Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who is a major supporter of the dietary supplement industry, recently and adamantly opposed legislation entitled the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act (S-3002) introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona. Hatch worried that the bill's passing would lead to a pre-market approval process for supplements which the government now considers a food -- not a drug. Such approval could increase costs for the dietary supplement makers, and limit their availability to the public, and essentially give the FDA full control over the nutritional supplement industry.
Pharmaceutical interests are obviously behind this latest effort to legislatively force more Americans towards expensive prescription drugs, and away from natural ways of preventing degenerative disease. Due to overwhelming opposition this bill is now dead, but concerns for the future of free access to dietary supplements still loom.
Health freedom in the U.S. continues to teeter on the edge of a cliff, as do other basic freedoms we take for granted. The fact that our government is pushing authoritarian regulation under the false pretense of protecting consumers is a travesty against a free people.
"Not at all attractive, to my way of thinking." ~Mary Poppins
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