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Protect Your Access to Food and Supplements - Stop the Food Safety Bill in the Senate

Target: United States Senate
Sponsored by: Alliance for Natural Health USA

A new bill on the floor of the Senate (S-510) could lead to the restriction of your access to quality, nutritious food and dietary supplements by giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) control over farming practices and starting a slippery slope toward harmonization with Codex food and dietary supplement standards. This bill needs to be amended or defeated.

S-510 includes language that could potentially commit the U.S. government to an objective of international "harmonization" of food and supplement standards through the Codex Alimentarius process. The Codex Commission is dominated by Europe which is implementing an extremely restrictive supplement regime. Under this regime, a supplement containing more beta carotene than a carrot is deemed dangerous.

If this bill passes, it would force the U.S. to adopt strict regulations on all food-related standards, and the overlapping regulations would harm the U.S. organic farmers and cripple local farm stands, co-ops and local farms.

Tell your senators that you do not support S. 510 as it is currently written and urge them to either amend or defeat the bill!

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Dear [Decision Maker],

This letter is to express my opposition to S-510, also known as the 'FDA Food Safety Modernization Act', as the Act is currently written.

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S-510 has several deeply troubling provisions. Section 306 (c) 5 commits the U.S. government to an objective of international "harmonization" of food and supplement standards under the FAO/WHO Codex process. Codex is currently dominated by Europe and Codex standards are expected to reflect those of Europe.

Since Europe is implementing a supplement regime that will reduce all supplements to ridiculously low dosages (a beta carotene supplement would have a maximum amount of beta carotene that is less than that in a couple of carrots), committing us to Codex standards would potentially destroy the U.S. supplement industry as we know it and destroy critical health choices to U.S. consumers. The bill's language specifically instructs the US government to develop a plan with "recommendations to harmonize [U.S.] requirements... [with] the Codex Alimentarius."
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8:03 pm PST, Feb 9, Name not displayed, Kansas
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5:55 pm PST, Feb 9, Cathy Kramer, Illinois
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4:42 pm PST, Feb 9, Melanie Sinclair, Texas
Monsantos is NOT a healthy food provider, this bill is WRONG, stop tinkering with what little freedom we have left.
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3:10 pm PST, Feb 9, Kei C, Canada
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3:04 pm PST, Feb 9, Catherine Brower, California
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10:40 am PST, Feb 9, Maureen Sloan, Wisconsin
Vote NO for this bill. Keep the FDA out of farming! Ban genetic modified (GM) from our food system,PLEASE!!!
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9:52 am PST, Feb 9, Gerardo Barriga, Arizona
I WISH I had the power to completely do away with the FDA scamm, dirty, greedy, dishonest, devilest dumm ass guys. Because of thier improper actions; Ins. is expensive, we are sicker then most countries. We have landed on the moon-- why??? are they preventing us to have excess to healthy supplements, Answer; among alot of reasons, one main one; GREED!
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Free choice needs to be left alone.
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5:11 pm PST, Feb 8, Kristen Zehner, Wisconsin
More asinine corporate interference in food growing.
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