Urgent message from the ANH regarding Waxman's FTC supplement attack within The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (HR4173)

Congressman Waxman Slips Obscure Anti-Supplement Measure into Wall St. “Reform” Bill Passed by the House; Please Take Action to Prevent Same Thing Happening in the Senate!

April 27, 2010 - The American public is becoming fed up with “sneak” provisions tacked onto largely unrelated bills that are likely to pass. A glaring recent example was tacking onto the Healthcare bill a complete change to student loans. Often the “sneak” provision is so buried that hardly anyone is aware of it.

The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173), recently passed in the House of Representatives, includes language going far beyond finance inserted by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA). 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.

The Senate is expected to vote on its finance “reform” bill as early as this weekend. We need your help to ensure that it is not amended to include a similar provision going far beyond finance that could be used against supplements. Please take action now. TAKE ACTION

Congressman Waxman is well known as an opponent of the dietary supplement industry. This is somewhat ironic: his district includes Hollywood and presumably many of his closest supporters are health store shoppers and supplement users. Most of these people simply don’t know what Waxman is doing in this area.

This powerful Congressman, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (which includes health as a subcommittee), would appear to want supplements regulated like drugs, a step that would effectively eliminate them. He is determined and has stated: “One enduring truth about Washington is that no issue is ever settled for good.”

ANH-USA has been on alert to see how Waxman would use his committee chairmanship to strike at DSHEA. He is very clever and we knew a covert attack was a possibility.

A direct attack on supplements would take the form of an amendment to DSHEA, since that legislation governs FDA regulation of supplements. In this case, Waxman has left DSHEA alone, and has instead inserted language in the Wall St. “reform” bill that gives the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) important new powers that could be used to circumvent key supplement protections in DSHEA. TAKE ACTION

To see how this would work, let’s see how the FTC operates today. Its chief mission is to combat commercial fraud. It has full authority to pursue companies making fraudulent claims. But the FTC can’t go beyond that, can’t set other regulatory requirements, without advance approval of Congress. The FTC once had this regulatory “rule-making” authority. It lost it in the 1980’s because Congress thought the Agency was abusing it.

At the present time, if the FTC moves against a dietary supplement company for false or misleading advertising, the FTC typically requires the company, as part of a consent decree agreed to by both parties, to back up its claims by undertaking at least two random controlled human trials. This is done on a case-by-case basis and is legal because the targeted company has agreed to it.

If the FTC had general rulemaking authority, which Waxman’s language reinstates, the Agency would be expected to create a new legal requirement for all supplement companies. Such companies would have to perform at least two of these human studies before making any claims for their products.

Why should we care whether supplement companies are required to perform two random controlled human trials for each product? Because such trials take a long time and would be beyond the financial means of most supplement companies. Even if the companies could find the money, the FTC could require more and more costly versions of these studies, or more of these studies. At each stage, fewer supplements would be available, and those available would cost more and more, until they became as costly as drugs. TAKE ACTION

Supplements are not drugs. In most cases, drugs are non-natural and therefore patentable substances. Why patentable? Because no company will spend a billion dollars on studies and FDA approval trials without the monopoly provided by the patent. To insist that supplements be treated like drugs is really to sound the death knell for the supplement industry, something that drug companies would be delighted to see, because they know that supplements are their chief potential competition, are often more effective than drugs, are often less toxic, and are always much less expensive.

Supplements are already regulated by the FDA under DSHEA. If the Waxman provision is included in the final Wall St “reform” bill, the FTC will gain the power to override the limited protections for supplements that already exist under DSHEA. The FDA would still have to respect DSHEA, but the FTC would not be so constrained.

Five unelected FTC commissioners would issue binding regulations in a wide range of areas, including the regulation of dietary supplements. And companies that did not comply with the new FTC rules could effectively be put out of business.

According to renowned constitutional attorney Jonathan Emord, “The provision removing the ban on FTC rulemaking without Congressional preapproval contained in H.R. 4173 invites the very same irresponsible over-regulation of the commercial marketplace that led Congress to enact the ban in the 1980s. FTC has no shortage of power to regulate deceptive advertising; this bill gives it far more discretionary power than it needs, inviting greater abuse and mischief from an agency that suffers virtually no check on its discretion.”

The bottom line is that FTC would be given power to regulate areas they don’t understand, and their first order of business would likely be to regulate supplements, an area far outside their area of expertise.

The Senate Wall St “reform” bill, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (S. 3217), doesn’t contain the Waxman provision yet. But we know that Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) may offer an amendment including Waxman’s language. Please help us stop this. Please take action now to help us maintain access to low cost, high quality supplements. Tell your senators not to support any amendments that give FTC unchecked power to over-regulate areas they don’t understand, including dietary supplements.

Autism Speaks but FDA, Big Pharma don't Listen and Multi-Vitamin Madness

Radio broadcast on Sunday, May 2, 2010 from 1 PM to 3 PM EDT: Ready to kick off a new generation of the United States of Health Talk Radio? Now on GCN! Look out Big Drugged Government!

There is a special place in hell reserved for those who defend the drugs and vaccines of Big Pharma against the freedom of parents to protect their children holistically. Each time pharmaceutically-conflicted regulatory bureaucrats - and the congressmen who have abrogated their authority to them – spout off irrationally about the danger of dietary supplements, they move one step closer to that special place.

Rep. Henry Waxman has at least one foot already there as he sneaks a provision in the Finance Reform Bill to strengthen the FTC's ability to ignore the Dietary Supplement Health and Safety Act (DSHEA).

Henry and his ilk are delusional authoritarians seemingly incapable of shedding their cognitive dissonance about the danger of drugs and safety of supplements. Is it really so difficult to recognize that an FDA-approved death is still a death?

Promoting a culture of life, now on GCNLive.com. Thanks for tuning in!

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Hour One: Autism Speaks but FDA, Big Pharma don't Listen – The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex appears to be losing their propaganda war to convince parents of vaccine safety. Will a PBS Frontline Special save them?

Dr. Rashid Buttar returns for the good guys in the Vaccine Wars. How long can vaccine-makers, regulators and doctors get away with attacking parents who have wakened to realize that injecting toxic medicaments (unsafe for drinking) into children is a bad idea?

Why isn’t the misinformation campaign working any more? Because facts and science are on the side of the Autism community. Solidly. And the fact sheet balance is about to swing even more to the Autism groups next Saturday, May 8th and 9th, 2010 at the www.4dconference.com in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.

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Hour Two: Mutivitamin Madness – How is it possible that studies show people who take multivitamins have higher rates of cancer and shorter lifespans? This is the dirty little secret that you're not supposed to know.

Fortunately, Scott Kennedy returns to shed light on the real way to get your multivitamins – from living food! I eat the sun in food form: Super Sea Veg.

Chris Barr drops by to shed light on the darkness, namely Henry Waxman and the Wall Street Reform Bill. Oh Henry! Did you really drop a poison pill in there so that the FTC can wipe out dietary supplement manufacturers and distributors? Waxman is a whack-job. Here's what you need to do.

Time permitting, look for another Liberty Pulse update with Kurt Wallace.

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Stories to follow:

The Assault on Autistic Children and their Parents... "Parents with Autistic children in the US have come to a rude awakening. They have found that, not only would the US drug industry lie to them, but so will the government agencies...”

Congressman Waxman Slips Obscure Anti-Supplement Measure into Wall St. “Reform” Bill Passed by the House; Please Take Action to Prevent Same Thing Happening in the Senate!

Big Brother to track your medication compliance with electronic transmitters in pills “Get your silicon some other way, please.”

GM Food... Feeding the Hungry or Population Control?

Children's cold, allergy medicine recalled "A voluntary recall has been issued for more than 40 over-the-counter drugs for children, including Tylenol and Motrin, because they don't meet quality standards." "FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg gave a similar recommendation in a statement Saturday, saying, 'we want to be certain that consumers discontinue using these products,' though she called the chance for serious health problems 'remote.'"

Here is this week's Moment of DUH: Study: Pregnant women should get more vitamin D

Activists call foul on KFC bucket campaign "This will keep them (Komen) in business for years. They talk about a cure, but this this partnership will create more breast cancer. And Komen knows this," Barbara Brenner, executive director of Breast Cancer Action.

New cancer treatment raises hope, questions “But even as some cancer patients are celebrating, Provenge's huge $93,000 price tag is raising questions about whether Medicare should pay any price for cancer treatments...”

Regular Flu Vaccine Actually INCREASES Risk of Swine Flu “The first of the studies found the seasonal vaccine to be associated with an increased risk of approximately 68 percent for pH1N1 disease.”

People think 'organic' = fewer calories “Wansink and colleagues found people who ate cookies labeled as "organic" believed their snack contained 40 percent fewer calories than the same cookies without the label.”

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Quick hits from the news with an RSBell perspective, from Henry Waxman to global warming

Quick hits from the news with an RSBell perspective...

Headline: Familiar Players in Health Bill Lobbying "The nation's largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress in hopes of influencing their old bosses and colleagues..."

The revolving door between Congress, FDA and Big PHARMA swings so frequently and so fast that they have taken inner ear disorders to dizzying new heights. While there is temporary euphoria, the problem with dizziness is that you eventually fall out of control and hit hard. The disaster that is monopoly medicine, whether, private, public or an agglomeration of both, has already failed and no amount of fiat money can save it. Medical slavery or health freedom? It really is your choice. You only believe that they took it away from you.

Headline: Health Care Reform Faces Resistance from Republicans, Democrats in Congress "...members of the fiscally conservative "blue-dog" Democrats sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing concern about some of the new taxes proposed to fund health care reform, as well as the shape of a public plan option."

New taxes will only make ALL health care even more expensive. They have NO money. They cannot tax more. The options left are borrowing from China (unless they refuse) or printing more fiat dollars out of thin air. Pelosi is too stupid to know that none of those options even come close to addressing what ails US. If, on the slim chance she is smart enough to know, then she and other members of Congress supporting Obama-care are criminally negligent.

Headline: 5 Risks Linked to Diabetes Medications Like Lantus, Avandia, Actos "Cancer, heart failure, fractures, and eye and liver problems among some diabetes drugs' possible risks..."

What if cinnamon did even one of those things? It would be banned by Henry Waxman yesterday. Drugs do not cure disease, they suppress symptoms while creating even more serious diseases. Why is it that drugs get a pass when considering safety? Because Henry Waxman is addicted to drug money. Over $150,000 every year from Big PHARMA. Can someone in Congress do an intervention for Henry and send him to rehab before he harms one more American with his disgust of dietary supplements? I wonder if Waxman could be charged with a hate crime because of his assault on herbal products?

Headline: ADHD Drugs Proven Absolutely Useless for Children - Plus, They Stunt Growth "Behavioral treatments are going to have much better benefit in the long term," said researcher William Pelham, of the University of Buffalo.

How about changing their diet? Maybe a nutritional supplement or two while Henry Waxman isn't looking?

Headline in the news: Restrict calories, increase life span? Not so easy "A preliminary study of 48 adults showed that overweight people who reduced their caloric intake by 25% for six months significantly lowered their fasting insulin levels and their core body temperatures -- both key trends seen in animals who lived longer as a result of eating less."

Longevity by caloric restriction has more to do with the pancreas and insulin stressors than simply eating less. GTF Chromium may be the key here, but don't tell Henry Waxman.

Headline: U.S. to vaccinate millions against swine flu "School-age children will be a key target population for a pandemic flu vaccine in the fall and may get their shots at school in a mass vaccination campaign not seen since the polio epidemics of the 1950s."

Considering that the 1976 Swine Flu vaccine campaign resulted in scores more death and injury than the flu itself, is there a statute in 2009 that covers attempted genocide on the school kids of America by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius?

Headline: Pigs at risk from people as new flu spreads "The prevention of human-to-pig transmissions should have a high priority in order to avoid involvement of pigs in the epidemiology of this pandemic."

Over 200,000 Americans die every year due to modern medicine. Why isn't the CDC and WHO calling for a vaccination to protect us from the dangers of iatrogenic diseases?

Scary quote of the week: "It has killed more than 400 people globally and likely now infects millions."

Before the CDC begins slaughtering Americans to save the pig, let's do a little 6th grade math. 400 dead out of 6,770,498,877. That does not even rate as a statistically significant number of anything on planet earth. The fact that millions have been infected is actually good news, contrary to the mantra of the WHO. Now millions have acquired natural immunity to the swine super-villain that happens to be weaker than a typical seasonal flu strain. Put your syringe back in its holster, Kathleen Sebelius.

Headline: Swine flu deaths in UK double as country now has third highest number of cases in the world "The creation of Tamiflu vouchers - a key weapon in the Government's fight against the killer flu - could in fact slow the distribution of the antiviral drugs..."

You ever breathe the air in London? This is a toxicological hygiene event. Hope the Brits wake up in time to reject experimental vaccinations come autumn lest they also be conquered by Big PHARMA. Has anyone over there seen the movie V for Vendetta?

Headline: Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance' The 2007 UN conference...report stated there was an “urgent need” for a global tax in order for “damages [from climate change] to be kept from growing to truly catastrophic levels, especially in vulnerable countries of the developing world.”

Gore is a global criminal profiting off of faulty science and feel-good environmentalism. If he really cared about the environment, he would stay home and tend to his own garden. You cannot solve the problem of disputed ecological challenges by institutionalizing bureaucracies planet-wide. It is precisely government regulators that have facilitated and protected polluters. Only restoration of private property rights and local governments willing to defend them can put an end to whatever Al Gore thinks ails the planet. I do not believe he gives a flip about what he calls global warming, as long as he gets global government. His allegiance is to himself. Maybe he can stop climate change on Mars?

"President Obama's health performance his first 100 days" -- Naturally Speaking By Christopher C. Barr

“We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.”

Stirring words delivered by the newly sworn President Obama in his inaugural address.

The focus of science on commerce and industry has too often been with little if any regard for public benefit and safety. This has been exemplified the past decade by arthritic drugs like Vioxx and diabetic drugs like Avandia that each resulted in increased deaths from heart disease.

Countless injuries, extra hospitalizations and even deaths have resulted from blood supplies not properly screened by the American Red Cross. This in spite of numerous and repeated warnings just to follow established and agreed upon safety procedures continually ignored throughout this past decade under the Republican Bush administration the same as during the decade before under the Democratic Clinton administration.

These are but a few of many instances of science with more emphasis on commercial benefit to industry rather than for public benefit.

Call to arms

The new president has called for public comment in matters regarding health care.

“This year is a golden opportunity as this summer is the 50th anniversary of National Institute of Health researchers discovering a key that I have proven by application,” wrote this columnist to the White House regarding diabetes that is undergoing explosive growth in this nation the past decade. This was part of my response to the call of President Obama for health reform input and with regard to his words to “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care quality and lower its cost”.

“This is easily documentable medically and scientifically in days for some, in weeks for many, and in three months for others,” wrote this columnist in part about my own “health reform work through four decades … at the grass roots level.”

“You could call me a community organizer,” my correspondence noted.

Savings to “the American people more than $100 billion on health care annually” based upon recent government figures were noted to be “likely much more – for less than $25 per month for each American.”

More detail was included in this response to the presidential call to arms.

“This is the single, most important health discovery made to date though very few know very much about it and most of what those few know about it is wrong,” was noted in conclusion about this government sponsored finding at the National Institutes of Health 50 years ago with extensive documentation building up this past half-century.

It has been more than two months without response.

Devil in the details?

A closer scrutiny to the inaugural words by President Obama may be in order.

It could be questioned just how much “technology’s wonders” have been used “to raise health care’s quality”.

It is without question that the wielding of “technology’s wonders” with regard to health care has not been known to “lower its cost”.

The health care (or rather sick care) industry makes much of the high cost of research. What you don’t hear is how much of that cost is covered by government funding and extensive subsidies i.e. taxpayer dollars from the public. Yet the public’s “reward” is to get fleeced by the ravenous wolves of the sick care industry.

The 10 pharmaceutical companies on the Fortune 500 had greater combined profits than all the other 490 companies combined as disclosed by Dr. Marcia Angell from Harvard University (alma mater of President Obama). Dr. Angell was also formerly editor of the New England Journal of Medicine that is recognized as one of the premier medical journals in the world.

Much has been made of the greed of the banking industry by President Obama. Their greed is but a vapor in the wind when compared to that of the sick care industry – which is never addressed though rationales (excuses/lies) are abundant.

Profits increase more than twice the rate of inflation year after year – often far in excess of twice the rate of inflation.

The health care industry is one of the only ones that as a whole has been noted to uniquely remain profitable in the current and far-reaching economic downturn. Several multi-billion dollar acquisitions have been made in the industry. Profits are being maintained at least in part due to industry greed as evidenced by the tens of thousands of lower level layoffs by these companies who have profit margins that continue to excel.

The question must be asked: Is President Obama being conned or is he in on the con?

The solution offered by the president is health insurance for all. The primary criticism of this is that will hurt doctors. One group this will not hurt at all is the medical drug and device providers. Such solution would guarantee more sales of drugs and devices to more people than ever before guaranteeing their already-more-profitable-than-any-other industry to have even greater profits than ever before.

President Obama hails from the state that is headquarters to the American Medical Association which has evidenced more concern for relieving pocketbooks of the public than offering relief to the pocketbooks of the public.

The primary interest in nutrition by the AMA has been in preventing nutritional care from impacting medical interests.

His fellow U.S. Senator from Illinois when the President filled a Senate seat was Dick Durbin (one of the highest ranking U.S. Senators). It seems that Sen. Durbin never met a nutritional supplement that he didn’t hate.

The state of New Jersey overwhelmingly supported Obama in his ascent to the presidency. That is also the nation’s headquarters for national headquarters of pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers.

Is President Obama being conned or is he in on the con?

Last month the president called for consideration of a food safety agency noting that food laws have not been revamped in more than a century. The problem is not that the laws have not been updated but rather that they have for the most part not been enforced for the better part of the last century.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bleached, refined white flour was a violation of the Pure Food & Drug Act almost 100 years ago. Yet, this “food” item makes up 20 per cent of the average American diet according to recent federal government figures.

More than 90 per cent of the essential mineral nutrients chromium, selenium and silicon are removed in the production of this illegal substance commonly consumed by Americans. The whole grains from which this “food” stuff derives would otherwise constitute the primary source of these three elements. The lack of these three elements is also intricately linked to blood sugar metabolism, heart health, cancer and birth defects, just to name a few that include the biggest killers of Americans.

The presidential announcement for a separate food safety agency was made at the same time as his selection of Dr. Margaret Hamburg to head up the FDA and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as her chief deputy.

The president was lauded for going outside the agency. Yet, the revolving door between the agency and the industries it oversees (allegedly) has been well documented for decades. So the praised assessment is a most inaccurate one.

Dr. Hamburg was lauded for her work on the government advisory board that resulted in the Department of Homeland Security, specifically that she “helped lay the groundwork for the government’s bioterrorism and flu pandemic preparations”.

This resulted primarily in stockpiling the drug Tamiflu.

Less than three weeks before the nomination of Hamburg a news headline noted the folly and failure of this foundation for flu pandemic preparations.

Experts were noted urging governments “to diversify their stockpiles of drugs and called for more new medicines to fight what could be the world’s next flu pandemic”.

Notably absent from this news story was Tamiflu – by name. The news noted “oseltamivir has proven to be largely useless”. Not once noted with the multiple references to ‘oseltamivir’ is the fact that is the chemical name for the brand named Tamiflu.

“We have been extremely foolish on our policies of stockpiling drugs,” said virologist Robert Webster of St. Jude Children’s Hospital at a medical conference in Hong Kong at which he also noted resistance to this flu drug as high as 98 per cent worldwide.

Do you suppose a refund will be forthcoming to the government (read ‘taxpayers’) for this faulty product?

Should Hamburg have known? This columnist knew and wrote of it at that time, and has chronicled the subsequent unraveling of Tamiflu and this terrible truth about it – a truth still too little noted let alone noticed.

Another noted as praising the decision of Hamburg was Gail Cassell who was a fellow advisory board member for establishing DHS. He was (and is) an Eli Lilly & Co. vice president. Their advisory board service resulted in a provision exempting Eli Lilly from liability for damages caused by their Thimerosol mercury ingredient.

Public outcry against this was so great that this provision was later removed.

Do you have warm fuzzies about this alleged “outsider” heading up oversight of drug companies?

The chief deputy nomination of Dr. Sharfstein is that of a pediatrician (another Harvard grad) who has served as a senior policy aide to Rep. Henry Waxman – who lobbied on behalf of Sharfstein for this position.

Rep. Waxman is the new chairman of the House Committee with oversight on health including the FDA.

Waxman is also the House equivalent of Sen. Durbin with regard to never having met a nutritional supplement that he didn’t hate – except his actions against nutritional supplements exceed those of his senatorial counterpart and he is actually in charge of the committee that would oversee such matters.

How are your warm fuzzies doing?

Again, is President Obama being conned or is he in on the con?

Weak history?

There has been criticism of the new president for having a weak history when it comes to accomplishments.

It looks like his weakness is history.

A 19th century statesman of renown noted that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

President Obama should check out the book, ‘History of a Crime’ by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, M.D., namesake of the Wiley Act of 1906 AKA the Pure Food & Drug Act that Obama seeks to supplant by replacement rather than to support by providing too long ignored enforcement. Dr. Wiley is also referred to as ‘Father of the FDA’ by the FDA though they desecrate his memory every time they open their doors. Wiley also wrote extensively against the FDA for not doing their job – the more things change the more they stay the same.

Next the new president should do some serious study into the life and unparalleled (and unsurpassed) scientific achievements of Dr. Antoine Béchamp. The anniversary just passed during these first 100 days in office for the new president of the passing of Béchamp, the all time greatest of all scientists almost 100 years ago.

These histories under the new president’s belt would enable stirring actions to his stirring words, “We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.”

Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him at P. O. Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@hotmail.com.