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Posted February 1, 2012
Ask your senator or representative to make a one-minute floor speech opposing the FDA’s plan to sweep many supplements off the shelf and make the ones that survive much more expensive. Urge them, just as Senators Harkin and Hatch did, to ask the FDA to retract the guidance altogether and start over. Remind them that the NDI draft guidance is bad for the economy and costs American jobs. Read more and Take Action.
Posted February 1, 2012
Dow Chemical is currently requesting unprecedented approval from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to market a genetically engineered (GE) version of corn that is resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of the highly toxic Agent Orange. Tell USDA To Do Its Job And Reject 2,4-D Resistant GE Corn! Read more and Take Action.
Posted February 1, 2012
Dioxin, of the Agent Orange infamy, is the most toxic compound synthesized by man, yet it is still spewing from U.S. industries. Dioxin pollution rose 10% in 2010. Read more.
The FDA’s New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) Guidance, if enforced as written, could remove trusted dietary supplements from the marketplace and significantly increase the prices of the remaining products. Please join us in asking Congress to demand that the FDA not use appropriated funding in the enforcement of new dietary ingredients (NDIs) until this Guidance is withdrawn or drastically modified to comply with Congressional intent.
Click on either or both of the following links to learn more and sign an online petition to Congress:
Citizens for Health Petition to Save Our Supplements and Demand the FDA Withdraw the NDI Draft Guidance
Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) Petition to Tell Congress and the FDA That the Draft Guidance on NDIs is Bad for Consumers
Thank you for helping preserve our access to dietary supplements.
Posted January 25, 2012
Coloradio HB1060 would give the American Dietetic Association (ADA) control over who can provide nutrition services and what information is provided. Read more about HB1060. Send a message to legislators asking them to OPPOSE this bill.
Posted January 25, 2012
Congress wants to limit your access to research—even though your tax dollars paid for it. If this bill passes, you’ll learn only what mainstream medicine wishes you to know. Read more and Take Action.
Posted January 19, 2012
The ADA is starting 2012 on the attack by introducing bills in four states and preparing for more—trying to sew up a legally enforced national monopoly before opposition can mount. If you reside in California, Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, or West Virginia, please respond to the Action Alert for your state. Read more and Take Action.
Posted January 19, 2012
A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that less than half of all NIH-funded clinical drug trials were published in a medical journal within two and a half years of the trial’s completion—with fully one-third of trial results remaining unpublished even four years after the trial. Why? Because the drug manufacturers didn’t like the data. Join the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA) in petitioning Congress to overhaul the FDA Read more and Take Action.
Posted January 13, 2012
It’s time to bring alternative practitioners out of the shadows in Wisconsin. We need your help to pass Wisconsin Senate Bill 280. Without it, any unlicensed person who does any type of healing act in Wisconsin could be in technical violation of medical or other licensing laws. Read more and Take Action.
Posted December 28, 2011
Senators Tom Harkin (Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (Utah) have written to FDA expressing “significant concern” regarding the draft New Dietary Ingredient notification guidance. The principle authors of DSHEA urge FDA to “withdraw the guidance and start the process of drafting a new one,” and have directed FDA to meet with them in January to discuss these concerns in more detail. View senate letter.