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Friday, April 8, 2011
With your help - Free speech in health science may become a reality
Craig Smith
Natural News
The Free Speech about Science (FSAS) Act, HR 1364, would change FDA regulations so that legitimate, peer-reviewed scientific studies can be referenced without changing the food's regulatory category to an unapproved drug. This will protect access to scientific information, and will protect your right to know about the healthy benefits of food and food supplements. The bill amends the appropriate sections of current law to allow the flow of legitimate scientific and educational information while still giving
FDA
and FTC the right to take action against misleading
information
and against false and unsubstantiated claims.
Gretchen DuBeau of the Executive and Legal Director of The Alliance for Natural Health
USA
(ANH-USA) says this legislation is critical because "current
FDA regulations
prohibit dietary
supplement
manufacturers and
food
producers from referring to any
scientific studies
on the health benefits of a food or
natural
substance."
In the FDA's view, even providing a link on a vitamin supplement manufacturer or organic food producer's website to a scientific study converts a
healthy
food into an unapproved
drug
. The FDA knows that natural products and
supplements
are food, not drugs, and they do not fit into the drug regulatory model. The result of this counter productive approach by
the FDA
is decreased access to safe, natural approaches to staying and getting healthy. "This is what we call the great Catch 22 of contemporary American
medicine
, the FDA, which is supposed to guard and promote our
health
, is hostile to the kind of natural medicine -- based on
diet
, supplements, and exercise -- that represents the real future of healthcare," said DuBeau.
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About the author:
Craig Smith is the editor at the Alliance for Natural Health (
www.ANH-USA.org
).
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