people stand up and ROAR with righteous indignation and so
NO TO S.3546/HR 6168?


WHAT YOU MUST DO & WHY:



1. Read the letter below to House Majority Leader Boehner
(pronounced "Bayner")



2. Call the following key members via the Capital Switchboard and
either use your own words or use the phone script below:



HASTERT, BOEHNER ("BAYNER"), PELOSI- (Call via Capital Switchboard
202-225-3121. Its ok to call after hours and leave mssgs in the voice
mail of each office, the switchboard is manned 24/7 for that purpose
to put your call through.



WHAT TO SAY:



"A large sector of the Dietary Supplement industry including Solgar,
Nutraceutical Corp, Nature's Plus, Life Extension Foundation,
Wellness Resources and many other companies oppose S.S.3546/ HR6168
Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act.
This legislation has nothing in it to determine causality of an
Adverse event. Safe dietary supplements would be wrongly blamed for
problems actually caused by pharmaceutical drugs taken concurrently
with one or more dietary supplements- and there would be no medical
or scientific review required by FDA before they could release the
flawed "data" released by this witch hunt. This would be a trial
lawyers dream, but its not good government and it would do nothing to
prot ect the public health. There must be hearings on this
legislation, and there must be changes made to its language before it
would actually serve its intended purpose. Do not ram it through on
us during the lame duck- if you do, you will enrage the millions of
dietary supplements who flooded congress with more mail during the
campaign to pass DSHEA than Congress ever received in its history on
ANY issue."



Send this by email or fax to Boehner, Pelosi, Hastert + your own
congressman and Senators

Donations urgently needed by IAHF to send me back to DC for more
work. If this doesn't go through during the lame duck, I'll really
need to get back during the next congress (in January) not only about
this, but also about the FDA's Trilateral Cooperation Charter.

Donations can be sent to IAHF 556 Boundary Bay Rd. Point Roberts WA
98281



Dear Majority Leader Boehner, (Pronounced "Bayner")

There is currently legislation pending in Congress (S. 3546/ H.R
6168) that would create a mandatory adverse event reporting (AER)
system at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for dietary
supplements (i.e. vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, etc.). Although
this legislation has been characterized by some as a "compromise
bill" that has been agreed to by the industry, that characterization
is absolutely not true. A significant representation of our multi-
billion dollar industry has voiced significant concerns opposing this
big government, trial lawyer friendly legislation. I wanted you to
know that our company, and its thousands of distributors and
retailers in your district and throughout this nation, strenuously
oppose S. 3546 and H.R. 6168. Even at this late date, the AER bill
has not passed the Senate. We hear that it is to be passed out of
the Senate without debate, then slipped through the House at the last
date, WITHOUT A COMMITTEE HEARING, and forced on our industry and
millions of consumers. We urge you to join us and oppose this last
minute legislation. The AER bill's true goal is to expand
government, spend millions of taxpayer dollars, cost American
industry millions of dollars to comply with no clear goal of what may
or may not be accomplished, and finally, needlessly diminish consumer
choice. The AER bill imposes a significant and unjustified lay er of
bureaucracy that neither the FDA, the public, nor supplement industry
has requested or been demonstrated to be scientifically or factually
needed or justified. This effort is simply and plainly an attempt by
the primarily Democratic Party segment of the House and Senate that
want big government regulation and control over the benign industry
of dietary supplements. Vitamins and herbal remedies do not present
a medical, scientific or regulatory threat to the health of the
millions of Americans that take them on a daily basis. We plead for
your support to oppose this horrible legislation. The existing
reporting system (FDA's MedWatch Program) allows medical
professionals an opportunity to direct complaints involving
prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, dietary sup plements and
other food products to FDA through the MedWatch program. The pending
AER bill replaces this with a burdensome and punitive bureaucratic
process on thousands of manufacturers, tens of thousands of
distributors and hundreds of thousands of retailers (such as Whole
Food Markets or your neighborhood health food store) to make medical
decisions of whether an "adverse event" has occurred or not. This
bill mandates no medical or scientific review by the FDA. Clearly,
this effort is solely by those that favor big government regulation
first, trial lawyers second, and science and facts only a distant
third. At the very least, the bill should be amended to include a
medical review process to determine causation before FDA releases
these reports.& nbsp; We have been working closely with Chairman
Barton and his staff, as well as other members of the Health
Subcommittee over the last several months on improving the
legislation to best meet its stated goal of consumer protection.
Unfortunately, time has nearly run out on the 109th Congress and
Chairman Barton has not held a hearing and mark-up of this bill in
the Energy and Commerce Committee as was expected. Had a hearing
been held, that committee would have heard loudly from the
manufacturers, distributors, retailers and consumers of dietary
supplements that strongly oppose the bill in its current form. As
has been rumored, we are very concerned about this legislation being
brought to the floor next week without the benefit of a hearing and
mark-up in either chamber of Congress.&nb sp; We are especially
worried that the bill would be heard on the suspension calendar
without the possibility of floor amendments being offered. The far-
reaching effects of this bill and its lack of consensus warrant full
consideration of its issues in the 110th Congress. We respectfully
and humbly request that you oppose consideration of S. 3546 and H.R.
6168 in the House in the closing days of the 109th Congress. Thank
you for your consideration of this most important matter. Thank you
for you proven leadership and impeccable service to our nation.
Sincerely, For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA http://www.iahf.com jham@...
800-333-2553 N.America 360-945-0352 World