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Posted March 27, 2013
FDA is planning to loosen guidelines in approving new treatments for Alzheimer’s drugs. Companies would no longer have to show that the drugs improved daily, real-world functioning (such as dressing, feeding, etc.), which was an earlier requirement. Read more and TAEK ACTION. Tell the FDA if they’re going to allow Alzheimer’s drugs to be approved without being able to prove their effectiveness, they need to follow the same standards for food and supplements that treat Alzheimer’s..
Posted March 22nd, 2012.
Recently, a law has been snuck into the Agriculture Appropriations bill – which will be approved by March 27th – which would destroy the separation of powers by stripping courts of the power to challenge genetically modified foods. Read more.
Posted March 20, 2013
Last week, the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA) sent an alert about a terrible biotech rider attached to the big must-pass Appropriations bill that would let GMO crops be planted even when a court has ordered a stop. The Senate rejected this provision in the past—but now they may be accepting it as part of some back-room deal that was struck. Read more and tell Congress to remove the biotech rider from the appropriations funding bil (H.R. 933).
Posted March 20, 2013
One bill (S. 3650 and A. 4700) would give the health commissioner the power to ban any supplement deemed “harmful,” no matter how tiny the risk. The second NY bill (SB4151) would require sport supplement manufacturers and distributors to give customers, with every sports supplement sold, a pamphlet disclosing if the product has been banned by certain sports leagues, anti-doping agenices, and if it has any known negative adverse effects or known herb–drug interactions. Read more and Take Action to urge your legislators to oppose both bills. Note: If you do not live in NY, bur have friends, family or colleagues who do, please forward this Action Alert to them.
Posted March 15, 2013
There is an urgent need for laws requiring the labeling of foods containing or produced with genetically modified organisms. Read more.
Posted March 14, 2013
Tell Your Senator to Support the Tester Amendment and Dump the Biotech Industry Earmark! Read more.
Posted March 13, 2013
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) are petitioning the FDA to let them remove any reference to non-nutritive sweeteners, mainly aspartame, from milk labels in school lunches. Read more and TAKE ACTION to tell the FDA to OPPOSE this petition.
Posted March 13, 2013
Are companies now responsible for customer comments on social media pages, an increasingly important form of communication and interaction between companies and the public? If a company stops allowing customer comments that might get it in hot water with the FDA, then the agency has censored consumer speech. Read more and TAKE ACTION to tell the FDA to STOP trying to censor consumer free speech.
Posted March 6, 2013
Worse, it continues its decades-long vendetta against medical giant Jonathan Wright, MD. The Medical Quality Assurance Commission (MQAC) has now scheduled a three-day hearing March 18–20. This famous doctor’s license to practice medicine in Washington state will be at stake. Read more and TAKE ACTION. Note: If you cannot take action because you do not live in the state of Washington, please email this action request to any family, friends and colleagues who reside there.
Posted March 6, 2013
An upcoming congressional bill would give dying patients and physicians access to experimental drugs. Read more and TAKE ACTION.