Senate bill 3767 seeks to put dietary supplement makers in prison for ten years (for telling the tru

Beware of Senate bill 3767, the so-called Food Safety Accountability Act. This dangerous legislation, if passed, would criminalize nutritional supplement manufacturers who tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of their products. Based on language in the bill, health proponents who sell supplements could be criminalized and convicted to ten years in prison.

The Life Extension Foundation recently published an important warning piece about this, complete with some call to action items for which we need your help.

Here's what was written by William Faloon and published at LEF (www.lef.org...). I agree with every word written here and urge you to read this and take this message seriously, then do your part to oppose this new legislative tyranny that seeks to criminalize dietary supplement manufacturers.

Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.

The Senate is debating a bill that will enable the FDA to put vitamin supplement makers in jail for ten years if they cite findings from peer-reviewed published scientific studies on the label of their dietary supplements or their web site.

(full article her)
www.naturalnews.com...

Codex Alimentareus at work again. This is so wrong on so many levels.

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The first link in your OP died... This is what is there now:

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lets try again

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and for the first link

www.lef.org...

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I'm sorry, but the bill (as I've read it over, I might have missed something in the tiny thing) seems to relate directly to fraudulent claims. As it stands right now the 'natural dietary supplement' market is possibly the most unregulated racket in America. They can put anything in a bottle and make any claim without any consequences (so long as they aren't outwardly poisonous).

In fact, here's the bill

And here's the whole text:

111th CONGRESS
2d Session

S. 3767
To establish appropriate criminal penalties for certain knowing violations relating to food that is misbranded or adulterated.


IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 13, 2010

Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, and Mr. FRANKEN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary


A BILL
To establish appropriate criminal penalties for certain knowing violations relating to food that is misbranded or adulterated.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Food Safety Accountability Act of 2010'.
SEC. 2. CRIMINAL PENALTIES.

(a) In General- Chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`Sec. 1041. Misbranded and adulterated food

`(a) In General- It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly--
`(1) introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce any food that is adulterated or misbranded; or
`(2) adulterate or misbrand any food in interstate commerce.
`(b) Penalty- Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.'.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendment- The table of sections for chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
`1041. Misbranded and adulterated food.'.

Now how does this relate to people making legitimate claims? This is just the new age movement realizing that they can't keep pulling claims from thin air without the government stepping in to shut them down.

The way I read it the only people who have anything to fear from that bill are the people who have been selling crap that does nothing but claim it does everything. I imagine this will be the death of the make your uh... unit bigger industry.

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Because clearly, when the government has been in collusion with the pharmaceutical industry for years, they have your best health interests in mind.

What brilliant reasoning.