Emergency: FDA & USDA attacking foods, supplements

I am reproducing the introduction to the Emergency Health Freedom eAlert distributed by Dr Rima Laibow and Natural Solutions Foundation earlier this evening. The link to the entire eblast is:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=1445

"ADMINISTRATION USING FDA, USDA TO FORCE FEED INDUSTRIAL TOXINS - GMOs, DRUG CROPS/ANIMALS - KILL SUPPLEMENTS

"PLEASE FORWARD AS WIDELY AS YOU CAN
Protect Your Health and Your Health Freedom

"Urgent Action Alerts In This Issue
Can You Afford Not to Take These Actions?"

~ 5 DAYS LEFT TO PROTECT SUPPLEMENTS FROM ILLEGAL FDA ATTACK

FDA has "...come up with another ploy to make it illegal to ship supplements across state lines IF THERE HAVE BEEN ANY PUBLISHED HEALTH STUDIES ABOUT ANY INGREDIENT! And we have only 5 days to stop them...."

Action step:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26269

~3 DAYS LEFT TO STOP USDA FROM SURRENDERING ALL OVERSIGHT TO BIOTECH CORPORATIONS

Original FDA announcement:
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/E8-17356.pdf

"...USDA has released a proposed rule gutting any meaningful oversight of GMO (genetically engineered) crops and allowing biotech companies to grow food crops engineered to produce drugs and industrial chemicals without protection for conventional or organic crops..."

Action Step:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26267

Mouse warriors do make a difference!

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PS - Here is what we posted to FDA online comments:
Comment tracking number is 807b59c0 FDA Docket No. FDA-2008-N-0389

Natural Solutions Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consumer group organized as an exempt entity in the United States (State of Nevada) and in several other countries. Our primary web site is www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and we have over 185,000 supporters, primarily Americans.

These comments address the third question raised by FDA in its call for comments, namely how the Section 301(11) restrictions on commerce might apply to dietary supplements, thereby restricting consumer choice.

National Solutions Foundation was one of the institutions that helped educate members of Congress and other decision makers regarding the relationship of Dietary Supplements regulated under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) to the enhanced authority granted FDA by Congress in the 2007 Food and Drug Act Amendments.

Due to determined public expression, including messages to Congress by hundreds of thousands of citizens, section 1011 of the Act was included, the Rule of Construction that states, "Nothing in this title (or an amendment made by this title) shall be construed to affect-- (1) the regulation of dietary supplements under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-417)"

The 301(11) restrictions must be interpreted under the exemption for DSHEA products intended by Section 1011. As a result, DSHEA products must be allowed in interstate commerce without interference by the provisions of section 301(11).

However, the same requirement of law does not apply to food products that contain "trace" or more amounts of extraneous hormones, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, irradiation break-down products and other toxins introduced to food during its processing. Such adulterated foods should not be on the market.

In its unseemly reach for more authority to restrict consumer choice in nutrients the FDA seeks to ignore the plain Congressional intent of Section 1011 and the unanimous Congressional intent of DSHEA that Dietary Supplements are foods, deemed safe when used as directed.

In this way, FDA continues to exhibit why it is time for Congress to consider divesting FDA of its food authority. FDA has failed to protect the American food supply and is institutionally incapable of responding constructively to consumer choice in nutrition.

Ralph Fucetola JD
NSF Trustee