The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA), which is a misleading title because it purports that there are lethal problems associated with dietary supplements. The reality is the FDA has all the power it needs now to protect the public against supplements that are spiked with prescription drugs, or otherwise adulterated.
The Dietary Supplement Safety Act will give the FDA discretionary authority to ban any supplement it chooses. What some have yet to comprehend is the horrific way the FDA has historically abused powers Congress bestows them.
By way of example, we at Life Extension were subjected to a rigorous inspection by the FDA in year 2003. The FDA investigator spent an inordinate amount of time reviewing our eye drop products. When we asked why out of all our products the eye drops were being so heavily scrutinized, the response was “because I can.”
What this FDA agent was telling us was that since the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Actof 1994 (DSHEA), the FDA’s power to regulate dietary supplements was limited. This act
did not apply to eye drops. The result was that our statements about eye drop products could be censored, and since the FDA had the power to do it, they used it.
Until you’ve been on the front line, it is difficult to imagine the egregious ways that government agencies abuse theirpowers.
I was in a Walgreens last week picking up some pictures, when a recorded voice came on to the store’s speaker system announcing the heart healthy benefits of fish oil and CoQ10.
This brought a flashback to the year 1987 when FDA agents stormed Life Extension’s premises and seized these supplements, along with a brochure that described how they could help protect against heart attack.
read the full story here http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Dont-Give-FDA-More-Power-to-Ban-Our-Supplements.htm
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