Re: FDA bill--More imminent threats at hand
This docket does deserve concern, however there is a more urgent matter which is bill S1082 (FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act), the FDA/Big Pharma backed legislation that would gut DSHEA (the law that allows us to have harmless yet effective nutritional and dietary supplements) among other things. Attempts are being made to amend the bill, but pressure is needed from the public to kill the legislation with it's current language. Read from John Hammell of the International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF):
IN A NUTSHELL- WHATS BAD ABOUT THIS BILL & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Its a trojan horse bill that PRETENDS to address SAFETY ISSUES, while in REALITY it puts us all far more at risk of being harmed by dangerous biological drugs that have had little or no safety testing and INCREDIBLY it even turns the FDA itself into a DRUG COMPANY!
It contains specific language that shreds DSHEA, and unfortunately the bill is GUARAN-DAMN-TEED to come to a vote on the Floor of the Senate because it renews the Prescription Drug User Fee Act- (which expires this year.)
Heres what Richards has to say about this: PDUFA allows Big Pharma to pay the FDA fees to speed the approval of its drugs. The new Kennedy bill will increase these FDA bribes to 380 million dollars in 2008, well over 50% of the FDA budget for new drug approvals. This is like paying the mob for protection. Kennedy, by replacing the existing PDUFA law with this new bill (S1082), is ensuring that his twisted legislation is the one that will be put before the Senate for a vote.
See this excerpt from Byron's article: "It is astonishing that the FDA will now manage a full scale business activity that uses a “non profit” foundation as a shield to avoid international patent problems, protect proprietary rights of its commercial drug-development enterprise, and massively expands FDA regulatory powers to quickly remove anything from the market that is competition to its own products and licensing agreements." He goes on to say that this Drug company located inside FDA would be called the "Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration"
(Our tax dollars would be used to create an actual DRUG COMPANY inside the FDA that would aggressively ATTACK any products that interfere with its PROFITS! This is the worst damn thing I've EVER seen in my 18 years of fighting these bastards!
HOW THIS TERRIBLE BILL WOULD TOTALLY SCUTTLE DSHEA
In Byron's words: "Furthermore, the new bill seeks to allow a massive expanse of FDA regulatory power through this new foundation. For example, on pages 106-107 the bill states:
“The purpose of the Foundation is to advance the mission of the Food and Drug Administration to modernize medical, veterinary, food, food ingredient, and cosmetic product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance product safety….The Foundation shall [take] into consideration the Critical Path reports and priorities published by the Food and Drug Administration, identify unmet needs in the development, manufacture, and evaluation of the safety and effectiveness, including post approval, of devices, including diagnostics, biologics, and drugs, and the safety of food, food ingredients, and cosmetics.”
Through this foundation the FDA is seeking broad new regulatory power that it currently does not possess. This will include the authority to attack any dietary supplement (which are food ingredients) as unsafe based on its use of “Critical Path” technology. This means the FDA will use proteomics (the advanced study of proteins in biological systems) to assess changes in biomarkers (the change in the state of a protein at the molecular level) in order to establish whatever it wants to consider as a risk. The FDA can slant this technology, based on their own personal opinions, to make anything they want appear as a risk – including your favorite dietary supplements that you use to stay healthy.
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