Senator John McCain has introduced S. 3002,
the Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA).
This bill will . . .
* control your ability to use vitamins,
* for the benefit of the major sports leagues
The following welfare queens endorsed McCain's bill within hours of its introduction . . .
* The National Football League
* The National Basketball Association
* Major League Baseball
* National Hockey League
* The NCAA
* The Professional Golf Association
* The U.S. Olympic Committee
Nearly all of these entities receive tax funding to build the stadiums they play in. Now they want to make your supplements more expensive so that none of their rich athletes will accidentally ingest anything banned by league rules. But you can take action to kill this bill.
It's crucial to understand that most vitamins and supplements aren't drugs. Your food that grows in the ground, or on the hoof, is full of these substances. That's one reason why previous government attempts to label these nutritional supplements as drugs, and regulate them, have met with fierce public opposition. Indeed . . .
Prior to the Internet, one such government power grab generated what may have been the biggest barrage of letters to Congress in American history. That power grab failed, because public pressure works!
Instead of regulating supplements Congress passed the
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 DSHEA).
That law states that most nutritional substances do not require FDA pre-approval before going to market, and cannot be re-classified as drugs.
Now, John McCain seeks to repeal key provisions of the DSHEA. Yet
in his remarks introducing S.3002 . . .
* he provides no evidence that the relatively free-market approach of the DHSEA has failed
* he cites no evidence that dietary supplements, consumed by 150 million Americans, are unsafe or a threat to public health
And the DSSA is completely unnecessary to address the (minor) steroid problem. In fact, the problems McCain does cite were already addressed by current law, which has not been competently enforced by the FDA!
* the FDA already has authority to ban any substance containing anabolic steroids
* and products are already required to list all their ingredients
To make matters worse, ". . . the bill
reverses common law, which assumes all is legal unless restricted. DSSA would allow only what is permitted to be legal."
The DSSA is nothing but regulatory "corporate welfare" for major sports leagues (and multi-national drug companies). It will put the FDA in the business of helping the NFL, Major League Baseball, etc. enforce their substance policies -- at your expense.
This bill will deny you freedom of choice, place expensive burdens on small enterprises, and do nothing to protect your health. It will actually make you less healthy, by causing nutritional substances to be less available and more expensive.
Please use these talking points to tell your Representative and your two Senators to oppose S. 3002, John McCain's Dietary Supplement Safety Act.
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