…providing further evidence that the agency is trying to engineer a ban on affordable CBD to protect drug industry profits. Action Alert! As the evidence of CBD’s myriad health benefits continues to pile up, it increasingly looks to us like the FDA is preparing to issue a ban on CBD supplements. We must support bills in Congress that take the issue out of the FDA’s hands by allowing the sale of CBD in supplement form. Read more.
Get Informed on U.S. Legislation That Could Restrict Your Health Freedom
LaHood, Boyle, Curtis, Gottheimer Introduce Legislation to Allow Dietary Supplements to be Covered Under Flex/Health Spending Accounts
U.S. Representatives Darin LaHood (IL-16), Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), John Curtis (UT-03), and Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) today introduced the Dietary Supplements Access Act, which will promote Americans’ ability to make personal healthcare decisions, support healthy lifestyles by modernizing the availability and coverage of vitamins and minerals, and recognize the valuable role nutritional supplements play in helping to achieve better health outcomes and promote cost savings. Read more.
FDA’s Lab Test Power-Grab Continues
More FDA protectionism that works against patient interests. Action Alert! The FDA has announced its intent to issue a proposed rule this coming August that would extend the agency’s power over laboratory developed tests (LDTs). This is a critical threat, as LDTs are crucial tools used in personalized medicine because labs can create custom diagnostic tests for all sorts of health conditions. Read more.
Don’t Let Telecom Ignore Local Rights!
Americans are waking up to the assault of constant 24/7 exposure to radio frequency radiation (RFR) from wireless technology installed and being installed in our homes, cars, streets, local businesses, schools, and communities without our informed consent. While many property owners would prefer to restrict wireless facility expansion in residential neighborhoods, past and current legislation has made that extremely difficult for localities. In Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill (Public Law No: 117-58), Big Telecom received $65 billion towards the proliferation of unsafe and untested 5G (and beyond) technology without a single mention of safety precautions or even any monitoring of the increase in radiation levels within communities.[1] Read more.
All 4 Vitamin D
While the summer sun still shines, we need your help NOW to expand access to vitamin D supplements so they reach those Americans who need it most when the days get shorter! Action Alert! The All 4 Vitamin D campaign is calling for Congress to amend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to include vitamin D3 dietary supplements as part of SNAP recipients’ benefits. Not only would this improve the health of millions of Americans, it would provide official and very rare recognition from Congress of the essential role that supplements like vitamin D have to play in improving public health. Let’s join others in our community in supporting this important work. Read more.
California Proposes to Hijack Regenerative Agriculture
California has unilaterally decided to define Regenerative Agriculture. It is a subnational government with no formal role in the Regenerative Agriculture movement. It has a state government with entrenched bureaucracies, such as The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), that regulate and condone some of the world’s worst excesses in industrial-scale Degenerative Agriculture on the planet. Read more.
Hormone Replacement Therapy in Jeopardy
The screws continue to tighten on compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (cBHRT), the future of which is in peril. We need your help to support a US Senate sign-on letter telling the FDA NOT to limit access to these treatments. Action Alert! A letter being circulated in the Senate by US Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) urges the FDA to enact policies that allow patients to continue using compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (cBHRT). Read more.
Free Speech Victory! Court Pushes Back Against Censors
A federal judge has found that the Biden Administration likely violated the First Amendment by working with major social media companies to censor speech it didn’t like. Action Alert! U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction barring federal officials and agencies, including the Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health, the Justice Department, and the FBI, from having any contact with social media firms for the purpose of discouraging or removing First Amendment-protected speech. Read more.
First CRISPR-edited Salad Hits the U.S. Market
Food start-up Pairwise made history in May with the launch of its Purple Power Baby Greens Blend, the first genome-edited product using CRISPR technology sold in the United States. A mix of purple and green mustard greens, the new salad blend was gene-edited to taste less bitter and more like lettuce. Read more.
Report Release: Why Are PFAS in my Kale?
The federal government doesn’t seem to think PFAS contamination of our food supply is a concern, but independent testing from ANH-USA tells a different story. We need to act now to ban PFAS. Action Alert! Independent testing conducted by ANH-USA has found kale samples purchased at grocery stores across the US to be contaminated with dangerous PFAS chemicals. ANH’s report builds on an increasing body of evidence telling us that the pervasive contamination of our world with PFAS chemicals is producing a public health disaster. Read more.