"Anti-Supplement" Language Hidden in Reform Bill

Recently passed in the House of Representatives, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173), includes language inserted by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), which goes beyond the bill’s true goal, finance reform. According to the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA), “this language could be used for an end run around the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), the legislation that governs dietary supplement regulation by the FDA.”

ANH-USA believes the language inserted by Congressman Waxman “gives the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) important new powers that could be used to circumvent key supplement protections in DSHEA [Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994]….We know that the FTC would like to use such powers to impose new and crippling requirements on supplement companies.”  Such “crippling requirements,” according to the ANH, include financially draining trials before making any product claims, which would essentially turn the supplement industry into the drug industry, and create damaging affects to companies such as Sunrider.

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